to help some understand what i do i work on a towboat its a boat that pushes barges barges haul cargo from chemicals to grains and coal i work 28 days on 14 days off i live on this vessel for the time at work no its not a pontoon boat its a bit bigger. pleasure crafts think of this would you drive in front of a semi who is going 90 miles per hour? of course not so why would you cut in front of a boat shoving nearly 8 million tons? it cant stop on a dime. i am what they call a deckhand "for now" basically i keep up the maintenance of the boat inside and out as well as making sure the barges are wired togeather so we can shove them up and down the river. another useless fact. if you have ever seen a boat shoving barges and see some sitting really low in the water where others are high the bigger ones are empties try to keep that in mind that at least ten feet of that barge when its loaded is under the water hence dont cut in front of it it may be the last thing you do..
