En attendant le towing.

Vegas avec Le King.

Blaze of Glory in Utah.

Lever de Soleil au Colorado.

Petit voyage.

Parti le 8 Décembre.
Livraison a Vegas le 11.
Congé le 12.
Rechargement a Yuma, Arizona le 13.
Livraison a Cambridge, Ontario le 17 au matin.
De retour a la maison le 17 après-midi.
Hugs and kisses de Melinda et Eva-Mae le 17 au soir.



Sur MapQuest, Temps Total Estimé: 74 heures 30 minutes Distance Totale Estimée: 4941.49 miles.
En réalité, Temps (de conduite) Total: 83 heures 15 minutes Distance Totale: 5023.86 miles
Assez bien pour 10 jours.

Little coincidence.

Yesterday I drove from Gila Bend, AZ to Santa Rosa, NM.
1053 kilometers in 10.5 hrs of driving.
Today I drove from Santa Rosa, NM to Joplin, MO.
1053 kilometers in 10.5 hrs of driving.

Ma petite Princesse

Lots and lots of pictures.

From Lexington, NE to Denver, CO.
324 miles in 2 minutes 45 seconds.



Few hundred miles in less than 30 seconds.
Pics from UT, AZ and NV ending in Vegas.

Get the fuck out.

Je viens d'écouter le discours de Marois.
Je m'excuse mais je suis désole que le PQ n'aie pas gagné majoritairement pour qu'un référendum soit tenu et que le Québec se sépare.
Je ne suis plus un vrai Québécois, et je ne comprends pas la pensée politique du peuple Québécois.
La majorité du Québec vote Bloc au Fédéral mais donne une majorité au Libéraux?
Je crois qu'il y a beaucoup de voteurs qui n'ont pas vraiment le courage de leurs opinions.

Encore, je m'excuse mais j'ai hâte au jour ou le Québec va partir et arrêter de foutre le bordel dans mon pays.


Luke

Pigtails by Daddy.

Low gas price

At the gas station around the corner, 69.9 cents per litre for regular.

Or 3.17US per US Gallon (3.785L) with 20% exchange rate between US and Canadian dollars.

Nouvelles photos d"Eva-Mae

Philly from I-76

Baltimore Harbor Tunnel

Bubbles

C'est l'hiver 2

Mon Pays, ce n'est pas un Pays, c'est l'hiver.

"Park by feel" AssHole

I'm at the Pilot in Cannonsburg and got awakened half hour (2:00AM) ago by a "Park by feel" kind of guy.
He didn't stick around to see the damage he did to my passenger side mirror and mount.
By the time I put pants and boots on and got out of the truck, he was gone.

Thank you AssHole!

Horse riding @ Wal-Mart

53 years ago today

I just wanted to cross the Border.

Monday morning, I pick up my trailer in Ingersoll, ON and I got to deliver in Columbus,OH Tuesday 6AM.

At 1230PM, I start heading toward Windsor, ON where I will be crossing into Detroit, MI.

When crossing with commercial cargo, the load has to be accepted before showing up.
If it's not, they likely will turn you around. And possibly fine you.

My custom broker's (Livingston) computer system has crashed yesterday and I can't cross the border.

Paperwork was faxed at 1130AM and then again at 230PM yesterday.
At 330PM, I was sitting 4.7 kilometers from the border and unable to cross.
At 730PM, they acknowledge receiving my paperwork but still not able to cross.
At 9PM, still not done and I gave up. Decided to throw all this time in my 10 hours and get up at 1AM.
At 1AM Tuesday, still not done and the guy on their end asks me for my cell number so somebody working on my load can call me.
At 140AM, I get a call and it's not good.
Apparently, there is information missing and they can not clear me.
Thank you for telling me at Fucking 2AM.
That's something I would have liked to know 12 hours ago.
Now I got to wait for people to show up in my office and the shippers office.
Got to wait until at least 9AM.
At 9, people start working on it.
At 1115AM, I get a call from the broker telling me I can cross at noon.
I finally cleared Customs at 1230PM. A full 21 hours later than expected.

New problem now.
I can't deliver on Tuesday anymore.
New appointment is 8AM on Wednesday.

Got to my delivery at 745AM Wednesday and trailer was empty at 1115AM.

Somebody found the Christmas stuff

My new phone

Those things are getting tiny.
Weighs less than 3 oz.
And it's got a camera and 2G memory for music.
I sync"ed" it with my laptop and now got 421 songs on my phone.

It is so fucking annoying

when this is the only thing you get from your favorite website:






Especially when it happens over and over and over and...

I Love HD TV

Personal check up time.

Had the day off yesterday and met with 3 doctors.
I needed a physical done for the MTO (Ministry of Transportation of Ontario).
And why not fill the day with 2 more doctors.

Doc said to me that I am a healthy 40 year old.
Dentist told me I got no cavities.
And the eye doctor said my eyes aren't worse than last year.

A little dose of cuteness

Wishing Mommy a good day


Chad is her favorite

Bonne Fete Matante Manon

This week

Monday morning, deliver in Guelph, ON.
In the afternoon, pick up a load in Ingersoll for Canajoharie, NY.
Delivery in NY on Tuesday 6AM.
Picked up 1 skid as reload in Utica, NY Tuesday afternoon.
Deliver that Wednesday morning in Mississauga, ON.
Pick up new load in Strathroy, ON for Montegomery, AL.
Delivery in AL Friday morning.
Reload is in Albany, GA.
Pick it up Friday afternoon and head home.
Arrive home late Saturday night.
Off for a couple days because this week-end is the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday.

I went and cast my (early) vote last week-end.

The choices I had here in Oxford county were:
Conservatives.
Christian Heritage Party.
Liberals.
NDP.
Green Party.

I don't like the idea of a "religious group" as government, so I couldn't vote for CHR.

The Liberals want a shitload of new spending without saying how they would pay for it yet. And, really, can we trust them yet?

The NDP want to raise both spending and taxes. By a lot. I don't like that.

The Green Party, they want to raise taxes, spending and basically kill the industrial sector for the sake of the enviroment. I don't like that either.

There were no Independents on the ballot.

The Party whose philosophy I like the best, The Libertarian Party of Canada, doesn't have a candidate in my county and even if they did, it would be a losing proposition.

In the economic situation we are in and heading to, I think the Conservatives are the best (or less bad) option.

Now, I am afraid Quebec will fuck it up again by voting Bloc and we will have a minority government again.

This week

Left home Saturday morning and arrived in Fairburn, GA (near Atlanta) sunday night.
Dropped my loaded trailer at customer.
Picked it up empty 34 hours later on Tuesday morning.
Up to Decatur, AL.
Got to my delivery in Leamington, ON on Wednesday 10:30AM.
3 trucks to unload before me.
I leave there at 3:30PM.
Get back to Ingersoll and sleep in my own bed.
Thursday morning, I pick up a load in Ingersoll, bring it back to the yard.
Then to London, pick-up a load of (uncooked) chicken wings and deliver them to Paris, ON.
Back to the yard with the empty trailer.
Hook to a loaded trailer and on my way to Canajoharie, NY.
Deliver that at 8:30AM on Friday.
Reload is in Wolcott, NY.
Arrived back at yard around 9PM Friday night.
Now off until Monday morning.

I didn't meet this Asshole but I know he is an Asshole

I'm at Flying J truck stop in Walton, KY, relaxing, looking at some Sporty bobbers online when I am jolted forward.
Damn! Somebody just backed into me.

I put my boots back on and went to the back of the trailer to see if everything's fine.
It is.

Except the behavior of the culprit. He didn't get out to check things out.
(And by the way I felt the impact, he had to know he hit me.)
He just pulled away, toward the exit.
Never saw his truck and the trailer doors and sides were blank.

I may not know you driver, but I do know you're an Asshole.

This week:
Monday morning went to Toronto to deliver and then 2 pick-ups and back home.
Tuesday left for Lebanon, TN. That's by Nashville.
Delivered Wednesday morning then up to Louisville, KY for a late night pick-up.
Delivered that load on Friday morning in Trenton, ON.
Back home Friday afternoon.

Just some clips from the dashboard.

Old pop "Français".

R.I.P.