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Can you match that with your tea? Good to know, COVID hasn't gotten you. I sincerely hope you and yours are all well. |
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Garrrrrrrrh... Narrrrrrh Narrrrrh! .... Harrrrrrh Harrrrrh! :D Brace yourself Windy.... and I hope your chair has arm rests.... Wot has had a come to Jesus moment, and now drinks coffee over tea. ........... Wot? :confused: I say..... old bean.... yes Java .... Covfefe :) ........... He told me right out of the blue, and my face hit the waste basket, as my jaw dropped. |
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Howdy old pard! So glad you stopped by to say hello! I often think about you and was hoping you are doing good. Got ahold of our friend Robertt, and was hoping he would stop by too! He just went through covid and finally is coming out of it, but it was tough. I hope when he feels better he comes by too. I have Twilights first novel "Book 1 of The Krypteia Conspiracy: Hade's Gambit" sits on my shelf, and every time I see it, I'm reminded of him.... almost daily. :roll3: He is the only one here who has very good reason to worry about me. :p Long as my unnatural insane obsession with Shania continues, I simply don't have the time to chase him. |
I should be spanked with a small wooden paddle.
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Pay has skyrocketed and even that's not enough to draw drivers in. $.60 CPM is low now. Lots of companies are over $.70 CPM for regional company driver runs; more for long haul. Local company runs that used to pay $40K to $50K a year are paying upwards of $80K or better. Regional and OTR; many are well over $100K. O/O's on pct. pay are grossing $500K or better a year. The old guard is retiring and the new guard...well, they're not much of a guard. Companies are desperate. I was at a conference a couple weeks ago and at that point, there were almost 8 loads available PER truck in North America. And that's not including all the cargo ships sitting off the ports everywhere because of the lack of crane operators and longshoreman. This is literally the time to build retirements in the industry, especially if you have or can get your own truck; problem is, the younger generation doesn't see that. So Windy, right now the industry is in shambles. Personally, I think the only thing that is going to ultimately save it is automated fleets, reducing most driving to local LTL. But that'll be past my expiration date. |
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If I get to your neck of the woods, I'd race you, if we can do that 100, 10 yards at a time, and take a little breather. :D I'm still a little frisky... I'm sure I could chase after Shania like a Mt. Gorilla on all fours, and pounding my chest for attention, if she refuses to look my way. But outside of that, I try not to get out of a chair too fast. I don't know how William Shatner at age 90, was able to ride a rocket into space today! God Bless him, eh? What about George Takei? Well, I'm sure he was Up for it. They just didn't think he would ride the rocket from inside. |
I'm the happy owner of Streetglide myself, my son finished his stint in the Marines and bought a house 4 miles from us. he has VTX1300, so I have somebody to ride with, also have a 5 year old Grandson who is lot of fun
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Golf Hobo
forgot to tell you guys, Golf Hobo passed a while back.. he had a lot of medical issues
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Thanks for remembering Hobo!
He died on my birthday, so I'm going to have to ask him next time I see him, if it was something I said? We were close friends, and I wept at the news, and learned it from you, through a post you made here. I was just about to email him at that time, and I miss him a lot, to this day. We were kinda the odd couple here. I was the unkempt obnoxious but smarter one. :) He would only disagree with the last part. I think I called him every name in the book over the years, but I think more good names than bad. Oddly I don't remember many of the bad names, but when I see him again, I'm sure it will all come back to me. :p |
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