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It was nice while it lasted!
Big Sky Redneck
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No phone calls, nobody calling asking "where you at?" No robo calls, no dispatchers, no nothing!
In my world a phone is absolutey necassary, I have to have it. My job is run by phone, everything I do with the truck is run by phone and not being able to make 50 calls a day stops the truck.
Ohh well, got me a new iPhone 7, a leash that has a solitaire game [:D]
In my world a phone is absolutey necassary, I have to have it. My job is run by phone, everything I do with the truck is run by phone and not being able to make 50 calls a day stops the truck.
Ohh well, got me a new iPhone 7, a leash that has a solitaire game [:D]
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Ohh well, got me a new iPhone 7, a leash that has a solitaire game [:D]
That's the best way to look at it![:D]
Does that mean I won't get the harley?
No. It just means we have to rent a truck and go when he's not home. quote:Originally posted by shilowar
Does that mean I won't get the harley?
Bwahahahaha[:D]!
I'm certain product got moved from point A to point B without any problems."
Well, 20 years ago, in the Dark Ages before cell phones, a driver stopped by the bank and got $40 worth of quarters before he set out on the road.
At some of the old-time truck stops you can still see the phone banks, where there used to be 9 pay phones.
Some of y'all don't know what this is, it is a telephone, which is a * metal box 2 feet high. It is bolted to the wall.
To make it work, you dial the number, no preset numbers if you can imagine that. Then a lady who worked for the phone company, called an "operator" told you to put in $2.50 for the first five minutes.
Then you put in 10 quarters and you were off and running.
The driver had to call his dispatcher to say where he was for the night, then he had to call his wife, then he had to call his girlfriend.
Complicated.
You can still see the locations of the old phone banks, and you will see 8 blank spots on the wall where there used to be phones, and there will still be one lonely old pay phone still on duty. The one, lonely old pay phone is covered with spiderwebs.
You see a new Loves or Pilot, fugettaboutit, zero pay phones. The pay phone has gone the way of the buggy whip, an anachronism.
What life was like before the CB radio I don't know, but, I don't have a CB anyway. However, I just bought a truck driver movie from the heyday of the CB radio, "Convoy" with Kris Kristofferson from 1977. Bought it at the big TA Truck Stop here in Laredo Texas.
Gotta watch it this weekend with the fiancee and see what life was like during the heyday of the CB radio.