Good Old CB, 80 cent coffee and home cookin

I had the chance several years ago, to get in gear with a TruckerBuddy program in Layton Utah, but I never could make it fit.

I caught this article on Overdrive Online.com about companies trying to get the 20 something age people involved in trucking, more over driving trucks.

Which one could inject here, the idea for and of the foundations of the Rode Knytes Association, was built on a tiny, cb club/junior truckers organization built loosely on the idea of the Independent Truckers Association the originators of the magazine Overdrive. Our group was called the TeenAge Truckers Association.

The idea came not only from me but two area trucker pros that said if these kids wanna drive lets get em in a truck. We had area companies that would put 16 to 17 year olds in behind the wheel of milk haulers, bull wagons and grain hoppers, hey it wasn’t the romanticized that Smokey and the Bandit, or Convoy was, but it was trucking in the real world.

Many of us made plenty of mistakes too. I remember the first truck I drove. It was with a fellow TTA member . Our run was to take grain to a area dairy, that had as a bonus was at Mathers Dairy just outside of Wendell Idaho where the Mather’ twins lived.

I didn’t slow down in time, kissed a phone pole and sidelined an irrigation ditch. But I drove a truck.

After that I learned the skills I needed. I was lucky, the TTA was and is geared towards rural farm local hauling, but hey its trucking.

Of course the history of the TTA is extensive as again, the TTA was the igniter of the Rode Knytes, but thing is, I became fascinated with anything trucking. Of course there came the day, when I discovered LexiBelle> and fell in love with going towing. The money was better, I was home most of the time, and I liked the better brotherhood  of those in towing were tighter than my trucking friends. Seemed and I think its what has made all too many younger people gun-shy of going trucking. There just are not enough older drivers out there willing to show the younger ones the ropes. The pride of the industry is gone or nearly there. Government regulations have taken the enjoyment out of long hauling. The son of a lady friend of mine, says he wants to get into trucking, thinking he’s going to not have anyone looking over his shoulder and so on, I say he’s in for a very rude awakening. The industry is just not as it was. For that matter few things are. All of us are too busy trying to make a survival living, that helping anybody learn is just not possible not enough time, however I still try to make time. I will always take a teen who wants to tow, put em in behind the wheel and send em out with my trainers.  The learn to tow.

The industry too shot itself in the foot, demanding new start truckers to be at least 21. When I got in I got my Chauffeurs License the predecessor to the CDL, at 18 years old. We need that kind of entry level license today, get youth who want to truck in the cab at high school graduation, not after they have gone through college.

In my days it was a highway brotherhood, you talked all night on the CB back and forth, you pulled into mom and pop true truck stops not mega plex travel plazas selling diesel. You got a shower, a home cooked meal or coffee at 80 cents. Today nobody stays open all night, at least in our part of the nation. Coffee is $2.00 from a quick store, and home cookin is KFC if you can find a place to park a truck.

The trucking industry can fix itself, it needs to get big companies, and truck makers to invest in programs like our TTA, or TruckerBuddy. It needs to admit there is a pride problem, and start rebuilding that love of the open road again, not just the love of money.

TTYLY

I think the ah honeymoon is over and familiarity is creeping in

I am beginning to think the Honeymoon such as it is, or the inside relationship here at the Wentworth is over or at least weaning itself.

MamaWolf once said getting to familiar with a associate or anyone breeds contempt. Which might have something to do with it.

I went over for my daily visit with management here today, but the mood was very cold. Most days its just to say hello, and to thank someone who busted her butt to get me in here. But I too am there to learn the in’s and out’s of this facility, especially if the club ends up buying this facility outright, I want to know what makes the thing tick.

Example of the I dunno part is , if your paying near if not at full rent here without government subsidation why or who should care how much money you make? To date I don’t see any government subsidy here. Maybe there is one, just don’t see it.

The other factors are too numerous to outline here, but I think and I might be wrong here, is I think the lady manager here’ hubby said something to the idea of Janet spending so much time here alone with me. The fact is, there are too many factors that makes any kind of romantic or otherwise union between her and I impossible , that said. This is where I live. Things that go on here effects me directly, therefore I want to know every bump and grind that is of or happens here at the Wentworth. Like the noise overhead of Niki and her hubby’ place. All the cops do is come over and say its a domestic issue, take it up with the property manager. It’s why people move into the Wentworth, few stay long time. Reason? When it comes to serious issues, nobody wants to flex muscle, and get involved. It’s like getting a stop sign at a dangerous intersection, it takes somebody to get hurt seriously or killed to get a city to put up a stop sign. Does Niki, have to get hurt in the process of telling her upstairs neighbors to shut up at night? Does DFS have to threaten to take those unsupervised children that are home alone at night while parents work? Does there need to be a physical confrontation here to get Wentworth management to say , “no more noise after 9:00PM. It’d be better to have intervention now rather than litigation later.

This is a mere example. Parking is stupid here. There are tenants here with special requirements on parking. Some have to do with parking in handicapped stalls, others have to do with certain vocations, like mine going towing. I need both my rides just outside of my door. Pull off’s, slide off’s are one thing, but when I go tow its usually a big rig somewhere, that means injury to a people, and that requires a quick response. I can’t just have a truck on the curb, I have to be able to be out my door and rolling, without a bunch of fuss. Something that I discussed at some length before I made application or moved in here, which I was told no problem. Now there’s to be assigned parking. Meaning I’m looking elsewhere. So If I move why is the Knytes looking at buying the Wentworth? Simple, it’d be a good investment and be worthy of a procedure and systems upgrade to fit this community, not the affirmations of say Boise or Lewiston Idaho. The town of Evanston Wyoming has only one major employer besides Union Pacific. That is Wal-Mart, that is raising wages. However those raises are going to be miniscule compared to good living wages here.

In 5 years expect Evanston to be bubbling, with an bio-energy plant moving into the neighboring town of Woodruff Utah, expect the living town or bedroom community to be Evanston. Meaning major needs of affordable housing. Dewalls Apartments are already prepping for this by building more quick built apartments, others are shoring up plans for expansion. The foresighted person looking into the future, would be wise to buy a injured complex like the Wentworth here, fix it up and charge a menial rent per month rate. Not sucker you in on the low scale then jack it up in a year.

While HazzardAyre Radio/TV is on hold the Knytes are still making plans for the Reaper, additionally Hazzard County Choppers. I myself rather than run looking for gold in other areas which may not be there anyway, am looking at expanding both Cooter’s A 1 Toewing as well as Highway Hooker Toewing here. More over I am still looking at AyreWolf Aviation making a base here.

When the local economy flips and its about to, we’ll be in the right spot with the resources to serve the people here.

TTYLY

It’d be nice to get most of what you paid for

Long and drawn out but we are getting there. HazzardAyre Radio is not a dead issue or project, just taking a good hard snooze in the process of a full rebuild, until then I’ll do what I can to keep you up to date.

There are many things that are becoming very frustrating. First; Super speed Internet, not possible on coax says the experts so gotta go in debt for the office, so need to start getting that in gear. But even so, why is it so dang blame slow? Next, even with an office I’m really troubled for a round the clock on air people, whose going to come in early mornings, and afternoons? No matter the gender , I’d like to know who I can trust to be in OUR studio, that wont try packing things off. Aside from the staffing issues, are income for HazzardAyre Radio generation. Let’s face it after that carpetbagger came to town and got everyone hot and bothered over KEVA, it’s a hard sell to get anyone to believe in a new entity, that will change both the old AM, and a new FM coming to town. When we say we’re doing the Wyld Life , we mean it.

Finally , did some computer tech stuff this past evening, installed IOBITT into my little lap top, while that program isn’t perfect by any amount, it showed me that 7 of this computers drivers were at least 5 years old and obsolete. Don’t people especially a tech store check on this stuff first before they send it out the door? It’d be like me rebuilding an engine , only to not replace the hoses and belts with new ones. This is why , both Hazzard County Choppers, the Dixie Diesel Shop LLC and us at Highway Hooker Toewing have been in business for 40 years, without a come back and or a complaint. The bikes, hot rods, trucks and even toews, never have had a recall, or a damaged complaint. It’s called attention to detail, and pride in the products and services we offer, not just looking at the bottom line.

Any mile this 6 wheeled Cowboy needs to hit the bunk shack, I’m beat.

TTYLY

Explain the Hooker thing again?

I have explained this so many times I get both writers and finger cramps, from trying to explain to a few people that seem dumber than dumb what it means.

As with so many things in our culture there are some things the millennial don’t remember because they simply were not old enough to remember them.

To put it simply , the word HOOKER has several meanings. The one we refer to is simply , Hooker in our company name refers to the CB radio / Trucker slang term for tow truck. Why choose that for a company name? Simple , its just off enough and just a bit kinky enough for people to remember the name without allot of advertising which we can’t easily or affordably buy.

So that’s the simple deal on our going towing handle.

As for doing everything Hazzard or retaining the Hazzard connection, that will be done with and through Hazzard County Choppers> , and just like all things its time to do some changes so I can begin to generate some extra income.

As for that looking at a combo move here.

First Evanston , just does not have the infrastructure to allow the seeds of HazzardAyre or the MC to be planted. Let alone germinate. It will take if it ever does, at least 30 plus years for Evanston to catch up to the rest of the planet or at least the rest of the USA.

Evanston and in fact Wyoming is not alone here. The Internet or at least the connection infrastructure that allows someone to connect to it, is just not in Rural America or at least the rural Mountain West. Sure in metro Utah one can connect to speeds of 150 down , 50 up through Comcast, or through CenturyLink at least 60 down and half that up.  Both are not the case nor ability of rural Evanston, and probably not anywhere near here. Sure places like Montpelier Idaho have the higher speeds, and sure one can get a T1 which we are looking into to facilitate HazzardAyre in Evanston , but who really wants to do that for a limited region that’s hanging onto its teeth economically? Reason is long view ahead.

Right now plans are of a $400,million dollar Ethanol/bio diesel plant near Woodruff Utah, just outside of Evanston here. Next is a micro chip plant over off of Alliance Drive here in Evanston. Both of these will require a whole new look at infrastructure. More over for a broadcaster, it means, people moving in, that means new stores and business’ and that means AD dollars.  It might seem like buying the milking machine before the cow, but in any business , buying low, selling high is how you succeed. For us it means sneaking in under a radar, and securing our place.

Like I have said, HazzardAyre Radio in Evanston, let alone SpeedVision TV in Evanston, that plan is not dead, just taking a siesta. For now I’m pushing on Highway Hooker Toewing and Hazzard County Choppers.

Nuff said, TTYLY

Just what is porn? Which is art?

Just what is Pornography? Is it this> Or this?> Or this> and yet there are those that would say all of them are Pornography. Now I’m not one really to point fingers here, but in this case I will, since the subject has been brought up. I have seen far worse of some women’ clothing or attire at a LDS church, than anything we ever photographed for truck art or bike art or for that matter ayrecraft nose and body art.

You’d find it very difficult to find one WWII Veteran who would say that images such as these >

That didn’t calm the spirit and the conditions on a very lonely and dangerous battlefield.

Of course there are thousands of really trashy stuff out there, but guy’ if their normal with normal hormones can’t help wondering what that opposite gender looks like, smells like or for that matter tastes like. Hey I’m all for waiting if it happens for guys especially young men and teen boys to wait until marriage to dip their dinks, or have sex, however I have never heard anything along the lines of what does a young or even an older man do when he gets the blues or worse a serious case of blue balls, when he can’t find a natural outlet. 

I’m for one who believes in the Commandments from God, and not to commit both adultery or fornication, as it reads; Any man who lusts after a woman, has already committed adultery in his mind. Okay fine, but nobody tells you what to do when every dang GOOD woman treats you like dirt or acts as though her butt don’t stink, and is too damn stuck up to even get into a relationship. More over who says that because a gal wears a blouse so cut low you can see the mountains, or a skirt so short you can see the forest(some really need to shave) to church. How does a male turn off natural urges and curiosity. Sure I’m fully against bump and grind porn, basic reason is nothing that fine is ever going to be in Evanston Wyoming, and if it is , she ain’t in no way going to show any kind of interest in a biker/aviator/tow truck driver, or any other genuine male corpuscle that lives in such an area as I do.  Why fantasize about something I can’t and many of you can’t have. Some of those exploits shown as well, even wives will never try, not without one heckuvalot of serious intake of liquid spirits.

KSL TV 5 is going to run a series, obviously being inspired by church authorities, about the New Age of Porn, how young is it for boys to look at skin books.

Education on the difference between boys and girls at least biologically speaking is not taught. I can remember as far back as third grade, I wondered after I snuck into the Crestview Elementary school's girls potty to see what it really looked like in there, and asking Mom why there were so many toilets in there, is that what girls did, poop allot? What about when they had to pee? Of course I got the standard answer, you’ll learn about that when your older. Of course it wasn’t until I was in 8th grade, that I got my hands on my first Playboy, with allot more questions and no parental answers. It was from some of the older guys in the MC that I got my education, and my first experience with a 30 year old vixen who lived out south of Hazzard Idaho. Many of the boys of the town found out those things moms and dads don’t tell you.

So what is porn?

That answer Friday here on HazzardAyre.

TTYLY

 

Me Monday

The dream did not die , just taking a siesta

From my previous entries here, ya’ll might have thought I had given up on HazzardAyre Radio and all, and in part you were right. However after doing some praying got the answer I think I was looking for.  As Brother Welling showed up with a full sized Queen bed, I began to think, why kill this, just yet. Sure going home to Idaho would be easier, but I don’t think our Heavenly Father meant for the road of life to all be smooth and not have ruts in it. So because my MamaWolf years ago, taught me to not put all my eggs in the same basket, I learned to diversify the company. Take on different projects. That way if plan A goes into the latrine, you can resurrect plan B and at least not loose your mind, and here lately I’m not too far from that.

Let me give you an example, the sweetheart that tends to things here at the Complex, who I saw tonight collapse due to really low blood sugar, seems that always happens after she talks to her hubby, on the phone; A correlation? Perhaps any mile, so she’s on the phone, and darn near goes loopy.

Thing is her old man, put everything they had and that he had into one basket. Now that , because of his dumb sister spending more money than income, the company which Hubby has all his money in is about to go belly up. Now if he’d have taken some money and invested it into other places, even unrelated to the trucking business and put it where his fat sister could not get at it, at least they’d have some back up cash. As it is, he’ll go under taking Janet with him. Don’t worry Janet, I’m here to catch you when you fall.

It’s like my dear friend Charlie over at A1 in Twin Falls. He starts a tow service, and auto sales lot, but as soon as that made good money , he invested in rental properties, then as that started going good, he invested in a excavation business, then after all of that, he invests in a heavy equipment hauling business, then a bail bond company, and then a screen printing company. In all, if one gig starts to loose financial traction, Charlie has something in the reserve as a back up to pull the rest of his companies out of the mud so to speak.

So in closing, no the radio thing isn’t dead, just gone on to do a long term siesta.

TTYLY