The Truckin’ Blog

Heading for Grand Rapids for an early morning delivery. I have been running in and out of rain all day, just enough to keep the windshield gummed up. Sitting in Lake Station, IN doing some work on site and taking care of some business before heading on to Michigan. It looks like they have gotten [...]

I spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning with 1.5 million of my closest friends getting out of Houston, TX. I was one of those people you saw on the news sitting in the traffic jams heading out of the hurricane evacuation area. I delivered in Houston on Wednesday afternoon and dispatch sent me north out [...]

There has been a lot of talk since the disaster in New Orleans about poverty. Most of the discussions have centered on problems in the far south, people almost seem surprised that there are poor people there and act like that it is the only place in this nation with a problem. Well wake up [...]

Heading North to New Jersey for an early morning delivery. I have been listening to the Roberts confirmation hearings on Sirius, fascinating. It is interesting to hear the partisanship expressed by some of our elected officials. The democrats have been using their time to make speeches and express their own opinions and the Republicans have [...]

Summer Balloons

Originally uploaded by moflytier.

I got to spend the last few days at home for a well deserved break for the Labor Day Weekend. Headed back out yesterday afternoon to deliver in N Ohio on Friday morning. While at home I [...]

While thousands may be dead or dying in the city of New Orleans, the government has started playing the blame game. In a article yesterday from the Washington Post, it foretells the political pissing match that is going to result from the disaster in New Orleans. Already the President and his administration are passing [...]