Update From the Road

As I type this, I’m in the sleeper of my truck. I have the net connectivity working, and so will now start being active on the blog again.

Let me provide you a data point.

Over the weekend I made a run in my tractor trailer from the Rochester area to Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

Roundtrip ended up being as close to no matter to 600 miles .  The

Note to senior blogger, Yes Eric you are still reading your blog.  Sometimes men do bite dogs and sometimes I do both bash Karl Rove and laud Chrissy Matthews in the same post.  These are strong times in which we

Two people were injured when two fuel tanks exploded and a truck caught fire at Monroe County’s alternative fuel station.

Around 12:50 p.m. Thursday, a fuel tank was being exchanged for another at the green fuel plant on Scottsville Road.

I’ve been spending a good deal of time the last several weeks thinking about many things as I go about the business of driving my truck, and piloting the nation’s freight to where it needs to go. It’s a kind

This is all pretty much “inside baseball”, but it’s the quickest way I can think of to get the info to those who need it:

I’ve upgraded everything to WP v 3.01, and upgraded all the relevant plug-ins.
I’ve also

(Sigh)

It’s become obvious that I’m unable to post regularly to the blog in the current set up work conditions, absent a laptop computer to put in the truck with me.

So, until I get one,  you’ll need to bear

Several notes.

• Well, first of all, we have had some site issues this morning, apparently relate to an issue with a plugin update. For some reason, the webserver cache isn’t responding as it should.  I’ve disabled it to allow business

I’m starting a new category of posts here at BitsBlog, which I hope will be of at least passing interest to you.  I’m going to call the category “The Truck Collection”. It’ll be pics of trucks that really catch my

Still in Dallas while the truck goes through some repairs. Some added comments on the world around us today, in Ramble format::

• CUT IT OUT: How can any honest assessment of the founding of these United States, leave out Thomas

Hello from Colton, California.

I know I’ve not written much lately It’s been a challange keeping my batteries charged and writing on this thing takes lots of juice.

As of today I am perhaps 8 to 10 days from becoming

For those who haven’t noticed my Facebook entry, I managed to get hired today at the driving job I’d applied to.

I’ll be training in an over the road situation for the next few weeks. Once I go through that,