Good start to your blog mate, could do with some snaps though.
got to agree with ya steve on the give a shout if a trucks on the shoulder ,9 out of 10 hes watering the verge/leaning over the wheel updating the logbook ,
But as someone who had a deer go under at 5.30am. on canada day on #16 west o dafoe ,i was stunned by the number of driver s(all were middle aged up) that stopped and asked if i needed a hand/ got enough tools (##### knocked fuel pipe of tank,airline of both chambers on first drive.).
one o westcan s gave me a surclip for holding fueline on tank ,wouldnt take a penny!!! all he said was pass it on the next time you see someone broken down…
lol…spent an hr one night at jumping pound on #1 bleeding a engine for a young driver with a audience of about a dozen drivers parked up!!,thought he was going to cry when it started…jimmy.
I was using a trailer once for a run from Valley NE to Prince Albert Sask. The trailer was a preload of irrigation equipment. The one mud flap was done with a temp fix had mechanical wire holding it on. Made it to Customs at North Portal , just after going to Estevan it started to come off, the driver behind me radioed me, to let me know then asked if I had tools to fix it. Had some tools but no drill, so at the Estevan Scale we pulled in and he helped me redrill and bolt it back on. Last time I saw the trailer the mudflap was still on upside down. 
Stopped in Weyburn and I bought him coffee and a snack at Tim’s. I have stopped more than one to help someone with their tarps or to help tighten load chains and straps.
Remember late eighties on the A4 Milan bound, a Brit car and caravan had a blow out and stopped right on the bridge on the river Po. I don’t think they had been there that long but when I pulled in ahead there were already six Brit trucks parked up behind them and the drivers were changing the wheel. The shoulder there wasn’t that wide either so the spectacle soon brought the A4 to a crawl. When the “foreman” driver finished the wife and mother of the entourage burst into tears…sorry I digressed a bit there 
Gremmie:
newmercman:
My company has a new website, in it I have a blog where I do a regular diary of my travels, here’s the link to it for anyone who’s interested, bear in mind that it’s on my company’s website so it’s written in North American English which is a dumbed down version of Proper EnglishDid you buy them out ■■?
I am a company man, I have no problem with that, I like the job, like the people and I’m happy with my lot, it’s taken me 25yrs to be this happy, why wouldn’t I be happy to speak about it on a company website? I could write a load of old tosh in a testimonial, or I could do the blog and let people see for themselves, apart from the ■■■■ taking and pictures of speeding it ain’t much different than what I would put on here anyway 
Gremmie being pendantic? Oh dear, hope your glasshouse has laminated windows, I may have to be your personal spellchecker for a while 
newmercman:
Gremmie being pendantic? Oh dear, hope your glasshouse has laminated windows, I may have to be your personal spellchecker for a while
Is Gremmie attached to a chain that you can hang round your neck? 
Rob K:
Hmm. Have to admit to nearly falling asleep after reading 4 paragraphs of that. I’m saying that purposely to upset you
because you’re writing it like a company ‘yes’ man golden boy who does no wrong, which is of course to be expected on your company’s own website.
I think you should run a separate blog WITH PICS writing in your usual humourous and satirical way, which would be far more entertaining reading.
2p
Oh and do something with the [zb] horrible font as well. Eyes go square after reading 2 paragraphs of that.
I don’t think it is the font, seems like because it is just in the center of the page your eyes don’t move as you read, which makes it difficult. I reread it as you haven’t posted anything new since the last time I checked.
Do you read novels at all NMM, part of writing and making it interesting is to write in a manner that you take your readers on the journey, paint them a picture. For drivers it is a decent read, those who are not drivers will be left with a number of unanswered questions. I am wondering if maybe describing the landscapes may make it a bit more interesting for the non-driver readers. You are travelling down a black ribbon of lace, a number of your readers may not have viewed the way that you do, take them with you on your journey. I know for a fact part of that trip would have been on a very historic roadway.
a black ribbon of lace does not take me on a journey down the road lolol 
Trubrit:
a black ribbon of lace does not take me on a journey down the road lolol
Must not have many ptoholes where you are at .
Trubrit:
a black ribbon of lace does not take me on a journey down the road lolol
I was thinking the same thing. When I think of black ribbons of lace, it ain’t bits of tarmac that I think about.
Rob K:
Trubrit:
a black ribbon of lace does not take me on a journey down the road lolol
LOL well we now know where your mind is .
We dont read the same novels
OK then :
You are driving down a black asphalt serpent, to be tamed by 40 ton of steel and sweat, both truck and driver’s hearts pumping pure diesel fuel. 
I think you write very well, NMM. Very interesting stuff, keep up the good work.
Brentanna:
We dont read the same novelsOK then :
You are driving down a black asphalt serpent, to be tamed by 40 ton of steel and sweat, both truck and driver’s hearts pumping pure diesel fuel.
SERPENT
Trubrit:
Brentanna:
We dont read the same novelsOK then :
You are driving down a black asphalt serpent, to be tamed by 40 ton of steel and sweat, both truck and driver’s hearts pumping pure diesel fuel.
SERPENT
Its ok your are driving on it.
Rather reminds me of the sign just outside Harwood North Dakota on I29 :
Depressed Wheel Marks ; I be ■■■■ depressed to if I were squished into the asphalt.
You can imagine what the wheel marks are saying:
Oh wow I am like so depressed, the sun is shining and all I feel like doing is laying here in the ashalt.
Surely your roads are too strait to be described as something which snakes through the country.
Wasn’t it in faulty towers when an American describes the M4 as a back road compared to a freeway
Regarding Black Ribbons: Hoyt Axton did a song called Endless Black Ribbon, a good truck driving song.
It is on Youtube.
There are plenty of bendy roads, even some interstates have the odd bend on them
I’ll try different things as I go along, the blog will be a regular thing, so to keep it fresh it will need it, it will always be, first and foremost a representation of the company I work for, is that better gremmie? but it will also represent how it really is, my job is a good one, so I won’t be leaving much out, just the swearing and ranting really
Feedback from you lot is more than welcome (except from gremmie )
Brentanna, I do a lot of reading, mostly suspense novels and biographies of people I find interesting, Muhammed Ali’s life story is my current read, I don’t think it will help me much, I have my own style and it’s what I’m comfortable with, the editors of the magazines I contribute to seem to like it, my bosses like it and my Mum thinks I’m fanbloodytastic, that’ll do for me I’ve taken your comments on board and will be more descriptive in future though
Muhammed Ali’s life story is my current read, I don’t think it will help me much,
Dont know about that : he has done alot that others would not have even tried, and with being disabled, cant think of a better person to sneak in a few quotes from. Anyway glad you can show folks what life is like on the road in the transporty business.