Jan 26, pleeeeaaasssee no more mountains.....or snow.

Well good week, no real news. I spent it bouncing back and forth from Vancouver to Calgary, Edmonton and back to the tune of 4 time through the mountains in four days. Mountain vistas can be equally therapeutic, awe inspiring while scaring the crap out of you within seconds of having a zen moment.

I had one of those weeks. I chose to stay close to home this week and was not able to run south. Hence, spent the week in the hills. Almost jackknifed twice (rookie) you see these trucks have so much power that when you are running light you need to be careful how much throttle you apply. The back end with little weight can break traction fairly easily. Saw a herd of big horn sheep in a parking lot (cool) and ran down hills that had me biting the nails off me little sausage fingers.

I survived but after only 2400 miles chose to shut it down and put the truck in for repair. Needs windshield, tires etc. Anyway boring post but that is the week that was.

Later

January 19th, decent week.

This was by far the best week I have had back on the road.

Primarily because I ran direct south out of Vancouver to Tracy, California. ( about 60 miles outside San Fransisco. I got off loaded on time and without having to sit around for ever was directed to head towards LA.

On the way I was told to head to Port Hueneme. This is located between Malibu and Santa Barbara CA south of Oxnard CA. The drive there is out standing on the Ventura Highway, apricots out and oranges on trees.

I jokingly put on my blog that it was 21 when I loaded but a cool 21. The weather gods got me back though. I left the port at dinner time Wednesday and by the time I had hit Idaho Falls, ID it was full on snow and friggen cold...who was laughing now.

By the time I hit Calgary on Friday evening it was -25, yuk. That is ok it was not snowing. Then i was off to Vancouver Saturday noon and home by midnight. All in all it was decent weather wise, load wise and the fact there was no waiting anywhere....well except Calgary.

Not exciting to most but a good week on the road is not something that happens every week. 6 days out 3200 miles logged.

Later.

Crazy week, things happen for a reason?

Well what started out to be a decent week came to a grinding halt before I got out of Vancouver. Damn weather. My normal route to Calgary was closed due to avalanches and all other viable options were closed for the same reason. So I got to stay 36 hours at a truck stop in Kamloops…..whooooo hooooo.

Made Calgary and was pretty slow getting out of there to pick up my new load to Cali. I waited 6 hours for them to find me an empty trailer to bring to the customer and when I arrived my load was not legal to bring to California due to weight. So another wait until they shifted the load around.

Ok so finally on my way and drove like a idiot to Sacramento for drop 1 then Tracy for drop 2 and finally Oakland Navy docks for drop 3. That is where the shit hit the fan and my week took a turn.

While backing in I rubbed another truck mirror….so lightly I didn’t even wake the driver up. So not prob, pride hurt, minor damage and I apologize like a good little Canadian and exchange my info.

When this driver left he all but took my front right fender off while he turned. Here is the kicker….he kept going…in fact he may not of even know he had hit me. So lesson learned…trust no one. What is cool is I took damage pics with my new phone…..haha got him.

I have just learned that I am inept at using my new phone and have no pics. Oh well. All week I kept telling myself that all things happen for a reason. My wife had me convinced of that.

I have learned that you never trust anyone to be as stand up as you, never attempt to use fine motor skills when in a hurry and fatigued and that things don’t happen for a reason….they happen to piss you off.

Would post pics this week but………… shut up.

Later

Beware of the MSN messenger malware spamming

This is just a heads up that I have been infected or exposed to this malware via messenger.

Here is the scoop. A couple of nights ago one of my msn contacts sent me a link referencing some new years pics. Seemed innocent enough. The link took me to a page and asked me to log in using my msn credentials. I did and the second I hit enter msn showed my contact offline.

Too late as my credentials had been scooped and my account was used to spam others. So beware....and btw, I almost never send unsolicited links.

Later