I went to work for Mr. Ted K. Guthrie, and his partner Thomas R. Lyons back in the US Bicentennial (1976), I was 15 years old. They owned Guthrie-Lyons Land Surveying on Gears road in NW Houston. My step-dad worked for Coldwell Banker Real Estate at the time and when they bought/sold property in NW Houston, they used Guthrie-Lyons for their jobs. Tom Lyons lived in the same subdivision as my family and would often drop by after work to chat with my folks, usually my mom, as she cooked dinner. He was a storyteller and had quite a few under his belt. My mom told me during the summer of '76 "you're not hanging around the house this summer with your hoodlum friends" and had already arranged for me to go to work with Tom & Ted. Guthrie-Lyons had several crews but when the "bosses" went to the field, they always chose me to accompany them. They gave me the love for the land surveying profession that I hold to this day, 47 years later. I have been registered as a Registered Professional Land Surveyor since 2002 and still love what I do. I drive a desk now, but when I am in the field, I am closest with my creator, and it is with the spark that Mr. Ted Guthrie and Mr. Tom Lyons ignited in me to always work hard and to do my best work possible. I once had a question about a symbol used on surveying and engineering plans and when I began my inquiry with "Mr. Guthrie?", he responded with a "Yes sir?". To me, a fifteen year old kid. That has stuck with me to this day and I passed that same respect to my two kids with a "Yes sir?" and "Yes Ma'am?". Sadly, Mr. Lyons passed away on December 09, 2008, before I could thank him for starting my career, but Mr. Guthrie, please always know that I forever respect you and Mr. Lyons for the hard but rewarding career of Land Surveying and the work ethic to complete my tasks. May God bless you, and your family, Mr. Ted K. Guthrie.
I've always thought the whole point of the slow moving vehicle emblem was to allow things on the roadway without a license especially when you're only going two or three miles down the road and no more than 30 because a slow moving vehicle is any vehicle moving at a speed less than 25 miles an hour or less in the state of Texas meaning that anything that displays that emblem you do not need a license to drive that as long as it has the emblem on it because a person operating a tractor does not need a license and they can go a maximum of 30 miles from the main address of where the person lives without a trailering the equipment point being a slow moving vehicle is any vehicle two or more wheels that are moving at a speed of no more than 25 miles an hour
