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03/11/07

I home this weekend to mount my new generator that they sent me to replace the first one.  it had died thanks to a bearing that had seized trashing the whole unit.  This time I'm going to take the time to prep it right so it can travel in all kinds of weather.  It will be nice to have the genset back on my truck.  It will save me around $500.00 a month.  if I can find the charger to my camcorder I'll take pictures of what I'm doing so you have an ideas of what I'm doing.

Thanks to our illustrious legislature day light saving started early this year.  It will be interesting how this will effect everything.  Tomorrow companies all over the country will find computers that where forgotten about or is running a operating system that is old and hard to update.  The concerns right now are for the banking and transportation systems.  I just wish they would do away with daylight saving all together.  I think it is a royal pain in the butt.

I recently visited a port in Staten Island, NY and it was even more of a pain than daylight savings.  This port was a pain for someone that has experience with ports let alone someone that is new to containers.  In all the ports that I have been in once you check in you go to the different areas of the port and there is someone there to keep things in order.  In this port you get to do all that yourself.  I had to get with the reefer dept and arrange to had a genset mounted to the container.  Then I had to find a yard dog to hook up to the can and bring it to where it could be transfered to my chassis.  What should have taken only an hour took four.  Now that I know what to expect from that port it will be easier next t