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Overnite was a non-union company, the largest non-union co. I believe, and just about everybody that worked there talks about what a great company it was to work for before UPS took them over. They have an Overnite facebook page for former workers, have reunions, etc. but I haven't seen or heard any of them say anything about it being great after UPS.

My poorly photo chopped pictures might be done poorly, but after years of practice they aren't too bad. Yours however, is horrible- keep practicing.

I've had that craftsman tool box since 1974.

This week, I saw a new Lonestar at the shop. Damn nice looking trucks they are! This one has a ISX550 Cummins with an 18 speed. I saw my shed burn down, almost taking the house with it. I can only assume that a spark got from the smoker, and either caught the leaves on fire or blew over to the shed. It's been terrible dry here and I was inside instead of keeping an eye on it, but i'd only been in a few minutes, and that's all it takes. My Craftsman tool box that i've had since 1974. Hey, my drill! Crafstman tool box i've had since 1974, after I picked some wrenches and sockets out of the debris. My chain saws, a grinder, and one of those things at bottom left is my Stihl leaf blower, the other one is a weed eater. ...and check out this coil rack- and this is a heavy steel coil rack, not the flimsy ones you usually see. And the set of dies in the plastic case that i've had since 1974 is barely damaged! The pocket knife was in my tackle box, probably had it since the '60's. The blade was broken, but it had a fish scaler, hook remover, and a bottle opener on it. A couple of Mepps spinners and a couple of spoons were about all that was left of the tackle box i've had since I was a kid. Found some hooks and swivels, rods and reels gone of course. I was going to throw these ratchets in the scrap metal pile, but then I remembered the Craftsman guarantee. Oh, and I found this little bell. I didn't know I had it, don't know where it came from, but it was in the Craftsman tool box that i've had since 1974- and it still works. This will come in really handy when i'm sitting here watching TV and need another cup of coffee or another beer, I can just ring the bell and Jo will jump and get m.......................................................................................................

I agree 100%!

I've never been to Canada, but i've always heard that from drivers who did run Canada, that it was a lot bigger pain in the ass to get back across to the U.S. than it was to get into Canada. I was in Detroit once, in the 80's, and could have went to Windsor to get a load of lumber, but I turned it down. If I was going to Canada I didn't want to cross the border just so I could say i'd been there, like I did in Mexico, I wanted to go to Moose Jaw or somewhere.

I just hope Kanye and Rosie made it to Canada before they stepped up their border patrol.

thanks Bob!

thank you Vlad!

I don't know if this is true, I think it is, but even if it's not it pretty much sums up how I feel- https://victorialsanders.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/hate-didnt-elect-donald-trump-people-did/ And this map, I was looking for a picture of the map without any captions, shows the counties in the U.S. that supported Trump and those that supported Hillary. The red area supported Donald Trump- all of rural America, the heartland of America, the working class of America, the people who make America what it is, regardless of their skin color or what church they go to, for the most part they supported Donald Trump. So, if not for the electoral college, the majority of the thugs, criminals, miscreants, deadbeats,and city-slickers- er, uh, I mean population- that lives in the blue area could impose their will on the entire rest of the country, and that just ain't right.

grrrr-

You'd rather sandpaper a wildcat's ass in a telephone booth than take that unit out in the snow.

I use these-

I'm out of likes, used them all up on the snowflake thread, so i'm just gonna copy somebody else's post and re-use it. Having a ball in San Diego...er, I mean Gladys... best to everyone reading this and have a swingin Thanksgiving....bob....uh, I mean Tom. hmmmmm...OK, maybe this one works better for me- Wishing everyone have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving!! Remember Hatcity in your Thanksgiving prayers too.

I'm an idiot- but it could have been worse- much worse. I was spraying the vinyl siding with the garden hose until the Gladys Volunteer Fire Dept. got here, hoping it wouldn't ignite. I was about to lose the battle when they got here. I had several cans of gas in there, oil, hydraulic fluid, spray paint, my new leaf blower, several chain saws...

As i've mentioned before, I have pretty much no use for unions. As we all learned in school-right? unions were much needed in the early days, because before unions any company or business could literally treat their employees any way they wanted to- "if you don't like it,leave!" Then, as time marched on unions became more powerful-bigger,stronger, faster- until the unions could pretty much treat the company or business any way they wanted to- "we want more and more and more for doing less and less and less!" I mentioned U.S. Steel on here the other day, i've said how they quit loading me at Copperweld Steel in Warren ,Ohio 30 minutes before the shift ended when they had one more lift to load because "it's in their contract", when i'd been there all evening and half the night already. Union greed put them out of business, and when you see a sad story on TV or in the paper about "the rust belt", and how all the jobs are gone, I find it hard to feel any sympathy when I pass the old Copperweld mill and see weeds covering everything and buildings falling down- because they did it to themselves!..and they treated truck drivers like assholes too. And i've got this set of books called "The Trucking Pioneers" - ...and I made a list of these trucking companies that are now out of business all or at least partly because of union strikes against them. ...and while I was doing all this, my shed burned down, and almost the house-

And...........Oldsmobile it is. ...and it could be yours-

If it is it's buffessionally done, not poorly photo chopped like I do.

I've got to go to Petersburg to load today, maybe i'll take a closer look at it. And speaking of dem birds, I see Vinny (U Model Nut) is on facebook now. Somebody hit the nail on the head as to their theory why Vinny wasn't on here much any more, but I forgot who it was. I didn't see a single picture of the U model, but he's surrounded by a bevy of beautiful women in just about every picture...yeah, it's true- he's the man!

I had nice scenery too! It was this one here-

I was in the Walmart store last weekend and noticed that they had premixed two cycle gas in there. I didn't even know you could buy it like that- it was $4.97 for a quart bottle. According to my math that's nearly $20 a gallon. I had just bought a 6 pack of 2 cycle oil at the Stihl store, for probably about $6, a gallon of non ethanol is about $2.25 around here, you can get a gallon oil jug out of any trash can for free to put your gas in, so I did not buy the pre-mixed gas for my leaf blowing machine. I went to a stew at my brother's last weekend. He has an old Galion motor grader that runs and works, but he said they haven't used it for a while. It has a mighty 4-71 Detroit Diesel in it too. He had the stew down at their hunting cabin- it was not as good as my stew this year, last year his was better. Ma said "I didn't know it was a competition." I said "it's not, but mines was better." mines- his'n- Saw a nice load of logs going up some mountain in West Virginia. I made a Milton mill roll run after I unloaded that load of 60' tubing in Petersburg. Some rolls on the ground at Gerdau in Petersburg- I saw Greendash in Petersburg too. ...and some automobiles.