Re: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]
Date	2025-09-29 15:01 +0200
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On 2025-09-28 22:45, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/28/25 05:38, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-09-24 06:31, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:16:03 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Besided almonds and olives, the valley produces walnuts,
>>>> peaches and a lot of stone fruit, pistachios, pecans, melons
>>>> of many varieties, rape seed(becomes canola oil on the market
>>>> shelves), rice, corn, wheat, beans and more green produce than
>>>> I can find the strength to write about.
>>> 
>>> Don't forget the tomatoes. During harvest season I'd pass the
>>> trucks that looked like bathtubs on wheels pile high with
>>> tomatoes. Most of the time they were leaving a trail of tomatoes
>>> on I-5.
>> 
>> Here they box them first. Otherwise they crush.
> 
> Crushing is ok because these tomatoes in the big trucks are heading 
> to processing plants to be canned at least or possibly turned into
> sauce, paste or various other product including much better crushed
> tomatoes for fogies like me to to make sauces or other dishes.
>> 
>>> 
>>> I've hauled rice out of the Delta to BC, and wine to various
>>> places. On one of the wine runs most of the load was from Gallo
>>> but I also stopped at smaller vineyards for a few cases. It was
>>> about 5 PM when I got to the last one and they couldn't load me
>>> that day but let me park in the vineyard. It was one of the more
>>> pleasant places I'd had to park overnight.
>> 
>> I'm curious.
>> 
>> When lorries park at some place waiting to be loaded the following
>> day, does the driver go to an hotel somewhere, or sleep in the
>> vehicle? And how do they go, taxi? I fear they mostly sleep on the
>> vehicle, other thing would be expensive and eat on the earnings.
>> 
> 
> Many of our long haul vehicles have sleeper spaces behind the 
> controlling part of the cab as we call call the enclosed spaces on
> the tractors that haul the immense trailers across the nation
> whether from East to West or South to North. A lot of this stuff
> formerly moved by rail but with the Interstate highways built at the
> instigation of Eisenhower to prospectively move troops and military
> equipments the companies profiting by such movement of goods moved
> to trucks.  When I was a kid the Railway Express was widely
> accessible but since then track that went all over the countryside
> to small towns with crops to be moved have been torn up.
> 
> The remaining railways are poorly maintained as far as I know except 
> perhaps on passenger routes.

Yes, railway is more developed in Europe.


> 
> bliss>


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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  Re: Desalinated water Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-09-22 23:35 -0700
    Re: Desalinated water rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-23 19:22 +0000
      Re: Desalinated water Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-09-23 13:16 -0700
        Re: Desalinated water rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-24 04:31 +0000
          Re: Desalinated water Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-09-23 21:38 -0700
          Lorries [Was: Desalinated water] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-28 14:38 +0200
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                Re: Eatable plants [Was: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-02 11:26 +0100
                Re: Eatable plants [Was: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-02 22:15 +0200
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                Re: Eatable plants [Was: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]] The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-04 18:51 +0100
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                Re: Eatable plants [Was: Lorries [Was: Desalinated water]] "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-01 22:05 +0200
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