: About Me

I guess the place to start would be with describing what I do and what I'm interested in.

Currently I have a young Internet marketing business that I'm actively trying to get off the ground. In my young business, I insist on integrity, honesty, fairness and morality in anything and everything. That's the way I live my life and that's the way I'll run this business.

I authored a book entitled "Tire trouble? Handling problems?" that I offer as a down-loadable ebook on one of my websites. I am writing the second book "Basic Vehicle & Equipment Repair & Maintenance" that I will also offer as a ebook (http://www.hastprotrucks.com).

The second website I am planning and currently working on will likely have to do with one my favorite pass times like hunting, fishing, camping, boating, home shops, etc.

I love hunting, fishing, camping, and making the things my friends and I find useful in my shop here at home. I also collect antiques, am involved in taxidermy, ATVs, 4x4s, RVing, boating and lots more.

I also love to write about various subjects, and since I have extensive experience in the automotive mechanical field, my first two books is along those lines. I'm considering (and sort of working) on a book entirely outside my professional field but a subject or subjects I'm thoroughly familiar with.

I spent about 25 years as a service technician in the automotive field and received ASE certifications as Master Medium/Heavy Truck Technician, Master School Bus Technician and Advanced Level Specialist Technician. I also received certifications in medium/heavy truck wheel alignment and dynamic wheel balancing, medium/heavy truck and trailer frame repair, Detroit Diesel DDEC III/IV, MACS HVAC systems, numerous certifications that had to do with steering gear repair, air fan hubs, clutches, brakes and anti-skid brake systems, steering components, drive and steer axles, all air systems, cooling systems, electrical/electronic systems, transmissions, fifth wheels, drivelines, and the list keeps going.

I have the certification EMT/Ambulance from Henderson State University and have attended & received certification from the Fire Training Academy at Southern State University. I have several certifications from the American Red Cross including first aid for the sick and injured, CPR, etc. I have diplomas from several schools such as high school, gunsmithing at ICS, computer training at ICS, Internet specialist at ICS, welding at Red River Vo-Tech, etc.

My passion is ...

Be the kind of man my dad was.

I know too much about ...

The answer is definately not women.

My parents always told me ...

Clean your plate, it may be your last one.

My childhood ambition ...

Become a scientist of some sort (instead I became a mechanic)

My favorite memory ...

Getting my first muscle car

Why I write ...

I love it (besides I may make some money from it!)

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

This cottonpicking computer.

My first job ...

Cowboy

My best moment ...

When my sons were born

My inspiration ...

My dad

Politics, News & Issues > Economic News Will rising gas prices in America cause an economic depression?

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Yes, gas/fuel prices may cause a depression if they go back up as they did in 2008. Very high fuel prices, the housing thing and consumer spending cutbacks created this recession we are now in. With a recession already in progress, if we're hit again by very high fuel prices in the near future, a depression will likely follow. Let's face the facts, fuel prices caused a real hardship on many Americans and people around the world when prices climbed upward of where prices normally hovered. With the price of everything else following fuel prices upward, Americans by the millions were hit by a...

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