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Casey's gas here is known for water problems, random refiners supply the base stock hauled by any that will, and is higher value of Ethanol than other stations.  

Caseys in West Central Illinois seem to be better.. Not much different in the last 5 years. One of the cheaper places to buy gas. We get a Pizza every sunday night and a couple beers.. They seem to have pizza comparable to the mom and pop shop.. Much better than local Pizza Hut.

Casey's claims to be famous for their pizza.  
Personally, I think it taste like soggy cardboard with topping.

It's like that here too. I work in the mines and we have random drug testing and you can't believe how many people lose hundred thousand plus dollar jobs because they can't go 7 days without dope when they have the next 7 off.

Edited by 1955CA - 13 Aug 2023 at 11:17am

1955CA wrote: Les Kerf wrote: New laws are in place to obtain a CDL, it now costs a LOT more money to get a licence to drive truck. My Son-in-law has been a Class A truck driver for 20+ years and is now an instructor for his employer, he had to get certified by the local college just to be licensed to teach drivers. A current Class B driver has to go through the entire process to upgrade to a Class A license. Why after 37 years of accident free trucking I quit the industry 3 years ago. See my post above. They are making us jump through hoops to keep a license yet all these immigrants come in, can't speak or read english and can drive on their "home license" for 6 months at a time. They can even start a business and run TAX FREE for 6 months.  Meanwhile people that have lived, worked and paid taxes here their whole life get nothing.

Don’t you guys up north have Cabinet Minister that is crying about having to have more immigration, to construct homes for the immigrants? What the he!! kind of convoluted thinking is that?

Les Kerf wrote: New laws are in place to obtain a CDL, it now costs a LOT more money to get a licence to drive truck. My Son-in-law has been a Class A truck driver for 20+ years and is now an instructor for his employer, he had to get certified by the local college just to be licensed to teach drivers. A current Class B driver has to go through the entire process to upgrade to a Class A license.

jaybmiller wrote: A local organic farm can't find a DRIVER for their delivery truck. Load,unload, boxes of meats.type work..... $40 an hour !!! you'd think ONE of the 500,000 we just got in last year could ro that.....

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I wonder how many College Prof's it takes to change light bulbs, or fix door latches or to scrub student puke up?  Will soon be coming to that point of Professors wanted, extensive multifunction positions, bring your own toilet scrubber wands and mopping equipment.

I think most of younger generation couldn't tell you which end of a screwdriver to use let alone anything more complex. We have to get back to showing some respect for people who work with their hands and minds, unfortunately right now if you can't fix it with a cell phone its' not going to happen. Yes I know the cell phone is just to call someone else to do it but you know what I mean. Pretty good money out there for those so inclined though. 

Dorix wrote: My brother told me yesterday a tool and die maker in the Milwaukee area can get $50 hr starting. There aren't many left and businesses don't want to apprentice people.

Wow! When I left that industry in 2016 they were paying half that for almost 20 years experience here. Big reason why I left is the newcomers were starting at $17 to $18 and couldn't stick their thumb in their ass

New laws are in place to obtain a CDL, it now costs a LOT more money to get a licence to drive truck. My Son-in-law has been a Class A truck driver for 20+ years and is now an instructor for his employer, he had to get certified by the local college just to be licensed to teach drivers. A current Class B driver has to go through the entire process to upgrade to a Class A license.