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New Red Truck


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Looks like i'm behind a little, haven't said anything since before Thanksgiving. I left Sunday and went to Orchard Park,N.Y. I must say that New York does an excellent job on the roads when there's snow, at least in that area (rt.219 from Pa. to Buffalo). Another driver went to Orchard Park last week to deliver Friday, but he broke down somewhere near Bradford, Pa. and had to have the truck towed to Bradford. He said the wrecker was an old Mack, but I don't now if he meant AC old, b-model old, or r-model old. Big Jim's truck broke down in Ohio the week before last and needed a camshaft, so he left it at the Freightliner dealer in Monroeville and rented a car to drive home to Reynoldsville,Pa. He went to Monroeville and picked his truck up when it was repaired then went to Lantz Corners, Pa. and picked up the Orchard Park load and delivered it.

Meanwhile, I delivered in Ochard Park Monday and went to Brookfield, Ohio and loaded coils for Roanoke. Dropped in Roanoke Tuesday and went to the shop and had my truck serviced. Todd told me I could go on home and he had an Orlando load out of N.B.Handy for tomorrow. Sunny Florida is nice this time of year, except when I went in Wednesday Orlando had been moved to Ohio, to a place formerly known as Negley, and the load changed to a load of kyanite. So I unloaded in Orlando-I mean Negley-Thursday morning and went up to Masury and loaded more coils for Roanoke. They said they couldn't unload them until after 1pm, so I lollygagged around and got there at 11:30 and untarped, and they said it would be many hours before they could unload me so I ended up taking them to a warehouse in Roanoke and unloading them.

They've got another Negley load for Monday, but they're gonna put a couple of new windshields in the truck Monday morning, so i'll load and go Monday.

Jeff's new truck came in last week. A pretty red 386 Peterbilt. He said I could take it or keep what I got, it didn't matter to him. I think i'll just keep what I got.

Now the title fits anyway.

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When did they move Florida? Sound like you had a decent week though. Gonna just go ahead and stick with the silver bullet for awhile 'eh? I don't blame ya cause it is a nice truck. If you quit breaking the windshields in it...lol. Are they really broke though?

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No, actually they're not broken. One has a little round crack in it where a rock hit it, but it's down in the corner and doesn't bother me at all. The only problem with them is the guy that washes trucks on the weekends must have used acid to clean the stainless steel visor and let it run down on the windshield, because they have streaks in them that just won't come off. It's not too bad except at night when it's raining and I meet oncoming traffic-then I can't see a thing. I just happened to mention it at the shop the other day, and they've got a man coming Monday to put them in. I would have been happy to just get one on the drivers side, but they're replacing both of them.

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I say that acids on there for good then, your not gonna know what to do when you start driving that 386. Kinda like driving a T-800, still nice trucks though.

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