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damn!.. woulda took me all day to write that!

gee...and I thought I knew it all because I learned " i before e except after c", and e=mc squared.

I've got one of those too. My Ma gave me a plant-she paid $4.95 for 10 seeds and started them in paper cups. 9 out of the 10 came up though.

thanks for translating that into plain english!

Oh no, I won't be going Greyhound- I'll use the down time to go to the truck and tractor pull. That's why I won't be able to afford a hotdog.

I probably won't be, but ya' never know. If I did make it, could you buy me a hotdog and a pepsi?

Thanks Double L, i'm just a nobody, but i've been right where Bill is now, and it's a tough thing to have to deal with. I'm just doing what I can to help the man because I do have a great deal of respect and admiration for the man. I don't know if you've been following the whole situation or not, but it really hit close to home for me. My situation wasn't that long ago and it's still painful, and i've been friends with Bill for about 5 or 6 years now. We used to talk on skype every weekend, (we can see each other on the webcam, it's just like being there). If you've never checked out his website (one of the three best trucking sites on the web, along with BMT and http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm) it's http://www.thedieselgypsy.com/ If I just get 30 more dollars, i'd put the $30 or so that Ice Road DVD would cost with the only donation i've gotten so far and send him a hundred bucks. ...and thank you again Mike for your generous contribution.

That's exactly right. I was just re-reading this post after I talked to Bill. I was watching "Ice Road Truckers" last Sunday and complaining about all the commercials. Jo said "why don't you just get the DVD?". I said "can't afford it". She said "you can afford $30 can't you?". Well, I probably could afford $30, but since it comes on TV and I can watch it for free (at least as long as I pay the Directv bill) i'm not gonna buy the DVD, and complaining about the commercials just seems stupid now. Bill's got real problems, and i'm gonna whine about commercials?

Just a reminder- just heard from Old Bill. He thanked me again for the assistance, and said Murt was getting worse. Said his 24 hour days now are much harder than hauling freight ever was. If anyone wanted to help him out a little, I know he'd appreciate it tremendously. He's got it pretty rough right now.

the story...

Great googly-moogly!..wow!

Some more old trailers i've seen...the Rude Carriers, out of Falling Waters, W.V, is in Keyser, W.V. The Transcon pup is on rt. 50 in Junction, W.V. There's an old Dixie-Ohio Express trailer on rt. 224 on Ohio a little ways east of rt. 250, and there used to be 2 McLean trailers in Roanoke, don't know if they're still sitting there or not.

I remember a trucking co. called Art Pape, but everybody called them "part ape" on the radio.

That's just funny right there! I wanted the porcupine seat covers as sonn as I saw 'em, but they're just to expensive. I used to have an ACME products catalog saved, as used by Wile E. Coyote, but I lost it or deleted it somewhere along the line.

no, it's not. besides, I don't even have the original face anymore, the 22 year old fella, so I had to make new ones.

Greg Rider started that offensive material, putting his head on "your"(?) body. Then I got kinda carried away...sorry about that. But it WAS funny as hell, wasn't it!

Paul's like Rob in the fact that they like to remain a mystery...no one knows what they really look like, or what they're really up to, where we put pictures of ourselves out there for all the world to see. I'm gonna check the post office tomorrow to see if I can find their pictures on the wall.

...and you didn't take any pictures?

But Joe Mustang is a legendary figure, just like B.C. Fry. They could do anything.

They had to put a compressor on it but Jimmy couldn't get the fan to come on with the AC like it's supposed to, so he called Peterbilt in Richmond and told them i'd be stopping by. I unloaded in Petersburg first, then ran up to Richmond to the Peterbilt place. Got there at 1 o'clock, but they had so many Pete's in the shop they said it would be 5 or 6 o'clock before they could even look at it, so I told them i'd run the fan on manual, and left.

...to appeal to the masses... reminds me of the Jeep CJ's. They were a very capable off-road vehicle, but they had a tendency to tip over easily when cornering at high speed, especially with bigger tires. High speed cornering was not their intended purpose, nor high speed travel at all, but i've been passed on the interstate many times by Jeeps, running 70+ with kids hanging out of them everywhere. So they changed everything to make them safer on the highway, and in the process took away a lot of the off road ability.

The wiggly pins are really loose on my wobbly shaft, and I can't find new bushings anywhere. I don't think they even make them anymore- don't suppose you'd happen to have a set of them laying around would you?

from 700WLW's site...

I like boobage...

Old Bill sent me this one... One Thing About Canadians One thing about Canadians is that their hearts and humor are always in the right place! Jeff Janzen, a manager of a Electrical supply house in Penticton, B.C. was asked on a local live radio talk show, just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Afghan prisoners, suspected terrorist bombers. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but with thunderous applause from the audience. HIS STATEMENT: 'If hooking up an Afghan prisoner's nuts to a car's battery cables will save just one Canadian's life or one American's life, then I have just three things to say; 'Red is positive, Black is negative, and make sure his nuts are wet.'