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Cruising Granny


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I'm one very happy Granny back home after doing 2 pilot jobs out of Melbourne ports.
I'm also one very tired Granny, but it's all for a good reason.
I was told about pilot work on Sunday morning, I made a phone call and was on the road 2 hours later, heading for Melbourne.
I got home about lunch time today, headed straight for bed, and have since unpacked the car and one the washing. Ready to do it all again.


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ChiChi1


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Thats a relief CG. Hope you get lots more

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Good news on the job front Chris!!



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Where did you have to pilot to CG and what were you piloting?
Hope you get more to keep you going.

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Cruising Granny


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Well, I think Marj I may have been in the vicinity of your neighbourhood.
I headed up the Hume to Corawa with a large header.
Then I had to high-tail it back to Melbourne to find the next truck and driver loaded with another header heading for Waikerie yesterday. The breakdown delayed our progress so we delivered this morning.
I was thinking of you, wondering if I was close, but I had no real way of knowing. I don't know Vic very well, but after this week, a bit better. It's a hard city to learn.
The roads a great, the service to transport and travellers via those service centres, are brilliant, and a great place to camp overnight.
Toilets, showers, fuel and food. That's a bonus after a long night on the road.
We can only take oversize on the road in daylight, but I arrived in Melbourne after midnight on Monday, give or take a state's standard time stuffed up by daylight saving.

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I will check my map to see how close you were.

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HW Corowa is the other side of the river from Rutherglen (i.e. NSW side).



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Corowa is a couple of hours over to the east of me. Not sure about Waikerie. Can't find it on the map.

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Great news on the job front and it sounds like it was an interesting trip. Fingers crossed for more jobs.

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Yeh, I found that one Esmeralda.

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Welcome home granny, wondered where you were.




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Waikerie is in SA on the Murray. The country is looking great everywhere I went. Crops look wonderful, grass is green, sheep are still white, and the farmers and fruit blockies are smiling.
The headers are apparently pre-sold. No wonder the dealers were smiling. I didn't see any signs of hand-rubbing, but they're probably doing that in private.
600+ headers at about $650,000 each = A LOT!

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glad you got some work chris , every time i see a pilot on the road now i think of you

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CG.You and your wide loads should be made to go by sea.Delayed me from my shoplifting classes at Big W in Shepparton.Good on you Chris nice to see at least one of us working and doing our bit to keep the Illegals in Ciggies etc.Cheers.Marty.biggrinwinkyawn



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Good on ya Chris - hope more comes your way from this. Once you get to know Melbourne, you will find it is really a very organised place to get around - very directional - if I am in, say, Port Melbourne and need to get to airport - just point the car in that direction, eventually come to a sign that will say "airport" no problem.
Corowa has to be one of the coldest places I have every been -saw the funnies thing there once - on a wall in a laneway between a shop and a pub - a sign said "LIVE
WIRES - DO NOT URINATE ON THIS WALL" - the mind just boggles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had someone done it, is that how they knew????????????????biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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sharon


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Hi, that job sounds great.  good on you.



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Long time between drinks lets hope you have some more work soon

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jules47 wrote:

Good on ya Chris - hope more comes your way from this. Once you get to know Melbourne, you will find it is really a very organised place to get around - very directional - if I am in, say, Port Melbourne and need to get to airport - just point the car in that direction, eventually come to a sign that will say "airport" no problem.

 It's been a while since you drove in Melbourne Jules - I don't go in that often these days and usually manage to be amazed at the changes each time I do.  Getting from the Monash to the Westgate last time was an "experience" to say the leastno



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Goodonya Granny! Its great to be back in paid worker land. Heres hoping you eventually get the pay for all those other jobs.


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Good one Cruising Granny, nothing like toping up the coffers.

Cheers Sharon

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Yep, as everyone else says, good on ya CG.

Jules, that is just weird/gross/funny! evileyebleh



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Great news Chris.  Hope the Jobs keep coming.

Cheers,

Sheba.



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Cruising Granny


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Gerty Dancer wrote:

Goodonya Granny! Its great to be back in paid worker land. Heres hoping you eventually get the pay for all those other jobs.



What coffers? The "coffers" were depleted by the GFC, so this is another way of travelling and topping up the diesel fund.

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