Has the web finally gotten trashed

As our population and society gets more dependent on computer tech and such extensions as the web, I start to wonder are we in for one helluva crash?

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas they had cars that could drive on just computer. According to demonstrators the vehicle is guided by GPS. Really? GPS is about as accurate at directions as my Aunt . I remember not too long ago Rick and I took an oversized skip loader to Vernal Utah. If we’d have went the way the GPS said to go, we’d have went all the way over to Green River Wyoming . What if the connection can’t be made. What if we as humans are fail to update the data files? Scares the crap out of me. These shoot and forget weapons our military friends use, still have to be verified by visual confirmation, that means a aviator has to go look. By then your looking at someone that wants to kill you,. Bullshit, let me just go shoot the fucker to begin with.

Then there are these foundations like Wikipedia. I think we were better off being stupid in the sticks. If you copied someone else’s trade name at least you had the excuse , shit I didn’t know. Of course there’s all that data that was carved out long before there was a damn internet web thing. If you punch up the ITA you’ll get very little if anything, yet in 1982 the ITA, had independent truckers pulling the key and guess what we went on strike. Got the revenuers off our ass, trucking became deregulated and depending where you fit in here trucking really improved. At least us independents could compete on a level field with the big freight companies. Back then trucks ran by a driver behind the wheel, most were rockabilly hot rodders in a rig, but we took our profession seriously. We drove that truck as if our lives and wallet depended on it, because it did. The truck did not have tattletale devices, or fewer. Oh sure the Sangamo Tachographs was there, but you could fix that thing to read what you wanted. You could tweak the the engine, rebend the spring going to the governor, and be able to fudge on velocity. Not today, that damn spy in the sky, has your ass within 50 feet anywhere on earth,. You can’t even go shit without DOT and CVSA there with the ass wipe,.

Getting back to Wikipedia, I know and you know once the velocity on our gig at Confederate Steele heats up, there will be a ton and a half of folks warming up to us like a long tailed cat looking for a swaller of that cream milk. At which time like so many we’ll just say we never knew you. You wanted nothing to do with us then , suck prick now. No more no less,.

It’s just like a decal on a Harley I saw some time ago, but shortly after SOA got hot. It read, once you hated us, now you want to be one of us. Likewise I’d like to point out to so many, that if they got it a truck brought it. And part of the support team to long haul otr haulers across this nation for nearly 40 damn years has been Dixie Diesel, likewise the support to both all things Hazzard and the springboard for much of the southern lifestyle and beliefs movement has been HazzardAyre. If Wikipedia has their noses joint so be it. Problem is though I’m not so stupid that our Miss fluffy ass in MHI or somebody therefrom, isn’t sticking their busybody noses into something that does not concern them. More over I’d still like the $6,000.00 that the club and I contributed to their galldamn Public access TV thing, then never got to even use it. I want that money back. A topic for another time, but if some people don’t want the club to really start squeezing, if I were them , I’d just stay low and out of our crotch.

But from searches that turn up little, to network crashes, to IP speeds and limited shrinking bandwidth, has the web finally gotten trashed, more over all of it crashed>?

Any mile, see ya’ll at 17:00 on the radio.

 

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Not over until the choir sings

Some national club bizz to get out of the way. Knytes of Anarchy National President Ben(Cooter)Jones says in his blog that he feels that while he’s grateful that CMT is rerunning the Dukes in HD, that having promos for some mid teen show mirroring Jersey Shores from sister Viacom network MTV is demeaning and demoralizing the image and purity of our southern culture and lifestyles. I fully agree. Ever since good old Gaylord Media owners of the Grand Old Oprey and such who used to own TNN{now Spike} and CMT, sold out to the MTV Viacom bunch that much of the rural kountry Television that were staples of both TNN and CMT have began to fade into oblivion. Its easier to sell to a teen watching CMT for hip hop country music a box of tampons, than selling to a young teen trucker a Peterbilt rig. Remember the days of trick my truck? This is what we at Confederate Steele Media, owners of HazzardAyre/Dixie Diesel Radio and TV, have been saying for 20 years. And yet one would be hard pressed and myself would fall over bassackwards with a thrilling coronary if I once went to the clubs mail box and saw a check from Ben or 100 fans saying here’s some seed money create the southern bred culture TV network. It could be done. Think of it this way. And I know even celebrity pay checks are lean these days, but if just the five remaining original series cast members sent us out here a check for say $5k a piece, and 100 fans sent us a check for $100.00 a piece, matched with what we already have, and not only would this accelerate the radio gig online, but would enable the creation of a IPTV(Internet Protocol ) Television network, that could be uplinked to create our own cable/satellite network for all things Dukes. We could, run not only the Dukes of Hazzard, but re-energize shows that we grew up with from Movin On, B.J. & The Bear, HeeHaw, maybe a newer version of HeeHaw, that’d kick American Idols butt, and really show what its like to have on your front porch two flags of true American history on your porch. Look the business models are bouncing all around us, Ray in Georgia is running Dixie Broadcasting, Patrick over at RFDTV is running rural programming even launched a XM/Sirius Rural network, imagine if there was a XM/Sirius channel for all things Hazzard? It can happen, but not at the rate its going, or before somebody else does it. The Knytes have been busting hump for just under 40 years to create such a network and while we have our small syndicated programming, imagine if we had a live gig in 4 , 6 hour shifts both on radio as well as TV, with the Hazzard/HeeHaw platform. Some say you can’t sell that in the north, really? We are selling it , but some of the detractors don’t dig it, because they don’t try. I have yet, to see a TV, or radio feller other than us going out to Kenworth, or Peterbilt, Cummins, Cat, Miller Industries and so on pitching ad rates. Not one. It can be sold, but you have to have the product to sell it.

While I agree with Ben on the Southern style Jersey Shores thing, and feel its wrong, there are ways to battle it. Put some money in our stash and lets do this. If CMT, Spike, and so on, hell even RFDTV saw someone was about to start byting at their heels, I’ll guarantee that all those networks would be changing their song. Look the thing ain’t over until the choir sings, trouble is if you believe in good wholesome TV and radio where nothing really filthy or such shows or is heard, then its time to pony up, help us to help and create good southern style Hazzard bred TV and radio. If you want to make a difference here, touch us on our backside, put some cash in our stash and watch HazzardAyre/DixieDiesel TV and Radio launch in a flash(Flash is Roscoe’s Dog) .

That how we Git R Done.

L8R Ya’ll

 

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The little Diesel that could, did and conquered

Need required action. Back in late 1988 my beloved super VW/KW Rabbit took a nose dive. Some assholes at a truck stop in Jerome thought it would be to sell me oil in an antifreeze jug. I needed coolant not oil.

Half way down the big road near Kimberly exit 182 I-84 the little truck blew its slugs and I was stalled. Call to a friend or two got the truck in, me on a bus, to Blackfoot, and LexiBelle on the way to Twinky Flatts to fetch. Once back at Blackfoot there were few if anyone skilled in automotive diesels. Not just mine but every ride running these heavy A-fuel cars, pick-up’s etc. So thought was why not open one. The question became, had anyone ever hot rodded these little diesels? This was long before BullyDog and PDI, you might even say our shop opened a door, a big door, how about a shout to us for that friends.

So that year in a Oldsmobile Toronado needing refuel pulled through Saint George, Utah, and sitting there was the name. Dixie Diesel Service And Towing. That name started a burning inside of me that even to date has never been put out. Two years later during a respite of my relationship with Monkee, I decided to venture forth and open the Dixie Diesel Shop. Similar sounding, means something different. Okay how to get the word out? Shopped many radio stations in Utah, no bytes. Although KSL was running the Road Gang with Dave Nemo, they were not looking at taking something new on. However a shy little station in Price Utah called KOAL AM did. Not only did they accept our ads for the remains of ITRN, that they were running at the time, but allowed me to run on behalf of the newly formed UAITA but what to call the new show? Input from my pal Tommy, who created both the name for our hot rod shop there and the subsidiary of the Dixie Diesel Shop, called Cooter’s Kustmz(customs) but the slogan, at Cooter’s Kustmz its not customized, its Cooterized. So he said why not just call the new show simply Dixie Diesel Radio. The handle of the show caught on and has become phenomenal to the point Dixie Diesel is known and copied from coast to coast. Remember we did it first.

But there are those that just love to step on anything we do. Example, put a thing up on Wikipedia, get a thing back saying they were deleting it. On the flip side, HazzardAyre Radio, Dixie Diesel Radio’s offspring still has a brief article there.

There is a deep feeling that people in or from Hazzard develop over the years, residents here call it Hazzard County tenacity, We call it Rebel determination. Don’t tell us it can’t be done, cuzz you’ll damn well find out we did it, or are there already. Just like many said that a mini VW Rabbit could not be turned into a mini Kenworth. With a bunch of welding, cutting, hand formed metal the little diesel did, and was. Its remains are still rusting in the back yard of Wally's Automotive in Chubbuck Idaho. We needed and desired a performance diesel shop, none existed, we built it. Likewise, when truckers were looking for time sensitive information out west here, and the other networks from the Bozo, Midnight Cowboy Bill Mack Show, and the Road Gang were at least 3 hours past us here. Those blazing snow storms, slick roads and slide off’s that 411 was needed. NOW!! This was of course before Smartphones, IPhones and the like. We were and continue to be that lone long haul driver out there’s connection. And we still deliver. Any mile, going out siting for new Idaho HQ for the network, but before anyone wants to throw us in pile 13, as not so, best check back 30 plus years ago, I’ll bet money in some archive of what was the Gooding County Leader there’s stories of the TeenAge Truckers Association. Likewise I’ll bet your next tank of diesel, that if both KLIX radio and KMVT ch-=11 would find a few injections of Dixie Diesel, in their vaults.

Slow us down, put up the hurdles, don’t matter, Hazzard folks find a way over and around obstacles .

L8R Ya’ll

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And now its Dixie Diesel's Turn

I suppose its important to bring this in now. Long before there was HazzardAyre, long before there was the Hazzard Knytes, and long before much of this at all was a small 10 member group called the TeenAge Truckers Association, that grew into the United American Independent Truckers Association. Mirroring the now somewhat defunct Independent Truckers Association created by Mike Parkhurst who also built the magazine OverDrive. Perhaps if your a Smokey and the Bandit fan if you noticed after Big and Little Enos Burdette jostled the Bandit out of his hammock they walked by a truck with lucious seatcovers the name on the bumper of the truck said Overdrive, and you saw the shield of the ITA. In 1987 when the ITA, after struggling over the results of a nationwide trucker strike, was on life support, the rest of the Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Washington , Oregon and Northern California and Nevada members reformed as the UAITA.
We needed a voice. We appealed to every media resource in the region, none would take up the torch. So as everything else we did, we did it ourselves. 
By this time I done collided with all things Hazzard, and Dukes, but the Dukes lost some Octane kinda like when the Black Tilley the second got water in the tank courtesy of Roscoe. What would Cooter do? The Dukes had left Hazzard. It was this period of time that performance diesels started becoming popular, a swing through Saint George Utah in 1989 saw the sign on an old shop there , came home, did some rearranging of the handle and in 1990 the Dixie Diesel Shop opened. And in 1992 from a small radio station in Price Utah; Dixie Diesel Radio went on the air. Over time Dixie Diesel became a fever, and burned through everything in its path similar. In fact setting standards none could even get close to. In 1995 The UAITA bought in favor of Dixie Diesel , the OTR network the Interstate Trucker Network, which became over the Galaxy 5 sat, the Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio Network.
Now that HazzardAyre is breathing but still in its infancy, the need to develope alongside HazzardAyre, will be recreating, Dixie Diesel, in its own light, without disturbing what makes Dixie Diesel special. 
As such here in the Gazzette we'll be exploring this developement likewise exploring and reporting on the not so serious side of trucking.
L8R Ya'll

   

I guess I shouldn't really care but I do

There are tymez that in amongst it all there are hours I review the week gone by and wonder, why did I do that? Why did I spend my hard gained funds for nothing? And why push something that simply is just not attainable? Case-n-point, the crew at the RK, is wondering why keep pushing for anything beyond what we already have media wise? Then I think hmmm if we don't do it who the hell will? In these dayz of a shrinking dollar if you even can rustle up a dollar , expanding on anything or doing anything many say just wait. The problem is that if you wait until the economy rebounds we just might not get what we need for the prices we need and can get now. The RK along with the other siblings of the KOA just have not been growing at the rates they did once. Membership while stable is not advancing like it should and most of that is due to being off most people's radar, including those that the RK was constructed to serve. Trucker TV is needed but without being one of the penus smootchers of years gone by, like England Frieghtways amongst others who can leverage vendor dollars, yet I think with a concentrated push we can get something up. I took a leap forward on that this past week,and feel motivated , but I'm also skiddish at the same time. In my next entry I'll explain more but know this we are off on a great ride. Stay tuned.

They heard the Wolf's Howl

They heard the Wolf's howl. Remember the outfit in Tennessee that was doing up Dixie Towing as a sub title of their web site etc. ? Well the cheef cheeze of Dixie Industries there called me this afternoon to appologize that they had inadvetantly used Dixie Towing as a sub title for their web site, and all. Plus they were taking measures to correct the problem. So since they goofed I'm going to inform them that their goof cost us $1,000.00 and we expect a check in the mail. Whether or not we really get it remains the big ? But they just might. See I'm very careful to make dang sure that before I stick my nose into something business or web site biz etc, that I check as many search engines as I can before I launch something. Now it may take a eon for it to get noticed but look at how much money, lost sleep and deep scrambling to set something else up, that did not have to be revamped in the first place. They owe that to us, and I hope as an industry supplier they pay us back the $1,000.00 they cost us. We see, but to conclude here; Dixie Towing is back to be going towing in western Idaho.

L8r Taters

AyreWolf

Getting the rubber to the road

Now that there is going to be some solid earth under my britches its time that things at least for the UAITA gets put into gear. Media presence is not only needed but required. That being said, my first mission in life is to get me going towing again. That means finishing the cosmetic and mechanical improvements on all 3 of the trucks I own, LiL Lexi, Lexi herself and Big Mama. That requires shop space which is in limited supply here in GF, not impossible just not that much of it. Sure I still have the shop in Rupert and all that, but with fuel prices and all going down there all the time while for the short haul will be, the long haul wont make it. I saw some spaces in both Bliss as well as Hazzard, so that will be that when I find I begin that grind. That being put down on the pavement, there will be about six months or so that I will have some spare time. The first thing that needs to be done is establishing a really good web site. Now the streaming service we as a group looked at once , now is not that far of a drive, so that is the first mile on this long road. Once that is going  streaming IP Radio thing needs to be done. While for a very short while that can be done at the new Wolf's Den and all with gear from both Radio Shack and some high end stuff, including a new computer with all the proper software. However the big gun is the over the air station. We have teasing that ever since we as a group shut down the station over yonder in Hazzard in 1985. Our original idea for call letters are still available, and from doing a bunch of looking on the Internet from consol to transmitter is while expensive not an unreachable fruit. But before that happens, first a FCC, Construction Permit needs to be applied for and granted. That will take time, but the FCC does not grant CP's as they are called to areas without a good allocation. In our part of the world there are two really good ones. One is right here near GF, over in Hammett. The other is down near American Falls at Raft River, going to eastern Idaho is not an option at least for me and for quite sometime, I don't even want to think anything Eastern Idaho. So that leaves Hammett. Another allocation is near Buhl here in western Idaho so I am going to consult our attorneys and all to get that paper work going. Between now and then, the streaming station will allow us to perfect the format and programing for the over the air station. As said until such time as there becomes a need for outside on air talent, the streaming station can run into the pipeline from my new house at least new to me, its really not a new house, but ya'll git the idea. Once all that is complete we really need to establish an organizational HQ. Up to now the HQ has been split between where I live and at whoever's in the seat of Prezz of the group. Which does not allow for a full time staff etc to manage the affairs of those who join our organization for us to manage those affairs. Once the HQ is established, the web site up and running at warp speed, and all that then, and only then should we try to snag help or input from outside media that includes recruiting female model talent etc. As far as that is concerned. Boise has about 4 fair talent agencies. So for once we can hire out of there not the way we did in both Utah, Wyoming and of course Pocatello. Looking back if we had not stuck our tent in the wind in Pocatello looking for talent etc there perhaps the bad feelings that came about there, might not have came about. We also need to start beating the bushes looking for sponsors. There is just so much money in the pot and that is about done for. Between the losses in Utah and Wyoming there is not a heap amount to do much more than what I have outlined herein. I talked with the bean counter Kelly, on the IP last night , after I could not sleep, because could not go to the crapper very well, so I did some last bit work, to let some of ya'll know wuzz up. Kelly sezz there is enuff in the pot to do the website, and later the HQ that's all. No Dixie Diesel Nationals etc this year. Finally for the Road Resque bunch. I'm going to give a double L, to Cactus Pete's in Jackpot next week to book our fall get-it-together. As far as the UAITA, I think that will go down in Boise, but Less has yet to let me know where, will report on where that is when I know. Both Less and Kelly told me that most likely be a New Years or Valentines Day thing, combined with a think tank meeting. Now to bring this to a close, so I can get in the head and try to snag some sleep so I can finish my move, could use some help by the way, but to close this. My double L will be down in about a week. The reason is simple, I just did not have $'s to pay that and finish the move, but will Git-R-Done 10-01. But will have email and Inet so get in touch with me that way. More next week after I get this all straightened out. Keep it tween the ditches.

    

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