(1) The T/A apparently has enough cash to purchase Petro, but cannot seem to find enough money to repair their dreadful truck stops. One of the worst is the T/A off I95 in Greenfield NH. This property is a disgrace. There are dangerous huge potholes everywhere. Getting in and out of the parking spaces is extremely risky, especially in the dark. Leaving is very difficult and a safety hazard. The lazy stupid local cops do nothing to assist big trucks get out. T/A should hire a cop, especially during morning and afternoon rush hour, to avoid an accident. There are too many 4-wheelers going in and out interfering with everything. T/A has invested nothing in this place to make it less stressful and safer. Again, this place is a disgrace. (2) We were up in Dixfield, ME to pick up a load of lumber headed for Detroit. We could shave off about 225 miles if we could drive thru Canada and then back into the US. If this was Europe, this would be no problem. But then, our system is screwed up and so we have to drive southward and then head north back up into Michigan from Ohio to Detroit.
(3) Osama continues to laugh his head off somewhere in Pakistan. Not only did he force us to take off our shoes before we get on one of our airlines, soon we will have to show our passport and drivers license to get back into our own country.
(4) If there is another terrorist attack in this country, the only people to blame will be the US Customs and Immigration Service. If I were someone who wanted to do damage to the US, I would simply fly or get on a boat to Mexico and walk into the US, like all the other illegals. Do "they" think making "us" have a passport and drivers license is going to stop anyone from getting into this country? Absolutely not.
(5) We have eliminated FJ as the "best" internet hot-spot service. There is nothing we like about FJ. Our new winner is the Idle Aire web service. Just make sure you park near one of their little grey "portable" buildings. It's $4.95 a night and the signal and speed is excellent. We still do not like whole concept of Idle Aire, but since Siricom is so pathetic, go with Idle Aire. You do not need the "whole" Idle Aire set up to use the internet service. Stay out of the Idle Aire space, park near the little building and use your credit card and your web card will automatically connect to the service.
(6) So Anderson Trucking flew a wounded vet home - ON THEIR CORPORATE JET! Most of the ATS trucks we see appear to be driven by drivers who need a handout. Their trucks are nothing to write home about. Just why does a trucking company need a company jet and chief pilot anyway? I hear it's tough flying commercial to your beach house in Florida. How much does their CEO pay his drivers per mile anyway?
(7) NASCAR has its car of the future or tomorrow or something. Boring and slow, it reminds me of a car designed by communists. Yes, we said communists. See our review of NASCAR back on 5/21. Equally stupid is the new NHL uniform designed to "revitalize" the sport. More bullshit, that no one could care less about. The only "one" it benefits is the bottom line of Reebok and the NHL.
(8) This should happen every day in every city in the US. The story from The Boston Globe this past Thursday, June 21st - "30 immigration agents landed on Nantucket on a Coast Guard ship and raided several houses. By mid morning, they had arrested 16 immigrants on charges of assault, theft, credit card, drug dealing and other felonies. All face court hearings that (could) lead to deportation."
(9) NYC mayor Bloomberg (doesn't he look like a lizard?) says he is now an "independent" and is not running for president. Good! I don't want a mayor of any city - large or small - anywhere near the White House. And that includes Giuliani. We've all had it with the former governor of Texas and the other former governor of Arkansas was nothing to write home about.
(10) A dump truck in CT was involved in an accident. The details don't matter. It was not on the interstate. What's the solution? The pinheads are trying to keep the I95 weigh station open longer hours. Huh? What is that going to accomplish? NOTHING! We're so tired of these lame non-solutions to make local legislators feel better thinking they've done something to help us poor folks.
(11) Are we really free? Why does "our" government forbid us from going to Cuba or buying Cuban cigars? They are a communist dictatorship. Oooooo! So it's ok that Wal-Mart has over 20,000 suppliers in China - equally Communist and a serious polluter, too boot! More bullshit. This country is filled with morons - our elected "officials" topping the list.The only thing that makes us great is that the rest of the world is filled with less educated, stupider morons.
