Kind of like what you're doing now!!!!! :P

strange gas....... was $2.30/ga until this morning $2.50/ga, what concerns me more diesel still $3.13/ga, ugh

Ran down to Illinois yesterday - saw diesel running anywhere from $3.46 to $3.75.

And there was NOTHING I could do about it. :D

and nothing is what i do since i got laid off because of high fuel prices

Still NOTHING and can't get the gas to load but yet the price is falling...

Yeah, but it's falling in increments of little to nothing. :?

And it shall continue to do so... Until the next major huge wind which, in turn, will create more excuses as to why the petroleum flow is at the level it is and why the price has to rise...

In other words, nothing but the same ol' crap we hear all the time concerning high fuel prices.

and still doing nothing

test :oops:

test2

and the fisrt test meant NOTHING 8)

guess i put the last nail in this thread for a while.

all for NOTHING

Are you sure it was all for NAUGHT???

It would seem on the surface that the test was a total failure but I digress as NOTHING will prevail...

and i missed it guess i learned nothing

Driving at night!

Driving along on any given highway at night during the winter looking at the houses bordering that highway and noting that most of the lights are on plus, if there is moon light, noticing smoke coming from chimneys as the occupants stay warm on a frigid night, not to mention the colourful lights associated with the holidays. This really brings home the isolation and loneliness that is part of Trucking

checking in and still nothing new I see

Not something a Gas Hauler wants to see while they are unloading

Questions about SANITY start emerging

:moose: Whats normal :alien: :party:

I see not a thing going on. :lol:

That'll change quite sooooon...

nope still nothing

Maybe a little bit of something......nope, I think I just hallucinated

Hallucinating on the job can get one promoted.... FAAAAAR OUTTTT! :P

An incident a few days back involving an EMS wagon and a Bi-Polar patient made for interesting news and also created quite a few questions.

CAN THIS HAPPEN???

Note: This is a work of fiction and a very active imagination however......

Another night and Byron heads out to the BP terminal to load the first of his 4 loads of gas. The line at the terminal is long as other gas haulers struggle to find the gas to load in their trailers. Pipeline problems created mass hysteria and frustration for drivers as they try to earn a decent paycheck.

After an hour and 45 minutes Byron gets the trailer loaded and drives off into the oncoming darkness. Frustrated at the long delay, Byron fumes about how long his night is going to be as he puts his six speed Mack through its paces only to have the forward progress halted by a huge traffic jam. The frustration level now has elevated to yellow alert mode.
Byron's angered thoughts are interrupted by the trucks cell phone tone. Another company driver tells him there had been a two vehicle wreck in the next town and all should be well in the next 15 minutes or so. The words were of no comfort to Byron as his blood pressure rises another 10 points.

After 30 minutes sitting in traffic, Byron steers the Mack and 9000 gallons of petroleum towards the destination. The frustration level still at fever pitch....

More to come......

The frustration level still at fever pitch...

Byron pulls onto the interstate and finds yet, another, traffic slow down. All his plans for an early night now seem to be fading fast as he squeezes the truck into the line of vehicles all heading in the same direction.
Without warning, as in the past, Byron feels as if he is experiencing a stroke His left arm goes numb, everything around him gets dark and his ability to speak clearly doesn't work. The episode lasts but a few seconds as he sits shaking from the ordeal and the cold sweat remembering that he did forget to take his anti anxiety medication.

After 45 minutes of traveling in one of the largest circuses Byron arrives at his destination. He skillfully maneuvers the tanker into the lot only to find a young person parked on the underground storage tanks. Thoughts of why he came to work pounded in Byron's mind as he stepped out to find the heathen and ask them to move.

A brief altercation in the store ensued as the owner of the offending vehicle argued his right to park anywhere he damn well pleased but finally calm prevailed when the store clerk pulled a .44 from under the counter telling the offending driver to move or... The young driver found staring down the barrel of a .44 not very pleasing and left forth with however, not without a few choice words normally not found in most dictionaries.

Head pounding from the high elevation of his blood pressure Byron starts the process of unloading the volatile liquid into the underground tanks. His thoughts keep wandering back to the current events that had transpired and if one more bad incident happens he may just go ballistic....

What will happen next????

Stay tuned...

Meanwhile, check page 4 for a Christmas Nothing tale...

About half way down the page or so

I see nothing much going on here.

HazMat-Doc Stated on Page 10
 

"Now envision this same scenario with every company plus, lines and lines of commuters waitning to fill their vehicles fuel tanks when no gas haulers are driving.
Would the politicals declare war on the very same drivers they helped out of a job due to insane demands and unrealistic laws???"

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ah yup, I believe they would. Remember the air traffic controllers a few years back? They have our fingerprints on file; easy to deny employment if using that type of identification.


Since this is a topic about nothing, and I am doing just about nothing while my truck is in the shop, been reading old posts.

Well the company thinks I'm doing something. Got me trying to train an untrainable female to be a special courier. She don't know nothing. Don't wanna know nothing. Don't seem to be able to learn nothing. Has one speed, dead slow. Dead slow: a fatal flaw for a courier.

The concept they came up with is good and I think it will work, but not with this particular person. This excerise in nothingness isn't paying much of anything, but sitting home without wheels earns me absolutely nothing.
'Sides, they are paying for rental and the fuel and I get to take the wheels home when not wasting my time training Ms Nothing.

Not sure if this post is about nothing or maybe a little something.

Sitting here doing nothing! :shock:

All right Doc when are you going to finish the story???

It does seem to be a better read than most!!!!

Well, well. Lookee what the cat dragged in. ;) How's things going, Rider. Long time, no postee.

Well hello Mr. Flyer it has been a while.

All is well in retirement land and traveling for fun is a damn sight better than sitting and waiting to travel for pay...

SO how's things with you and the family????

Hair is going, kids are growing...all in all, though, not bad. :) Life is enjoyable. :D

You'll just have to be patient... Trust me Byron will be back as will the rest of the cast from the Class A Drivers Playhouse...

I can see the marquee now (dream sequence)

Grand Opening: CLASS A DRIVERS PLAYHOUSE presents an one act DRAMADY: DAC SCREWED ME!!! Starring a long list of actors way too many to mention!
Music by: The Electric Light Orchestra....(sequence ends here)

:D :lol: :) :P

I can hardly wait for the story to unfold :P

So here i sit with Nothing to do, Nothing to haul, nothing to fix on the truck, (oh, i'm sure theres something i could do around the house) and i read 16 pages of nothing and still get nothing from it!!!

doc, forget the book, its got to be a movie!!!

Well it looks like nothing is doing well.

I won a free bag of chips from subway

It is with a heavy heart that I post this. I hope Doc will not hate me for what I'm about to write.

Doctor Who was pulled off his tanker job due to, what the doctors claimed, a nervous breakdown. The poor guy is also suffering from seizures and severe depression. I guess I would be depressed too if I was told I would not drive or able to function normally again.

I'm not sure what his family is going to do while the doctors try to find cures for the problems.

Doc my prayers are with you, I wish there was more I can do.

Night Rider

Damn, you're not joking either, are you. :sad:

All because of a stupid white van with someone behind the wheel that shouldn't have even been in the country. :x

Night Rider, PM me his phone number, if you will and, of course, if he's OK with it. The last one I have isn't any good and I wanted to give him a call. Thanks.