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So you want to be a GayTrucker?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Let me start by saying that I love my job. The life they lead is for me. I do what I do for many reasons, but the most important thing is that I love what I do! Therefore, if this sounds like me complaining, I am not, this is just the way it is.

For me there is nothing better than a full moon night, with some heat lightning off in the distance on a road that is all to myself. On a night like this I will sit down and listen to the rhythm of the tyres on the road, solve some problems in my mind, write a song, and really enjoy what I do. For me this is why I drive a truck, and nothing else! Sound romantic? I suppose it does, but there is much more than that. .
My average time on the road is six weeks. When I go home, I will take one week off and then back again. Now not all drivers drive this way, some of them are home once a week. The common practice is to be out about three weeks and then return home for a couple of days. The industry standard is that you get one day off per week out on the road. A job consists of seventy hours. There is no overtime, and once they see every hour that you do not receive payment, or manage to hide, their working environment is closer to ninety-one hundred hours a week! This is only working time, but remember that you do not get to go home every night, you get to eat, sleep, and trucking! The hours are long and very irregular. One day he was transport through the day, the next night. You can deliver at 3:00 AM or 10:00 PM. There is no such thing as a set schedule when you are a cross-country truck driver.
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How to convert your car to run on tap water

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Turn your car to run on tap water - I do not believe this

In seeking to combat rising gas prices, one can not fail to seek alternative forms of travel. Whether sharing rides, car or switch to public transport, nothing is better than the convenience of travel or travel in their own private vehicle. You see, I not only travel in my car to work, my request for my makeup in my car going to work! (when I leave at the lights of course) It may sound selfish to you but it is rather inconvenient for me if I travel privately.

I was talking to some of my colleagues, complaining about the hiking cost of gas, when one of them mentions the use of water to run alongside his car with gasoline. I heard about this but no cree that it would be possible or safe for the case to run his car into the water at this time. Turn your car to run on Drinking Water - the idea that only sounds like a nuisance for me. However, out of curiosity (as always) two of my colleagues and I began looking for information about this conversion technology.
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