lol.

Just checking in. Things are good - still in NYC, single again, working a lot and going to Ireland (for work) in a couple weeks.

Everyone seems to be doing well (especially FT, apparently)!

That would be awesome if everyone wasn't concerned about someone else making money off of the electricity gathered.

First, the trucking companies would want their share for "gathering" expenses. Second, what happens in the winter when trucks don't have the same outpouring of power as they gathered in the bright and sunny summer months? Third, who gets the profit? Because you know this is going to be turned into a capitalistic venture (and why shouldn't it?). Is DOT going to be responsible for this now?

Not to poo-poo all over your idea, because it certainly is interesting. I just see a myriad of problems off the bat that would need to be addressed before solar panels are hitched to the top of trucks.

Dammit! Thought it sounded too easy.

Or each vehicle could have their own solar panels which would produce an amount of electricity comparable to the size of the roof and therefore vehicle to offset the use of gasoline. The downside is that the electric motors aren't powerful enough at highway speeds so gasoline consumption is in full effect. I saw a commercial about Toyota's were starting to use solar panels.

It takes a lot to get it right.........

Trailers are a cheap, cheap, cheap commodity. Trucking companies own some but they get swapped a lot between the big guys. They also don't last a long time... it's a hard life. Solar would almost double the cost of a trailer. As one might imagine, they've got the mfr process down pretty tight (with a couple gazillion on the road) so there's not a lot of money to it. Time to paypack for mostsolar now is over 10 years, and trailers don't last anywhere near that for the most part.

Geri Jewell, who apparently cuts her own hair.

There's that too. I suppose the gateway to it would be getting Fed Ex or UPS or one of the Real Big trucking companies to buy in but Fed Ex and UPS are already investing a lot (with everybody's rich Uncle Same helping out) in making their fleets more natural gas-y which probably works out to a longer term benefit cost and energy wise.

Side note: There's a Baldwin piano company empty Trailer that hangs out in my warehouse complex that no one seems to own or know who owns...it just sort exists Sometimes I plot the awful things I could do with it.

Bang Trailer?

Not at all surprising. Thousands a year just kinda drift off the radar.

Was she the big fat person?

I know. It's frustrating considering the problems I have shipping containers state to state (where the back haul makes the whole proposition cost prohibitive)

It makes me want to buy up a bunch of trailers and start a "trucking company"

No, she was the ra-tard.

I find these interesting for some inexplicable reason. http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/

i dunno why, but i can't stop laughing at this line






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Where's Tootie?

The older I get, the less I care about what you knobs have to say. Good morning!

Agreed. But it's still nice to see you.

and a lesbian according to her new autobiography.

Does this mean "Grape Soda" as opposed to Nehi Grape Soda?

My wife's grandmother is out of control.