tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107414352011-08-17T15:09:17.752+12:00"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" ...But what about the guy that fixes the pot holes?Dodderyoldfarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280902818407347965noreply@blogger.comBlogger9371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10741435.post-68909021431672046412007-05-29T18:58:00.000+12:002007-05-29T19:02:27.617+12:00

If I won a gazillion dollars in Lotto, I always planned on having a big sand pit.I'd have big Cat D11 bulldozers, diggers, and lot's of explosives.Actually we have one down the road.It's called a quarry.But Diggerland sounds like a cool idea.I bet there are a few Dads who would have to be dragged away.*thinks*Now if we could get people to pay us to dig holes...

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It is humbling to think that the tiny ant has shown us the way to deal with potholes.All it takes is a spirit of sacrifice, a small but noble gesture for the common good."Army ants tired of potholes take one for the team, throwing their bodies into rough spots to make a smoother road for their sisters, British researchers have reported."So when you see that truck load of pasta sauce heading for

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 This roller must have had a real hard day ...

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My traffic controllers are here demonstrating the correct way to clean road cones.Notice the personal protective equipment, including safety goggles.

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 Cheap hub caps & wheel trims our speciality ....

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I'm not too keen on these tagging, meme things.I don't want to spam other bloggers with anything that makes us look closer at our meaningless lives.But then Elizabeth did ask nicely, and she is an artist and everything....So 7 random facts/habits....(1) I have gutted fish in Iceland.(2) I once shot a bear(3) I'm not too fond of peanut butter.(4) I was once a member of the crack Uruti (pop 126

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Click Pic for enlarged artynessSandstone BankTongaporutu

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Click Pic To embigulateYou can't be too careful out there...Perhaps I could run you home in my digger?

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Click Pic to EmbigulateThe driver of this fuel tanker & trailer had an onboard electrical failure early this morning.He also got a hell of a fright...With no lights, and no power, he ended up off the road with the trailer blocking a lane.The rig suffered minor damage, having ended up in a soft, muddy drain.He did well. There is a bridge 100 metres ahead of him. It is very hard.I couldn't use a

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Now and then, after an accident, some smart character will blame "road conditions" as a cause.True, sometimes a rogue pothole, or other problem may be to blame.Usually though, it is the last excuse of an inattentive, or speeding driver.You don't want to try it on our patch.I usually take photo's of the road around an accident scene, mostly because I too, am interested in the cause.Obviously it is

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I find body painting rather boring.But this has a bit of class.When it comes to painting, I'm one of those people that ends up getting semi coated.I use more paint when we are painting barriers than all the rest of the crew put together.Never mind.One day they will exhibit my overalls from my early impressionist period.Don't think I'll saw an ear off however.Toenail clippings, maybe ...

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click pic to embigulateBefore a fall ...

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In the slow lane ...

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 Chucking rocks off a bridge is great fun. It's much better when you can heave them off with a loader. Below a digger is carefully placing them under the scoured out banks of the stream.For truly we roadworkers are multiskilled creatures...

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Head Office is putting on the pressure.We have been toiling away rearranging the potholes before winter really sets in.I have been working with another crew for the last week, and yesterday my normal workmates tried to con me into going to a truck accident on State Highway 4.It was getting cold, and no way did I feel like a late night, so I told them I was on vitally important pothole

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Click Pic To BiggifyMissed..

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Audiobooks are a drivers friend.If you have a long, lone, journey.Then there is nothing like having someone read a ripping yarn to you.For a month or so, I have been destroying the French Navy, risking Yellowjack, and clawing my way off a lee shore.I have been with Captain Aubrey.Of course it is all very nautical.This tends to confuse some of the crew when I announce on the R/T that "I'll just

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Sadly, I'm a bit knackered, what with Manly stuff and late night yacht racing and all...Talk amoungst youselves ....

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A jack hammer is a very manly thing.It has always been so.Today I was plying my manly arts outside the local garage, dripping with sweat and testosterone, and it occurred to me that this was almost certainly having an effect on the ladies at the pump.I did the right thing, being sensitive too, and warned them not to be overcome and start spontaneously ovulating or something.They went all coy, and

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This beautifully dug hole is part of a forensic study.We have boffins, who steal what is dug up. They take it way to do various secret tests.It's bloody hard digging, they used good road metal, those old timers.We have gone through the Pre Beatles, and well into the Marmite in glass jars era.A mugshot is taken & a bit of prodding done.Now I'll fill it in again, and do the same a bit further down

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Click Pic for BignessI'm heading home, and a 4x4 is parked at the side of the road, smoking gently.As I trundle past, I realise that this is more than an overheating problem, but a fire.I don't carry a fire extinguisher, so I sacrifice a thermos of coffee, then help the homeward bound fisherman to unload his gear and unhitch his boat. (Note coffee stains)By the time I get my camera, the 4x4 is

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Some day I'll wish upon a starAnd wake up where the clouds are far behind me.Where troubles melt like lemondrops...Away above the chimney tops..That's where you'll find me...

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A quick Fuel Stop ...Reminds me of the NZ Cricket Team...

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"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives.....You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in

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Carrying a camera can be really useful.It may be difficult to describe how big a slip is, or even it's location, but a quick photo keeps everybody happy.A problem uncovered when digging up the road can be recorded, in case something needs to be done then, or later.Also of course accidents. We record the where, what, & when. But you can't beat a photo.Of course there is always the possibility of

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I've been tagging.This means hours of going back over old stuff, so you lazy buggers can then click on a tag and pull up everything on that topic.I hate doing this stuff.It's too much like office work.So it may take a while ....

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Click pic for bignessSo Friday is looking good.In time honoured Kiwi tradition we try and rip through our work so we can knock off early.I planned to visit the fleshpots of Piopio, there to sup ale.The driver of this truck put paid to that idea...An hour after I arrived home I was off again, to Awakino.The container truck had come to grief near Pay Cart Corner. (In the old days the roadworkers

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Looks like blogger images are doing strange things, surprise, surprise...Either that, or I've screwed up the internet again...I'll see if they reappear on the post below, and try again in a few hours.

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click pic to biggifyLast night, this car transporter left the road, just south of Piopio. Obligingly, he ended up well off the road, and so I slept the frosty night through in my warm bed. Today we had to recover it, and there was no option but to close the road, and put a lengthy detour in place.You can see why.The crane takes up the whole road, and Murphy's Law states that there must always be

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 Erstaz, who keeps poking around some of the more obscure corners of the Interweb, has found an amazing underwater action video.Check it out ....Meanwhile here the mud is slowly drying out.There could be lots of overtime for the sealing crews tomorrow.While this probably doesn't do much to float your boat, there will be lot's of happy roadworkers if it stays fine for a couple of days ....

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 Never piss the digger operator off, especially on a Friday ....And a 20 ton paddle.Thanks Ersatz...

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This venerable Gentleman, and his 1924 Model T arrived at the Testing Station while my truck was being checked over for it's 6 monthly Certificate Of Fitness.He caused a little consternation, and there was a general flurry of rule books."No point in checking the front brake efficiency, .... Hasn't got any...."He beat me through, and chugged triumphantly off, with a brand new Warrant Of Fitness

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This stretch has been sealed for a couple of hours and has already collected it's first victim.Despite 30 K speed restrictions and plenty of warning signs, the traffic was barrelling into this corner, it was rather tense recovering the car.That fine chip is very slippery and should be treated like ice.We have also sweated over this bit of road, and fast traffic will tear up the tender new soft

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  We have been having a Southerly cold spell.It's not pleasant out there at all.This morning I rounded a corner to find the boss helping the local towie recover a bent SUV in a torrential rain squall.I bravely backed up a bit and fired up the flashing lights.And turned the heater up.Meanwhile our work sites are like soup.Warm in that office is it?

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  It's all go on our stretch of the highway at the moment.Driving an 80 kilometre stretch the other day, I went through 7 Stop/Go's.Some works are major, new passing lanes & realigning corners, some minor, but the race against the weather is now on.Some of the Truckies are getting a bit frustrated.They moan about the state of the road, and then moan when you fix it.I did feel for a lovely group

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  I'm a big softy really.I lashed out on a wheelbarrow last winter after watching the girls struggling with the firewood.I even oil the axle now and then.An extra piece of fish, and TWO tomato sauce sachets with the wedding anniversary fish and chips.I've taped up the split on the handle of the axe.I take a safe working environment seriously.But for some obscure reason, my domestic arrangements

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  The holiday traffic seems well behaved.It has been steadily streaming past all day.No drama on our stretch anyway.In fact, I'm ahead of the play.I fixed the letter box that got taken out last long weekend, and have been gnawing away at the fallen trees from the last storm.Fine weather, and all is well with the world...

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Mrs Fart and I have been married 19 years today.We romantically got the firewood in.Now we are both knackered.Still I might take her to the fish & chip shop tomorrow.She deserves a treat ....

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 I had better draw the Plant Manager's attention to this roller.Ersatz found it.It could push the job along a bit ....The newer rollers are quite cruisy to drive.They have air conditioning, a stereo, and a comfortable seat.Unfortunately they are bloody noisy.Still you can cruise smugly by a fellow workmate on an open top old model, as he sweats or freezes, perched on a sack full of old rags in an

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The weather seems to conspiring against our "Titivation for Easter" scheme.We had hoped to have a lot of sealing completed.Oh well, whats a bit of car washing anyway...Ever tried to clean a truck?

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Every bloody year about this time, I get the 'flu.Last year I missed Easter.It must be the planets,or maybe the drains ....

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Easter is looming.We will be titivating our road this week in preparation for the oncoming hordes...(Pssst! The first mushrooms are popping up)

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Dawn, Te Kuiti.We have been digging up patches of our road this week.It's all part of our "Congest The Traffic" Scheme.Having lovingly filled them with the choicest road metal, and hoed lime and cement into them, they are graded, watered and lovingly tended till the Sealing Gang can add the final touches.It's always a bit tense as you watch the weather, and pray the tar truck can do it's thing

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Slowly order is coming from chaos...A file recovery program is rescuing a gazillion mp3 files...The router which was fired in last weeks electrical storm still needs a swift belt every now and then, and needs to be retired.I've still lost a lot of stuff,  but hey, who needs it...Anyway, I'm coming to you live from a new computer...See how the letters are all shiny..... 

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Dang!So far I have smoked up the old C drive, and had a slight formatting accident...It takes a while to recover 44 days worth of mp3's...Why can't computers be hydraulic? 

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Ahm gonna migrate...Ahm off to a new computer, way over on the clean side of my computer desk.This is not without serious risk.There is the great divide - a pile of paraphenalia and coffee cups - The Tangy Fruitburst lolly paper quicksands, and the wildwood cable tangle.And of course, the Injun Country that is my beer cans and bottle collection...But much as I love the old place, a man has to do

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Thank you for the all the touching comments.I must confess I had a wee weep over the keyboard.If you can, Give your Mum a hug.Thank you so much again.We really do live on a small planet.

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My dear old Mum died in her sleep this morning.So it's going to be a bit quiet here for a while...

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We are supposed to be able to respond to an accident/incident on our network within an hour...I wonder if I should pass him ?  Piopio Fire Engine, Bexley Corner

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There is something surreal about working at night, in a storm, with a chainsaw.Flashing lights, spotlights, and the chainsaw stangely quiet in the hissing wind, and torrential rain.The road in places is green with leaves stripped from the trees, they are bloody slippery too, as the odd motorist, pressing on regardless, found out.There is always too, that unlucky chance, of being in the wrong

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Who's been a busy boy then ....This truck carrying a 12 metre long container of scrap fell over about 200 metres beyond the scene of a furniture truck's misadventure a while back.The driver, wearing a seatbelt was unscathed. Had he not, he would probably have ended up in the passengers side footwell and would have suffered for it.But what a mess!The salvage truck winched the container and trailer

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Mr D FartFart TowersKamikaze Corner.Re Accident 17 02 07I wish to advise you that there will be no further action taken by the Police Dept.I. NabbemSenior ConstableBugger ! I was hoping the gentleman concerned would at least get a ritual flogging ...

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"The National Party has again voiced its suspicions that the police are working to a traffic ticket quota under a government-encouraged revenue gathering scheme."NZHMeanwhile, in the roadworks on the main road in Mokau township, that gentleman in the yellow vest is doing a good trade.

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Fresh Mussels for startersVenison sausages with onion, pumpkin, and spudsCustard twist for dessert.Coffee.

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"A woman who called Napier police this morning to report a burglary became so upset she broke down in tears - although the police communications officer who took the initial call couldn't stop smiling.The call left senior sergeant Mal Lochrie shaking his head as he explained that the woman had called to report the theft of three marijuana plants which she had growing in pots outside.She also

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Poets* Day todayHardly worth a click was it ...(piss off early, tomorrows saturday)

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There is a bit of a fencing job coming up.70 odd post holes have to be dug by hand.Not usually a problem, except it is in an area of hard rock.There is a strange lack of volunteers.They are a soft lot some of them on the road these days.I would - but I do have very urgent business elsewhere.A pressing engagement really ... I have to drive an air conditioned roller a hundred kilometres away.I

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 New Zealand is very short of Engineers.Especially Civil ones...I have found a whole bunch.They would be very welcome ....Even the uncivil ones....

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Working on the road has it's momentsAt any moment a carefully planned work day can be disrupted.This milk tanker has ground to a halt on a steep hill, in a rather dodgy place.Fortunately a fellow worker came across it and by parking a vehicle with flashing lights on the corner and lots of arm waving managed to warn and direct traffic.Another tanker has to be brought in to pump out the load.This

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A day of investigation and surveying the scene of yesterdays accident.The Police Serious Crash Unit gather evidence, take measurements and photographs, and do skid tests.The car will also be examined closely.If you are a Kiwi, there is an interesting TV programme on how they work.We usually find out the reasons for a local crash at the inevitable next one ...

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This afternoon a siren screamed past; a police car.I had been doing manly things with a chainsaw and wasn't sure if other emergency services had also gone by.I talked myself into believing that just an errant speedster had been busted ... No worries.I filled my thermos "in case."For I am truly an old and cunning roadworker.Sure enough the phone eventually rang.This car with 5 aboard had left the

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"A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, because he was advised “to get out and meet people,” the local court heard last week.Thomas Aloysius McCarney with an address in south Galway was charged with cruelty to animals, lewd and obscene behaviour, and with being a danger to himself when he appeared before the court on Friday.

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The white page...The blinking cursor ...Bugger this, I'm back to the couch ....

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"A naked man who got lost on a Northland beach after skinny dipping has been found safe - but covered in scratches after scrambling through gorse bushes."Stuff

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My monitor is doing the oddest thingsIt insists on popping a menu up every couple of seconds and nothing will make it go away ....The telephone support operator speaking to me live from his yurt in Ulan Bator, or somewhere similar, lost interest once he discovered that the warranty had long expired.At the moment a cunningly shaped matchstick jammed into a button may have solved this small crisis.

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See that dinky bucket on the wheel digger.It's like a giant potato peeler.The wheel digger can scuttle along making a beautifully shaped drain as he goes.There is only one problem, from the truck driving perspective.You have to chase him in reverse.Rearranging NZ backwards, can be a bit tricky.But a good drain is a thing of great beauty to a roadworker ...That mess in the middle of the road has

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There is a kilometre of new seal just up the road.One of the problem areas has been rebuilt and it's all new and squeaky clean.The new marker pegs are going in, the line markers will do their thing anytime soon.I'm a bit nervous.When the speed restrictions signs are gone and it is fully open, the traffic could hurtle into the corner outside Casa Fart at a greatly increased velocity.There is

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De Luxe Sound System as fitted to Mori's grader ...

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Audio books are a truck drivers friend.If you are driving distances, a good book will help pass the time. Lately I have been immersed in a world of treachery and spying.But George Smiley always comes through...It is a bit odd sometimes to step out of the streets of cold war Prague, into a seaside rest area, but George has helped me solve a problem.It's been puzzling me why so many cars slide off

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 A couple of weeks ago a car demolished our letter box.It's not one of your Townie things that you can't fit a box of beer in, it's a Country one that you almost live in.The gate is also under constant attack from kamikaze drivers. This afternoon one lead footed gentleman attacked my truck as I was arriving home from heroically clearing the Queens Highway from rocks and debris. He almost beat me

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I have spent the last couple of days on the State Highway 3 - "Congest The Traffic Scheme"I have been carting holes around.Well the insides of holes.Then we fill up the original holes with the insides of other holes.It's all terribly scientific. Road Work is...I bet you didn't even know that a traffic jam is fungal..."This image shows nutrient flow in a fungus. The yellow represents carbon,

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Balance is important in any relationship...

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5 am start in the morning.Somewhere in the wilds of Te Awamutu.Goodnight ...

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I just really like this...

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"Workers have been busy fixing broken sidewalk stars and cracked terrazzo on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the Kodak Theatre, where the glitzy Oscar ceremony will be held Feb. 25."We wanted it to look good for the Academy Awards," said Hollywood honorary mayor Johnny Grant, who leads the Hollywood Historic Trust that operates the Walk of Fame...

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We had a stock truck trailer fall over this afternoon.27 bulls fled for the hills.This was following a breakout attempt by others near the Fart residence a little earlier.When I got home they had tromped on the water line and sabotaged the supply.There is something going on .....

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"Transport Minister Annette King has released the report of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Roading Costs (MAG) and outlined the next steps that will be taken to increase the value for taxpayer money spent on land transport." ScoopBloody Typical...Not a word about my promised new shovel handle...

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Things always happen on Friday afternoons.Just as the couch or the pub beckons, some truck will fall over, or get jammed in a tunnel.This afternoon it was a tailgate opening and a thick spread of metal outside the local garage.By hijacking the passing Sealing Crew's broom tractor all was soon fixed.Sometimes it's not that easy.Years ago I was big in the Pea Trade.Well the harvesting thereof...One

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Hefty fuel price increases yesterday have disappointed the Automobile Association (AA).

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In the very early hours of this morning, a truck dumped 300 litres of diesel on this corner.I arrived very soon after it happened.Another truck from the same company had stationed himself at the top of the hill and was warning truckies on his CB radio.They were picking their way rather gingerly down the hill.The truck had hit a piece of broken spring, which had flicked up and ruptured his fuel

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Psssst!The blackberrys are getting ripe and ready.

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A lot of my get up and go, seems to have have got up and left...It's hot out on the road at the moment, I just seem to feel like a nap most of the time.But potholes don't sleep.They need to be fed.It's a good thing I'm a fighterEven if it is to stay awake ....

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These would be just the thing for busy office workers at lunchtime.But I want some of those fancy trumpet chrome air horns for my truckThen I too could go around terrorising people. (video)The one I have now sounds like a constipated goose.graphic

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I have been on a bit of a jaunt.Down to Wellington and back.This gives me a chance to get all excited when I see a foreign "road works" sign, and leer at diggers and things.I had a look at the Tangiwai road bridge.It is only a matter of time before we have another Lahar, that caused the Tangiwai Disaster back in 1953.I was a mere stripling then, but I remember the horror of it all vividly.I was

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Modern Mechanix

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I never liked using a seat belt when truck driving.It seem a lot of others feel the same."Many truck drivers seem to think they are better off being thrown out of a truck than being restrained within it during a crash. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, you're four times more likely to die if thrown from a vehicle," says Debbie Stearns, Programme Manager for ACC. The 2006 survey

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In Russia, wheels are an optional extra ...This guy is even in the fast lane ...Link

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Somehow this makes me think of my financial planning prowess ...

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slightly stressed, blurry photo.It's a long weekend in the north of the island.Auckland Anniversary Weekend.This means that the townies can hurtle south to various playspots, demolishing fences and rolling into ditches along the way.It kicked off to a fine start when the phone went at some ungodly hour early Sunday morning.A loaded furniture truck had rolled off the road south of Piopio.It

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As I gently trundled south this morning on my weekly rubbish run around the rest areas, I stopped to take a photo of a top dressing plane working inland from Mahoenui.It made quite a sight from the top of the Mahoenui Hill.I had already chased some bulls back into a paddock who were causing chaos in a road cutting, but the day then settled into routine.On the way back north an ambulance screamed

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click to biggify

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"Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened sometime between 10pm on Friday night and 8.15am on Saturday morning."

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Jerry Hines worked with a Houston road crew.In icy conditions they stopped to help a stranded motorist."Two cars pulled to a stop at the worker's direction, but a third car traveling at possibly a high rate of speed driven by an unidentified woman did not"Jerry was killed.He was just 25 years old and left a wife and a one month old daughter.Link

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"Traffic Controllers shall be calm and polite...."Yesterday while trundling along in a winding stretch of Mahoenui, I came across a car full of tourists stopped on a bend.There were a few people milling about the car.I stopped where traffic could see me and went to investigate, expecting a break down.They were taking photographs.I calmly and politely, suggested that it would be a good idea to

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 It is not a good idea to read the instruction sheet to your new chainsaw sharpening gadget in the bath.Chickens can climb trees and like plums.Putting too high a wattage halogen bulb in a bedside lamp creates an art object that smells.Pictures of walls is an interesting site.

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We have been sticking Mt Messenger together.Those licorice straps with icing on, are actually a thin tar strip that comes in a roll.The theory is that water won't penetrate the cracks and cause the seal to fail.I am an obvious person to be involved in such a taskIf I was a Jelly Bean, I would be a licorice oneI was also a whale in one of my past lives apparently.I can't fault my personality test

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 Back in 1986 we had a Halley's Comet party.I seem to remember we even invented a cocktail for the occasion.Of course it pissed down with rain and though many celestial bodies were observed, Halley's Comet was not one of them.I did see it though a few days before.It was amazing.I saw the Hale-Bop Comet too though that was a disappointment.Tonight I saw Comet McNaught.It is far more spectacular

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