Old is not always bad, in fact Old can be radically new

There was a condition that reared its evil head a few hours ago, amid my hacking cough a call came into DXE HQ, for a special tow.

So I took old LexiBelle out and in shorter order, that old 500 Holmes, did the job quick and made the few others standing around in their coveralls with new equipment bewildered.

Old skool, beat new gear again.

Then I get on fb, as I tried(still am) tried to warm up some b4 calling it a night, and saw a thing on this fb page about a national tow list. and putting out a directory of tow companies as a resource to motorists.

Not a bad idea. But its been tried before, with ultimate failure. TRAA, (Towing & Recovery Association of America) , put one out of its members to AAA for a resource. Some were AAA contractors, some weren’t. But the arguments started, AAA was sending none AAA contractors on motor club calls, over AAA contractors , because the none AAA contractors were less cost to the motorist. So AAA stopped publishing the directory and TRAA stopped listing it. The National Street Rod Association, put out a similar directory, for NSRA members. It was called the NSRA Buddy List. Hot rod shops, tow services etc gave deep discounts for being listed. Again arguments started, ultimately NSRA quit the service. Our parent organization the UAITA published a similar directory, that went out to our long haul otr members. Again, none UAITA member companies got called, over member companies. Even to the point everybody started undercutting each other to get on these lists. With some going as so far as trashing other companies trucks so they couldn’t respond, so others could.

To put out such a list takes a ton of research and many employees. Some companies that look like good guys on the surface are sharks feeding off guppies underneath.

One poster on I Love Tow Trucks said something like just do a simple Google search. Well that can be good some search results can pop up from disgruntled former employees or customers who didn’t feel they got a fair shake, or at least a good deal.

I have always said, when going to a new city and your looking up a tow service, look for names of companies, that have been in business for at least 30 plus years, under the same trade name, and ran by the same person or family of the creating owner. In Idaho that number is small. In fact only 8. There’s us here at Highway-Hooker/Dixie Toewing. Hagerman(Hazzard) Idaho. Boise TNT Towing, and B&W, Wrecker Service. Pocatello, Denny’s Wrecker Service Stan's Towing and Custom Towing, in the Idaho Falls area its Morgan's and Sunkiss Towing. Outside of those everybody is either new, start ups or merged with others.

Even partnering with other companies is a tight rope walk. Even though your partnering with another company, you both want each others calls. And its not uncommon to find bitter feuds between good friends due to these feuds.

I’m not saying co-operation between companies, territory protection, and other things like that can’t be done. But in the 21st century, we are living under an even more cut throat industry. The toew pie is even thinner per slice than it was even 20 years ago. Anything that gives you a foot and leg up is good, but the effort can outweigh benefits if you tick off some competitor you might have to work a gnarly wreck clean up with . Its best to leave the listings to the Yellow Pages.

Keep it toewing

 

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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
--Dave Barry

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Some of the happiest people have the smell of a cow barn

I still haven’t got the green light from our new Miss AyreWolf to tell you about her here, so I’ll pass that off, and get into the topic.

I got inspiration on this from Our Miss AyreWolf 2013, from a photo posted on her fb page, and thought I’d expand on that a bit.

Since I can’t talk might as well write.

Any flyte, I think it was on the movie Bruce Almighty that it was said best , that the happiest people on earth come home smelling like hell. Hard work that sheds sweat is not bad, in fact its honest. No corporate politics, no back room deals, no nothing but straight forward work.

It’s like gals I have met. Some of the dearest women I have had the pleasure of spending time with are the ones not trying to put on a public show with their looks or bodies, but are quite content just being themselves.

It’s like somebody asked me not too long ago, if there was one place I’d love to live, it’d have to be of course in Hazzard. Well my Hazzard, Idaho. Our family while we did well money wise didn’t really have all that much in worldly goods. While the house was grand by all standards and at least 20 plus years ahead of its time was built with hard work, lots of sweat and much of it by ourselves. I can remember the nights, mom would put Bag Balm on her hands after sanding 8 times 4 on each side of every damn door and there were many, of that house. Then Varathaning each door another 8 times , light sanding between each coat. I can remember stringing wire and hooking up each individual plug to its own breaker switch in the control box. We must have strung enough wire in that house to wire the Pentagon twelve times. Yet at the end of the day, on that front deck, sitting there as only the Doves, and quail sang and we sipped our home made shine, it was just the three of us.

Of course the reasons I had to leave outside of service to the USMC, I have told, many times, but that’s where my mind races when over done by stress today.

I truly wish I could see a future like that of then, but sadly I can’t. But in my minds memory I can relive those days, of racing all around the valley in the General Lee, watching kids of the era climb to the fence at all Junior and grade schools in Twin Falls just to catch a glimpse of OUR General, I can remember the innocent days of busting our knuckles on a 49 Ford F100 to get it ready for a car show, that rivaled all the store bought customs there. After which such innocent releases was ice cream at the A&W on Blue Lakes BLVD where Mister Burger is now. Or Roller Skating where I wasn’t very good, but it was fun.

I can also remember seeing Jimmy and his family, loving each other in rather bleak looking living conditions, but they made it work, and it was there’s. Many envied my life, but having money does not always mean bliss.

It was just after Mom passed and as much as the club guarded me, I felt like a mouse on a field being eyeballed by a great hoot owl. Seemed like every eligible female wanted me. Not for me, but what was attached to my wallet. But I was way too stupid to know. It was at the end of my last marriage that I flat determined that I would dress close to being southern country as I could, drive an older truck, and just be me.

Of course Radio stardom didn’t allow that very much, but I decided that if a gal truly wanted to be personal with me, she would take the time to get to know me, not the club, not the radio gig, certainly not AyreWolf Aviation, Dixie-Deere Racing, or Hazzard County Choppers, just get to know me. And make it honest.

It’s like my extended family in Soda Springs and Grace Idaho.

My Uncle Dell, is the best example. My Cousin Claude, is a supervisor and design tech for Utah Power, He makes good money, but he is most happy riding those hay fields on his horse in solitude. My Aunt Delora, was happiest doing barn milking chores, feeding everything from chickens to peacocks, making great sweet rolls and homemade bread, and that homemade ice cream. In short they didn’t have a lot of worldly riches , but they had a love of family and desires of protecting family traditions that bound them together unlike the wilds of today. My second cousin Brady, Claude's son, is a champion NFR Cowboy but is most happy on a lone trail on his horse.

I can remember summers there, the three of us, myself , cousin Claude, and, cousin Raydean down the field, racing each other moving sprinkler pipe. Sitting under that tiny apple tree and chowing down green apples till we were sick, but it was fun. I was completely happy.

These are some of the innocent and family values we try to impart on today’s radio scene on HazzardAyre. But there are those that love to find fault.

There are those that say we are a bit too wild for them, yet they air HeeHaw, and WKRP, and we are the ones they call racy? Come on give it a break. Looks to me like I need to get hooked back up to cable TV again, don’t it?

But aside that, There are many TV shows that even Family Net does not run.

Of many from the Dukes-of-Hazzard, Airwolf, B.j.& The Bear and some others, they should run. This is why we are bringing to light something called Confederate Star TV, in 2015. But until we get there, doing up HazzardAyre Radio is job one.

But I like to keep it simple and honest. And while way too many of the lovelies that hindered to entering the Wolf’s Den to take part in the thoughts of something terrible would happen to them, is at best a big laugh. As it is our and my idea, no gal is going to have anything happen to them, that they don’t want to happen. If they don’t want extra attention, do not brush off those pheromones .

I come from a family and heritage that put most women on a throne treated them with respect. And like a lady at ALL TIMES.

It’s true, that some of the happiest people smell like hell at the end of the day, just like working on a farm. Or coming from the milk barn.

More flu meds then, bed, hope I’m able to do radio overnight.

L8R Ya’ll

 

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.
--Dorothea Brande

Matthew 6:19-21“[Treasures in Heaven] “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

          

Confederate radio started late one mystifying night

There came a time like it does in every tow truckers life, when I was sitting at the yard, guzzling down a few gallons of watermellon wine, I was tuned into this radio station down Utah yonder and they was doing a otr trucker show thing. I thought just dandy. But I thought, what about us tow truckers? Don’t we count? Back then us who drove a tow truck were seen as a necessary evil in driving a car or truck. Glad we’re here when needed, glad we ain’t when not.

The issues that were plaguing our industry, from image to new ways to tow were increasing ten fold. There was a need for a radio voice for us who tow.

A company name I had used prior to Dixie Toewing/Hazzard County Garage, was drummed in as the new overnight heavy haul tow truckers radio show. But where to air it? Oh we pitched the thing to every gall darn radio station in the valley and one out of Boise, no luck. An old Navy Recruiter buddy of mine said AM 1090 is open for licensing. But what call letters? After churning many over, we arrived on a set that matched. KTOW or KAY-TOW , that had even legendary announcers trying to pronounce it. It was pretty much at that time I said, put a hot set of hosed toes by the call letters. mash the words of toe and tow together as toew, and whala , KTOW was born December 12th 1983. The first programs that aired was we called Highway Hooker Radio. Hooker as in cb slang for tow truck, highway where we worked. After that we filled in space with everything we could find. Then a slight eavesdropping on KNBR out of San Francisco, and caught this now defunct thing called TalkNet, that had such radio pioneers as Sally Jessie Rafael, on there. So I called NBC in NYC, got in touch with the right people and little KTOW became the only, repeat ONLY , NBC Radio affiliate in Idaho. This was good since it gave us access to Doctor Ruth, as well as Doctor Demento. The program schedule ran with 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Road Resque Radio, 6:00PM to Midnight , Highway Hooker Radio, and over night Heavy Hooker Radio, that eventually became Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio. For 29 years little KTOW has been pumping out that tiny 1,000 watt signal keeping those who tow on their toes.

That changes this year. KTOW gets some muscle. In the fall of 2013 here a new tower will go up with new antenna and get the urges of 50,000 watts. Making KTOW the most powerful AM station in the Magic Valley in fact in this part of Idaho.

But let’s look at the rest of what KTOW brought to the radio table.

KTOW brought and will continue running full radio lap to lap coverage of all major NASCAR races, as KTOW is the only MRN (Motor Racing Network) affiliate in Idaho. Next KTOW will continue Highway Hooker Radio and target those who tow, but more KTOW is where kids can visit to dig on tunes as KTOW will be a Radio Disney station , all this from a mere dream and a magical night in that big house on the hill overlooking what we proudly call Hazzard Valley Idaho.

Stay Tuned.

 

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A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
--Samuel Goldwyn

Matthew 6:19-21“[Treasures in Heaven] “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

This cough is going to do me in, well maybe not but its sure is shytty.

So have been coughing up flem for the last 4 damn days. Who ever gave me this I’d like to keel haul em. Jiminey Crickets this is rough.

So because I can’t talk been running old versions of my shows. Funny the same issues remain. Uncle Sam wants to take away our weapons, after all don’t want no civil militia to get started. Then I hear from dropping in on one of my other fav radio stations in Boise(670-KBOI) that Bret Musburger said something about Miss Alabama, which to me is scared ground, hey they don’t call Montgomery Alabama, Montgomery Alabama for nothing, them there are some of my roots and ancestors. Any mile, apparently Bret said something about this QB’s finer half who is Miss Alabama being smoking hot. I looked her up, she ain’t. I have one we’re growing here at HazzardAyre that makes Miss Alabama look like one of the guest stars on Shake-it-up on Disney Channel.

Any way, some women’s right groups and those politically correct types blew a big whoogie about the whole thing, and so ESPN had to do a bunch of damage control. Come on now. Has it gotten that bad that one can’t say a gal is beautiful, good looking or even smoking hot without a bunch of women who wish they were good looking blowing a rear end seal?

In my opinion, women are after all women. If they dress to be looked at, they should not growl if some guy notices. Like my dad used to say, if ya’ll ain’t got it for sale, don’t ADVERTISE !!

So went to Freddy’s , no Mentholatum, but did find that organic Root beer my lady in Jerome got me hooked on. Smooth a 50 year old shine. As long as I keep the throat moist I’m , fine, but still it’s a real bitch, when the cough rounds start. Had to pull over twenty times coming home from Freddy’s just to stop coughing.

So then decided to give Wal-Mart one more check for Mentholatum, sure enough just as I approached there were 4 measly jars of the goo, on the shelf, one I had to really growl to get. $6.00 later, a can of SKOAL> and I’m home.

Big C wants me to go to Burley to get LexiBelle ready to transport. As it is, I have two choices no cell , keep LexiBelle in Burley. Pay cell bill, bring LexiBelle over here to sit in the open. Bottom line, ya’ll need to get in touch, do it by landline until the first of February.

People question this line of operation, thinking if the club, pays wages so high why is money so tight? Simple, The last two attempts to bring HazzardAyre Radio to a fever past what it is now, it cost the club a whopping $4,million in both image and reputation control, not to mention land resales and equipment returns. The bottom line is, until I put the right talent behind the mic to bill an airable hour, no income at least to the club, so who pays these bills? Me. Which is why I drive a truck that’s got 300,000 miles on it, and is 20 years old. That’s another reason, I walk on rice patties here to make sure everything goes smoothly. But the time has come for HazzardAyre to go premium, the public needs something to grab on to, and believe in. The children need to have role models that are wholesome, and our radio and TV need to have that guy in the sky, God back in their vocabulary. Someone that will speak the biblical teachings without his hand out at the end of the show.

And mostly somebody who says that for over 150 years we have done things Abe Lincoln’s way, no we need to apply some of those lessons and teachings of Jefferson Davis. The south does not need to rise again, its always been there. Its just now is the time for our southern heritage to be heard, be seen, and be taught. Not just in the southern Confederate States , but in all states of this union.

That’s why there is HazzardAyre, and why HazzardAyre is so damn important. And why even if I do need to do it myself , I’ll do it. What else would you expect from a true confederate soldier as well as a southern Christian?

As soon as I get her permission, I’ll introduce our Miss AyreWolf in my next few entries.

Get to see our Nurse GoodBody, next week.

In closing it’s the ones that stick with you in the beginning that’s worth making an employee in the future. They are friends, and getting away from the he and she shyt, friends are precious no matter their gender.

Despite that , I will say there’s a hottie down here a Kixx 66 that I wouldn’t mind doing a waltz with a few times.

Keep it tween the ditches,

 

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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
--Elbert Green Hubbard

Amos 5:14-15“Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Coughs colds and being as tyred as Boss Hogg at a Hazzard County track meet

If you have been wondering where your energetic old Wolf here has been the last few nights on the air, I’ll tell you. This old body said flat no.

I tried to get up and do a show last night but got as tuckered as Sheriff Crabtree trying to dig a hole to find the Confederate cash box under the Boars Nest, about half through. So through the ancient miracle of cassette tape and part automation I flipped everything over, took some cold meds and cashed out.

Okay a few asked me about the visit from the honey from Filer, that I seem to be excited about. Shy of two others that I have worked with prior, they being in Order Robin Whittaker of Rupert, now spokesmodel for Freightliner a division of Damzler Benz , and our Nurse GoodBody, who is my angel of mercy on many fronts and our go to gal, this sweet star from Filer, if my instincts are good, could be another one of those super talents, that I bump into once in awhile.

And to answer the burning question, no , nose or lips on toes in hose, although I nearly mentioned it but thought too much too soon, so didn’t, although in those black heels she wore I did think of it. I’m waiting for her to make that move, like coming over and without a prompt, just pull off her heels and putting those toes in hose against my nose.

Course in my condition that might do some good, might stop the coughing any way.

Okay, didn’t Wal-Mart predict this? I went to both Wal-Mart’ the one in Jerome , Twin Falls and even Burley, no humidifiers anywheres. Then to top it off still no Mentholatum. So been taking baths in really hot water to loosen up the flem, and get rid of the mucus drain.

Back on the nylon thing for just a minute.

I have a pair in my tool box and a pair in my emergency kits on both trucks. No this is not to do something kinky or hinky , but if your serpentine or v-belt around your alternator, water pump etc goes out in the middle of BFI(Bum-Fracked-Idaho) you can tie those hose together and stretch em over the pulleys tight enough to get back to civilization to render a more permanent repair.

If the air filter goes out, a electric tie and hose from toe up to the right length over the inlet snorkel will give you some filtration until you get back home. Plus old hose works great for spray gun filters yep. Pour the paint after you mix it in the paint cup through the hose, gets all the grits out. And last nylons work great for polishing chrome. Nylons have just the right mix of abrasiveness to remove the dried bugs and pitting chrome without stripping the metal beyond repair.

Any way just wanted to get ya’ll updated, going over to the Depot, grab some grub and such then I’m at the Wolf’s Den

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
--Thomas Alva Edison

Amos 5:14-15“Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

Even when you give em the boot they keep coming back, don’t go away mad, Just please go away!!

There are some people that have huge brass balls. Dig this, and I have to tell you this because it reflects on what I have always said. Many first kick the tyres , but when it comes to truly getting it on, they bail.

So that gal from out by the migrant camp, that I thought was sooo into me, but truly was just a big tease, calls A1, not just once but at least 4 dozen times. The same one that proposed to me that she’d like me to off her XOM, has a friend , a male of course call me wanting still one of our proposed jobs.

Really?

So we look at this. Here’s people that thought we as a group were so full of crap our diapers stunk, that they did not want to be part of the reformation process, of HazzardAyre, they pitch a bitch to associates of mine, not hearing the words A1 has nothing to do with HazzardAyre or the Knytes-of-Anarchy except that Big C, signs my government checks, and to leave them alone.

So I get this phone call? Give it a break. Even if I could hire these people, I wouldn’t one of her friends not to mention her. The leave me alone sign is lit on both sides.

But it’s like many of our dealings with the feminine gender.

Seems as if most male corpuscles get it, but few women do. It’s also like some term or phrases we do on and off air.

Such things as the words Hooker and Cat. In our trucker cb world, Hooker means tow truck, a person who runs one out on the big road or Interstate is a Highway Hooker, which I ran as my company when I started and remains us in both southeastern Idaho and up near Boise in Emmett, as Highway Hooker Toewing. But when I first was hammering out Highway Hooker as a blog, some not knowing bigots in CokeVille Wyoming, thought we were running a brothel or starting one. Now by all fairness we did lean in the carnal images, but come on, that wasn’t it. For months I tried as hard as I could to change those 500 minds of the 504, 4 being the only ones in Cokeville not LDS. Then there is the word CAT. In truckers cb slang means a place to get a Caterpillar truck diesel engine repaired. Not a brothel. The melding of those words gets mixed up, somehow, but only by those that aren’t grinding gears, on 18 wheels . Of course that’s part of what we’re here for, here on HazzardAyre. But I’m getting off course here.

The fact that someone that you tell adios, wont take no for an answer, is why it’d be nice to have someone else besides me to bark.

Hammered out, I’m going offline, I am 10-10 on the side.

Next entry,

CB, will it come back?

 

Quote of the Day:
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
--George Moore

Ephesians 5:1-2“Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Tonight’s WTF Report

I was doing some in-depth research on the idea of doing a photo op, to promote the AyreWolvez’ version of HazzardAyre Radio called WyldAyre, the name simply came about as a joke from a club member saying something to the degree of might as well have a wild hair. So re-engineering the name came in as WyldAyre, those of both in combat as well as military test aviators who take aircraft to the envelope. And are a bit on the edge to begin with, as many of us are simply described as bikers with wings. But that’s getting off the subject here.

The research took me to a place on a Google search. The search parameters being, do blonde women really have blonde pubic hair.

We all say that the only place to check for a gal being a true blonde is her crotch hair, that is she hasn’t shaved or just left nothing more than a nice landing strip.

Again here was a question that few have ever really investigated. Do blonde women have blonde pubic hair?

Why would I care? The idea of the photo op was top snap an up close shot, of a gal pulling one lonely blonde pub, from her area wild hair, WyldAyre.

Hasn’t anyone really looked or photographed this area of the human female anatomy to find out? You’d think some dork into porn would have got a close up or two. But no. Like many things , it’ll be us here at Confederate Star doing the FBI (Female, Body, Inspector) research here.

Speaking of always us.

There’s such a long list of firsts, that the Knytes-of-Anarchy as a club have done and on and in media many things that Confederate Star Media has done, that it boggles the mind. Not patting ourselves on the back and not to sound superior to others, but why does it always need to be us? Are we as Knytes, the only ones that gave the finger to religious restraints and prejudices and said here’s something that needs to be done.

Not too long ago in fact only a week or so ago, to be exact, somebody struck up the idea of a gym or workout place for teens to be when not in school. Or after school, or weekends etc. A youth center has been brought up many times. But consider this, and while it wasn’t an all teen idea, what about or junior spin off, the TeenAge Truckers Association. The only 4-H program in the nation devoted to farm truck safety. We still operate that as mentors and teachers. Going into something a bit more pop. Our preteens, tweens and teens watch shows like Shake It Up on the Disney Channel. Yet when we posted the idea on line for youth to join us at a dance center in Burley, to do up a production we were calling , Shake-it-Up Idaho, nobody even flinched. No one showed up.

Haven’t heard what happened to the Magic Valley Teen Centers New Years bash that they told me at the last moment they didn’t need the Knytes for security. Don’t know how well that did, but did we have to throw a none alky New Years gig, like a sock hop? Would that have worked better? Can’t say, but does it always have to be us? For you, be thankful and allow us to do our thing, its for your own better good, that the Knytes-of-Anarchy and The AyreWolvez Aviation Association, prowl in the shadows doing those things that nobody else will.

It goes to what I say all the time Aren’t ya’ll glad there is HazzardAyre.

Now to answer the question; do blonde women truly have blonde pubic hair? More research needed.

L8R

 

Quote of the Day:
The enraged colonists were mad.
--CJ's US History Work

Ephesians 5:1-2“Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.