I Finally realized - - - -

[DennyDay]

- - - - why all the salt trucks in Ohio, including State, City, and Township are so careful not to spill their loads of salt - - - - Because when a guy hires on as a dump truck driver, he is issued a load of salt, and if he doesn't return it when he retires, he has to have the cost deducted from his retirement check - - - sso thats why you see all those salt trucks running around, and not spilling a drop!



Y'all have a nice day!Oo. Oo.



Denny

 

[klenger]

Salt is for popcorn, not roads. At least that's the way it is here in Tucson AZ.

 

[CumminsBu]

Salt is for popcorn, not roads. At least that's the way it is here in Tucson AZ.

X 2 they laid salt here for the first time in years I was #@$%!, thank the rain gods in raining today to wash the salt away.

 

[PToombs]

CD, we don't have to worry about that here. The drivers get a bonus for extra trips to the pile to load! #@$%!



That's why I thought Syracuse was called the "Salt City". :-laf Turns out they used to pump brine!

 

[phloop]

- - - - why all the salt trucks in Ohio, including State, City, and Township are so careful not to spill their loads of salt - - - - Because when a guy hires on as a dump truck driver, he is issued a load of salt, and if he doesn't return it when he retires, he has to have the cost deducted from his retirement check - - - sso thats why you see all those salt trucks running around, and not spilling a drop!



Y'all have a nice day!Oo. Oo.



Denny

You really want SALT on the roads you drive on?



Sorry you have to be in an area where salt is used for ice control, that stuff eats metal.

 

[rbattelle]

What I hate about this area is someone forgot to tell the plow drivers that you have to lower the plow blade for it to work!

These guys drive around during blizzards with the blade UP! I used to live in Syracuse, and I swear if a single snowflake fell anywhere in the city there would be a plow truck, blade down throwing sparks like nobody's business, to clean it up.



Ryan

 

[PToombs]

Ryan, you forgot the 3 loads of salt to melt the flake!



When did you live here? And for how long?

 

[rbattelle]

I lived in Syracuse from birth until age 23! My whole family still lives there - I'm the only one who moved away.

How long have you been there, PToombs?

Ryan

 

[PToombs]

Been here since '62! Born at St. Joes, lived in E Syracuse for the 1st year, 'rents moved to Minoa in '63. In '90 i moved to Chittenango for 10, then bought dads house, back in Minoa.



Folks live in the city?

 

[gitchesum]

Salt? Snow?



What are these odd words you fellas are talking about?

 

[DennyDay]

Salt and Snow are Yankee Terms



- -Salt translates loosely to "Makes a hellofamess of my truck". - - And Snow/Ice (same word) translates to "Throw your keys on top of the refrigerator 'cause we're not going anywhere before noon!" It is something Texans can't drive or walk on. If they were able to, bull#### would be white.



Y'all have fun, I'm going to Savannah Friday, to get out of this miserable weather for a few days ! ! !



I'll post a cute story later about driving from Houston to Ft. Worth during and ice storm about 20 years ago.



Denny

 

[PToombs]

Y'all have fun, I'm going to Savannah Friday, to get out of this miserable weather for a few days ! ! !

Denny

You Suck! :-laf Have a good trip! :-laf

 

[rbattelle]

Folks live in the city?

Yup! Eastwood. Things out there seem to have taken a hit when Carrier closed, eh?



Ryan

 

[PToombs]

Yeah, not like it used to be . Now New Process Gear, oops, Magna, is trying to close the doors and run like heck back north with the money. Eastwood used to be nice, now the south side is moving closer.

 

[rbattelle]

Yeah, not like it used to be . Now New Process Gear, oops, Magna, is trying to close the doors and run like heck back north with the money. Eastwood used to be nice, now the south side is moving closer.

Ah, the whole area seems pretty run down to me. I used to walk from home to school. I don't think I'd want to do that anymore.



I didn't know NVG (Magna) was trying to move! I always get a little nostalgic when I look at the tag on my transfer case, which says "New Process Gear - Syracuse, NY".



I guess Syracuse is suffering from abandonment by industry. First GM, then Carrier, next Magna. I imagine the same thing is happening across the entire country.



Ryan

 

[PToombs]

Lotsa bad stuff going on over there. My cousin worked there, she took a buyout last summer. Magna is a Canadian company. Couple years ago Magna got the union to sign a contract saying all new hires get paid about $13 an hour. Current workers get wages dropped in steps over a few years. Legacy workers, (former NVG) get to keep full pensions, etc. Now they are saying it costs too much to operate and are going to shut down the plant. Meanwhile taking all the tooling and running north, where it's cheap to operate.

There is more high tech stuff coming in though, small 100 person companies.



If you come home to visit, give me a shout. We can talk trucks and drink. Coffee, beer, whatever.

pete





CD, sorry for the hijack! :-laf

 

[BigEasy]

I guess Syracuse is suffering from abandonment by industry. First GM, then Carrier, next Magna.

Corrupt public officials and ridiculous taxation are ruining NYS...

 

[KevinSmith]

Salt? Snow?



What are these odd words you fellas are talking about?

Salt resembles tiny bits of hail. For us it eats trucks bottom to top instead of top to bottom. The only time you may have seen it is in a little shaker next to the pepper and salsa. Its the same stuff that Doctors keep telling us to eat less of. I doen't know why they think people eat to much salt, I have yet to run over anyone that was on the road eating this stuff.





Snow would be somewhat like sand that falls from the sky. When spring arrives all the "sand" dunes disappear. The bonus to snow over sand is that snow doesn't have fleas, snakes, spiders, and all of God's other rejected creatures in it.





The reason Texans say "Don't Mess With Texas!" is because there really isnt anything there worth messing with them for. :-laf

 

[MMeier]

The reason Texans say "Don't Mess With Texas!" is because there really isnt anything there worth messing with them for. :-laf

:-laf Good one !!

 

[phloop]

Back to the original topic. There is a reason that plows run around with the plow up. Could be either a state, county, or city truck on a road that is not either state, county or city. And the drivers also have a route they have to plow.



After doing this for a while, I know the frustration of those that are the plowee's not the plower's. But here we do drop our plow and move snow as we are going even if it is not in our area.



The one thing I do not like about plowing is man holes, oh and curbs. Those will bounce you off the inside of the windshield like a bouncy ball. :{