Well i was the 6th truck off 6 to leave Canada, arrived first and unloaded as the 2nd ,,,their is a logic here some where but it eludes me at the mo,,
The crane was at its limit with some of the concrete elements,as was the operator..!!!! but Spirit 34 and i surrvived the ordeal unscathed
..Woo Hoo. And after an hour of heal kicking we sped off to El Paso for the first of 3 pick ups to get us home.
Slept that nite parked at the customers depot 200m from the Mexiican border in El Paso awoke at 7am to see a fellow trucker struggeling with his tarps,,,Gremmie to the rescue... So i jumped out to help,,then jumped back into the truck,!!!got dressed,jumped out again and helped him ...a Texan with such a broad accent,but a great laugh and all round nice bloke with a 100 tales to tell,,67 of which he told me as the shipper didnt open till 8,30am.
He had warned me that know one here speaks English .Duly at 8.30 the dock doors were opened by a Mexican,followed by "Bonas dias hommbres"
i replied in Swiss German " hoi du, i söt di ladig für Kanada ha,bie scho guet",, its funny how quick he learnt to speak English,,,My Texan friend,who was drinking hot coffee, did a disgusting impersination of a geyser,, spitting out his coffee with laughter.. 4 pallets of train brake linnings were loaded in double time and Tex ,,,he'd been married 4 times, his last wife had blown her brains out,,seems par for the course down here ???
duly helped me with tarping, faxed papers to Kim in the office,next pick up Fort Worth Texas,only another 600 miles east!!!.
The fist 4 hours from El Paso to Ft. Worth were interesting,running down the Rio Grande,whatching the Mexicans trying to swimm into the US and Homeland Security beating them over the heads with padels,, Then climbing to the Quitmann mts and the Sierra Diablos and Apache mts,
Gremmie loves chugging up mountains
then its,,, Woo Hooo,, jehaaaw,,, ride'm cowboy,,,,, down the other side
getting closer,,, hold ya hats ladies its,,,, Jehaaaw time catch ya breaths the next range is in sight
Well once past the pretty bits it was a long tedious drive till Dallas,,, Had a date with Sue Ellen,,,
and Ft Worth.
Slept at a small dinner 500mt from the customer how wanted me at 9am... and what a dinner All chrome and stainless steele all done in the stye of the 50's,inside was like going thru a time warp,Rock'n Roll played on the Würlitzer ,each booth had a Juke box the seats were metal flake red and silver plastic. An absolute gem of a place,the food was good and cheep too...
Loaded my 4 crates of equiptment faxed papers to Kim,next and last pick up in Kansas City,just 600miles north so load the next day. Woke up in still warm Kansas City to be told the 26000lb mobile crane weighs infact 32000lbs,,, shit will have to move some of my load to be legal,,all done and dusted faxed papers to Kim,come home Woo Hoo,, still only 1000miles to go. Planned to spend the nite at Fargo, called Lyndon " hey pal where are you ?? ill be in the FJ Fargo tonite about 10.30 pm" Lyndon " No, ive just told H&R ill unload ahead of schedual so wont be as planned in Fargo" its at this point i concluded that Lyndon is a PLONKER so we missed each other for the umpteanth time in Fargo Its not that i really want to meet him but he owes me a slap-up meal. Got back to very chilly Altona friday midday, and am off till Tuesday morning, then off to Wpeg and Edmonton
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