Re: Good mourning Hugh

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 17, 2007 at 13:56:46 from (209.226.247.16):

In Reply to: Re: Good mourning Hugh posted by LA in Wi. on January 17, 2007 at 07:49:13:

LA:
I can remember as a teenager the school bus that picked me up quite often showed up with chains on both duals and a chain on one front wheel. I remember there was another bus that traveled 27 miles on gravel side road in largely forested countryside. There was a small village at end of route, plus kids that had to be picked up along the way. These kids were all from lumbering country and most of them started trucking logs off road when they 12. They used to haul logs to lakes and dump them in the lake during the summer.

The old guy that drove their school bus was not a well man, (heart). Those boys kept him on that route 10 years after he was really able to be there. They put chains on bus for him, they shoveled snow when bus got stuck, and they even drove the bus when he wasn't feeling the best. Years after that one of the then young men told me it was a very hush hush arangement between bus driver and students. They never dared tell their parrents what they were doing.

I started to school the year our district got school busses. Every driver they hired was an ex log truck driver. We never knew what a storm day off school was. Those old boys got us to school in every kind of weather. I realize they didn't have to contend with idiot SUV drivers trying to make 75 mph on shear ice. They probably made those winter bus runs and never saw another vehicle. It is quite different today.

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• Re: Good mourning Hugh Roger Mills 11:56:03 01/18/07 (0)

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