Watching for any progress in the stock market is a waste of time. Neil Cavuto sounds really frustrated and is (rightly so) yelling at some idiot Congressman over the 9000 bipartisan earmarks.
It would seem in the very short term that all this stimulus is just not working. They’re trying to bring life back into dead companies and bailing out bailouts.
And, as confident as I thought I was that I was going to get another load today, I’m still sitting here at the Love’s MT in Luling TX off I10. I had lunch at Subway and it looks like I’m having dinner there as well. I’m going to turn into Philly cheese steak sub.
2. I tool the photo at some horrible Pilot somewhere. It really doesn’t matter where. The point is that it’s one of those “new” card readers with a big display and large buttons. I don’t know how long it’s been there. This is the first machine I’ve seen of its kind. I’ve have seen similar at Love’s and T/A. But now we all know most truckers act like apes on Prozac when it comes time to fuel. Let them out of the truck and it seems they go (ape?) shit. Just like an animal let out of a cage. No matter how many times they fuel they just can’t seem to get the very simple process down right.
The “apes” got to this machine. It was about to fall over. It was attached to the ground only by its few colored twirly wires. The screen was scratched. The keyboard punctured by sharp pen jabs. The “new” display was as hard to read as any of the older card readers. It sounded like a robot about to shut down because it’s charge was about to die.
So, why didn’t the truck (travel) stops insist that whoever designs these machines make them more “ape” proof. QUALCOMM seems to have been quite successful with their “in-cab” message sender/receiver machines. You can throw, stomp and drive over them and they don’t break and still work. Their “ape” proof.
But not so with these new card reader machines. Pilot – what else is new – seems to have purchased the worst most fragile models. Soon they’ll be as bad as the older versions. And the “apes” will get more angry and frustrated and more damage will be done to them. And Pilot will not replace or fix them – just close down the fuel island – waiting for them to be repaired. It’s too damn bad they just couldn’t have gotten it right this time. But again, did we really expect them to do any better?
3. I guess the folks at Prepass took the day off today, because they didn’t respond to my email. No check in the mail from the liars that owe me $800. My wife won’t let me buy a Bluetooth headset for my phone. My ear is starting to hurt again. And screw Love’s for not giving me a “rain check” when the headset was on sale and they had no stock. It’s now in stock and $20 more expensive. Trust me, I’ll get ‘em back somehow. What goes around comes around.
