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December 21st, 2012
 | 11:59 pm - Proposal
EDITOR's NOTE: I've adjusted the post time on this entry so it'll wind up as a sticky on my journal, always at the top. It's worth it. Now onward.
When I was talking with the life coach, a couple options that we kicked around for long term career solutions were...
- Computer coach.
- Tarot reader/psychic.
Now I knew about these two options pretty much already. Being a coach is a little more involved than simply being the tech everyone calls when their machine bolloxes up. We had also discussed end user training, about showing them how to do the tasks themselves, rather than calling me up every time at $80/hr. And really, that's not a bad rate compared to some.
And for the second, I still read cards, and can at least connect well enough these days to be a psychic.
So, in testing out the waters, anybody need either of these services out there? Right now the price is free so that's definitely right. Yes, you may get what you pay for as I learn the ropes and get back into the swing of things so to speak. Scheduling may also be a bear since my own work changes on a daily basis, so I only know what it's like a couple of days out at most.
Current Location: Dallas, TX
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/confused.gif) curious
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| 12:00 pm - Longer Term Plans.
Made an agreement that over the next few days I'd come up with plans as to what I want to do, have, and be over the next year, the next 3-5 years, and the next 10 years. Personally, financially, what have you.
Gods, in ten years I'll be 51. So I'm starting to flesh it all out now. At least the one year part.
One year from now - Be out of long distance driving anyway. The quickest transition right now looks like getting into something more local, or at least something where I'm only out 1-2 nights a week. All the others I'm home at night. I've got my plans down for my new business, and have started implementing them. We'll have a lovely vacation down in Honduras summer of 2010. I've dropped all the weight I gained while driving over the road, and then a few more. Yay!
3-5 years from now - The business is set up now and going. We're talking more trips out now, and the retirement fund is growing right along. I'm making enough off the business that it's self-sustaining now. I left the transition a while ago. Heck, I even made it to a few Phillies games.
10 years from now - Just about ready to retire. Early even! Whoot! I've made a few trips out of the country, and not just back down to Honduras either. The house is almost paid off as well, which will help out the financial situation mightily. I even hired a few employees for the business since I had more than I could keep up with myself.
Current Location: Limon, CO
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/snore.gif) tired
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July 9th, 2012
 | 03:00 pm - Writer's Block: My Ideal Life Ten Years from Now…
Interesting, because I tried to answer this very question not too long ago, in my vision statement.
Ideally I know the house will be paid for in ten years. We will have a motor vehicle (auto, van, truck, etc...) that's fully paid for as well, AND that functions perfectly.
Workwise it's hard to say what I'll be doing exactly, I just know it'll be my own business, whatever it is I do. Profitably! With enough net income to at least replace what I'm doing now, ideally build on it.
I will have either joined or founded a working magickal group with the members from various backgrounds. I can see it incorporating principles from A Course in Miracles, but not necessarily the language. We are polytheist after all, and that's something I don't see changing any time soon, nor do I want to change it.
In an ideal world, I can see myself overseeing construction for a temple to Renenet located in NW New Mexico. That's one farking huge dream though, and one I'm not so sure will happen. I do wonder how much it would be to have a design drawn up though, as the temple fund does have a couple hundred dollars in it. In my more pessimistic moments I thought the best I could do would be a model made from popsicle sticks or Play-Doh. Just securing the land would cost tens of thousands.
Of course, I'd still have time for all my online friends, including you!
Current Location: Iowa, somewhere on interstate 35...
Current Music: The Press Poll - on POTUS.
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July 9th, 2009
 | 03:40 pm - Writer's Block: Duos
Well since it seems to be limited to male/female, I'd have to say Ricky and Lucy of course! And if you don't know who they are, get thine buttocks to TV Land, ya ignoramus! A honorable mention goes to George and Gracie.
If you're talking same sex (not that I think they shared the same bed mind you), I'd go with Felix and Oscar for male/male, and Cagney and Lacey for female/female.
Current Location: Des Moines, IA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/hyper.gif) silly
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 | 03:32 pm - Honduras
We are watching the situation unfold in this country closely, probably more closely than the average merkin. My mate knows several folks still living there from when she went there as a Peace Corps volunteer back in the 1980's. Of course, we were also hoping to pay a visit next summer. If the situation hasn't calmed down by then, we'll obviously have to change our plans.
So far, it's sounding more like political wrangling than anything else and not much fighting going on. Here's hoping whatever happens, it's settled peacefully.
Current Location: Des Moines, IA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/shocked.gif) nervous
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| 10:13 am - Various Loose Ends
Just a bunch a fiddly little things that have been wanting to get into the blog.
Sometimes I really hate auto flush toilets. Mainly those that go off if you so much as blink. Now how many of us can really sit on the can the whole time without even twitching? Yeah right.
Another thing. Cars that do your thinking for you. Wound up locking the keys inside because of a lovely little feature like that. At the very least they could make it a setting that you can turn on and off somewhere, like a BIOS.
Nearly sweated my nuts off last night trying to sleep in Joplin, MO. Truck was stopped and even in the dead of the night, sweat sweat sweat.
Literal videos are the shiznit, especially the one of Journey's "Separate Ways". Would seem that Def Leppard vids are prime candidates for literalizing, but so far nobody's taken up the challenge. Guess they're too cool for that. Heh.
I did bang out about 300 words on a story idea that popped(or pooped, Freudian slip) it's way into my head while watching AMV vids with an ELO soundtrack. Sigh, stories always seem like such a slog to get started, but once there, they can sustain momentum supposedly. I'll keep trying.
Current Location: Kearney, MO
Current Music: Switchblade Symphony - "Wrecking Yard."
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July 6th, 2009
| 10:28 pm - More Happiness
Just as in alt.fan.dragons when I stated that a part of me was already home as a dragon, now it strikes me that a part of me is also already standing at the right hand of Sutekh.
"Salvation depends upon me" was yesterday's phrase from A Course in Miracles. It's that part that lies beyond our ever changing states of emotion and physical well being. That part that like the gods is eternal. And thank the gods for that!
Current Location: Edwardsville, IL
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/think.gif) contemplative
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July 5th, 2009
 | 01:17 pm - Writer's Block: Listen to This
New music? Me? Hahahahahahahaa... I'm afraid my new music pipeline stopped somewhere around 2000.
I guess you get to a certain age and your jukebox reaches capacity.
If you want stuff from the 50s,60s,70s,80s, 90s not quite so much, I'm your man. Same with classical at least up until the 1950's or so. Jazz, uhhhh some.
But turn of the millenia I draw a blank. In fact, I'm one of those who could use a few recommendations.
Current Location: St. Cloud, MN
Current Music: Phillies win 2-0!
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July 3rd, 2009
| 11:29 pm - On the Road Again.
Yup. First day back. Not too shabby. We got a 2000 loaded mile run that'll give us a nice start on next week's paycheck. Too bad it also means we won't get one on the 10th. At least there's five Fridays this month so that'll kinda make up for it.
Current Location: North Bend, WA
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Coast to Coast AM
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| 11:26 pm - Writer's Block: Dog Day Afternoon
Would you believe...head to the desert? Musta had a past life in the time of Ankhenaten...
Though to be honest, it's good to have a river nearby as well.
Current Location: North Bend, WA
Current Mood: weary
Current Music: Coast to Coast AM
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| 12:07 am - Writer's Block: Busting Blocks
Hokay, bit of frivolity before the serious post.
Last movie was the new Star Trek. Observations follow. Yeah, I don't see movies that often. Deal.
Initially, I agree with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) briemh that the film was long on action and short on character development. At first I was "So what? Most of us are already familiar with the good captain and crew so we know what they're like". Then it hit me. Save for Kirk and perhaps Spock and McCoy a little bit, we really don't know what forces gave rise to the rest of the crew's personalities.
Things that made me smack my forehead and go "You must be joking."
- Since WHEN did the Enterprise have that many catwalks in engineering? I remember a few from the Rick Berman "Enterprise" series, but that was it. It looked less like a starship and more like an M C Escher painting.
- Since WHEN did the Enterprise fire that many phasers at once? Once again, the Berman series seemed to come close, but nothing like the barrage here. And those tiny little pulse lasers that popped out the edges of the saucer section? Face, meet palm. Palm, meet face.
The love interest of at least Uhuru towards Spock (hard to tell if it was mutual or not) while perhaps intriguing, really seemed superfluous and unneeded. Perhaps future installments will explore this relationship further, but we'll see.
I thought the Romulans looked a little too much like the Remans from "Nemesis" than anything else, but that's how it goes. Not a biggie. And they're ship just kinda looked like a giant fuzzball to me. Yeah, that's nitpicking, but whatever.
What I DID like was the concept that this opens up a whole new timeline for TOS crew. Will events unfold pretty much the same as before, slightly different, or what? We'll see. Perhaps they SHOULD have gone through the black hole, just to kink up the timeline further. <:=8P
But overall, not bad for a "Trek Begins". The look of shock on Spock's face after he assaults Kirk was just dead on. It did also retain one element every other series seems to have forgotten. Humor, as in Scotty being beamed into a water tank and Kirk having to get him out somehow. Whoops!
I just hope next time the pacing's a little slower.
Current Location: McMinnville, OR
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June 26th, 2009
| 02:51 am - Said Tarot Reading and whatnot.
Grrrr. So very much to write. So little farking time yet again.
Hokay, so did my first over the phone tarot reading EVAH and ebbeh. I learned I absolutely MUST ground before the reading is given, no exceptions. My mind wanted to run off in a million different directions and of course seemed like it wound up going nowhere. Also felt a bit out of practice and had a couple Duhhhhh moments, but still managed to squeeze out enough meaning that it worked and was helpful.
In trucking, we're on our way back west, final load(we hope) before time at home. Of course, we're getting back a day late which throws everything off kilter. Feh. I hope we can make our friend's gig without being drop dead tired when we get there.
Shees, even North Dakota is being somewhat on the steamy side here. I suspect the temps will drop though once we reach Montana and the elevations rise.
Current Location: Bismarck, ND
Current Music: type type type...
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June 22nd, 2009
| 01:10 am - Well, how about THAT for a Father's Day Gift?
Found out yesterday my father-in-law has been diagnosed with dementia. While this affects the mate more than it does me, Obviously I won't just sit like a bump on a log and act as if everything's okay.
Still, not much I actually can do, other than send my sympathies and all that.
Current Location: Port Allen, LA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/sad.gif) sad
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| 12:47 am - Writer's Block: Music for Thought
It depends on the type of work that needs doing.
Computer hardware work (assembly, dismantling and all) works really well ironically with J.S. Bach, especially Toccata and Fugue in D minor, complete with lightning flashing. <:=8)
Drawing usually takes Fleetwood Mac and Switchblade Symphony.
Other work...not so sure.
Current Location: Port Allen, LA
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June 19th, 2009
| 04:33 pm - Whoa.
Sorry I haven't been able to keep up with the responses. This load and the last one have been tight, expedited, high value loads. Last one we dropped off a load of cell phones down in the HELL-A area. The catch this time was just waiting around for the right time to pick up the next load outta there.
Didn't help that the shipper's yard is an absolute, total clusterfuck. As in, they can only let in so many trucks at once to avoid gridlock, which happened a couple of times for us anyway. Bleah.
But at least we're on the road again, heading to another destination. I just hope the next load isn't like this as well. Can't be really as we'll both be somewhat short on hours since we had to burn so many with these two.
Doesn't help that the fan on our 12V plug in fridge just bit the dust as well. Now I need to go to Igloo's site and see if I can somehow order a replacement, or whether it's a paperweight and we need to but a new one. Not too bad. It lasted about three years.
Current Location: Limon, CO
Current Music: Phillies behind 2-3 bottom of the 2nd.
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June 14th, 2009
| 10:46 am - Writer's Block: You're a Winner!
Last one I can remember is I actually won at the raffle during one of the Divination Parties a few Octobers ago. Won a necklace of purple quartz beads. Still have 'em, though they're more suited to my mate than myself. Still nice to get, ocnsidering how rarely I win anything.
Oh yeah, just remembered. Last thing I REALLY won was $100 from Powerball. Not bad, though of course we've plunked down much more than that in tickets over time.
Current Location: Seville, OH
Current Mood: awake
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June 13th, 2009
| 12:39 pm - Crud.
Well, things DID work out okay in the end.
When I sent a Mac 18 off saying when I'd deliver the previous load and be available, I accidentally made it for yesterday, not today. Whoops. Took another look at the current load, and say the pickup time was for yesterday! Ooopsy daisy.
Fortunately I was only one hour off the pickup time, since the last consignee decided they wanted their load ASAP, which made us available about nine hours before we thought we'd be.
Anyway, we're going back west now. Wheeeee, too much fun.
Current Location: Eastern Ohio
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/annoyed.gif) irritated
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June 11th, 2009
| 02:31 pm - Readings and Such.
First reading from yesterday. Three cards, Egyptian Tarot deck.
1st card - Eight of Disks. A woman displays her wares of woven circular mats in the marketplace. It talks of making work, well work. The interpretation the booklet in the deck gave was of perhaps not making what one wants at first, but getting up to it.
2nd card - Justice. Ma'at(Mayet) is seated upon the throne of Justice, holding its symbols, both the sword and the scales. It talks of balance and making the needed corrections.
3rd card - Two of Cups. A man and a woman are seated along the edge of a wading pool in the shape of an ankh. Each has a cup in their hands. Speaking of pleasurable times with one another.
Overall meaning - Seems like the meaning is rather clear. The balance of work and pleasure. Ma'at is even in the center of the spread, representing the balancing force, as well as the need to prune one or the other. (the sword)
And, today's reading. Same deck. It should be noted I did this reading just after my first paid session with the life coach. My mate and I don't seem to be on the same page as to what exactly we're after as far as short term and long term career goals.
1st card - Prince(Knight) of Cups. New emotional surges are coming to the fore, and you ride high on them.
2nd card - Three of swords. A woman sits on the bed, knees tucked up, arms around herself. A man stands in an archway, facing out into the night, arms crossed. Three swords are stuck into the floor. Next to them lies a crumpled rose, with petals scattered next to it. Disagreement has broken out.
3rd card - King of Wands. I drew this card after I asked "Well, what now?" Mastery of Spirit. Only I can determine what my spiritual path will be. And as I've said before, talking with the life coach almost feels like it IS more on the spiritual path than anything.
Dunno. This reading seemed to more echo the recent events than any kind of deeper spiritual meaning.
Current Location: Somewhere in Missouri along I44.
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June 10th, 2009
| 08:47 am - And yes gang, I am back.
I know it's been like a week since I last posted. Meh. Still alive, still driving. Looking forward to the first real paid for coaching call tomorrow. We'll see what gives.
Basically just sitting here in the bunk sweating down in the deep south with the truck off and no AC. Whoot that.
I really should blather on more. Really I should, but I need to run along now.
Current Location: Hamilton, AL
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 | 08:28 am - Retirement, what a concept!
A general equation goes that for retirement, the income level you want is only 4 percent of what you need in your investments.
So I'd been thinking at retirement I'd like an income level at around 100,000 in today's dollars. A retirement account will give about eight to twelve percent, but some of that needs to be set aside to account for inflation, thus the figure of only 4 percent taken out.
This leads to the equation 100,000 divided by 4 percent = 2,500,000. Two and a half MILLION frickin dollars invested. Now while this figure has been done before, how many of us can say with absolute certainly that they will have this much in the funds by age 65? And this is mostly just to maintain the current lifestyle we have. Hardly dreaming of having a Rolls Royce in the mansion driveway.
Now imagine how many dollars would be locked up if 100 percent of the population age 65 or older actually achieved this? Ridiculous, and that's not including the partial percentages for those younger.
Which leads to a different can of worms all together. There's no such thing as creation of wealth. There's only transference. It all has to come from somewhere, unless you counterfeit, which is of course illegal. Transference by itself is not a bad thing, as one should be compensated for one's efforts. The problem is that as more becomes locked up, there's less available for everyone else.
The only reason a figure like 2,500,000 means so much is precisely because so few of us have achieved it! The only way we all can have that much is through inflation, and then the cost of living rises accordingly making the figure meaningless.
Current Location: Hamilton, AL
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| 08:14 am - Reading from Yesterday.
How interesting in that it seemed to tell a short story in only three cards. Egyptian deck.
First card - The Star. This shows a nude Iset(Isis) with a jug of water in each hand, pouring them back into the Nile. Trying to remember the deeper meaning of this. On the surface it seems a futile, meaningless task. To take water, pour water, take more, pour it back, ad infinitum. But it is about energy pouring in, taking in blessings, and by turn giving blessings back.
Second card - The Chariot. This shows Heru(Horus) at the helm of a chariot drawn by two sphinxes. At this time what struck me was the more the flip side of this card, the temporary triumph of having the ego at the helm. This will become important later.
Third card. - The Four of Cups. - This shows a nude woman in profile with three cups on their side about her. She drinks from a fourth by the banks of the river. A crab also lies on the rocks nearby, a nod to the astrological sign of Cancer, though I doubt the Nile has many crabs in it.
Now to put them all together. It seems Iset is trying to transmit a message to the woman in the third card since the activities seem so similar to each other. However in this case the ego as represented by the chariot is interfering and/or misinterpreting what that message means. Iset is about giving and receiving. However in the third card the woman is only receiving. The ego believes that life is all about getting (receiving) what you want. But pure spirit (iset) is about both GIVING and receiving.
And I'd been wanting a reading I could really sink my teeth into.
Current Location: Hamilton, AL
Current Mood: contemplative
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June 2nd, 2009
| 03:24 pm - Writer's Block: Call Me
Yes, we still have a landline at home, as rare as we are actually AT home. When home, we do use it.
Current Location: Ontario, OR
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June 1st, 2009
| 12:22 pm - You know...
After 41 years on this planet, you'd think I'd know what really feeds my soul/makes my heart sing/hits me in the guts/gets me motivated/pumps my nads(HA!)/whatever you call it.
I mean I do to some extent, but it seems I need to specify and elucidate what these things are.
As you might have guessed, I just finished my free consultation with the life/career coach. One good thing she mentioned is that whatever decision I do make, it can be changed later. At this stage in life, I'm not so sure how easy that will be to do, but it still holds true.
Dayam, I am back to writing, or at least blogging with a vengeance it seems. Hokay, got some figuring to do, and I better get to it.
We'll both go with once per week at least for the first month, then maybe or maybe not knock it back to once every two weeks after that. I'm almost wishing I could keep it to weekly cause I could use that kind of motivation on a long term basis, but I'll take what I can get.
Onward!
Current Location: Percival, IA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/bouncy.gif) excited
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| 10:52 am - Here goes
Meant to post about a dream a few nights ago, where I actually was reading a radio transcript of a murder mystery called "Like Bittersweet Chocolate". Wish I could remember more than just the title and that the title page had partly been eaten away at the far edge by something.
So, anyway wish me luck for in about 15 minutes will be my first interview with a life coach, which should go REAL interesting. It'll be about job search, income generation, balancing life and work and all that good stuff. Fun.
Not to mention I need to renew my paid account here. Not that I used much of the paid stuff anyway save for some extra icons.
Current Location: Percival, IA
Current Mood: tired
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May 30th, 2009
| 03:03 pm - Too much fun.
Had my left eye irritated all day yesterday, and found out I had a sty inside the lower lid. thank heaven's it went away by this morning. Feels much better now. At first I thought it was just lack of water. My eyes tend to feel irritated when I don't drink enough water.
Anyway, there was that and weird dreams last night. First it seemed like two guys were discussing fantasy football stats and different players. Then it shifted over into some kind of football like game where my mother(!) chose team Scrooge(Ha!). After that, everyone else chose that same team. She musta known who to choose I guess.
Then she took off and I tried to follow her through what seemed like a office supply store, only to lose her in a mall, then find her again in one of the stores.
Current Location: Hope Mills, NC
Current Music: Phillies ahead 9-6.
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May 28th, 2009
| 04:50 pm - Too much fun!
Yes, the high value, expedited loads are baaaack. This time with extra fun since 200 miles out from the shipper we get a message to head back since the shipper loaded some wrong product on! Then as we found a turnaround spot we get "Never mind, just head on." Thanks. Well, at least we hadn't actually started heading back yet. Still, feh.
And in today's tarot, I draw first the Tower, followed by the WORLD, followed by the Princess of Disks. Hokay, something big IS coming up. We both have our first phone consultation with our life coach starting early next week, and we need to get our heads together about it. Like I said, I think this eventually will lead to more than simply a career or job change, though it'll start there. Feels like bigger than that. I have no idea where it will lead though. More than just a little nervous about it.
Current Location: Muskogee, OK
Current Music: Marianne Williamson on XM
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May 27th, 2009
| 04:15 pm - Whoa.
He speaks! It's only been what...a week?!!
Heh. Well anyway down in Bugland, aka Texas today. Woke up outside Las Cruces, NM to the sight of a roadrunner outside the passenger window. Cute bird.
Odd little tidbit. The Phillies seem to win more when I wear my cap. Don't ask me why. They just do. So...I'll keep wearing it.
And in spiritual news, It seems I'm going to take a bit of my own advice.
I used to think as far as atheists go "If you can't believe in God or gods, then believe in the Earth. She works just as well. She's a lot bigger than you are, a heckuva lot more powerful, and I dare you to tell me the Earth doesn't exist."
I dunno. It's beginning to seem any form of divinity is just too...ethereal (ephemeral?) just way too out there and intangible for me to relate to at this point. So, I'm gonna try seeing the Earth as divine, which it is anyway.
This does tend to shift one's viewpoint about, doesn't it? You came from the Earth. You'll return to the Earth. Better take care of the Earth, shouldn't ya?
I've also been trying to keep up with using the ol' tarot cards, and even some writing.
Decided on the career front to contract with a life coach, since this shift feels like much more than just career any more. Gonna see where it leads me.
Oh! And I need to balance the checkbook as well. Whoops!
Current Location: Weatherford, TX
Current Music: Phillies 0-0 bottom of the 2nd.
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May 19th, 2009
| 03:53 pm - Writer's Block: Space Wars
Of all time? Phew, that's a tough one. As for the one I watched the most religiously, I'd have to say Dr. Who. Movies would b the Star Trek series, and so on.
Current Location: Texarkana, AR
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/weird.gif) weird
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May 14th, 2009
| 05:41 am - Writer's Block: Word for Word
I know there's lots and lots out there, and I call myself the Human Jukebox since I can sing so many from heart, or at least can sing along with the music. Too many to list, and of course the brainbox isn't quiiite in gear so none are coming to mind straight off except:
Information Society - "What's on Your Mind"
Stabbing Westward - "What Do I Have to Do"
Yes - "Sweetness"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Plush"
CCR - "Willy and the Poor Boys (Correct and misheard lyrics version)"
Yadda yadda yadda...
Current Location: Charlotte, NC
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: The beeping of the Qualcomm
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May 13th, 2009
| 04:46 pm - Load From HELL!
Holy flaming Jesus on a stick what a pain in the butt.
Was the usual getting the empty and getting on down there to Jacksonville, FL. Then the fun began.
First little scare came when we find the directions weren't quiiiite right. They said to turn onto 26th. Well yes, the address of the shipper IS listed as being on 26th, but that's NOT where the truck entrance is. So after a short detour down some residential streets (fun!), we come back around and get into the gate. There's one truck in the dock we need already so we wait a bit.
It gets better. So, we're loaded up and since it's a heavy mofo (bills STATE 44000), we head on over to scale. It says we're about 600 pounds overweight on the tandems, and we're only one hole short of being as far back as we can legally go. That ain't gonna work! So baaaack to the shipper.
They rework it, and from what I can tell from looking in the trailer, we can get the tandems to a legal spot.
So scale a second time. Now we can only get legal on the tandems OR the drives. One of em's gonna be over eeever so slightly. (<150 pounds). So next thing is to try and (yuck!) slide the fifth wheel, which is like getting something through Congress any more.
But, we did that, and NOW the steer's went from 11200 to 20200. Holy...WTF?
NOW, we find out a little known fact in the trucking world. Sometime after 2004, the weight limits on steer tires for most states were raised from 12000 to 20000! OMG! We can make it work after all! Though to be honest, that weight is supposedly for interstates only. Good enough for us, we're only going to the Charlotte OC anyway.
Yes, allll this for a load going 366 loaded miles. So get the fifth wheel AND the tandems to a good spot, and all's set to go after ONE last weigh. Phew! Now I need a farking shower. I must stink to high heaven since I sweat so much.
Current Location: Jacksonville, FL
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/angry.gif) Ready to pop a vein!
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