Working thru corona virus

[5spdCab]

I'm doing OTR all 48 states right now. I've been from Tennessee to California and back in the last few weeks. I'm wanting to go local after I get some experience. I'm enjoying seeing the new sites right now though.

When I did 8 SW states, I was calling the L.A. basin my home. Even as hot as it gets in summer going across Az., I enjoyed the beauty of the desert in the early daylight hours. I used to think that if I moved away from L.A. that I would look for someplace in New Mexico. I feel that New Mexico is a beautiful place also.
From L.A., the farthest places I drove a semi to was Denver, Oklahoma City, and Houston. In 1988, I quit driving for a year and a half, moved to the Seattle area, and did some sales work, which turned out to be a bust, so I started driving again, this time only doing local with an occasional overnight trip.
I got my commercial license in 1984, have been driving since, except for that 1 1/2 years, and I still enjoy the work. Sure, I get mad at some of the things that people do on the road, but I have to expect that they have no idea of what a truck needs to maneuver safely around corners, or making stops and lane changes.
Good luck to you, and enjoy the scenery, and the people you meet along the way as you visit all of the great cities of our nation. Keep us informed of the places you go and see.

 

[ssn696]

Even as hot as it gets in summer going across Az., I enjoyed the beauty of the desert in the early daylight hours. I used to think that if I moved away from L.A. that I would look for someplace in New Mexico. I feel that New Mexico is a beautiful place also.

I agree. More so up north.

 

[69hurstolds]

I am simply LOVING the idea that the restaurants are starting to open up in various places. And hats off to the brave souls that are willing to go there and eat a meal! Yay!

What this means is that others who would otherwise stay home in fear, will see that the people going there aren't croaking and are actually enjoying the dining out experience. This will increase confidence in all but the die-hards. Thus, more and more people will see it's not an automatic death sentence of getting back to pseudo-normal.

Of course, if there's a strong uptick in people getting sick, then that may reset people's thinking and they may CHOOSE to stay home. At this point, we don't need governors telling us how and where we should open up businesses. Let the people decide with their wallets and levle of risk aversion. Businesses will accommodate to pacify the general public to get them back in the stores. WITHOUT having to be told and nannied. Customers will decide when and where they decide to go.

Businesses open up, then the infection rate will rise slightly. That is to be expected. I'm not letting the governors usurp my constitutional liberties or tell me that it's a huge deal if there's a slight uptick because it really isn't (unless you die, so that would suck). I think some states are going overboard with their emergency powers and need to be reigned in. Who determines when the emergency ends? We, the people, do. And if people are willing to take that chance, that's on them.

It's time people can utilize the skills they've "learned" over the last month and a half of lockdown to take personal accountability trying to keep themselves and their loved ones safe. You can't continue to force zero risk activity on people. I think we're at the point now where we can let nature weed out the stupid ones.

 

[motorheadmike]

Couple of years back, I gave up sodas for about 8 weeks. Couldn't drink any of the colas or diet colas after that. About the only things that taste "good" to me are Barq's root beer and grape flavors.

I think the time off "reset" my palate.

Still don't like colas, and I drank them for about 30 years prior. Weird.

I quit Coke Classic in my 20s, I was hooked on it. Now it's just root beer (Barq's is my favourite) and Dr. Pepper. If I get a taste of cola I get royally pissed off - as if someone gave me a heroin needle and I'd been clean for decades.

 

[ssn696]

Oh, so you're the guy keeping root beer on the shelf. Bleh!!!

 

[oldsmobile joe]

Oh, so you're the guy keeping root beer on the shelf. Bleh!!!

count me in, except i can't do barq's, too much caffeine, i love it, but the caffeine doesn't like me.
one of the local craft brewers expanded into the root beer line, Lift Bridge Brewery out of stillwater mn, very tasty, no caffeine.

 

[307 Regal]

I've been furloughed since late March, and the unemployment payments are being withheld.
In other news the Buick's windshield is leaking badly and I can't hire anyone to help fix it. Time for disgusting amounts of silicone I guess.

 

[69hurstolds]

count me in, except i can't do barq's, too much caffeine, i love it, but the caffeine doesn't like me.
one of the local craft brewers expanded into the root beer line, Lift Bridge Brewery out of stillwater mn, very tasty, no caffeine.

Go to A&W. Better than "Barf's" and no caffeine. And fairly cheap too.

Personally, I use Sodastream Diet Root Beer. Carbonate the water, toss in some of the root beer mix, shake very gently, more like turn it over slowly and back up again a couple of times to mix well, and viola! It comes out to a little less than $1 per liter, but it isn't filled with sodium and sugar, or other ill crap. Not that I'd say it's way better for you, but it's better than the commercially made soda.

I used to be addicted to diet coke. Back in the mid 80s, after Coke "ruined" Coca-Cola's original blend, the ex-wife worked for Coca-Cola in accounting. She was allotted one case of coke products per week for $2 per case of 24. Sh*t was like crack cocaine after a while. I think they put crack in it. I still do a Diet Coke every now and again, but I try to stay away from them for fear of buying cases again.

 

[5spdCab]

I am going to try loading a video of what I am doing at work, the video is of my co-worker getting a load on his truck, I am doing the same thing. Let's see if this is going to work. Here goes.

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

 

[pagrunt]

Got the word there is a plan being put together to get us all back to work next Monday. Now they got to figure out where to place about 90-100 equiptment operators thru out the county with keeping social distancing. Hoping for a normal 7 AM start at the main stockpile instead of the 4 AM start at the one I was at for winter work.