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  1. I get the Farmville Herald newspaper, only printed twice a week on Wednesday and Friday. Every Friday they reprint the front page from 50 years ago. Very interesting to me because sometimes i'll see people that I remember or knew. They also reprint a page from 100 years ago. No pictures then, but it can be interesting at times too.

    Ran across these stories this week, one fits right in the "work ethic" topic.

  2. But you got it done like I knew you would. You are much more advanced than I am as far as computers go.

    I like the Mack. Nice addition.

    Not really, I just like to play around with pictures when it's raining, or snowing, or there's no freight. The Mack is turned a little too much but it was the closest yellow one I could find.

    But thank you very much indeed.

  3. quote name='Underdog' date='05 December 2009 - 06:55 PM' timestamp='1260057336' post='44599']

    As soon as Tom sees your post I bet we will see a Peterbilt school bus.

    Gregg

    I didn't photoshop this picture. I've been saving it for a rainy day ever since I found it here:

    This is much better than the crappy looking pictures I do.

  4. Gambi it's a joke about short bus riders. Not necessary the mentally challenged, but anyone with a silly sense of humor.

    I was so smart I rode this bus to school. later on I even drove it, as I was old enough to get my license by 6th. grade. I was very proud of that, being the only sixth grader with a mustache and a drivers license.

  5. Thanks Barry, I'm slow and may be shipped out soon but will try to take advantage of the uprated posting limits before departure.

    Hope ya'll think of me from time to time when I'm gone.

    Rob

    I must be even slower-I don't even know what it means...huh? :unsure:

  6. You're gonna be in trouble next season. Monsanto has developed a new "Roundup" to take care of that plant at the root level so no more of it's offspring cohabitate the earth. Incidently that plant was named after a planet discovery in the "Third Galactic Nebula" within outer space that NASA is taking aim at to test hi yield nuclear weaponry and deployment systems.

    Unlike the Obama administration; We're working on erradicating the source, not treating the symptoms.

    Rob

    oops-we're not the brightest star in the galaxy- that's planet I mean-planet.

    back to the drawing board Monsanto.

    wait-you said NASA was gonna do what to where? The "Third Galactic Nebula" is exactly where gkfgmm is-I gotta go, later guys seeya, I must be off.

  7. WHO was that person that ran out of fuel in the driveway?.....and told everybody on this web-site about it?....do I need to tell about the other ones? :lol:

    mike

    don't fall for it Mike-that's not Nikki, Rob's baiting you to see if you're gonna make an inappropiate comment! :lol:

  8. That's right. One must not only know how many gallons the truck will hold, they must also be familiar how to get such a mishap, (not mistake) repaired upon the side of the road. This is the most basic of operating knowlege of a motor vehicle and ranks right up there with knowing how to change a flat on your car. It is much easier to figger this out in your own driveway, instead of the side of the road someplace.

    Now with a Peterbilt; All bets are off, "you're walkin".

    Rob

    running out of fuel? .. me? well, there was one time when I drove a '79 F-model. But the fuel gauge didn't work. I was full of fuel and loaded at the shop on a Friday and had plenty of fuel to run this trip, to Baltimore or somewhere. I left Sunday night and on the way in the next day I ran out about 12 miles from the shop and had to walk about a mile to a store to call headquarters. Turned out that Jeff or Todd has used the truck over the weekend to haul a load of chips to Covington- little over a hundred miles,one way- and didn't fill it back up.

    Almost ran out in Warrenton with the same truck, but when it started sputtering I made a flip and went back to a Texaco station and got enough to make it home.

    I was driving a '77 F-model one time, going to Covington with a load of chips. I was running with another truck and they ran out of fuel about half way up North Mountain on I-64. I had an empty oil jug and we siphoned fuel out of my truck one gallon at a time and poured it in until we figured we had enough to get to the Ponderosa Truckstop, at the bottom of the mountain on the other side. Very slow process. Finally I said "that oughta do it". So we got it started and took off-and ran out again, still a long ways from the top of the mountain, and had to repeat the process.

    And I ran out in Lynchburg once, bringing a brand new cabover KW back to the shop from Truck Enterprises in Roanoke. The cheap b@$#@rds wouldn't even put enough fuel in it to get it to Appomattox. H.H. should have told them to come get it and took his binness elsewhere.

    And there was that time I ran out in Florida in that International, when all the fuel drained into the right tank because I was parked leaning to the right. It would not equalize even after another truck pulled me up where it was sitting level, with the tops off the tank. Had to call the truckstop to bring me fuel, and once I got going it equalized like it was supposed to.

  9. Damn right. The employee shows up for work, and at the end of the day when they punch out, they don't have to THINK about anything work related until they punch back in the following day. Most have no idea what goes on AFTER business hours or the other expenses involved in operating a business. Most have no idea how much it costs the employer just to OFFER them the PRIVILEGE of having a job.

    I've always tried to tell people that if your employer isn't making a profit as a result of the work that you do, you won't have a job for very long. Entrepreneurs risk their capital to start a business in order to see a return on their investment...profits. If profits are good, the business can expand...adding employees. Employees are an investment...if they don't provide good returns on that investment, the job is terminated. It really doesn't get any simpler than that.

    My first job was a camp councilor at a Boy Scout camp. The camp director was a real hard-ass and gave us the following speech on the first day of our employment:

    "You are all employees of the camp. ANYTHING that needs being done at the camp is your job. I don't care if your job title is 'scoutcraft instructor', if the commissary needs help getting food ready to send to the troops, that is your job. I don't care if your job title is 'nature instructor', if the waterfront staff needs help on Saturday with the swim checks, that is your job. If I hear 'that ain't my job' out of ANYONE, you'll be on the next bus home."

    Anyone I have worked for, I figure they are paying me for my time...that I owe them a full day's work for a full day's wage. It doesn't matter if I'm pushing a broom or whatever else needs doing, I'm on the clock. If the job needs doing, I'll do it.

    Unfortunately these days, I work for a real slave driver who takes advantage of my strong work ethic...got me playing the roles of driver, mechanic, secretary, & accountant...and because I agreed to work on salary, most weeks I find myself wishing I was lucky enough to be making the minimum wage. Oh well...at least I get to drive a kick-ass truck. B)

    True indeed. My brother-in-law was looking for a job one time and I got him a job working in the shop at the company I drove for, servicing trucks. The first time the shop foreman asked him to line the brakes on a trailer he refused, and that's exactly what he said-"that's not my job".

    Nobody has any pride in their job anymore, they're just looking for that paycheck. I've been loading at a steel mill before, after sitting there all afternoon, and the workers quit a half hour before their shift was over with just one more lift to go on the trailer. And of course the next shift had to screw around at least a half hour before they do anything. And then if the truck ain't sitting 500 miles away at 7:00 the next morning to unload the truck driver must be a no-good lazy shiftless bum. :angry:

  10. The really dangerous part of all this "poor work ethic" and "I deserve everything" attitude is that more and more of the people are demanding, and getting, compensation from our government. In exchange for votes I suppose. Somewhere along this path it has to fail. We, as a shrinking workforce, cannot keep shouldering the bill for this ever increasing entitlement program. And we sure cannot keep borrowing the money from the rest of the world, just to pay the interest on the debt we already have! Something has to give. And when it does, our economy will probably bottom out unlike anything else we have ever seen.

    Someone recently called the 2000 - 2010 decade the "Fading of the American Dream". That's very scary to me.

    We are all in it together - from unemployment benefits or health care or all of the assorted subsidies or stimulus foolishness - somehow, somewhere almost all of us are getting some money to relieve us of our responsibility for taking care of ourselves. Can you say "Socialism"? We may already be the most socialist country on earth. And it might be too late to get the American way of life back. That's a terrible thought, but it might be reality.

    So many of us are sucking off of the government that we are all afraid to send a simple message to our representatives and just say "No, we've had enough of your political foolishness and out of control spending - you are fired" And then we need to remember not to elect any lawyers. Let's elect farmers, truck drivers, independant business people and plain old common sense thinkers for a change. If you have any political experience, we don't want you. Period. It couldn't hurt - what we have now obviously isn't working!

    Nice to rant now and then.

    It would be even better if we actually did something about it!

    Paul Van Scott

    That's what I thought when Virgil Goode, plain 'ol southside Va. tobacco farmer, lost in the the last election. He actually listened to the people, and actually replied to phone calls and mail. Did his job in other words. Was dead-set against illegal immigrants. But he lost to a big shot city slicker lawyer type democrat in the last election-who's done nothing by the way.

    I think the "you owe me a living, i'm looking for my handout now" people outnumber the rest of us. And that is a problem.

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