some people forget that there are so many other jobs in the trucking industry other that just driving, both my sisters inlaw are dispatchers and my cousin works in accounting for a trucking company, welcome maggieb

Well Maggieb, c'mon down here the summer's are nice and "warm"...100+.

Maggie-I'm not going anywhere for awhile, unless I had some hellacious persuading :shock: . And, for whoever it was that referred to her as a "pretty lady", I can assure you that it gets better with every picture....not to be confused with pitcher! lol

you're such a smooth talker!!! lol thanks tho, seriously. As for persuading... you southern boys aren't the only ones with charm!!!

Hey Rosty, I have done my time in the snow. In fact, I just left Cincinnati yesterday and it was spitting snow. When I lived in northern Ohio we sometimes had snow on the ground for weeks at a time. You do get somewhat used to it. We get a different type of snow down South. We have more sleet and freezing rain which makes it more hazardous for driving.

I used to have a car-hauler that made a great snowplow. It was a stinger. I could plow a road better than a snow plow. :wink: Down here, we just wait a day or two and it melts. There is no need to shovel. 8)

Good Deal GMAN, I knew all along you wern't no sissy. :lol:

welcome maggie.. i post a serious question here & it takes days to get a few responses. you just show a pic of yourself & i have to scroll several pages to read all responses. :sad: if i have another question for our forum members... is it o.k. to save & insert your pic with question so i'll get a lot of quick answers?lol j/k. i wouldnt do that. i once was leased to a co falcon based out of youngstown oh. that was the first co i started with years ago. at that time the flatbed division was called compass. you should move south. nice people like me live here... :lol:

welcome to CAD

I wonder why that is! lol. Next time you have a serious question that needs posted just let me know and I'll post it for ya :lol: we can see who gets the most responses back :wink: Im just teasin... maybe its because Im new! Youngstown is like a hop, skip, and a jump away from me... I used to go to YSU... what a small world!

That's ok G-man. I was so taken aback by her picture I didn't notice she posted anything.

I don't know, it's a toss-up. I've been outside when it was below 0, and I've been out in a 140 F trailer with no air movement at all, stripped down as close to naked as I could get, sweating gallons, and still roasting like a turkey in an oven.

Both extremes suck. The worst part about the latter is when your shorts are soaked wringing wet with sweat, and then you have to ride in a truck for another 4-5 hours to get to the next drop. That chafes something terrible. I've had what amounts to diaper rash so bad that I could barely walk for days.

It's snowing outside now, and that's not very amusing either. Cold is a different kind of terrible, but at least you can lessen the effects by putting on my clothing, getting out of the wind, building a fire, moving around to generate body heat... There's nothing you can do about hot, except try to get wet, and get some air blowing over you. Sweat takes care of the wet, and moving with the windows down takes care of the air, but what do you do in traffic when you can't get any air moving? You swelter.

I'll take A/C and/or heat over either extreme, or a nice 60-80 degree day. Maybe even down to 50, but nowhere above 80 please.

Thanks for sending your snow down here. I appreciate it. While I just said I'd rather be cold than hot, I didn't mean I wanted to be THIS cold.

No kidding ^^^^^

It's snowing down here in Texas right now. I'd alot rather load a house up in the cold than in the hot, humid summer. The trailer keeps the wind off of you, and moving around I stay comfortable in shorts and a sweatshirt.

I agree with what you just said too, except I never got so far as to wear shorts. I'd layer up, and when I got in full lump mode, I'd be stripped down to house clothes even though it was crazy cold outside. The trick is not to let yourself get sweaty, so while you might need heavy clothes when you first get out of the truck, if you keep them on when you're working hard, you'll get soaked, and freeze half to death as soon as you stop moving again. Not cool.

I never realized how much difference a trailer did make until I tried pouring concrete in the dead of winter. It makes a HUGE difference having that to cut the wind. I wore my regular winter trucking gear that I had been using for years, and it was not remotely any kind of enough clothing to withstand the job of pouring concrete into a pumper for 45 minutes. 45 minutes in the cutting wind, and the only exercise you get is moving the drum control a fraction of an inch every few minutes. That was miserable wearing my normal gear.

I'll take the heat. I dont care if I have to be bare ass naked ... I love the heat. 80 plus is great.... How many more days till summer ????

Welcome to CAD. :rock: :moose:

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speaking of which, where is the good rev any way? did he finally make it home? :lol: :lol:

Rev is posting in the newbies forum under an ex-con rapist/theif&drug dealer :shock:

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Good gracious woman, you can't say things like that around truck drivers!!! Half this board will be dreaming about you for a month, and the other half are either old or gay.

Well I tell you yesterday was about 70 or so and sunny, now today it's only 56 with a little rain. I can't take these extreems in weather. Thank god Monday is back to 70 again. You have no idea how we suffer in the San Francisco Bay area ! Bill

ok... 2 weeks ago it was in the mid-70's ... today its FREEEZING! Honestly, summer isn't so far away, how can it be so damn cold!!!!!!!! blah! I need warm weather soooo bad... pretty soon my friends and I are going to take a road trip down south, just far enough till we reach warm weather! I wouldnt mind going to Louisville again, I thought it was beautiful there :)

I has been chilly here lately. I am ready to head farther south myself. :lol:

wow.... how nice is it today!!! IM LOVING THIS! :)

Welcome "I'm new here" sure can't complain about the weather in Florida :D ,....yet!!

I was near Tampa yesterday and I believe it was 83 degrees.

Were you searching for your sweater G? :lol: :lol:

j/k ya

Its real nice here,....for another few weeks, then it will be hot like hell :evil:
Tampa has some very bad city planning,...very bad.