Early to bed Early to rise, but not for those who toew or on radio

There’s an old kountry saying that goes, Early to Bed, early to rise, ya’ll know the rest. Thing is, I don’t think there is rest for those of us who toew or on radio.

Seems as though there is always some crisis that needs solving on the radio, and of course , a day most should ought stay home, read their bibles and watch HeeHaw, on RFDTV . But no they’re out carousing and when that old ride or especially those Toyota Prius’ battery goes kaput, its me out doing quick jump starts. So did. And made a few green stamps.

Which gave me a few bucks to snag some Goody’s and cold meds from Wal-Mart, in Twin. By the highway there’s a hottie in there doing checkout who is of the Oriental species, but just mini enough for me to just water like my four legged brethren in amongst a heard of deer. Get it? Deer(Dear). So then tried to get out of my parking lot in old LiL Lexi, and this MexiCali chick tried to back out a mini SUV, and she tried 12 times. I near felt like going up to her and saying ya’ll want me to do this? After she got out so did I.

Then got my power bill, not bad , a heck of a lot better than what I got from Heyburn last year. So then got to watching Family Net, since ain’t got cable, and saw where Family Net and RFDTV is having issues with Cox Communications aka Cox Cable.

How could anybody not want RFDTV or any part of it on their system? Family Net/Rural TV, is great from a shows point of view, there is everything one could want. But here’s the suggestion to those in power at RFDTV, put in a few mainstream shows that even city folks can grip, The Dukes-of-Hazzard would be a plus, B.J. & The Bear, and put Movin On in a time slot where even our local affiliate would put it back on. That’d get CoX back into the mix.

Of course watching HeeHaw, I wondered , could such a production be done new today? Not just the kountry music segments, but could you cast, preytell one could find em, cast gals clad in those shorts and all leggy, without getting millions of sour emails and letters from those politically correct females and activists. To whit, we at Southern Steele Studios are looking into it.

Of course, could you post a befuddled DJ on a real radio station KORN that hails out of South Dakota? With that in mind, thought some of the crew might drop by, but Sylver is still in the throws, of being sick. Guess I was only mildly infected. She must be getting the boomerang of her, then kids, then back to her.

Nothing that Tylenol Flu, Goody’s Jack Daniels , and lots of rest wont help fix.

But that Ceaser hasn’t been as forthcoming as one would predict. Guess he figures we need him worse than he needs us. Not so. Fact is, I couldn’t care less. It’s like the old movie, once built they will come. Only problem I really don’t want to wait that long, to get things in place so I can make a graceful exit.

There’s only two others that we have in the club that can handle these duties. On is MIA in Nevada, doing training at Nellis, and the other still deployed in the Pacific Rim, I can’t say any more on that about that.

So that right now leaves me. Or with a month or two training Sylver Star.

Any mile , doing somewhat better today, still coughing just not as much. Only pain is where I wrenched my little toe last night around a post on my bed frame. Damn its sore. Thought I broke it, but don’t think so, but damn its sore.

But I’m going to try the Early Bed thing much to do this week.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
For greed, all nature is too little.
--Seneca, Roman statesman and author

2 Corinthians 5:19-20“that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

Sunday getting back into the flow

It’s finally another Sunday meaning getting back into the flow of getting back to work.

While I still am coughing its not as bad as it was. I also think that my entire body shutting down was a sign that I had just reached a point that I needed to decompress and heal a bit. Take a self diagnostic and internal evaluation.

Look at it this way since September 2012, its been go none stop . Outside of the stress’s of relocating here to Twin Falls, something I’m just now considering that I should have examined further before execution, there was the stress of the club and planning of DukesFest that was to be in Burley. Which lead to me because of environmental circumstances had me move into the shop, that and theft. Which brought me to talking at Big C to take over financial duties for me, so I moved here. Then there was the test of the CraigsList fiasco. Okay I will admit we did harvest one good prospective Intern Silver Star, but the rest? Come on? Is this all we can expect out of a town of 45k, guess employment slinging hash at the depot, or serving drinks in tight shorts at Anchors for $4.00 an hour plus maybe tips if one of em flirts good enough, is better than training for 3 to 6 months depending on attitude and aptitude to be gaining a career position that starts out at $50.00 an hour? Oh well. So that was from November into December. All the while keeping peace with Big C, and the club, and still going to bed in a quandary of, is this really the place to plant these seeds?

So by a week or so ago, I was feeling like a 10 year old car battery that is trying to fire a 56 Merc, in 0 degree cold. It just didn’t work, until the flu, medicines that took out any ambition, flat shut the body down to the point, that I was nearly ready to say piss on it. Finish up and split. Which I’m still at, but I will not quit until the entire fracking valley turns on that radio in their car or SUV and hears me at HazzardAyre, over normal radio. Not just satellite, or through syndication.

Then there is the great decision, bring LexiBelle over here, to sit out in the cold to save some money that would be used on rent for the shop, and put that into the radio gig, or leave the rig in Burley . The only reason I am going through with hauling Lexi over here, is the security thing. So this week Lexi will be, behind Ricky’s. But only until I find a similar shop here in the area, rework and all Lexi, then LiL Lexi, then find a place, to live in or near where AyreWolf Aviation is in Utah or at least Wyoming. Pack up my butt and say I’m done with this. Leaving HazzardAyre in the care of Sylver Star. But it will take time. So I’m just going through everything methodically, to make sure that once I leave, I don’t have to come up here except maybe once or twice a month go over things with Sylver and then going home. Or in the case of fire, flood, or natural disaster. Past that, I’m done with no go, bassackwards, stuck up, arrogant, ignorant Idaho. Or at least this end of it. Hell let em can yogurt. To hell with introducing technology or the arts to this stinking TweakerVille.

Once back over in Wyoming, then worry about going toewing, and not stepping on Big C’s toews. More over rebuild HCC there, and put the Wyoming Charter of both the Knytes and SAMCRO MC back into a more progressive mode of operation.

I had a bunch of things planned when I looked at coming back to this area in 2005 after my discharge from the UCSMC, then when I was lead by my other brain here, by tight jeans, and sweet pewfume, I thought I can fix some of this. I first went to Pocatello, when there was a clear Dead End in Heyburn in 2007. By the time mid summer 2008, smarter mind would have said fetch Lexi, go to Blackfoot, build it out there. But I saw an ad in a piss ass’d newspaper out of MHI, about a nuke power plant. Moved to GF, thought on the side do up toewing and maybe build a hangar for AyreWolf there. But with a prick in the city council that got his wires crossed, over time and due to the folks who rented me the house there going bankrupt, I moved to Gooding. Back in familiar places and faces. HQ comes up says nope, so we rent studio in Gooding, I move to Bliss. No problem. That is until the USPS could get the idea in their mixed up brain I moved 8 blocks west. Even with a change of address. Which meant three checks from HQ in Utah, were lost in snail mail space. By the time they were recovered, it was too late Tricky Stricky, decided to lock me out, at 16:00 hours, just as I went to dinner. Talk about sneaky. The rest most of you know. And folks wonder why I’m bitter? Discouraged? I'm so pee-owed at Idaho, I have looked into getting where I was born changed so it don’t say Idaho no where, and even retransplanting Mom & Dad from Grace Idaho’s Cemetery to one in Utah near where we lived and I mean LIVED , there not just existed, like I do here.

So why am I still doing the radio thing here? Because there are people out there on that big highway called I-84, that is a community of and unto itself, with people who want a voice. Plus even though fewer , still KOA and AyreWolvez members here that need what HazzardAyre and WyldAyre delivers, and mostly because when I set out to do something I try to complete it. Its called Hazzard County tenacity.

Any way hitting the rack, got to get things in gear here today.

Hope to see Sylver Star sometime this afternoon and Ceaser.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
If it doesn't matter who wins, then how come they keep score?
--Vincent Lombardi

2 Corinthians 5:19-20“that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

As I close for the day

There are times, I wished it would have been I that started or created a phrase or slang catch term that became popular, considering the flack I get over it at times.

Although I may have been the one that used the term Hooker in describing a tow truck , commercially, it unfortunately wasn’t me who came up with the cb slang term, but if I had, I could have made zillions of bucks over it.

But I degrees.

The thought by those not in the know or at least hip to what we constantly struggle to get forth on TV and in print, with having gals pose with rides and birds, doesn’t get translated. If I pitch the idea of posing with a bike for example to a prospective gal, the immediate thought to or by her is, some gal in a bikini. Sadly to say I wouldn’t do that in a trailer truck full of sundaes. First of all the concept is over used, 2 its trashy, and 3 , most women of normal looks, don’t look good in a bikini. And those big tall heels, not around any custom paint job I applied.

The idea is more to have the gals threads match that of the basic era, or theme of the vehicle being photographed. If it’s a 50’s custom, bobby sox, poodle skirt, and sweater would look good along with a pony tail for hair dressing. If it’s a mid 60’s muscle car, what we called hot pants, a great looking blouse, go-go boots, and a spiral perm. Custom tow truck? How about form fitting coveralls, big rig? How about something that says genuine kountry, tight Wrangler Jeans, or a HeeHaw honey look? In essence , there’s ways to make a shot look hot, and sensual, without being trashy porn. What your trying to do, is enhance the look of the ride your capturing on film , not detract from it. Oh and the custom Chopper? Nothing like form fitting full dress leathers. This way both Mom and her guys enjoy, not having to have the magazine or whatever being sent out to the garage so you don’t embarrass the local bridge club when they show up.

If your going to do interaction between say the owner with the model, like our toew kiss, for a toew truck works, or a smooch like Arthur Fonzerellie from Happy Days works, but not a super drawn out wet one. Make it tasteful.

That’s what we try to do always.

Try to get that idea across to those not in the understanding, might as well push a brick outhouse over on em, for all the good it does.

It only takes one or two gals to step up , try it out to show what we have in mind. Many get spooked, from pre misconceptions, but like many other things misconceptions are hard to redirect. If even one can.

Last night on my cold walk that brought my hacking cough back, I got to thinking on things, first , after further consideration , LexiBelle will rest nicely here behind Ricky’s place until summer then its full tilt revision for operational status come winter 2014. But in the meantime, I’m taking the full year of 2013 to get this redid version of KTOW/KDXB up and running, that is after all what I moved back to this gall darn bassackwards stuck up place to begin with. If it was strictly to tow or fly could have done that in Wyoming. It was by agreement that HazzardAyre/Dixie-Diesel Radio needed two hubs. The one in Evanston, and the one in Buhl.

FYI, the view of the club, while apprehensive is also one of a one more try. With the terms being, I show them something solid this run out, they dump money into it, hordes of money into it. If not, we do it simple, and not include the public, just strictly club members, and farm out extra enhancements to our Utah charter.

What the rest of the future holds, know one really knows, but what’s on the HUD of the club, that in my next entry.

Have pleasant Toew Dreams.

L8R Ya’ll

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

Galatians 3:26-28“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

A quiet night in my part of the world

Few things are as serene as tonight. Not that I got tight with something sweet and am enjoying a bit of euphoria that goes on after the wyld thing. Nope not even there. In fact its that with the snow outside and with LexiBelle down on repairs I was able to just go for a walk downtown and back. Sure its cold outside and all and the sniffles surly will start again, but cabin fever got purtty bad so out I went.

When one does not have to drive and worry about the idiots you get to absorb the beauty and peace. Then about my return home seeing just a few and I mean few cars out, including some cops busting some drunk, down a mile from the house, I just looked and felt a albeit a few minutes of divine peace. It’s like with the white outside, that even hustling bustling Twin Falls, covered itself in white blanket, rolled over and went to sleep.

Upon my walk I got to thinking of all the things that lead to my near mind freeze over the last few weeks, as well as the seemingly dead end that seems to be the norm for our half of Idaho. The things I returned here after I said no way in haideeze would I ever do this again in 2002, and even when I nearly was headed back to Utah, after a little bikini bar bouncer who heckled me beyond anything needed. I thought bullsbreath. My loyalty to Big C wont change and while not even close to re-entering the toew bizz again, I’m not quite ready to close that door. Just got to be the right place. I know where, but that’s at least two years off, if it ever does happen in Idaho, for that.

Now to put some minds at ease, the media werx plan is to train, Sylver Star , to a point , then Ceaser to where in a year or two, I can hand the keys to the radio gig, over to them, with Sylver Star being main boss and Ceaser her Vee-Pee, so I can return to Utah to regain control of operations at AyreWolf Aviation, and of course regroove Dixie Toewing in Utah, and do my end of HazzardAyre there, and know , that outside of fire and /or flood, KDXB is in good hands.

But the Utah life works better for me there are other resources there that will never be in Twin Falls, likewise resources to put Hazzard and WyldAyre over the top. Or at least get to an altitude and attitude the media werx and most important the club to grow beyond the boundaries we are restrained under now.

More over I need to find me again, someone I miss and lost in 2006, when I got conned by a nose candy hussy, to moving back here in the first place.

I like the idea of being able to just make a phone call to get models for photo projects or videos, from established agencies. Rather than having to put up ads on CraigsList and getting crack sluts, who are looking for quick bucks. I want and need those fully trained to just slyde in , do the gig, get their money and slyde right out, not linger.

Or when needing on air talent going to established media recruiters rather than the Craigs List thing. In radio and media both TV and Print, if you wait for the resources to catch up to you, it might just pass you by. No matter the production idea, if you thought it, two others already have. You have to act decisively , if you don’t your idea is already on screen and somebody else making money off it long before you get your horse out of the barn. Idaho’s trucking and toewing industries need what we do, the long stretches of long black, tonight white ribbon, of highways, have residents on them that need to know the latest, in their worlds, they also want to be entertained and want a little spice in their radio rather than the bland, LDS Approved version they get elsewhere. But I do not have to be here forever to make that happen. A good GM and assistant can do the day to day duties as easily as I do, once trained in Hazzard County procedures. Sylver Star has the open mind to absorb such, but hey I might be wrong. She might bolt, so I’m taking that easy. But once her or who ever I train is fully trained and Hazzard Certified, and I’m out of aviation engineering school, my tail is in Utah, the radio gig or Idaho’s end of it is here and so it goes.

I could go on there, but ya’ll get the idea.

On nights like this, I think of those days with Monkey, sitting on the floor, in front of a fire place, in Payson Utah. It was a night like tonight, on that floor, that in 1994 , I asked Monkey to marry me, surprisingly , she said yes. Sadly though the memory of due to the pressures of my going toewing and all, that I came home through a hell snow storm through Paris canyon in southeastern Idaho, to get home and find Monkey and Mike gone. Only a note. She’s why I’ll never get that serious about any woman again, EVER.

Although I don’t blame her. Few if any woman, could keep up with my schedules and life, from tow to radio to TV and producing films, its difficult for women not used to it , to live with someone that has to cast women for acting and other drama activities. Plus the on call, never go very far from home due to tow duties. Hell I didn’t resume flying until 2001 and that was only by divine inspiration.

I’m still hacking, but its more dry air than flu. Looking to getting a humidifier. That is when there is one to be bought.

Until Saturday afternoon,

Quote of the Day:
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
--Dr. Martin Luther King

Galatians 3:26-28“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

 

New hires

Had a pitch that came in during our toew show earlier this evening so I need to address it as best as I can.

We have , pending some formalities , a new intern that can bloom well as an area supervisor and Vee-Pee of Confederate Star Media.

While I’m tickled so far and all I want to make sure that all understand, I have no alternate ideas here. In fact it wouldn’t matter if Sylver Star was male or female, her dedication and responsive attitudes make her a real find. Now the fact she just happens to be a she, in a fine package don’t hurt either, but again it’s the person inside.

She’s eager and seems to have both sides of her brain connecting. Which is also very rare in this area.

Then got a blip from one of the hecklers that was a tragic upset to the HazzardAyre project over December.

By January 2nd they wanted money. The question was, what do we pay them for? If I took out my normal consultation fees of $50.00 an hour, they wouldn’t get anything. Plus standing guard when her ex came to pick up his stuff, then going to the car lot she had got a car from to negotiate release of the vehicle. She didn’t mind calling me honey then. Really? And she wanted paid for this?

On anybody so far, I have yet to find the slick glide in of the moxy test, you know the lips on toes in hose thing. I have yet to find anybody who have came in and just pulled off a heel and said here ya go. In fact I have only had 3 in the last 25 years do that in this area. The first is one from Boise who mailed me a regular letter with some crude but good Polaroid's of her. I trucked up from Pocatello, met with her, she put toes in front of my nose , plus we worked on poses and even went to the mall to shop for threads for the shoot. I took LexiBelle up, with a photographer and pics were done, she got paid everyone was tickled. If my ex hadn’t thrown most of that away out of jealousy , I could even use those today.

The next of then new hires came in from a simple two or three line ad I put in as a after thought into the what was then Farm Times of Idaho. Thinking maybe I might get an ex rodeo queen to apply. After three interviews one came in that is my measure of the best. Robin came in, in a mid knee dress. I told her the look, we wanted and what was the gig. She went home, put on a hot skirt, nice hose, and came back. In no short of a time about two weeks of us working 13 hours a day, I had a talent, who didn’t flinch or do the 30 question of the toes in my face thing. She could recite copy, and I could mix in music long after, without her even being there. I’d be thinking of an idea or topic for the show and she’d call me up even in mid sleep and we’d both be on the same page. Now understand Robin by no means was a pro model when we found her. She worked part time at the WaySide, outside of Heyburn doing dishes and serving then at Simplot’s cafeteria, but she wanted the career, not just a job we offered.

After a month we were so in tune, many of the club thought I should have married her, and a few times in the booth things did get a bit steamy, but we left each other extremely great friends. She now is a marketing executive with Freightliner , making the better of $2,mil a year. But she wanted it.

Then there is Ellie May our Nurse Goodbody, because she truly has the look of Nurse GoodBody of HeeHaw fame.

The first time , Ellie May called me, she came over and wasn’t impressed and then called back a few days later.

When she called for interview #2, I told her about the moxy thing, and the only question she asked was, Pantyhose or stockings, shyt I thought they were the same thing. Not only did we do that, but we worked and had a budding near multi million dollar gig about to go viral on two TV networks an as well as radio. Plus the fact she bailed out LexiBelle, which was a plus, but she believed in the project. To the point she’d drive the 35 miles one way through some really nasty weather to be there at midnight, yes MIDNIGHT the bewitching hour, but did not let that hour bother her. Her hubby would pack us lunch she’d bring organic root beer, and a radiant heater we called Henry, and we made great radio. The default came when mail from the club, failed to reach us because a postal service worker of Gooding couldn’t figure out I had just moved 8 blocks on the same damn street. The delay got under the skin of a realtor there that leased us the facility, the rest of that most of ya’ll know. And had a few doubters stayed out of it and not made waves, I had alternate quarters found and we could have launched on time. But know what? Ellie May and I stay in touch are great friends, and she’s also ready to jump back in once we relaunch full on in June or so.

Now I have the new trainee, Sylver Star, as we call her on air, who has that same IT factor, if I can just bring it out. While at the first interview I was going to administer the moxy test, I thought not yet. I’m waiting for that as a surprise when she shows up to start training. She’ll know the right time and all when, but I think Sylver Star has the ability to be in the company of the ones who stuck to it, worked with me in the unorthodox methods we do, and know what? I see her, becoming a true media talent if not complete celebrity by this time next year.

But then there are those that find the need to call the fuzz, create hate in with club members and associates , just to make trouble because of sour grapes.

These will be the same ones that will be lined up to main and all the way to Clear Springs in Buhl, wanting to be part of HazzardAyre, WyldAyre or Confederate Star TV, begging and saying I’m sorry. At that time it’ll be the other club members doing interviews and they don’t do it like I do.

The bottom line, with new hires, when I’m impressed , I put my all into the new hires , I’m impressed with, because I know the quality of the shows, the network will be because of them , this is a team effort. In a few days when she’s over the flu like I am, and have had, I’ll have her write and post her own into bio, on this newsletter to introduce her to you, by next Friday don’t be surprised to hear her on air.

Any mile taking the night off, threw the net switch Friday Night, see ya’ll Saturday Afternoon here, and on air,.

L8R Ya’ll

 

Quote of the Day:
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
--Publilius Syrus

Galatians 3:26-28“So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

More Ayre , less Hazzard

I have been caught between two affections and due to advice from a Doctor and a few others , I have been instructed to be making some serious changes in my life.

When I nearly had a partial stroke, this past week and needed a jump start, to stay alive after couching due to the flu, the Doctor told me, I have to either scale back or stop or retire some activities. One of course is toewing. A job that should be okay, but increasingly is becoming more a pain versus the money to be made.

Then there’s the club, that I pledged to serve until death, which includes this radio media gig. That I truly believe in, but wondering, is this even the place for it?

Could it be as simple as having one or two club members maintain the studio in Buhl, but I move and produce the shows from one of our stations say in Utah or even Arizona. The latter is getting very much an item on my HUD. Of course flying, I’m not ready to hang up, was doing that long before toewing, in fact in case somebody wondered , is why that landing pad was made right in front of the big house on the hill in Hazzard.

For my Hazzard friends and all, been thinking on getting in touch with Ben & Alma, see if they’d be interested in old LexiBelle, as a display truck for Cooter’s Place in Tennessee, if so, fix er up a bit and donate Lexi to them. Still thinking on that but thinking hard.

After that concentrating more on things, flying, AyreWolf(Airwolf) and the AyreWolvez, rather than things Knytes-of-Anarchy , and to retain some Hazzard connection, just run Hazzard County Choppers. Outside of that fly , not so much tow in the cold snow.

Its not so much money although that has something to do with it as, I can make more flying than toewing, but I have gave nearly 40 years to towing, have seen the best, trained with the best and by the best in the business. But I’m getting burned out.

The Doctor told me, that if I didn’t slow down, get somebody on board to do the majority of the leg and stress work, or start delegating tasks to, the next time I got a blank out like I did from coughing, it might be the final ejection. In other words shaking hands with the reaper.

I’m not ready to check out just yet.

So in short , hauling Lexi over next week, park her behind Rick’s place, and look to doing that in summer then make the decision to stop towing and send her to Cooter’s Place, or whatever then. In the meanwhile, doing more for the AyreWolvez, including doing more air seat time, and flying. In fact plan on hitting the city of LDS in May to get my two aviation degrees that I need as well as advance flight ratings.

The reason there is Ayre coupled with Hazzard is, because its those two worlds, Hazzard County and AyreWolf(Airwolf) mashed together. In short, its time for me to do more Ayre than Hazzard. More overnight, but seeing above the clouds this past week said, I need less rather than more.

L8R Ya’ll

Quote of the Day:
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
--Bertolt Brecht

Psalm 118:5-6“When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; he brought me into a spacious place. The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” Brought to you by BibleGateway.com. Copyright (C) . All Rights Reserved.

During the transition HazzardAyre will be off line for a few miles

A nasty fight erupted on fb last night between two factions that I thought had shook hands and made up.

One is on a crusade to get every tow service counted in America. The other I thought was just a casual page for us who just dug older and even classic tow trucks.

Apparently this is not the case.

But the entire issue or issues stress’s the reasons, that years ago, there was a need that the then Hazzard County Knytes(now Knytes-of-Anarchy ) urgently felt a need to address, and formed an alternate group called the Rode Knytes Association.

This was at the same time that the towing industry’s voice was as silent and still as a wupperwill at winter.

Lets face it, the tow operator, more properly called a Emergency Vehicle recovery Technician, is the last and hardly that of everybody who drives. Glad we’re there when needed, and so on. The greater public does not feel the slightest interest in our industries problems. Even though those issues can effect the price they pay for our services.

Public education was job one for the Rode Knytes, and as such launched KTOW AM 1090 in December 1983. We ran and still do, a program called Highway Hooker. Now the terms were racy but got you to listen in. If the prudes really wanted a bitch session here’s one, would you let your kids watch a hit TV series about Nerds(Poindexters) a hit series on CBS TV if you knew the title song was by a group called the Bare Naked Ladies? So true, The Big Bang Theory’s theme song is by Bare Naked Ladies. But you still watch.

Okay off point.

But it would seem that what we did then needs to reoccur. This industry of ours was always competitive, even cut throat in some places, but we all shared the same issues and concerns. Many fought between each other. And while there were national organizations that seemed to speak for all seldom did. TRAA(Towing & Recovery Association of America) which I joined seemed all too interested in big cities and big tow fleets rather than the mom and pop single or two truck companies out here in the sticks. The situation of the landscape hasn’t changed much. Tow shows are still only held in big cities back east or near casino filled towns in Nevada. Oregon has a good one, but ain’t been back since I was treated like crap, one year. Washington has a good show, but it’s a pay to visit show, bullsbreath.

The State of Idaho started a trade group, but its numbers are off into the stratosphere, due to the enlightenment of the fact its recreator and past prezz was using the organization to market product, and at the same time taking a great discount as a dealer to equip his own fleet to compete with the rest of us.

However if you cross our states border to the south , you find Utah. The Utah State Towing Association is one of the most professionally ran groups of its kind. Not only looking out for the big outfits but not putting up a big finger to us in the smaller fleets. Like ours , SpeedWrench Toewing of Morgan Utah. With only 3 trucks we weren’t the biggest but someone that stretch of I-84 could count on.

To the ends here, its time for the might of Highway Hooker to re-enter and once again be that loud howl of towing.

As such, as HazzardAyre is taken from a small blog and reworked into being HazzardAyre Radio as well as a full web site of its own, I’ll be switching to www.highwayhookergazzette.blogspot.com .

More in the morning cold meds really got me dizzy.

L8R Ya’ll

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