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  1. Brocky
    Thank you guys!!!!!! get to celebrate the big 80 by starting the day with a doctors appointment😔
  2. Brocky
    Congratulations on the 36 years!!! You must be a "Cradle Robber" cause she does NOT look old enough to be 43????
  3. Brocky
    Joey Good luck with your students... I would have to go to school to learn how to do a pretrip "Their Way"!!!! A mix of the teachers "Book Way" and your practical experience should turn out some good drivers.
  4. Brocky
    A little cleaning, polishing, and a little touch up can greatly increase what people will pay..
  5. Brocky
    Mouse problem cured?????
  6. Brocky
    Some of the Matlack tractors destined for the bulk cement industry only had just the "Stack Blower".. These were a double Turbo mounted on the right rear corner of the cab in the exhaust system below the muffler. To unload you ran the engine at wide open throttle and moved a leaver which put the exhaust thru the drive turbo and the driven turbo would create the unloading air.. These worked good for easy flowing cement, and short pushes, BUT did not supply enough air to move heavier products or products which were sensitive to heat..
  7. Brocky
    That looks like the head of a bolt angled into the pitman arm at a 45 degree angle at 10 oclock in your picture?????
  8. Brocky
    Yes!! But they had a brand name that I cannot remember. My 1959 Diamond T 921C, 220 Cummins, had one on it and another in the bunk when I bought it. Sold the spare to Mark McCallough in Missouri to put on his Diamond T 910 also a 220.
  9. Brocky
    I am the same!! Started on farm tractors and farm trucks in the field, later before I was old enough for a regular drivers license, on the road, local small township Hwy Dpt trucks. At 21 (1966) in college I got a part time job as fuel boy, dock helper, and half a$$ed mechanic with a small intercity out fit. By this time NYS had created a classified chauffeur license program. Got my permit and went to the rail yards with the night dock man.. In June I took a road test for my class 1 tractor trailer license, on a 1953 Brockway 154 gas job and a 35 ft van trailer. Had to start the test right in front of city hall in downtown Syracuse!!!
  10. Brocky
    The main reason I went with Wells Fargo was that I inherited a small Prudential stock account when my mother passed away. Wells Fargo had purchased the Prudential system. Also I liked the WF man when I met him a lot better than the Vanguard man who had our 401 acct with our company.
  11. Brocky
    Geoff, I did NOT make myself clear!!! I was talking about tires,, Not cooling systems.
  12. Brocky
    Thanks, I could not read it.. And I am computer illiterate enough so I could not blow it up!!!!! The Diamond REO's were a hodgepaudge of parts from when White was building several brands, DT-REO-White, on the same line, and they did not change much after creating the name Diamond REO!!!!!!
  13. Brocky
    Actually the calcium chloride was to keep the water from freezing.. before perminamate antifreeze.. Most of Australia does not have that problem..
  14. Brocky
    67R, I cannot make out the grille badge well enough, BUT I do not see the words Diamond REO In large letters down the side of the hood??? All I can see is what looks like the Diamond T emblem near the front???? This may possibly be a 1960 to 1967 (before May 1, 1967) Diamond T with the Autocar cab and White fenders and more than likely Geoff is right on the REO gas engine????????? Being a dump is he local enough to track him down???
  15. Brocky
    KS, you are correct to a point.. If you do not put in the amount the company matches you are taking a pay cut.. BUT beyond that amount IF you have a decent personal financial manager you can often grow better outside a 401.. IF you can force yourself to make that contribution into another account rather than it being taken out before you see it?? Quite often we are all guilty of spending the money instead of saving it..
  16. Brocky
    Joey, You must have a 401 account with the county??? Put in at least the percentage they match.. We put in a higher percentage at times between truck payments.. and actually we only had the 401 and company retirement for less than 15 years.. We are not rich, But comfortable.. and so far just the company retirement and Social Security more than covers our monthly expenses without touching the IRA..
  17. Brocky
    We put our 401's into IRA's with Wells Fargo Advisers in late 2011. I paid off the last $24k on the house, paid about 1/3 of our Alaska trip, paid over 1/2 of our Australian trip, bought the 2014 Dodge Ram 3500 plus the required by law distributions out of the fund and we still have more in it that what we put in.
  18. Brocky
    Bob, Depending on what brokerage house is handling your IRA, quit worrying about it on a daily basis.. You will get an ulcer!!!!
  19. Brocky
    Paul, Thanks for the clarification.. I had forgot you folks have a lot of "Cross Channel" traffic. Who is left with RHD??? South Africa, India and Japan????
  20. Brocky
    I like your idea of upgrading the pintle hitch area.. Will you need to add air glad hands?? You will probably have to attach your light bar / mud flap hangers to the end of the frame.. That Goose neck ball looks a little far back for good weight distribution???
  21. Brocky
    I just noticed in your update pictures that this truck is Left Hand Drive.. Is Ireland that much different from England??? If not, will you have legal problems operating a LHD vehicle??? I think Australia has some rules about having to change it to RHD or sum such BS???? Maybe Mrs Mack Paul can correct me!!!
  22. Brocky
    Especially on your Outback dirt roads!!!!!!
  23. Brocky
    Round or square??? All the regular parts stores will carry them..
  24. Brocky

    Best of Trump

    Brocky replied to JoeH's topic in Odds and Ends

    Running unregistered vehicles on the street reminds me of the ATHS National Show in Colorado Springs CO...The host hotel, and meetings, was about 2 blocks from the Arena where the show was held and some of the restaurants were in a strip mall across the street from the hotel.. Golf Carts EVERYWHERE!!!!! I guess the the Police Dept decided it was not worth trying to corral 1000 retired truck drivers on rental golf carts!!!
  25. Brocky

    Best of Trump

    Brocky replied to JoeH's topic in Odds and Ends

    Geoff, I think(??) I understand that the Constitution was written to protect the rights of people who are American Citizens.. BUT< BUT how does someone who ILLEGALLY entered this country have any rights??????? It seems that there are a group of politicians in our Congress that DO NOT believe in the Constitution and at the very least be voted out of office. I guess that the voting Americans and the courts will eventually decide.. I HOPE!!!!!

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