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  1. OntarioVanMan

    personal side

    My daughter Jay, shes 25, 1st child ...went into hospital yesterday morning with labour..she was only 22 weeks along....they tried refilling the placenta but she gave birth at 6.22 this morning. My grandson died at 7:29 am his lung were not developed enough.:(
  2. OntarioVanMan

    an oldie but goldie

    A Truckers Last Letter By Rud Kendall On one trip up the highway, I came upon the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and several wreckers winching the remains of a semi up the cliff. I parked my rig and went over to the quiet group truckers who were watching the wreckage slowly come into...
  3. OntarioVanMan

    some wit

    How do you know when your wife is messing with a Swift Driver? When you come back after a week on the road and he is still trying to back out of the driveway. Why Are Truckers Like Dogs? They **** on tires, chase cars, live in a box, and once in a while get to bury the bone. The...
  4. OntarioVanMan

    A Truckers Prayer

    Dear God above bless this truck I drive And help me keep someone alive Be my mortal sight this day On streets where little children play Bless my helper fast asleep When the night is long and deep And keep my cargo safe and sound Through the hours big and round Make my...
  5. OntarioVanMan

    What is a Trucker?

    Truckers are found on highways, in truckstops, in service bays, on loading docks, on bush roads at fuel stops and often they are the first at the scene of an accident.Their wives/husbands help them. Little boys follow them. Relatives don"t understand them. Meals must wait for them. Weather...
  6. OntarioVanMan

    Our Rates

    Well fellow drivers and owners.... What ya think?....as you look around other carriers are trimming rates and ours stand firm....looking better all the time. Express-1 has always kept operating expenses in check darn they are even obsessive about that. And they even managed to buy up another...
  7. OntarioVanMan

    A short love story

    A man and a woman who had never met before, but who were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a trans-continental train. _______________________________________________________________________ Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over...
  8. OntarioVanMan

    Winning Isn't News

    Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful! By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Iraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell...
  9. OntarioVanMan

    Re: South Dakota

    My sister-in-law represents district 28b un the state legislature...an exerpt of her weekly report.... One bill she has drafted for filing.... *HB 1005: Any purchase of more than twenty acres of land, for whatever purpose, by whatever funding source, shall only be contracted for by the...
  10. OntarioVanMan

    Drivers/Owners situation

    Say I am a team in a C truck....getting 60/40 owner pays the fuel...I be sittin for a couple days and an offer comes up,,,after figurin it out. We would make money but the owner won't, yet the fuel is at least covered....do we turn it down because the owner won't make money? or do we take it...
  11. OntarioVanMan

    Speaking of luck...

    Anyone notice the ATeam is missing....anyone heard from them :confused:
  12. OntarioVanMan

    CAW president rejects U.S.-style strike bans

    The Canadian Press Jan 09, 2009 The president of the Canadian Auto Workers says his union won't accept a ban on strikes similar to one detailed in the U.S. as a condition of US$17.4 billion in loans to Chrysler and General Motors. Ken Lewenza said the CAW has not yet been informed of...
  13. OntarioVanMan

    Correctness Gone Silly

    Now that my sister-in-law is a politician, She's slowly learning to be a little more politically correct. Several of her political friends sent her the following Holiday Greeting in an effort to help me sand off some of her rough edges: To All My Liberal Friends: Please accept with no...
  14. OntarioVanMan

    A Forrest Gump Explanation

    The political corruption stories continue to roll out of Illinois and the bailout drama continues in Washington. I thinks members of Congress should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. Who knows, maybe that would help prevent some of the graft...
  15. OntarioVanMan

    The per mile is not going to be worth your time!

    By NAFEESA SYEED WASHINGTON -On a typical weekday, close to 2 million people commute to the nation's capital, snarling the highways and packing subway trains and buses during peak hours. Now imagine doubling, or tripling, that for the inauguration. "I don't want in any way to discourage...
  16. OntarioVanMan

    Lookout Wally World

    These guys will keep Wally World on their toes.... Britain's Tesco Makes Inroads in US - AOL Money & Finance Have you noticed Target as well....or should I say SUPER Target. Expansion and much bigger stores.
  17. OntarioVanMan

    Did You Know?

    The Federal Highway Administration 5,200 deaths from truck accidents loosened its length limitation on what truck drivers call "4-ways", which is a slang term for trucks towing three other trucks in March 2007. Under the old regulation, the limit of 4-ways was 75 feet, but under the new...
  18. OntarioVanMan

    Country Gal

    A Mexican, an Arab, and a Montana girl are in the same bar. When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, 'In Mexico , our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the same one twice.' The...
  19. OntarioVanMan

    Some figuring

    Load Planning is running about 180-160 loads a day....current active fleet in service at any one time is maybe 220-250 across all units....soooo technical you should get a load approx. every second or 3rd day depending on your location. NLM is down from around 100 a day to approx. 20 per...
  20. OntarioVanMan

    How it works

    With all the talk of tax increases in South Dakota and bailouts in Washington, my cousin sent me this explanation of government at work: Three contractors are bidding to repair a broken fence at the White House in DC: One is from New York, another is from Tennessee and the third is from...
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