There ought to be before.

I know my limits. As both a pilot as well as aviation mechanic I would never attempt to do say transplant a kidney.

I wonder though at more while mundane therapy providers as well as service in general providers and ask why is there not more in a state that needs more due to an aging population? More on the last one in a minute.

Okay, take my PSR, Todd. He comes on board in April 2009, up roots me to Buhl, a place that I could not afford to begin with, as you will see a pattern will emerge.

I get there, in one month I’m so stressed food and money wise I have to near beg. Finally and only by my hand , got together with Ricky and Charlie, but up to that point. Now then just about the time I was on the verge of relocating from Buhl to Burley here, a thing that I’m glad someone snuffed him cause the jackass that conned me to moving here sure as hell deserved it.

In so doing though I was shocked at rental rates here, had two alternatives in Buhl, one being a store front. $125.00 a month plus electricity. Over a few months as it did something better came up but no, already moved into a place in Rupert that was a mouse house, truly. Mice all over, the place was filthy. Even though even nb4 I lost the first shop, I had found a place here for $180.00 a month, which could have provided both a place to sleep as well as shower, again Todd like the place in Buhl, said no. I get to feeling at times like the guy thinks that by keeping my funds low or inaccessible that its safer to the public.

Okay then, Todd’s advice over the last few w3eeks has really gotten under my skin.

First there was the statement by him to both my Counselor, that aircraft pilots only make $50k a year. Excuse me, has this guy really looked? A good Private General Aviation Pilot can make in excess of $150,000.00 a year. Airline pilots making even more. Todd's thing was that Voc-Rehab of Idaho, would not fund when the outcome was less that the funds required to train. Its about equal. But instead of just one opinion, how about a review here? A follow up. This is not Todd’s fault, its that on both runs at Idaho’s Voc Rehab, have turned up no. Apparently there is no money in the till to fund aviation training, yet Idaho has a long history with aviation, and being able to fly in this state can make one a good living. But does this get attention? No.

But for my PSR to say that the costs outweighed the return financially was wrong. There ought to be a longer period of time for one of these PSR’s before they are turned loose.

And finally.

I have chatted about this before , but I’ll do it again.

The need for me to have a payee for my funds extends from the days when my cousin Bud, was the administrator Trustee of the Montgomery Trust. At the time, I admit could not handle money well. Handling the greater half of $600,000.00 is a task. When much of that was lost in two volatile investments that went belly up, Bud enrolled me in Social Security. With the factors of mere PTSD and Migraine headaches.

Bud took over managing money.

When Bud became too ill to do this duty, because of the lack of options I took on the situation of having this outfit called CTR Payee Services in Blackfoot, Idaho.

Over all the person in charge does the job. But not entirely to my satisfaction. Both in the condition of keeping me informed or just simple communications.

Two blunders by the same service, one not completely CTR’s fault but still enough to get me concerned, was the transfer of funds from Bud to the new account in December 2011. After a month and a half, and mostly through Bud and 2nd Cousin Shar, it got done, but not b4 I was without power and water for a weekend. Then came the last of February. I assumed that CTR had paid the cable bill. She didn’t, so I get a shut off notice. Meaning I have to pay the entire thing. Now I’m behind $400.00 and nothing has been paid on it. Where the heck is the money going?

I could go on, but one would thing that in all of the state of Idaho, there would be at least two maybe three other outfits that did SSA Payee services? I’d try doing that except, I’m a beneficiary and thus can’t be my own money manager (yet) which is why I’m going to Counseling and have a PSR so I can document and certify that I’m mentally stable enough to handle my own money.

However that said The Knytes-of-Anarchy is still looking into establishing such a service, sometime after the first of the year.

Again though, how come nobody else does this. What ? $50k a year is not enough? Shoot, $ 4,200.00 to send out checks two weeks of the month is not a bad way of making money.

More L8R

Time for bed.

L8R

 

Quote of the Day:
We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.
--Martin R. DeHaan

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Do you truly have the dedication to be a tow truck operator?

Many think that the adrenalin rush and all is all there is to toewing. Fact is , that emergency rush is only a minute part of our spectrum.

When the call goes out you have to be ready, and available. If you’re a small to medium company, forget days off, holidays, always dry warm nights and days.

Had a new hire, called him to go on a tow. Thing is both he and his pal were at the ones mothers. Fine, but we had a tow. I grabbed my duds went out did the job. As any good toew owner should and needs to do. Over the last 25 years I can count on one hand the times I have had a true day off. That I did not have toew duty or kept myself in driving response range to answer a toew call. I can also count on one hand the times I have been able to just sit and enjoy a movie in a theater, or a dinner out, without being in a rush or being responded to a toew.

For many of us, its our passion. Mine came at age 15, when I sat in my first tow truck, the cab got bright as any noon day sun, there was absolute silence, except for angel harps, I felt a peace that I had never felt b4, a hand on my shoulder told me where I was at, was just what I should do. Since then towing is all I have and do live for. From the very foundation of the Knytes, to my own life, the basic is simple, it all revolves around one truck, my truck, LexiBelle my tow truck and all that she represents. I have half joked that I’d divorce a woman b4 I’d get rid of LexiBelle. The reality is more accurate than just joking. LexiBelle has been with me for all the times of my life, she was in the parking lot when I had heart surgery, she’s been at all my weddings, she’s been with me in every place I have lived from Hazzard to Provo, to Wyoming , to Boise, back here to Burley. LexiBelle is why Nurse Goodbody, is so dear to me since she helped rescue LexiBelle when an un scrupulous shop owner held her hostage.

The list is long, but for every step, its been LexiBelle there.

So the question is asked again, Do you have the dedication to be a tow truck operator/owner? If not, step aside for those of us who do.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Encouragement is like a premium gasoline - it helps to take knocks out of living.
--Anonymous

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HazzardAyre’ Eyes On America

This is an election year to be sure, but the one to watch is the next one.

2016 will be a big bang since both parties will be begging for votes. On our local area elections we had two county sheriff’ elections that while volatile to be sure, gave us the same thing, a law enforcement community that orders a business owner to release a car that was put in that business owners possession to repair. Who does this?

Watch here for more on that Sunday here in HazzardAyre.

We are looking at two idiots more in the ego boosting spot rather than looking at obscure issues that someone should have brought up. Like the sell off of broadcast signal airspace to bring about true high speed internet broadband internet. That did not happen, but TV went digital, virtually putting many older elderly fixed income people out of watching TV. Sure there was the big buy of the digital converters, and all but what about millions of older TV’s that had to be replaced , so one could watch digital TV? Add to that radio frequencies that were swallered up, just to accommodate the new broadband program. The only winners here was cell phone companies like Verizon, A.T.&.T. Sprint, and Mobile1. The home computer internet user consumer was screwed. But did you hear one iota from either Presidential candidate about that? Speaking of the Obamastylllyin FCC, what about the new license freeze on TV applications and station licenses? No big talk there. What about the expansion of the AM band of radio. Currently there is the above 1600 area of the AM band nearly unused, at least in Idaho. But can you file for those spots? No. FCC is putting a hold on that. The list goes on, but we are screwed.

Now then Vee-PEE’ The reason the Presidential candidates get these monkey heads as VP running mates is simple. Get someone in there that most American’ hate so nobody will shoot the President. Romney chose Paul Ryan, because no one would want Ryan in as President, Obama chose Biden because no one want Biden as a President should someone succeed in pulling the trigger on Obama. Same thing last election. Same story on Obama, however if in the last election John McCain had won, someone would have shot him, and been better off with the former Governor of Alaska.

I’m not saying axe the President, but maybe the Confederate States Party would be a better choice here.

Not that the CSP got in the game, in fact the CSP never got off a shot much less got off the bench and even got in the game.

We as the modern Confederacy and Southern Movement need to get in gear.

More in the afternoon,

L8R ya’ll

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Smooth seas do not make for a skillful sailor.
--African Proverb

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The cyber highway is getting really bumpy

 

The Internet in its supposedly upgraded, updated form is really getting stupid and nerve racking. No wonder our youth is pee-owed all the damn time.

Dig this, some dillweed signed up for an account using my original hotmail account. I tried many times to rectify the situation to no avail, so shit, just sue, and that’ll get Facebook’ attention.

The fires on the mountain stopped the radio show dead in our tracks. This time the tower spot was not spared nor was the internet as fluid, so will wait until conditions improve, nothing like having your own damn pipeline.

Talk at ya’ll Saturday, need to drain brain.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
--Herman Melville

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There are Toes and there are Tows the how they blend is Toew.

There are many who look at me in disgust and ridicule the long time progression if ya’ll want to call it progression, or whatever to find the purrfect set of toes for KTOW and our radio media photo ops.

Understand I did not start this. It was not my invention, but hey if it works why not use it? After all how many just in Idaho here have copied our company names? Think of it, Some jerk weed in Malad Idaho copied both Heavy Hooker Wrecker Service, that what we started with, all the way to both Road Resque Towing, to now BlackSheep Towing in Caldwell. Not to let loose here , even some butt maggot in Nampa copied Iron Eagle XPress. Which is one of the many things I like about Utah. In Utah a name of a company when registered for the whopping sum of $30.00 is protected for up to 5 years. All subsidiaries are also name protected for that same time frame. Here in Idaho, its only for two years. Bull shit. What if you shut down to serve military or church duties? I could sue, but what the hell? We keep what we got, shoot the rest.

Any mile so getting back on the right road here.

I caught this foot toe bug back in about I think 1988 somewhere. Saw this ad in the Yellow Pages for Star Garage(since closed) in Ogden Utah that read , we don’t want your arms and legs , just your tows. Okay so that was the ignition point. The entire thing did not catch fyre until 1997 when I was hammering out reports and went to spell tow, but spelled toe, as the e and w on a typical key board are very close to each other its easy to do. My step son Mike suggested using that with the Daisy Duke look gig we ran in our TV ads for the company, in a symbolical kiss on the toes in that we at Dixie Towing just loves tow(e)s.

Fast forward to 1999 , I barely arrived back home in Hazzard sent off to the production department for Overdrive radio that we co produced and ran on KTOW there for some program liners from legendary DJ and Country star Bill Mack. The liners came back voiced wrong, in that KOTW was mis pronounced K – TOW rhyming with cow rather than toe. So a project was engaged to get the idea across to those mentally challenged that the word is TOW, not COW.

Trust me while it looks better in nylon hose etc, and in experience womens feet , mainly their toes smell differently, even the most angelic gals toes do STINK !!! I have no big thrill of putting lips to toes to proliferate the idea.

Now then beyond me, I first spotted the original publication PhooteNotes in the offices of Tony’ Towing in Murray Utah, of course PhooteNotes evolved into TR FootNotes, and so it goes.

Now then, Confederate Star Media is launching in a few weeks a gig for us who tow called Highway Hooker TV, for those who tow. A TV show not like what you see on Lizard Like or Repo, but a true to life towing show, about us who bust butt , 24/7/365 recovering and coming to the rescue of all who drive, at all hours, in all weather.

Kinda like AG/DAY only instead of farming , we focus on towing. Featuring not only lifestyle, but news of the industry, real tow rescue situations , company stories and yes the Respect Tow Truck Drivers project. Showcasing tow shows, towing associations and getting industry manufactures involved. Of course not to be outdone, or overlooked, I’ll be here weekends on KTOW FM 105.3 Buhl Idaho, doing Highway Hooker Radio, the first, the original and only real radio show for and of going towing. And oh yes too I’d be struck down, if I did not mention this it was in 2009, that one of my interns at one of our station studios in Gooding, suggested combining the words toe and tow together to make sure nobody could mistake the word. So tow + toe = TOEW. Thank you Emme.

Now to wrap this up, I wonder how hard it’ll be to get Amanda of the Respect Tow Truck Drivers Project, to photograph HER toes in nylon hose, and send that pic to me to feature in our hot toews contest?

By the way , the web site for Respect Tow Truck Operators is up, likewise the revised Highway Hooker web site will be up by end of the month, between now and then all you good looking ladies out there, want to win $500.00? Send us your best pic of your toes in nylon hose so we can post it on our site and feature on our TV show.

Where to send that can be gleaned by emailing, hwyhooker@hotmail.com and requesting the radio station addy.

Gotta prep for my show tonight, see ya’ll on the flip flop.

Good numbers , we 10-10 on the side.

6 months to go and counting

I don’t often say this in public but when I get the bug I howl. Been suffering with the knee problem again.

Seems as though the silicon the surgeons squirted in there needle method in 2009 is wearing thin. Which might mean I need to go to the hospital in Boise to get another treatment. Thank Kahless for my VA benefits.

The club yesterday at our afternoon officers meeting, decided to engage Live365 to get the online radio station going.

Which begs the question, who the hell is going to run the radio station? Let’s see now, from 18:00 Hours to 06:00 Hours is all the time I have to devote to it during the summer. After which during winter between toew calls that always rolls in, early mornings, and from about given the day of the week, variance from 23:00 Hours to again early morning during drive times.

If we’re running the radio station Live 24/7/365, who is going to cohabitate the radio studio cockpit with me to take over if I go to a toew call? Santa Clause? Then of course there is day time hours, from 07:00 Hours to 13:00 hours I try to catch up on sleep and personal care, shower, and all, then from 13:00 Hours to 16:00 Hours its shop time. Given go home hours its back in the toew truck.

From 07:00 to 16:00 hours whose going to run the radio station?

It’s time that some of the rest of this club of ours step up to duty. Ricky, myself, Johnny and Kevin can’t do it all. Rickey is going long haul for A1, Johnny is doing UCSMC duty, Kevin is working at HAFB so that depletes the on air staff. Time for both male and female members to shift it in gear here.

Any mile 6 months to go until launch of HazzardAyre Radio in February. Online for all that cain’t hear us on air over regular airwaves.

More L8R

Quote of the Day:
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One messed up teen, are the rest this bad?

I have resided in just about every town in both Idaho and northern Utah that there is.

I have seen community decay beyond anything I ever read in the Bible in the days of Jesus, and yet only once have I seen youth so troubled as I have here in Mini Cassia .

When I first moved here it was kids both teen, tween and near infant, gravitate towards me, because I looked kind or something, in Rupert. Two small girl kids, two older and one tween girl.

Then I moved here to Burley, on my own porch nobody bothered me but then here at the Powers it was this kid named Austin, who thinks I’m a decipel or something. Every time he needs advice about the hidden world his parents choose to keep from him, he comes to me. If he needs help fixing a bicycle, he comes to me. The list goes on, but he’s so damn clingy its creepy.

Who the hell made me the teen guru here? Why do these kids, gravitate towards a Marine aviation mechanic with a GED that does most business Hazzard County Confederate Outlaw style?

It cain’t be, because I have money, shit most months if I ain’t towing I’m really owing. If it were not for my military pension that I have to fight to maintain, and Social Security that I have to shield all the time, I’d be a broke biker with a helicopter and a tow truck.

Is it something else? Like perhaps local religious oppression? Are these teens so scared shitless of the real world out there beyond the big mountain that they need to learn things from someone whose really seen the other side?

So I tuned into this show called Totally Biased. Which did not impress me one bit. Which blends in with the topic here. TV is not giving our youth any more , role models. When I was growing up, we had everything from Major Matt Mason, to the Green Hornet. There was of course AirWolf , B.J. & The Bear, and of course the Dukes-of-Hazzard. Here was the show that changed my life. It wasn’t so much Bo & Luke Duke, it was the moral compass that Uncle Jessie Duke set every week. He gave great advice that you could really apply to life. Of course too there was my on screen person Crazy Cooter, that phenomily mirrored me and my life. Here was a guy that looked simple enough, had nothing to show off for, who ran a good old home town repair garage, and yes drove a tow truck. And amazingly looked a helluva lot like me.

Of course without the Dukes, I’d have lost it when my Mom passed away in 1983. It was not just a call or card, but the fact that most of that complete cast showed up at my Mom’ funeral in tiny Hagerman(aka Hazzard) Idaho.

Kids today don’t have these role models. TV has failed them. And music? Its all about hate. What about the soul classics? Like Shaft from Isaac Hayes? Earth Wind & Fire, Eric Clapton? No its rappers rapping about how bad their life is. Lets get back to real music. How about putting Waylon on radio? These TV networks show movies that show everything but taking off clothes and getting hinky. I have an idea , how about CMT putting on the MoonRunners, The pilot movie to the Dukes? The only show running with any morals and all is Sons of Anarchy. Which is why we in the Knytes adopted the whole package and molded that image and images into our own spectrum. Not so much about bikes and bikers, more over we are about big rig trucks and old skool trucking. There is a correlation there but that’s a subject for another time.

Friday’s edition of HazzardAyre Radio will look into the lost youth of Mini Cassia. We’ll even have a few in the studio.

Stay Tuned

Quote of the Day:
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
--George Bernard Shaw

Psalm 46:1“[Psalm 46] For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.