There are many who have only one idea on something and as hard as you try , you can’t convince them otherwise.
Example, most peoples idea of a hot rod model is>>>
There is a big difference between slutty sexy and attractive beauty. The concept is to have your photo model enhance the truck, warbyrd or bike. Not overlord or take away the viewers attention from the custom ryde.
Sometimes you have to dig deeper to find the real idea.
L8R Ya’ll
Sir Isaac Newton said it best, everything changes and evolves, nothing stays the same.
Years ago, I made a promise that nothing in going toewing would change until there was a suitable place to reopen Hazzard County Choppers or at least a shop deserving something in the Hazzard County image and legacy.
As such , Hazzard County Choppers opens in Burley in November.
With that, Dixie Toewing rolls out in Idaho Falls, Idaho. While here in Burley, the side saddle or toewing side to Hazzard County Choppers , will be no less than ,
BlackSheep is the connection between AyreWolf Aviation and Hazzard County Choppers.
Stay tuned this is going to be seriously kicking.
L8R Aviators,
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I love head shrinks and counselors. Their entire view is based on science and little else. Of course nobody likes a mirror held in front of them to see just how much of a dillweed or assmunch we really are or the way we act.
Some problems are self generated, some just plain in waking up in the morning, and then there are those that lend a hand or reach out, when every fiber in your being sezz, “don’t go there”.
A month ago these two guys somewhat disgusted with a local security firm here that they were working for had paid them little if anything. So they came to me.
Normally the Knytes do not hire anyone from outside the club, or club members families.
But I took these two on. Out of the two only one a soldier of the Army, has made the cut of a employee. The other is on a probation situation, both in the club and me.
The problem I’m facing right now, is with all these property loses and damage, I don’t even know if I can pay them or anybody.
Club officers are telling me to finish repair on the trucks, the one repair job, secure a place in Boise and get out of the area. Right now that idea is hot in my brain. After all, I do not have one damn thing holding me here. I have no reason, to think that the crap is going to change on a people level, but I have moved under pressure before, like from the little dork of the bikini bar bouncer gig that ya’ll know about.
So I am looking at the condition of the mission, of going the distance just until the season of Sons of Anarchy is over this year, then get out if something good does not break.
The $800.00 I get as take home after deducting my military pension for child support and alimony, the rest is Social Security and a stipend to operate the business for the club.
Thing is, if security is not secure to the point LexiBelle can’t be protected without incurring more debt for having to rent another shop, just to keep my truck under lock & key, what would happen if we had two new carriers there and one of the heavies there?
I truly want to build a business here, but damn do I need to keep getting hit over the damn head?
My business associate in Twin Falls is really shakey in putting things here now. He don’t want his equipment ripped off. Without his and the clubs support , alone I can’t pay anybody.
My Dad used to tell me, when I was younger, learning how to swim in Hazzard Creek.
He used to tell me, before you jump in off that rock and learn how to swim make sure how deep the water is . If its too shallow all you’ll do is hit your head on a rock and could drown. I’m getting to think the Mini Cassia area of no go Idaho is way to shallow and I have barely missed the rock, but I’m still drowning.
I talked to club HQ on the phone, a few ago, they told me, funds for the shop have been frozen, until the investigation into the property damage and theft to my truck is completed.
They gave me 6 months, here. If after the investigation is complete and the people responsible are brought to justice, and I can show some serious measure of success then HCC (Hazzard County Choppers ) here will resume. If not , they offered me a good package, to move to Boise, likewise if I choose, Salt Lake City. Considering I have kin folks in Salt Lake City, where do you think I’m looking?
There is a third option of course and that’s joining Nate’ team in Evanston Wyoming. In all cases after this last month, I understand why the best business in Burley is U-Haul, and the best things going in and out of Burley is Highway 81, U.S. 30 and I-84.
Thing is too, once I go this time, I’ll be damned if I’ll ever, ever come back. Face it, Idaho is dying, the best thing to do is shoot it, let it bleed out and let it die.
Guess those wanting me out have just about won.
More Thursday.
L8R
In the olden golden days of the old west, if you got threatened or pestered enough , you could go out, find the perp, and plug his but, bury his body and little would be done.
Today the thieves can rob you of your property , violate your home, defile your loved ones, and oh yes you report it, law comes, makes a report, but that’s it. Little is done.
But dig this, took a survey of LexiBelle, found not only my spare dolly wheels stolen, but my J-T, hooks are gone. Oh yes, now LexiBelle is inside a shop bay, where she can’t be harmed. But even with the crap in Goons Ferry from the pricks in MHI, LexiBelle was left alone. So taking inventory, we find broken windshield, stolen dolly spares, tow chains gone. Total to replace $880.00 . Will the perp be caught? Maybe. Law enforcement was called, took pictures , investigation started. Prognosis? I’ll have to slowly replace it all. If someone wanted me to leave, why not leave my stuff alone, let me repair it and I go away. By doing this it just delays the progress of me getting me and the Wolf-Pack, out of here. If you add the cost of an additional shop I’m out just over $900.00 . Question is and I am revolving this in my mind. All the things stolen are towing specific. Few other people if any would need this stuff. Rival towing service, maybe, but the quandary here is that , for nearly a year and a half LexiBelle sat in both Rupert and Heyburn, nothing ever happened to the truck. NOTHING. For a year or so prior , LexiBelle sat on a back lot of A1, on 5th ave, in Twin Falls. unfenced. Again nothing happened to her. One month , she is violated in a secluded , isolated yard. What gives?
Wish we could do as we did in the old west, pull the trigger and be done with it. Back then too hurting or stealing your horse was punishable by hanging.
People are still, thieves, poor and stupid. Times have changed , not for the better.
I have a feeling some crap is going to hit the fan soon, and someone is going to paying restitution.
If who ever is doing this, reads this, somewhere. Remember a taxi service owner here dug his nails into my arm and cost me money too. He ain’t here no more, or alive.
Life goes on.
More L8R
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Many things to get into, this bright and b e a U t ee full Wednesday.
This morning of course is my first of the month income day. Where one of a few auto clubs deposits money directly into my cash account. Which means grub and Skoal. Nothing much more satisfying than that grand aroma of fresh Skoal original wintergreen , than perhaps the synthetic smell of a fresh new tow truck.
Want to thank this gal I met online through Facebook, by the name of Amanda who writes and editorializes a page group there called Respect Tow Truck Operators. Her page and group, re-energized my determination, dedication and renewed my love of going towing at a time when I was near ready to just restore one or two trucks, hang it up and just go flying to make money. So thank you Amanda.
The day is going to be busy, and in doing my research for tonight's Highway Hooker Radio show, the only show on radio that is dedicated to, produced by and delivered to and by us who tow, I started thinking of why I began putting women with trucks, especially tow trucks.
To understand this, it was at the formation of something that had never been done.
To do away with all the history that many of you already know, it began in 1973 when a few of us who got enamored with a toy called the CB radio. After tuning in on all those big rig freight haulers we too wanted to go trailer trucking. In so doing we as teen drivers were sadly awakened that first we were way too young to be splitting gears of the 13 speed variety, but we still loved trucking. Me more towing.
So I got together with our County extension agent in Gooding, Idaho. Took the best of what was known as the 4-H wheels program, and the 4-H tractor safety program mixed in some other things and in 1974 the TeenAge Truckers Association was born.
After a guy who came to our big CB trucker Jamboree in 1975, the guy was the editor and publisher of the original Overdrive magazine , Mike Parkhurst, who along with my Dad who invited him to the Jamboree, put together the original Independent Truckers Association.
Mike did something outstanding, he took everyday OTR trucks, put a snazzy gal with it and called it the DateMaster, 
After which, such notable industry suppliers like Snap On Tools followed suit
Now then, the word hooker as in tow truck.
I most likely was not the first that coined the word for us in towing. But more likely refined and defined the term, but I first caught the bug with my beloved LexiBelle.
As again Overdrive was one of the ignition sources. I was going for the mail one afternoon. Saw my latest issue of Overdrive. Back then Overdrive put heavy duty tow trucks in when we used the ugly word Wrecker. As in Wrecker of the Month. In there was this dreamy white mid 70’s era Peterbilt from somewhere in Texas called the Happy Hooker, as they titled it. So in a few weeks , I was doing a tow in Boise , met up with a mentor by the name of Tommy N Thompson, who runs TNT TOWING of Boise. He did up some T shirts that had a heavy duty tow truck going one way, a light duty tow truck going the other way with a stenciled model of scantly cladded attire, with the slogan , our hookers handle all sizes. When I finally decided on the formal name of my company, I took the best of all that as this was long b4 all things Hazzard and Dixie and I found each other, but in 1978 I began as Heavy Hooker Wrecker Service. Later trimmed down to Highway Hooker Towing, and our sister company in both Boise and Lewiston Idaho , still runs with that name.
Bringing this in for a landing this morning, my nylon foot fetish in towing.
This happened quite by coincidence . I was doing some research in Utah in looking for some greener fields to plow in towing and saw this Yellow Pages ad for a company in Ogden Utah, called Star Service. Their slogan was, “ We don’t want your arms and legs just your tows.” So that same evening was watching with my young niece the movie by Disney called Cinderella . Seeing the Prince place the glass slipper on Cinderella’s foot , my niece said why don’t you do that? But I wanted some panache to it. So I thought, why not just kiss her toes? Saying we at the Highway Hooker Towing just loves tows. But would anyone understand? So with the help of a video pro in Salt Lake City, and two months of some rather long days of casting and KUTV 2 being one who dared run the ad, we shot the first ad for the concept. Not saying that it was sweet, and while better than a guys feet, womens feet don’t stink, but they can be rather potent too.
Finally, the idea of why I began putting the two words toe and tow, together as toew.
This did not happen until 2009, but should have.
There are those that who are not accustomed to it that will mispronounce the word tow rhyming with the word cow. Rather than saying it as tow(toe). So one of my interns at Confederate Star Media said why don’t you just spell the words together, toe+tow=TOEW. So I did and the gig is history.
But my have we gone the distance. From Twiggy style hot pants and go-go boots to old skool toewing.
Next time, I get together with Hazzard County.
Again want to thank Amanda and her page on Facebook.
More tonight, busy day today.
L8R Ya’ll
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