I hope he succeeds, this is great vis for Dylan, no I'm not affiliated. If my consumer deliveries came from a themed service with this level of attention to detail, I'd see no reason not to pay the premium. Hell, I can't keep UPS from backing through the edge of my yard.
*cough cough* As your attorney, I can neither confirm nor deny exactly how long it took you to traverse the United States. I would also suggest you refrain from admitting to driving in excess of DOT hours of service. Some states DO treat hotshots as commercial vehicles, and you're running DOT #'s. Repeat after me, "This interview was for entertainment purposes only." Believe me, you don't want to be in a scale house with Officer Rinaldi or Kline.
FYI: That Sears thermal typewriter is a rebadge of a Brother EP-20, and it's from 1983. If you care, there are better thermal typewriters for your needs than that one. I'd maybe seek out a Sharp PA-1000. That one has a small battery powered internal memory so you can recall a header and footer on the page, and just type up the middle bit. They're kind of scarce, but not too expensive when they do show up on the market. For real style points, get yourself a 1960s Smith-Corona Skyriter and pull that out to do invoices. Pretty cheap due to how common they were, and small enough to fit under an airplane seat (hence the name.) Earlier models had an integrated hard case while the later ones had a leatherette case. The ribbon should be infinitely more sourceable than the thermal transfer ribbon for that Brother, uses no batteries, and you can do carbon copies because it's a standard typebar typewriter.
That's what it was! For the sake of the video I couldn't remember because it was on the spot of course. And if I was going 73 or before for that, I'd be using the portable Remington I have at home. There's a time and a place for everything, and at the time, this unit was 15 dollars in the factory packaging. So it made sense financially for someone starting a company.
Dude I hope you get Dylan back for another episode or podcast. He absolutely fits your channel: random trivial knowledge of old tech, living his best life without a single care what anyone thinks, and so obviously a sleeper furry.
My Great-Great-Grandmother was supposed to be a passenger on the Titanic. Fortunately, her horse got sick and she was late getting to the dock, and she… Mr. Ship.
Can I have contact info? A man like this is incredibly useful when it comes down to it. I know a lot of people outside of the industrial manufacturing community doesn't understand the value of someone this awesome, but this is a rare jewel. Y'all don't understand the bullshit involved in shipping a piece of machinery across the country. I'd rather have this solid dude drive me gear than an a mltinational company lose it because SAP decided to hate you today.
There is fan fic in my head where Mr. Ship is tricked into accepting a human trafficking job, but is too devoted to his character image of the cheerful delivery guy to refuse. And it just gets worse the longer it goes. But then in the end, he redeems himself... somehow.
In the end He makes the delivery, cheerfully gets the bad guy to sign for the “package”, & as he drives away he sees a swarm of cop cars fly past in the other direction. Unbeknownst to them, he’s been subtly leaving clues along the way which would lead police right to the traffickers. Just another successful delivery for Mr. Ship.
There's another fellow on RU-vid that resurrected an early 70s Bell System Telephone service van. He dressed the part of a serviceman, and degraded the footage to look like a circa 1974 faded 16mm company film. Mr Ship has a similar look and feel. Kudos to you, Mr Ship and RCR.
@@ItzzzBeamo haha unfortunately unless I land someone needing something taken there from here on the bigger side I'll be coming in something a bit more fuel efficient this year.
Wasnt expecting to hear aboit Data General. I'm a 70s computer fan and love the look at Data General. Also, really recommend Tracy Kidders book about Data General and the development of the Eclipse MV/8000, The Soul of a New Machine. Interesting and comes just as they were starting to fall behind.
I noticed the furfest sticker on the radio in the first vid and wondered if anyone else noticed. it becomes even more obvious when you realize the logo is a humanoid dog.
Unfortunately not a lot is seen by the cameras but I have semi-trailer tie down straps I use to barricade me from heavier cargo, about 10 sets of different gauge ones to secure loose pallets, and 3 different hitches and my first aid stuff all under the front buckets.
People that say there were no good cars after '72 are just wrong. There were plenty of good cars made, certainly through '74 like the Pontiac 455 Super Duty, Ford 351C, Mopar's E68 400 and E86 440 before the Catalyst in '75 and by '77 Pontiac was climbing back with the W72 that hung in there through '79. Light trucks weren't catalyzed until '79 so all the 4bbl small and big blocks were available. 1980 through 1982 were the true dark days. Then by '83 the 302 4bbl was back in the Mustang and by '85 the L98 Corvette began the climb to the point performance has reached today. I appreciate his Introspection that the early 70s were the beginning of the downslide of the quality of life one can expect as an American citizen. I am so fed up with the USA I am taking my retirement at 40 and going to Brazil for greater pastures. Oh well. Get a passport boys, there are opportunities out there in this world, lack of Amercentric dominance doesn't have to get you down.
