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Friday, July 22, 2011

3 Strikes and its over

At what point does one quit blaming oneself and direct your feelings to the cause of the problems.

3 years ago after the Gooding studio disaster for SAMCRO, our Nurse GoodBody and a associate decided that my mental faculties needed a tune up. Many in MHI also had suggested such, so I remembered a saying my Mom used to say, maybe its you not the entire squadron that’s out of formation.

So I took Ellie May’s advice and through the illustrious Idaho Department of Health and Welfare that is sadly under equipped for anything, I was connected to an outfit called Alliance Family Health Center. That arranged a PSR to enter my arena.

The first thing this PSR did was transplant me from Bliss Idaho to Buhl. Which did nothing for me except, kick the crap out of a toewing season, plus had me in an utter state of upheaval that I at times could not tell you what day it was, nor did I care.

The Knytes came in, made me in charge of resurrection of our radio ops from near where it started.

The PSR said it was a waste of time and convinced me to shelf the project, which I did.

Again missed another toewing season, and much of what I had in mind was put on hold.

Then I find a shop by recommendation of one of the Knytes, here in Burley. And a place I could have resided in that was cheap enuff to enable me to afford the shop. Again the PSR said, I could do better. So I canned an affordable place that would have aided me in getting things pointed in the right direction, for a place that I never qualified for and had to find quarters or be homeless, at a rent rate that the shop has been lost at least right now.

While things Mental health everywhere is a unknown science and treatment in many cases is experimental at best, it can be a daunting task to connect the right wires for the best results.

That said, after it all, it was myself that made things happen, not the PSR, in fact, had I not listened to the PSR, many things right now would be on course. As they are, I just spent a night without sleep trying to figure it all out.

Now, the quack shrink at Alliance is headed to Montana as Idaho’s Medicaid funding, is near kaput, so she not being able to earn a living is outta here. Where have we heard that before? As such the destination of why I got involved with these people to begin with is over, so might as well give the boot to the PSR.

Now I have not snooped into it yet, but I’m wondering, is there a legal remedy here? Can one sue a mental health firm for the mishandling of a case by its appointed PSR? The quack shrink is supposed to be exiting Idaho by September 1st 2011, so b4 she do, maybe file papers to sue. In any case, the dang PSR don’t know it yet, but today is the end of it.

I do not fault Nurse GoodBody she was doing what she thought best, but the process and end result has been shall we say less than stellar. So why continue?

I ain’t.

Next step , seeing an attorney, stay tuned.

L8R,

Quote of the day:
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. - Bobby Knight

Matthew 16:15-16““But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.””

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Lets face it , I toew, but that might have a finite time frame

You heard it here first. More like are reading it here first.

After serious thoughts and happenings of the past week, more over the last 7 years, I’m getting to the point, of saying, I’m done going toewing. Sure keep my truck LexiBelle, fix it up, store it, admire it, take it to hot rod shows, but past that, forget the real operation of all the hindrances in going toewing.

Sell LiL Lexi, get a reliable mini truck, move to Utah, shack up with Cuzzin Gordon, and just focus on AyreWolf Aviation. Live and prosper in Utah and outside of the fact I was born here, forget Idaho, even exists.

Outside of a small band of kin folk in southeastern Idaho, there is little if anything saying, to me anyway, stay in Idaho.

While I do fault Tammy for bringing me up here in the first place, as she was running from authorities in Uinta County Wyoming, Still when she saw the situation was safe, she wasted no time in getting out of Idaho.

Idaho once was a state that gave everybody at least a sporting chance to get ahead in life and carve out their own piece of the pie. Real Estate was low cost. One could rent a shop for next to nothing, regulations on most things were lax at best and taxation was also nearly none existent. Today; Idaho has become a recreational state, and not just in Sun Valley, but all over. What land, shop, or housing is available is getting higher than a cats back and again that’s if ya’ll can find it at all. Then there are the double talkers, who tell you one thing then when they smell dollars jack up the price to triple what was quoted. But by then one has put so much effort in that your done b4 you even start. Its not just Idaho that has that problem, Utah has it too, but one expects that in Metro Utah and similar areas, not small town , rural Idaho, where used to be a handshake and your word meant something. Today, one needs a recording of the negotiations on a deal, and a signed sealed piece of paper, to finalize. The handshake is just a symbolic gesture. It has no meaning today, and less of a meaning in the lower half of South West and western Idaho.

While there are those making green going toewing, here I’m nearly tuckered out on the business.

In months to come, again my plans are to get through another toew season, but unless results are better than they have been, I’m hanging it up, load up, go to Bountiful and just focus on flying.

Yes , lets face it, I toew, but that has a finite time frame , I’m looking more in the air rather than the highway to make a living.

What that means to the club, next entry.

L8R

Quote of the day:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Why a radio station and how flying gets together with toewing

So why a radio station? B4 I go today thought I’d let our new members and readers in on some things they might not know or had questions about.

The history of our club, most closely mirrors my own since I have been in the forefront of the club since it was conceived.

The reason we started a radio station is and was, in the forming of our organization few if any radio station or media wanted much if anything to do with us. Their minds were that who cares about truckers? More over some wyld side type haulers? Most if they did do anything was on the back of advertising we paid for. However, then in 1982 when Mike Parkhurst threw a fit and commissioned the first nationwide strike of owner operator truckers, the local media was on my phone so heavy we finally had to take off the handset so we could get peace. I tell most now, just like I did then , ya’ll didn’t want to talk to me or the club when we wanted you too, don’t call me now.

So frustrated we created our own station above the fish hatcheries in Hagerman (later to become Hazzard and ya’ll know why) Idaho, the first albeit pirate or outlaw (meaning no FCC License) radio station for and of truckers. If it was a program no other station wanted to air, we did. From Dr. Ruth to the Overdrive Top Ten Countdown, it was on our station. Long b4 there was Howard Stern, and somewhat after WolfMan Jack, there I was, as then the Dixie OutLaw(now AyreWolf) on our 50 watt station keeping truckers company, late at night and when we figured the FCC and other types were not tuned in. However one was. Dennis Conrad at then KLIX AM 1310 where I did a weekend show , found out about our station, called the FCC and we got a warning, either get legal or face a big fine. We got legal, so in 1977 , KTOW FM 89.1 signed on the air and the rest as they say is history. However , once we got to making serious cash, ad wise, and went from a none profit station to a paid ad type station we moved up the dial from 89.1 to 105.7.

As far as when I got into flying and how that connects to me toewing.

I’ll relate that l8r this eve, as my knee is in really bad pain and pain meds are kicking in so off to bed with me.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the day:
In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. - David Smith

Psalm 119:30“I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.”

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In Case ya’ll didn’t get it the first time

In case some of ya’ll didn’t get it the first time, here’s how to get in touch with the Knytes or me.

Or email ; knytesofanarchy@yahoo.com

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the day:
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke

Still toewing and still love trucks

Every once in awhile, someone will come into the world of ours that requires a redoux of the founding of both the Knytes as well as our parent organization the UITA. The United Independent Truckers Association started life as the TeenAge Truckers Association in 1974, as the only of its time 4-H truck Transportation group, of aspiring OTR truckers. The TeenAge Truckers Association was modeled after the original Independent Truckers Association aka RoadMasters Association that was created in part by my Dad as well as the then President Mike Parkhurst who also created the pioneering truckers mag, Overdrive. More on that in a future edition of HazzardAyre.

At the conclusion of the nationwide long haul truckers strike in 1982 at the time our Dukes-of-Hazzard fan club combination hot rod truck group got together, the group made as its mothership the Road Commanders Association, the only at the time super rig organization in the U.S.

Years after Mike decided to disband much of the founding ITA, but there were those of us that held true to what Mike started. So in 1985 at a long winded meeting at the Hill Top Truck Stop near American Falls Idaho, 4600 members of our group converged and created what is now known as the United Independent Truckers Association. Nearly 80,000 member strong today, and based in Salt Lake City Utah, the organization still fights for independent OTR haulers and yes us toewers nationwide. Of course this would not be complete unless I added this. In mid 2007 there became a movement by our regional group, to redoux our Hazzard County Knytes club. The Dukes had been off the air for some time by then although some of continue that legacy today, but DOH(Dukes-of-Hazzard) was gone. Yes Hollywierd had tried to do two movies of the Original series, but failed really bad. So as we figured it the frost was off the pumpkin. So we reformed, under the handle Rode Eagles Association. However something was brewing besides the day old coffee. After I had discovered many of our founding Knytes members had moved away from the area and the two that remained here near me, who drove truck we all met at Burns Brothers in Boise. After watching the hit bikers TV show Sons of Anarchy, we renamed our regional OTR group, the Knytes-of-Anarchy. Not to be a bikers club, but rather an organization to preserve trucking’s past and history an as well as fight for justice the smb owner/operator trucker and toewers. The word toewer, is misspelled here on purpose. Reason being as years ago, Bill Mack legendary trucker radio personality did some program liners or intros for our radio station KTOW , which is KAY-TOE(TOW). However as most do , he mispronounced the word tow like the word cow. One of my interns suggested respelling the words together, both toe and tow, together is toew.

Getting back on course here.

The Knytes-of-Anarchy is not, repeat not a bikers group, although there are some members who ride Harley’s, that said, like bikers, OTR truckers, love most of the same things. Open highways without a bunch of law enforcement on them to heed our drive time. Good food that is low cost. Cheap fuel, there’s more but ya’ll get the idea. As we said it then and say today.

Truckers ARE bikers with more wheels and a cab.

After 31 years , I’m still going toewing as much as I ever have, albeit today laid up after taking a beating on my knee past eve on a toew. I still own and operate one of in fact the REAL love of my life , LexiBelle, the truck I started with. Along with 8 others, here in Rupert. Check out our profile on www.manta.com

Today the Knytes-of-Anarchy and its parent organization the United Independent Truckers Association operates 12 regional radio stations for and of the American independent trucker. We publish the printed version of HazzardAyre , and I do my radio gig, HazzardAyre Radio. Which is part of the original Dixie Diesel Truckers Radio Network, and oh yes KTOW still operates in Buhl Idaho on 105.7 FM.

How the idea of flying and toewing got together in our next edition.

L8R ya’ll

Quote of the day:
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. - Cyril Connolly

Did Ya’ll Hear?

Did Ya’ll hear? KBSU AM 730 in the morning will be KINF AM 730, yep BSU sold their NPR station to one of KTRV’s guru’s and a whole new hearing experience is up on the ayrewaves. Thing is, looking at the new schedule, is Boise ready for radical radio? Perhaps. but if history recalls Boise, while slightly out of the box to begin with, is still Idaho and styll looking to discover the 21st Century.

Looked up KBAR’s web site. Know what they aint got one. Makes ya’ll think, maybe instead of just buying time on KBAR, maybe we should buy the whole damn station. I’m thinking, if we did that, give the boot to Minton and Bell. Get rid of the satellite programming and have an ass kicker AM to compliment HazzardAyre KDXB FM. While FM licenses are out there, AM station licenses aren’t . So many wanting to snag AM listeners , are buying AM stations that are tiny or are at a bargain. Considering the buy of KBSU, did you know that BSU sold their AM 730 station for just $170 K? That’s like buying milk on sale at Wal-Mart. Wish I’d have known that KBSU was for sale.

B4 KBAR is, lets buy it.

Hey if I cain’t go toew, might as well do super radio, let the radio op , support going toewing. Rather than the other way around.

Now to go get relief for my arthritis hurting fingers and knuckles.

See you on the PM, when we’ll explore, giving the boot to the DAV/PSR.

L8R

Quote of the day:
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. - Cyril Connolly

AyreWolf still in the air

Wednesday I did something that I have not done in months even a year or two, I went to bed at 09:00 hours and did not get awakened until I got hungry and rose at 22:00 hours. I did not care about going toewing, flying, the clubs nor anything else, I flat took a needed day out and off, and recuperated. The body feels better.

Fetching the truck Thursday, then looking at a few other things that need tending.

While I grabbed grub, watched a few old vids of life in Utah at our HQ there as far as what now is labled HazzardAyre Radio. If anybody thought that everything we did then as well as even now was bunk, or fake, they only watch these vids. We had and no salute to the normal Utah vision is made here, but we did have a beehive of e-commerce activity, long b4 ; E-commerce was a thought. Perhaps I prejudged Utah way too soon, maybe I left Utah way too soon b4 the incubation period was over to the clubs visions and mine. The fact that AyreWolf Aviation is still operational may have something to do with the fact that AyreWolf Aviation is still based and headquartered in UTAH, not Idaho. While the loss of yet another service shop facility in Idaho was a smack in the face and injured my pride, ego, and to a mere degree my self esteem, that does not mean I’m electing to bag Idaho just yet, but I will say that if the right noise came from Utah, leaking main seal on LiL Lexi or not, I’d be on my way to Utah.

I remember then, in late 2005 early 2006, when the plans were being made in Utah for Wyoming. I had an associate named Julie Macalister who looked at the proposed place in Wyoming and said don’t go there. Cuzzin Bud, Cuzzin Gordon, and several of the board of the club said , that the human, and other resources that Utah has will never be in either Idaho nor Utah. But I tried to believe and be positive and to be honest even once I had landed in Wyoming, namely Evanston, had I not been conned and dragged to Idaho by that little bar hopping drugged out tight butt seatcover that I came to know as Tammy there who managed Lotty’s there in Evanston, I’d have never left Wyoming. Even as bassackwards as Evanston Wyoming is, the location of Evanston to metro Utah at only 80 miles and 45 minutes away makes that sustainable.

So does this mean I’m bagging Mini Cassia Idaho for Utah or Wyoming? No, at least not yet , if I do at all. In fact the reverse of visions of things, I’m looking at life there in both Utah and Wyoming from what was, not what is. But with Rupert being as close to both metro Utah as well as Wendover and Evanston, does not mean , I’m not going to be sniffing around both locations to see , just what IS available there for what I can AFFORD there, B4 I bust a move.

In closing, I will make the judgment call here , that the Reason, AyreWolf Aviation and the fact that AYREWOLF is still operational, is that it is in Utah , not so much Idaho.

Our next step? That in the next entry.

Stay Tuned.