New Video...

Well, I just installed a copy of Adobe Premiere CS3 on my laptop. I noticed earlier that my Video camera stopped working for some reason so I did some research and ordered a new Canon HD camera. Next time I go home I will pick it up and start making some videos for all of you... Until then, I got antsy and just wanted to make something, so I threw together this photo slideshow. Some of the photos you have seen, others you have not. Take a look and let me know!

Sitting in Slohio... get it.... SLOW + OHIO = SLOHIO... haha

This is where I unloaded this afternoon... Another heavy paper load for Green Bay Packaging (located in Ohio, not Wisconsin)



This is called a Dock Lock. It locks the truck/trailer to the customers building. It's meant to keep a truck from pulling away with a forklift in it. It's damn annoying when they forget to unlock you and you try to leave...grrr




I was up in Green Bay... again. That was the 3rd time in two weeks for warranty work for my truck... I once again after a week of sweating it out I now have Air Conditioning!!!! I'm stoked. Anyways, I was driving around Green bay, I went to the Packers stadium (BORING!!!) Yeah, I'm not really into sports... but I came across the Wisconsin Railroad Museum and had to stop. It was great. It's nothing compared to the Sacramento Railroad museum but it still had a ton of locomotives and cars that you could go in. In Sac, you can go in a couple but for the most part you just look in the windows. Not so at this place, you could walk through them, on them and under them. It was great.








This SNI trailer on a rail car is what made me notice this place. Even if the museum wasn't good, all I really wanted to see was this. I was surprised after seeing this how big of a place this was.








Schneider donated this trailer... It's a bit weird how a donated trailer has better tires than then trailer I'm pulling around now...




Out back they had a tower that rose above the trees. In the distance I spotted the Packer stadium...




Theres my truck!




Check out how big the "BIG BOY" Steam locomotive is compared to the guy down below. This thing was HUGE! I bet it was just awesome to be inside while rolling down the rails. I've said it before, if I wasn't a steering wheel holder, I'd be sitting in a train...




I wonder what that knob does...




They also had a really nice HO layout...




It rained the whole weekend in Green Bay so there were a lot of mud puddles in the yard... This driver who's hooking up to a trailer didn't want to get the interior of his truck dirt so he put his feet in plastic bags... hahahahahahaha




See Ya
Chris

New photos

I'm going to just get down to the good stuff right away this time...


Here I am blocking a busy road in Laurium, Michigan for over an hour while I was getting some Coors beer unloaded.




Texas has these damn Lovebugs flying around right now... My truck has been destroyed by these stupid bugs... They don't come off very easy either...



Last week I had a whole bunch of things installed on my truck including the CAT Messenger Computer on the dash (below the guages). It shows a variety of engine read outs including fuel mileage... I really like it.




Parked next to one of the original Schneider Trucks.



Sitting for the day at my friend Curtis's house in Albany, OR. In my opinion Gordon has the best looking company trucks in the country. When I drove for Gordon and I was on the Target fleet, I was at his house parked just like this every other day... I miss those days.




I don't EVER stop in rest area's. I don't like them and they don't have a place to eat and normally the restrooms are pretty nasty, not to mention the creeps that hang around them too. Well, theres this one rest area that we stopped at when my mom and I were traveling across the country in our RV about 12 years ago that I stop at each and every time I travel across I-70 eastbound in Utah. If you were following my blog when I drove for gordon, you will remember me posting photos of this place back then. Well, I was lucky enough to run through there a couple weeks ago and I had to stop. It's one of the most beautiful rest area's in the country. It overlooks a huge valley and you can walk right up to the hundred foot cliff and look over the ledge. I was there around sunset and it was awesome. Check these photos out.

























Lake Shasta looks a bit low this year...




Need a Container Trailer? The Port of Long Beach has just a couple for you...




This reminds me of my Chip Truck hauling days... I wonder what was inside that Schneider trailer that is being dumped out???



Traveling along I-70 Eastbound in Utah.




Parked at Curtis's house in Albany, OR.



-Chris