HazzardAyre

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Airwolf Versus TopGun

No body drives like a tow truck driver, but should

The old adage and slogan that many in our towing profession have used is You put it in, we’ll pull it out. More over getting big things out of tiny places is one of our skills, but daily transport and piloting of roads, highways, even city streets can be a real eye opener.

Recently I heard of a cop riding in a tow truck for a full 12 on, 12 off schedule. Some local policies were changed, and fines levied against people that do not use caution approaching a tow scene. Utah for years has been a place of having the 7th highest fatality rate amongst drivers, and the number 3 rudest drivers in the nation. Only Florida and California topped the list.

But it’s a nationwide epidemic.

There is now a memorial wall near Chattanooga Tennessee for our lost tow brothers and sisters who have lost their lives doing our jobs. Milli inches of space between 70 mile per hour traffic and us hooking up a disabled vehicle.

While Utah and Idaho Law does exist for drivers to move over and give due caution coming up on a tow truck doing its duty, few if any law enforcement officers ever really give the serious citations required or deserved here. Utah Highway Patrol, could give citations for Improper LookOut or as it is in Idaho , Reckless Driving. Both are Class B Misdemeanors. With heavy fines, jail time. Trouble is few are issued .

Some say its not worth the time, others say its no big deal. What is a life worth? Just like this morning, I’m backing in my rollback to retrieve a rig, and here comes a UTA bus running at 45 plus mph through a residential neighborhood. Nearly T-boning me. Overhead lights flashing, but here comes Johnny UTA driver, sure I know he’s got a schedule to keep, but. My life is worth living. The response from UTA? Who cares? They said.

Simple courtesy is all it takes. Sure not at all times can one move over one lane or half a lane. But slowing down, to a near crawl, approaching a accident or road rescue scene would really keep a few of us alive.

It is estimated with acute accuracy that for every 10 vehicles out there , there is 5 tow truck drivers doing some sort of road rescue duty , out of that 5 tow truck professionals, 3 get killed or seriously injured because of careless drivers.

Here’s a personal example. 6 years ago, working a scene out on I-80 west of Tooele Utah. Had my foot barely in the travel lane of lane 1. Here came a Toyota sedan ran right over my foot. While it healed and all, it still smarts. I was hooking under the vehicle, but I could hear the crunch. Felt it even worse. Secondly and this was even worse. Was working two slide offs near Draper, on I-15 going southbound. Fortunately my project was in front. One of Jim’s Tow Smith trucks was hooking up a wreck behind me. Lights on top flashing and all, yet here came a speeding car, smacked the wrecked vehicle in the rear, pushed the to be towed vehicle into the rear of the tow truck. Crushing the driver of Tow Smith’s. The tow driver dead at the scene. Here’s an idea drivers slow the hell down. Watch what’s in front. More importantly move over.

To which, the Toew Bro’s Club, in co-operation with the Rode Knytes(Knights) Towing Association of America, is looking to get some ads put together to begin airing this winter. It’s a major undertaking, but the project is to educate the public to just how close they come to us on an hourly basis on a daily commute.

The other part is to wake up a few UHP officers to the situation , that if you have to leave us after calling us out, if you see or we report an incident of a not looking out, or no move over, give some stiff tickets and fines. We are hoping that we can get a news department interested as well.

The ad’s will begin running on METV ch 104 Utah, and on the news on CH-4Utah.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Jeremiah 17:9-10“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.””

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The Mental Meltdown of America

The amazing meltdown of mental capability in our nation is gaining to epidemic proportion.

Take this morning, Breakfast at Dee’s, here in Ogden.

The Number 3 on the Seniors menu is much lower than the regular menu. But between the coffee and milk I was into that order for $10.21 . Really? When by comparison down at Sill’s Café in Layton, its under $6.00 for all of it.

Get done with that, and I don’t know if its training day at Wells Fargo, or if its that I don’t speak Española but it took me 15 minutes to withdraw $40.00 . I had to have the college kid, that opened the account with me to help transact the thing. Really? Then get to the frigging dollar store to snag a phone for line two, and here I am, in line with 7 other people 4 of which spoke Española the kid at the register is frustrated, so it’s a beetch.

Now then, there are conditions of the situation. I used to say Idaho especially Tweaker Flatts was 100 years going bassackwards, I still say that up to a point, but is everybody stupid? It’s not just academic brain, its just common sense. I used to put it to Yankee weather brain melting/freezing. In that it takes longer for northern Yankee’s minds to thaw after the winter and mental capacity to start working. But its not just here.

Across America, from the immigration, malfunctions to cultural blockades More people can’t think beyond what’s written down in front of them.

It’s like when you call say your insurance company or preytell the cable company with a problem. Unless the answer is on a call board sheet, there will be a need as they say to escalate to a supervisor.

I have only met one, and its only been through email and by phone one cable company person that could think on their own and act accordingly, that’s our sweet Laura Linz at Comcast Business.

I’d still marry her if she’d let me. I’m waiting for her to come over here for a steak dinner.

From the get go, Laura not only rescheduled us at least 4 times, but walked us, mainly me through a few mine fields. She stuck by us and me. Others would have gave up.

But she is so far and few, that you need to ask does Comcast train their people.

I sat at Comcast’s office in Layton, this past Monday. I counted 15 people returning equipment and getting off of cable and internet and cutting the Comcast cord. One I was able to keep there by convincing a customer, I couldn’t run my business without Comcast.

But other multi call centers have so young and not too intelligent people that you need to ask is it just our schools or that all too many children are born with the elevator that wont go to the top floor, due to the mother being on crank, crack or heroin.

Another on Comcast, I noticed that the same MexiCali woman at Comcast’s office in Layton that couldn’t count was still there. During a transaction she did not have the computer skills, to help the customer. She had to have a supervisor help her. If I was this MexiCali woman I’d go back to the job she had at Deseret Industries, and let those who can do computer tech do the job she does. The Pendulum swings too much both ways here. Example, at Sill’s Café in Layton Utah. There’s a shortcake there that is way too good looking and intelligent to be waiting tables. While there are people that are not too much in the eye candy, or even the smarts candy department that ought to be working the drive thru as well as the café .

Where does it end?

Then to finalize here, and its not so much Utah although its more abundant here, but idiotic drivers. Even drivers of things like a UTA Bus that comes down Sullivan road. I’m backing into the drive way, and here comes UTA, barreling down at 45 miles an hour. My gum balls are flashing and the fact this is a residential neighborhood, but it could have been horrendous.

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Who Cares about this World Cup crap anyway?

After what seems as all too long, hopefully this fever over this World Cup Soccer crap will be over. My question is, why does anyone care about a bunch of near queers kicking around a checkered ball? How about having a sport, that puts tires on pavement and chases after a checkered flag? Oh yea its called NASCAR. Or let’s see something on TV about an Airshow somewhere. Of course if we need to go that far,(and we do) how about giving viewers something to watch that’s wholesome? Like say a guy in a rig with a chimpanzee , oh yes that’s B.J. & The Bear, the chimp was named after Bear Bryant , bet ya’ll didn’t know that did ya’ll? Oh how about a TV series of say a mach plus speed helicopter? Yes Airwolf. Maybe renew the series with a movie and maybe new actors, but the same concept(Confederate Steele Media is working on it), and I have an idea for METV, if they really wanted to attract viewers with a TV series that has a bigger fan base of solid fans beyond that of even all Star Trek, they’d start work on buying the rights to and airing the Dukes-of-Hazzard. I know of a few that would back such a purchase. Thing is Viacom is just sitting on the series on their network CMT, but not running it. So why not snag it from Viacom’s hands and bring it back. I can see at least 28, million fans around the world sitting by their TV’s.

As far as this World Cup thing, I have seen it on Yahoo, Google, on the news, just about everywhere. Some things ya’ll don’t mind being saturated with, the World Cup ain’t one of them, to me and there’s many who feel this way, its just too much, besides if it doesn’t have wings, tires and burns fuel, nobody cares.

See ya’ll in the AM, this old Wolf is headed for Bed.

TTYLY(that’s: Talk-to-you-later-ya’ll)

Quote of the Day:
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
--Lyman Beecher

It’s better to be blind than to be seen as an idiot

So was watching KSL News, on came an ad for an air show in St. George Utah, called Thunder Over Utah. Granted nothing like ours which hits next year, but I am interested.

So I go to the website of Thunder-over-Utah , so the site opens, but all you get is an email extender, but you can’t read the damn site. Basically the site is F*****ed up. Nothing new, but it makes whoever is throwing the event an injustice. What the whoever is in charge there, should have the sites creator, recreate.

One of the main things that is and has slowed progression of the AyreWolvez site as well as that of both the Knytes-of-Anarchy as well as HazzardAyre Radio’s has been, making sure that our site works and works flawlessly as much as Marine Aviation Aviator precision as possible. A no goof, absolute screw the pooch proof site.

In todays clicky computer Internet society, if your site is one that is messed up or messes up a lot, is grounds for someone to surf elsewhere. It also makes the firm, group, organization look absolutely stupid and incompetent. Its like getting ready to have super pig sex with a super hot babe and then not being able to get a stiffy.

HazzardAyre rolls in on the 5th starting at 04:00 hours.

Keep it stiff and wings level

TTYLY

Quote of the Day:
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
--Henry David Thoreau

Romans 12:3“[Humble Service in the Body of Christ] For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.”

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The Little Fish are trying to Survive The Bigger Fish want more of the pie

The broadcasting business is changing faster than getting manure thrown at you at a Little Britches Rodeo.

Both forms of broadcast are looking for revenue streams. While trying to meet current obligations and looking for new territory.

TV is trying to fend off much of the cable/satellite bunch, radio, is fending off the music artists from taking a bite out of the cash stash every time radio plays a record , or song. Artists don’t realize if it wasn’t for radio playing their music they wouldn’t be star artists, just somebody singing in a honky tonk somewhere. If it wasn’t for TV , TV stars wouldn’t be TV stars as whatever TV show they were on, would never see daylight. Content providers in cable/satellite, are looking for viewer/subscriber numbers, networks supplying the content on cable/satellite are looking to raise the fees to cable/satellite services.

It’s both the economy and those wishing to stay alive, in a very poor economy, provided to you without your permission or vote by both the Republicans and Democrats. Both are lying, cheating crooks. The southern culture has a name for such, called carpetbaggers. There are other names from revenuers to names to indecent to say here.

With that, one has to ask, if there is the need to feed so bad, why is it that when there’s a medium sized fish circling a boat why someone with a hook in the water wont reel it in? Example, an outfit here in Ogden, I contacted when Eli jumped ship, to rescue our streaming radio station, I called two firms, one in Orem, and Ogden Web . The tech guy in Orem got us back up, but it took me calling Livestream to straighten it out. Oh yes, I called Ogden Web, but while they returned phone calls, how hard is it for them to get in their Mini Cooper, drive up here to the Roadhouse and have a chat? Help us develop the site and merge it eventually into a site of its own? Now sure I could go to them, but I want them to show us, on our equipment in our environment how to make things better, adding in software and all on our gear, and in that way, I know what to do at 3:00 AM on a Saturday if something goes goofy. Sure I can watch em at their place, but at their place its there stuff, not ours. Get where I’m going there.

If they want our money, they can come to us.

Now there are those saying , “why can’t the models for visual from TMG do that?” Simple. TMG is female models, going to a private home office, that’s changing after August 1st more on that in a few here. But TMG is not going to send hot models to the RoadHouse. On the other hand, Ogden Web, is guys and guys, doing technical work.

Okay, through a bunch of soul searching, found a place which is exactly where the webstream radio gig was conceived in the first place. For just under $300.00 a month we get the studio/office, we get all utilities paid, but the real clincher? A tech firm that builds, hosts and can maintain the site just above us in the same building. Having TMG send their people to us there will be better and safer, since the new location will be a real business office complex.

Instead of constantly sucking wind like a trout, we can at least get our heads back in the game and begin to regenerate money.

All of which in a few months or just after Christmas/New Years, I can get a place back in the Mini Cassia area of Idaho, come down three times in the week, do the radio work, and yet slowly rebuild AyreWolf Aviation/Cooter’s A1 Toewing near where it was born in the first place.

If you’re a little fish trying to fend off bigger fish, you have to be faster, and quicker, than the bigger fish. More over smarter than the bigger fish.

Look David fought and won over Goliath, so too can HazzardAyre fight and win, over Pandora and IHeart Radio.

This year streaming radio, next year XM/Sirius , more in my next entry.

Closing out, its not that I wouldn’t still talk to and infact have invited Ogden Web Design to the table, again, but waiting is not one of my virtues. I too like many are, in the lush of immediate conquest and lustful of instant gratification.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

For the love of Ayre

As many of you know, Hill Air Force Base threw open its gates this past weekend to host another Air Force based airshow.

While my health did not allow me to go, from those of the Wolf-Pack that went told me I didn’t miss much if anything at all.

While it was a good crowd and loud, the exhibits of military warbirds of yesteryear was near none existent. Many displays were static, and the few new aged warbirds, had ladders, locked and covered canopies and no real access to anything.

Maj. Mason told me that it cost near $8.00 just for a soda , small soda at that.

Snow cones and the like were selling at $5.00 . Forget about eating.

The interesting thing will be to see the real admission numbers. I’ll bet it wasn’t what the USAF had expected.

On the flip wyng, The Wolf-Pack has on its bulletin board an AyreShow of epic proportions. With REAL vintage warbirds, helicopters and some serious air aerobatics not to mention a few air races. Of course there will be educational booths and four warbird new aged simulators to give attendees of all ages a taste of what it really is like to fly combat as well as 9 G take off’s, stalls and more.

Two concerts in the Bandstands, and of course food from Southern fried, to country pride grub. Even an original powdered egg, and Vienna Sausage breakfast, on day two.

Of Course day three will have in the evening the 2016 SheWolves Pin Up girl contest, where audience cheers and voting will determine the first 12 of the 24 gals for the 2016 AyreWolvez Calendar. If you haven’t pre ordered your tickets yet, I’d do so. Its free of course, but you’ll need the ticket to get in.

The new website that will run separate from the Knytes’ will have the 411 on the ayreWolvez AyreShow 2015.

On the subject of the new site, there is talk of re-establishing AyreWolf Radio under AyreWolfFM, we’ll let you know, but it could be a great side.

TTYLY