Quote Originally Posted by Crappiemaniac View Post
If I hadn't grown up in trucking. I would have loved to work in the shipping Business. Would love to be able travel the rivers. Where do you run? Kind of boat?
Right now I work on a 110' 3800hp towboat. All together we are about 1000' long by 60-100' wide. Pushing 12,000-24,000 tons of liquid cargo.

We run from Houston, TX to Decatur, AL. So we get either ICWW or offshore sections headed to mobile depending on draft, then we reconfigure to head up the Mobile River, Tombigbee, Tenn-Tom, Tennessee River, and Kentucky Lake, then back down the Ohio and Mississippi before we head back over to Houston. It's a beautiful run. Beats the heck out of running big ships offshore.

My teachers used to say I would never making a living if I kept looking out the window.....guess I proved them wrong.