Re: Vehicles
  By: Bj”rn Forsstr”m to Brad Hansen on Sat Mar 20 2004 10:18 am

 >  BH> I have been to Quebec before.  If you are from the states you better be
 >  BH> able to speak French and Read French.  They don't like being invaded by
 >  BH> english speaking people.  A lot of the signs are in French.  I have bee
 > 
 > I thought you spoke English overthere.  :-)
 > But it's the same here. If you go to France you have to speek French. Not ma
 > Frenchmen speek English. Not in Belgium and Holland either.
I only wished I could speak French... 

 >  BH> all over Canada in a Semi Truck but never west of Ontario.  Have drove
 >  BH> alot of the QEW highway.  Never far far north.  That would be neat.  Th
 >  BH> thing I learned about up there is that is where the Deer signs turn to
 >  BH> Moose Signs.  Also becareful of teh ATM's.  I forgot about that and
 > 
 > Here I can have moose in my garden.
 > What is ATM?
 Automatic Teller Mach.. gives you cash.. I forgot I was in Canada.. you have 
to spend it all or stand to loose on the exchange rate...
 >  BH> withdrawled a whole lot of money.
 >  BH> You have to darn near spend it  all before you get to far south back in
 >  BH> states.
 > 
 > Don't they have CDN in Canada?
 > 
 >  BH> Anyway..  As a trucker I hauled a printing press to Ontario for printin
 >  BH> money.  They had a contract to print money for Russia.  When they becam
 >  BH> democracy.  I have also hauled alot of snow mobiles through Canada and
 >  BH> backdown into New Hampshire and Vermont and Into the farthest North Eas
 >  BH> Corner of Maine.  State Rt 2 is awsome on the UP of Michigan.  The radi
 >  BH> skip is is awsome off of the big lakes.
 > 
 > Radio skip? Do you mean when you can talk over very long distances? Do you
 > still
 > have CB on 27 or 29 MHz? That we have given up years ago. The skip here when
 > the Italians came in with a 10 on the S-meter made it impossible to use and 
 > everyone have a mobile phone.
 > I once, many many years back, spoke with a guy in San Diego on 27 MHz.
 > And I hear that you are as crazy as we are here.
Truckers here use CB 19 or 27.1850 in the West or SW CH. 19 or 17.
When I talked down to Missippi I was on a Duster Maco 600 Watt Tube type
linear.  The lake was frozen over in the dead of winter sitting in a closed
rest area with a flatbed load of Artic Cat's.




 > A Swedish trucker goes to England to pick up pizza and drive it to Italy. Fu
 > eh?
Yeah they make shampoo bottles on the east coast here and fill them on the
west coast.


 > And now a German store-chain called Lidl is opening here in Sweden and they
 > shall
 > sell milk from Germany, and when the Swedish soccer team was in Italy last t
 > the
 > had to send a truck back to Sweden to get some pizza. It's a funny world we
 > live in.
 > 
 >  BH> Alaska Threatens Texas - One day the Alaskans got so tired of hearing
 >  BH> Texas brag about how big Texas is that they threatened to split Alaska 
 >  BH> half and make Texas the "third" largest state.
 > 
 > :-)
 > 
 > //Bj”rn
 > 
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