What did YOU do today?

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I worked on my truck a little today then drove 1 of my older brothers around in his explorer.
He let his son drive another one of his vehicles that wasn't insured and his son got in the car wrecked about 2 months ago.
Long story short they both got their license suspended.
So that's why he needed driven around because he ain't got license right now.

If anybody would like to know what I did with my truck today you can go to my thread, " I'm sure I got a Short " and read the book I wrote there about what I did to my truck today.

 

[sgtsandman]

Other than mounting a fire extinguisher on the 2019's bed rack, I pretty much did planning and cost analysis for materials to build a drawer platform for the 2019 bed and a rack to store and protect the carport rafters when it is disassembled for the summer.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Took and passed my Class 2 with school bus endorsement. Already have my air endorsement. I'm not sure of equivalent class in the states.

 

[sgtsandman]

Took and passed my Class 2 with school bus endorsement. Already have my air endorsement. I'm not sure of equivalent class in the states.

Congrats. I know it's a Commercial Driver's License of some sort no idea beyond that.

 

[Snoranger]

Took and passed my Class 2 with school bus endorsement. Already have my air endorsement. I'm not sure of equivalent class in the states.

Class B CDL for a straight truck over 26K lbs w/ “P” passenger endorsement and “S” school bus endorsement.

 

[superj]

Watched the blue angels practicing from the driveway.

 

[Curious Hound]

Watched the blue angels practicing from the driveway.

How did you get them to practice from your driveway?

 

[Snoranger]

How did you get them to practice from your driveway?

How big is his driveway?

 

[Curious Hound]

How big is his driveway?

 

[JoshT]

Took and passed my Class 2 with school bus endorsement. Already have my air endorsement. I'm not sure of equivalent class in the states.

I'm guessing that you didn't show them your profile pic?

 

[Snatchsquatch]

I spent several hours trying to talk to a human being at fedex since they claim my address is invalid. After over 20 calls I got a guy in India that didnt speak English that hung up on me anyways.
They finally showed up today with my goodies from Summit. I HATE fedex.
The girl had a map drawn on a piece of scrap paper, she said she doesn't even have a gps in the van.

 

[JoshT]

I HATE fedex.
The girl had a map drawn on a piece of scrap paper, she said she doesn't even have a gps in the van.

You are not alone. If I could choose shipping company from everywhere that I ordered, FedEx would never come to my house.

Your situation sounds slightly different than mine, but still FedEx problems. I've had FedEx deliver one day, say that they couldn't find my house the next, then deliver again the next.

One year around Christmas I took off work to recieve a signature delivery package. Got the package is in your area message or something like that so I parked my butt neat the front door waiting. Short time later I got a message saying that delivery had failed, no one there to recieve. Never saw a truck. Somehow I managed to get CS on the phone that time and about a half hour later they showed up with the package. Tried to tell me that I wasn't there the first time.

Just last week they didn't deliver when they were supposed to, that afternoon I checked the tracking and it said that I had requested a reschedule. B-fin-S! Was there the next day, but that was still too late. Was a replacement part for a leaking faucet, I ordered on Tuesday with the company saying next day delivery. There were no local alternatives, and replacing faucets isn't in the cards yet. Fortunately I was able to chuck up the part in a drill and use that like a lathe to turn down the damaged edge on the valve seat. Was finally delivered on Saturday, FedEx doesn't hold full fault for that one, both companies dropped the ball.

As for the GPS in the van. I can't speak for her situation, but many/most Fedex drivers (at least in my area) are contractors. Unlike UPS where the company owns and maintains the delivery truck, FedEx contractors are responsable for providing and maintaining their own trucks. I've had many times where the drivers around here were obviously in a rental truck, or in a retired rental truck with a FedEx logo pasted on the side. That signature delivery mentioned above was one of them. Even the most official looking trucks around here are driver owned and maintained, passed from one driver to the next as they retire or move on to other jobs. There used to be a guy about a mile away that serviced a few of them at his house on the regular.

Driver owned/provided truck might explain why no GPS in that truck. Doesn't explain why the driver opted for a hand drawn map instead of using the GPS in the phone you know that they had.

 

[JoshT]

Only thing of note that I did today was pull a datalog on the Ranger to send into the tuner. We'll see if they want to make any changes. Probably not since they said at the outset that it shouldn't need any if 100% mechanically. Still, I paid for custom tunes, so I'm going to send it in for review. If they are right about no adjustments needed, then I see no advantages to running high octane in this. I requested tunes for what ever they recommended and for 87 incase I was in a location where that wasn't available. Of course they recommended 91 saying it would provide more power and sent both. I've used both so far and can tell no difference in power or efficency between the two, might be different on the track, but I'm not racing. So if these tunes are optomized already, it looks like I'll be sticking with 87.


Only other thing of note that happened is I notified my boss that I'll be taking a week of leave next week. I'm long overdue for a vacation, schedules are preventing me from taking an extended time off after that for a month or two. Problem is I have no idea where to go or what to do. Want to get away from home, but somewhere within about a days drive of middle GA. At this time I want a destination, not a road trip. Hotel, not tent camping. Not interested in setting up and breaking down camp, and these days I need A/C (or very cool weather) to sleep well. Drive there, spend a few days seeing the sites, drive back. No place in mind that I want to spend a week alone. Plenty of places that I want to see, just not particularly interested in seeing them solo right now.

May end up staying home and seeing if I can get some stuff done around here. Anything I can get done now is one less thing I've got to think about later when I find some place I do want to venture off too. Also thinking that later this year I may end up starting a cargo trailer conversion camper, that would open up a lot more destinations and my interest in taking a road trip.

 

[MaicoDoug]

Josh, with many shipments somehow there are info channels that alert someone that there are deliveries pending, and then the shippers, & scammers send out texts & emails stipulating that the delivery failed. This happens when the approved list is not including your address as it was initiated. This approved list of deliverable addresses is something that all the shippers have to go off of. It's a valid address, yes. But not an approved address, could be that the zip code is not include the extension, or there was not a space between characters, even missing a correctly spelled "HWY". Any of these "non acceptable" versions of your address throws an error and then their system sends out that "delivery failed" notice even before the delivery van leaves the depot. Talk about non-human intervention. They can keep that Cr#@p!

 

[superj]

its a big driveway, i could park one of their planes in the driveway, easily, ha ha ha.


i am glad the weather is supposed to clear up, today starts the actual air show