WOW I did not realized anybody would consider me the resident concrete man around here.
Well honestly I do know something as I have been a concrete batch plant supervisor for 16 years now.
In its pure simplicity concrete is just simply amazing, a true gift from god that without it who could say how the advances in society would have evolved?
Yes I still deliver concrete, work this season has been brisk for me in Alaska and the pay quite good. We have downsized our workforce so on many occasions the minimal amount of drivers available are often called to work longer hours.
I love being a concrete mixer driver and fortunately all my delivery area is around Wasilla Alaska, I have been to Anchorage and I hated every minute of it.
Years ago, in the Bay Area, we knew the widow of a man who worked for Henry Kaiser at Kaiser cement. Supposedly he was the one who came up with the idea of delivering concrete already mixed in the mixer. They painted their concrete mixers lavender and used the motto “Find a hole and fill it”. Those lavender mixers chugged all over the Bay Area (CA) just mixing away. That widow hired my husband to teach her 40 year old daughter to drive. My husband wouldn’t take any pay, so the lady gave my husband her deceased husband’s watch. He still has it — 50 years later.