Comments on: Log Rules on Hold and Mexicans Roll http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html Discussion and opinions about the trucking industry Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:57:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Everitt Mickey http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Everitt Mickey Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:34:56 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html#comment-611 I was hauling oversize from Chicago to a power plant near Evanston Kentucky. I normally do NOT listen to the radio when moving oversize. I first become aware of anything out of the ordinary while I was at the nearby Pilot fueling up. Pilot shut down their pumps...I had only pumped a few gallons....and restarted them with a huge price hike. I don't do Pilots now. I'm former Air Force myself...and too old (viet nam era) to have gone back. Thought about it though. I was hauling oversize from Chicago to a power plant near Evanston Kentucky. I normally do NOT listen to the radio when moving oversize. I first become aware of anything out of the ordinary while I was at the nearby Pilot fueling up. Pilot shut down their pumps…I had only pumped a few gallons….and restarted them with a huge price hike.

I don’t do Pilots now.

I’m former Air Force myself…and too old (viet nam era) to have gone back. Thought about it though.

]]> By: Oggie http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Oggie Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:08:53 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html#comment-585 I was sitting in a dock in Frankfort, KY listening to a Christian music station. The other city driver called me on the Nextel and told me what had happened. I thought he was joking until I switched over to the local NPR station. And thats where it stayed for the rest of the day. I called my wife and had her put the TV on CNN. She was dumbfounded. I didn't see the footage of the towers falling until that night. And I did indeed notice the lack of contrails for that awful week. My wife even said she would understand if I went and re-enlisted in the Air Force. I had deployed for Desert Shield/ Desert Storm on 7 Aug 90. I had been out for too long and I was way past the age they would have taken anyway. That was also one of the most solemn prayer meetings I had ever attended. I was sitting in a dock in Frankfort, KY listening to a Christian music station. The other city driver called me on the Nextel and told me what had happened. I thought he was joking until I switched over to the local NPR station. And thats where it stayed for the rest of the day.

I called my wife and had her put the TV on CNN. She was dumbfounded. I didn’t see the footage of the towers falling until that night. And I did indeed notice the lack of contrails for that awful week.

My wife even said she would understand if I went and re-enlisted in the Air Force. I had deployed for Desert Shield/ Desert Storm on 7 Aug 90. I had been out for too long and I was way past the age they would have taken anyway. That was also one of the most solemn prayer meetings I had ever attended.

]]> By: Laurence Sheldon http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Laurence Sheldon Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:06:12 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html#comment-199 I had gotten to work (I was still a system administrator then, truck driving was still a thing-I'll-not-get-done-in-this-life item). The thing struck home personally that evening when I noticed the absence of contrails in the setting sun. And I wondered who was in in the plane that flew over the house twice that evening. I live under an approach path to Offutt. I had gotten to work (I was still a system administrator then, truck driving was still a thing-I’ll-not-get-done-in-this-life item).

The thing struck home personally that evening when I noticed the absence of contrails in the setting sun.

And I wondered who was in in the plane that flew over the house twice that evening. I live under an approach path to Offutt.

]]> By: Porter Corn http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Porter Corn Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:47:15 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/09/10/log-rules-on-hold-and-mexicans-roll/264.html#comment-196 I was driving through Brownsville Tennessee at the time. It is indeed hard to argue that the loads taken east by the first two trucks took anything away from our own drivers. In Laredo, at the same time, Melton has at least 20 loads sitting ready on their yard as did other flatbed companies. It appears that Transportes Olympic is servicing their own customer both ways. The people sitting in the border cities are for various reasons, the least of which is freight availability. The border crossings have been super slow this week for some reason. I was driving through Brownsville Tennessee at the time.

It is indeed hard to argue that the loads taken east by the first two trucks took anything away from our own drivers.

In Laredo, at the same time, Melton has at least 20 loads sitting ready on their yard as did other flatbed companies.

It appears that Transportes Olympic is servicing their own customer both ways.

The people sitting in the border cities are for various reasons, the least of which is freight availability. The border crossings have been super slow this week for some reason.

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