depending on the size of the truck, you may be able to get a mount for the laptop, I use one in my car [I do bounty hunting] and connect to the interweb the same way [using a cell phone] they cost somewhere between 1-150 that I have seen [I paid about 130 + shipping]

BOUNTY HUNTING?

Talk about a job I wouldn't expect anyone in the furry fandom to have!

They sell mounts at the truckstops, but they attach to the base of the gearshift and run about 250$ (everything at the truckstops is overpriced).

VERY COOL - could you tell me more about your job? How dangerous is it?

Dangerous nuff XD cant really use a gun though they give you a large fire extinguisher like can of mace, [which you must be spraied in the face with before you can use it v.v and trust me, it stings] gotta call the police and tell them what your doing, then hope they dont go to pick up your target before you get to it or you lose the money. I dont do it much anymore, but I used to run in a lincoln continental so I looks like I was a real cop 99% of the time. but since I blew the motor on the parkway I havent done much more hunting. it is fun thouth ^^ really enjoied the 120 MPH runs on the parkway and the troopers leave ya be.

Also want to try and get my CDL I hear your job is fun/boring, but I enjoy driveing, ^^ friend of mine works for smiths transport to so we'll see.

That's freaking cool - but sounds like the money is inconsistant

Smiths - those are the black trucks with the Harley Davidson looking symbol on the side, right?

If you like driving, you'll love this job. I've never enjoyed a job as much as I enjoy this one.

The biggest problem is it's easy to get out of touch out here, or lonely if you don't have someone else along (I drive team, so I have the best of both worlds :)

Yep thats them ^^ He goes by the name Tony so if you see em tell em his nephew from Jersey said to keep it safe out there!

Drive team, does that mean Driver and navigator or are you able to have anyone in your trucks [my friend doesnt have drive team v.v]

I'll keep an eye out, but I don't talk much on the CB :P

Actually, I run with my fiancee. I run during the night, she does days.

Most places have a rider policy tho, so you can actually take friends and family along if you like.

^^ cool, though, I must say, wasnt there a law or rule or something about only driveing 10 hours per 24 hours? or was that just driver driver ratios x.x Gah to many policies I remember lol

Each person can run 11 hours in a 14 hour period, but then needs a 10 hour break.

But the truck can run all day and night if you time it right, and don't run out of hours - it's just per person that you're refering to

^^ Thats it, I knew there was something along those lines^^

damn! a fellow truck driver! are you OTR, reigonal, or local?

Holy shit - are you serious?

I drive OTR team! Took this at the Petro right inside Indiana/Ohio border on I70

What are you/Where are you at right now?

I'm currenty at home in Rochester, NY; I drive Regional for JB Hunt out of Albany NY in the New England area: New York, Pennsyvania, New Jersey, Connecticuit, Massacusits (sp?), and Vermont. I drive a white 2004 Freightliner Century Class midroof. (still can't figure out where to put the pool table...)
:)

Oh man, you do NE regional? I love the area up there, but I HATE driving it.

Last time I picked up in Massachusettes (I can't spell it either), we were sent to a yogurt plant that you could only access by taking 20 miles of 2 lane, overgrown, trees tearing the hell out of the top of the cab backroad :P

How do you like the freightliner? Have you ever driven a Columbia?

only driven a columbia during my training days, been in the century class the rest of the time, they're not bad, although i prefer the condo tractor to the midroof, because i am tall and keep hitting my head on the roof of the midroof truck.

as far as lousy gigs go, i had to pick up eggs from an egg farm, and i was not prepared for how bad it stunk! lots of chickens = lots of chicken sh*t! it both curled and burnt out my nose hairs! nasty!

i work for JB Hunt, on the dedicated Wal-Mart account, so i only deliver to Wal-mart and Sam's club stores with an occasional backhaul; not bad work really, i'm out for 5 days and home 2 every week, usually on the same days.

you said you are OTR; are you coast to coast or do you have a particular region? Who's your team driver?

The egg thing - we regularly do IBP (which is a meat load) - nothing smells quite as magical as a cattle or pig processing plant. I have decided it smells most like burnt hair.

You have a nice schedule. We run 7 weeks out, 7 days home.

We do all 48 and Canada - and I drive with my fiancee.

We are seriously thinking about changing companies to do dry box, and they run Freightshaker Columbias. Thanks for the info!

2 truck drivers in the fandom?! No wai! Ever take 80/90 through Northern Indiana? I manage the Eastbound BP in Rolling Prairie at mile 57.

Also, I dial up with my phone. Who's your carrier? I'm on T-Mobile and I get about 64K peak.

Oh heck yeah - that's part of our running corridor during the summer!

Next time we get up there, I'll make sure to pop in and say HI :)

I use TMobile as well - the sony/ericson gprs card - sloooooooooowwwww

Last summer I was working at the Eastbound BP in Elkhart at mile 90. Might have seen you anyway, haha.

I've got a SonyEricsson W710i phone that I link up with a bluetooth dongle to my laptop. No wires, all pipe. I've yet to use it in an EDGE or 3G network, but I imagine the speed would be excellent. The speed I get is enough to do Google Earth and Lowfi streaming radio stations, so I won't complain.

You get a MUCH better connection than I do - but I really can't complain since I can connect almost anywhere.

HEY - question - who drew your avatar? She's cute as hell!

Yeah, being able to connect anywhere is great. Really good for geocaching. ^^

Sorry to burst your bubble though, my AV is a guy. Part of my psyche if you will.

Really?

Still want to know who drew you - it's cute as hell, reguardless of gender

Yeah, nothing like satellite and aerial views of where you're trying to find a cache, haha.

Seux drew my AV but she recently deleted almost her whole page from FA. http://www.furaffinity.net/user/seux and http://swampmonster.atspace.com/

Dammit ... I didn't realize she took it all down

Thank you for the link - does your icon have a full sized picture, or that it?

And what is Geo Caching? Is that the global hide and seek thing?

Yeah, I'm not sure why she took it all down, seems she's not open to discussing it.

As a warning, the picture contains explicit homosexual content so if that's not your thing you may not want to look. I've got it posted at http://voidmind.com/commish/1170693.....issiondone.jpg

Geocaching is terrific fun. It requires a GPS unit and a connection to http://www.geocaching.com so you can get GPS coordinates for new caches. You take your GPS coords out and try to find the spot. Some are chains where you'll find new coords written down and some are well hidden caches. Some are neat things to see. Most of them have a little log book to sign as evidence that you were there. I've been to several that took two people to find, well hidden as they were. ^^

Oh dear god that's HOT - Thank you for sharing the link :)

Sounds like a fun passtime - I don't think it would be easy with a truck :P

Hehe, I had that one commissioned of my characters Ikaris and Satori. I'm really happy with how it turned out, hehe.

Yeah, caching is really fun, but it usually requires a good bit of footwork. The advantage to driving a truck is that you can take travelbugs around to new locations. I can also imagine a GPS being useful for navigation. ^^

Well I'll be! Surprises abound, but nothing too dangerous! ^^

omg... XD

The picture makes it look like I'm driving a space ship >.<

Question: "No Jake Breaks"

Annoying Sign or Good Sign?

Annoying - it means that you can't use your engine break to slow down. It's usually posted because there are houses around and the brakes make too much noise.

Did that answer your question?

Makes sence to me.

I only just recently saw the sign in a local town... didn;t understand it... WIKI'd it.. and thought, "WTF?! Pretentious AssHat community."

Some of the operators out here have strait pipes on their trucks, and when they turn on their jake, you can hear the damn thing for a mile.

It's basically a sign to stop assholes from being assholes

AH! Now that makes sense.....

Safe Travels, guy!

Thanks man!

I'd read there was a lot of work done 'recently' on the subject of mufflers for compression brakes.

Is the situation with compression brakes sort of the same thing with motorcyclists? There are mufflers for V-twins that make them practically silent, but the Hell's Angels wannabies run straight pipes and rattle windows at the drop of a hat.

Yes, it's along the same lines. In our Kenworth the sound is extremely muffled, so you can't even tell if we're running with it on.

Some owner/operators put strait pipes on their rigs specifically so it's loud as hell. They do sometimes have a very good reason for it tho - When you see another driver starting to drift (aka, falling asleep at the wheel), hitting your air horn to startle them awake can make them freak and swing into the other lane - so instead they can turn on their jake and let go of the fuel - it's loud enough to jar anyone awake, but without making you think it's an oncoming truck honking at you.

So, it's good and bad, but unless it's an extreme situation, they're just annoying

This looks like an office desk from the future. It fills me with so many ideas - I love it.

It has enough buttons and lights to be a futuristic desk - everything would be fine if it weren't for that large steering wheel and the gear shift - You can't drive a desk! :P

well no, but it could just be a laptop mounting frame! where's your imagination? :D

its kinda like something out of the future car show on the discovery channel. eventualy cars of the future will drive them selves and you are left to your own devices... such as a laptop where the setering colum is.

I can just imagine the point and click emergency stering of a video game in futureistic cars/trucks I can drive the jeep in BF2 with a joystick so i dont think it would be to much to adapt those skills to flying down the interstate hehe.

I have to say, you have a neat profession. I was thinking about truck driving before i went to college but at that time i didnt even have a normal licens and I usualy tend to sleep a full 8 hours after a long haul. I fell asleep at least twice a day in the cap of the uhaul my step dad was driving when we moved from Az to Ky...

This will be the last job I ever have :)

Keeping awake is kind of an important thing with this job - I've seen many, many accidents due to fatigue (that and ice on the road - 26 trucks in the ditch in Nebraska during the last big storm).

It's a job with a lot of responsibility, but it's the best one I've ever had :)

XM Satellite radio I'm assuming? Were you told to flush your Serius unit down the toilet and fuck your mother? (Please know where this is from, otherwise I apologize in advance. XD)

Never had a Serius - LOVES my XM

What's the quote in reference to? Sounds like something Howard Stern related

XM 202 - The ViRuS - Opie and Anthony, The quote was from their third mic, Jimmy Norton (foul mouth comedian), to a caller that was raving about how bad Jimmy was on the show (which he isn't) and that he was worthless and not needed (which again he should stay a part of the O&A show). The full line of that quote to the caller was "I don't care if you throw your XM down the toilet, buy a Serius and then fuck your mother." In other news, yes I'm an avid O&A listener (aka An O&A Pest).

I've never listened to them! But of course, I drive overnight. VERY cool. What # are they on?

Channel 202

I'm a dedicated listener :) (bought a Pioneer Inno (portable XM) so I could hear the entire show each day :) )

and I remember that bit too--even the one where they got a kid to recite Jimmy's lines. Hope to sit in on the studio audience one week.

Thanks man, I appreciate it :)

They're live in the morning till 11, or 12 EST, then Ron&Fez in the afternoon shift, and then O&A replays from there on till live the next day.

holy shit dude,your car is from back to the future:O how many jiggawatts?!

In before "9000+"

80,000

(inside trucking joke)

Tain't a car - it's an 18 wheeler!

is it from the future?like...all the way from..

..the year 2000?..

*SINGS* IN THE YEAR 2000 (the year 2000)

Truckers with laptops will draw ... FURRY PORN

IN THE YEAR 2000

in the year 2000 furries will be commonplace and 4channers will be exiled for their weird taste in "that silly human shit"

You forgot to mention the Consie and the green lighting

In the year two ThoooouuuusAAAAAND!

I love those bits.

Suggestions? Bolt in on that wheel! :D
You can drive with it's lid closed, and on short breaks - pop the lid open and continue from where you left it.

Yeah, that has "40 car pileup" written all over it ... not a good idea :P

Cool! It's a mobile office. =o

From here I control the universe ...

Simply Amazing!! You rule the internets!

I don't know about that - but I do rule a space about the size of a queen sized bed in here :P

It's a job, it's an adventure

I hope you bought the laptop from a curcit city or something and not from a Flying Js (disgusting markups on electronics at the truck stops) though I'm sure if you went in your usual ride people would be thinking "The playstations are here!!"

Oh hell no :)

I actually have a gateway convertable laptop - and have had nothing but problems with it. Go figure.

How do you know about the J? I like calling it "The Flying Jerk"

I've moved a crossed country at least 4 times in my life. on every trip i had to buy some little nick knack from a Js. there was one outside Az in NM that had a full arcade.

sometimes i whish they had a bit better food than subway and the chicken i've stopped at about 30 truck stops in my travels but thats prodominantly what the quizine is so much as i've noticed hehe.

happy travels man ^^

It explains everything?

Cool, what is the question of life?

The question of life?

"Are we just animals, or actually spiritual beings worthy of living beyond the physical veil?"

Simple :)

That is freaking awesome! I also noticed that you too have an XM Radio, heh. 82 FTW ^.^ Very nice though.

I usually listen to Fred, Ethel, and Lucy :)

Heh. You should check out Opie and Anthony, they do some craaaaazy stuff on there, heh. 202

Thanks for the channel! What time do they come on?

I believe they are live way, way early in the morning, then do a repeat of the show all day, so if you miss a part, dont worry, they will play it again, heh.

Thanks - I'll hit it up

AND YOU DRAW AWESOME ARTS!!!

:P

Like my desktop? hahahahaha

Awesome owo

you don't go online wile driving do you?

i'd just like to add that *real* bounty hunters are above the law but w/e

Hopefully it's easier for you then it's been for me lately. I got screenshots in my gallery of what's stacked up recently for me. lol

Very nice, cant say it explains too much to me, and though theres no reason why it shouldnt make sense, I never thought of the idea of a trucker furry or furries looking at your comments.

Happy trails.

Wow, that's strangely enviable that you're a trucker. I'd do it if I could.

(Thanks for the watch, btw. Cool artwork!)

I honestly can't believe you watched me back - You're like the Dino Porn God

Most fucking awesome. Draw more Dino girls with big tits and soft asses - oh wait, you already did! :P

"10-4, good buddy!" :)

Semi trucks are so bad-ass. This further proves my idea. X3

Damn, I missed most of this conversation....I feel left out. :-P

Cool pic though. Sound like you got a better setup than I do. I just sit on the top bunk with my laptop on my bed. OH well, I got a KW T-600........so the space is lacking. But I love it anyways. I am OTR, 48. I live near the Seattle area, but my home away from home is in Indianapolis........and I keep getting sent to damn NE. Nice area....just sucks to drive in, especially in PA. TOO many close calls in that state.

OH well, cool.....I should look for something that would let my laptop sit on the steering wheel like that, would make this allot easier.

Ah, I remember the days of truck driving.

Hey that's good to go! the only traveling i do is on my bike, but i go cross country!