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What has been seen,CANNOT be un-seen! LOL!.......Mark

And apparently it's true that what's been deleted is not really deleted

I just saw an oldy but goody. A picture of the Chevy truck with a van body,fixed up as a living quarters complete with a chimney,satellite tv antenna,and the back half of the fuel truck on the rear. Said "The Robmobile" on the side.I remember posting that picture here. Don't remember what the occasion was,but it was deleted long ago,and there it was!

One of the first things they will look at is his cell phone records.

Yep. Probably had to take a pee-pee test immediately.

Definitely not a good habit to be in. Don't take much to send you where them wheels are pointing.

I remember that question being on a drivers license test-probably the first one I ever took. Which way should your wheels be turned while waiting to make a left turn,left,right,or straight ahead? I actually picked "to the left" and got it wrong and i've never forgotten it.The right answer is straight ahead of course,just for this reason.

Yup....it could ALWAYS be worse.

Unfortunately in this one, 2 people died, 1 received minor injuries, and the knucklehead who caused the whole thing walked away without a scratch. Road was shut down for 8 hours. Once I realized they had no intention of opening a lane to let us pass anytime soon, I backed up about 3/4 mile and turned around on a gravel road...then went into town and waited it out in the local diner. Had 3 eggs scrambled, hash browns, biscuit & gravy, & bacon...no telling how many refills on the coffee...then when the road opened, I figured I'd been there for 8 hours "off duty". If I left right then, not only would I be fighting through the 100 or so other trucks who were racing to get back on the road but also my 14 hours would be up in only an hour...meaning I'd have to stop for a full 10 hour break. So, I ordered a cheeseburger and fries and decided to wait 2 more hours to get a 10 hour break, then I could roll out to deliver my load and make it home before I'd have to shut down again. Total bill came to $12 + tip. Not too bad, and it was a hell of a lot better sitting inside talking to anybody & everybody (gotta love small town diners). Would have cost me a hell of a lot more than that to detour around the 70 or 100 miles it would have added, not to mention that would have put me over the 14 hours so I'd have to have got a motel for even more money.

Made for a long day, though, because I was getting home just in time to shut my alarm clock off

What happened?

heh heh,,hell i oughta knowed better than to stir u up,,LOL,,I stand corrected,,,randyp

"you give up to easy"...Benjamin Moore,1244 B.C.

I used to use a picture as my desktop background picture-any picture,usually one of mine,except for Eva Longoria for a while.Kept the same picture 'til I got tired of it.I recently went to the control panel and changed the background picture so it keeps changing,going through all my Kodak pictures-over 1900 pictures at last count- that I had saved on my pc.

I gave my parents one of those electric picture frames for Christmas last year, selected a few hundred pictures and put them on a memory stick to use in the frame. Now,Jobyna said I should update a card for them since i've added so many pictures in the last year.So I went to the Wal-Mart store and got a big memory stick card that held like 3,000 pictures and put every picture in my Kodak collection on it. 1,907 pictures in all.

Problem is,some of the pictures in the rotation on my screen are pictures that I deleted years ago.You know me when it comes to pictures...one was the one of Jo where I cut-copy-pasted her looking at a car at Toga and she wasn't wearing any pants. Caption said "I knew I forgot something".

I told Ma there might be offensive content and she said not to worry about it...but still,it's my mother. I hope they didn't copy to the card,like I said,i've deleted them from the computer,but they still show up when they flash across my screen-even Jo cussing at Santa Claus-Santa with the huge...eh,never mind.

She put the memory stick in the mail Wednesday.

guess thats all that matters

gg2

That's the main thing...still a bummer though.

What do you guys think of the welded "D" rings recessed into the floor of a trailer? This thing of mine will get a new deck and I'm considering installing 10 down the length of the deck to tie trucks to when hauling. I'm thinking I may bury them under "trap doors" so the deck remains level for sliding loads on the deck. I always used the keyhole slots to anchor to via chains and used the winch to bring up the tension on the rollbacks. Then of course a chain and binder for security during the tow.

Rob

We've never had a trailer that had them,the trailer I pull has short lengths of chain on each side that you can pull up thru a hole and use for tie-downs.Has basically a big washer at each end,one covers the hole when you don't use them,the other is slightly bigger than the hole so the chain doesn't pull all the way through the hole.These are for tie downs if you use a side kit.

Getting back to the question,i've seen many steel haulers use them to tie down coils,so there shouldn't be any problem with load securement,they're easy and convenient to use,I think it's a great ideer.

Wabco used to make a giant loader too, theres one been sitting pretty close to my house, will see if I can get a pic this week,,,been there for years,,randyp

I'm pretty sure some of the giant "unloaders" I've seen were Wabcos too, unloading logs in Emporia.

I believe it's Meritor-Wabco nowadays.

Ahem,,John Henry Rudolph Behr invented aftermarket paint right after the "Behr" wars in 1631 Tom, and since that time, Euclids have had the option of being any color they dam well want to Tom. I trust you have learned something today, think I will go out and paint Spot purple, thanks to Mr. Behr. randyp

I stand by the previous statement-"if it ain't green,it ain't a Euclid"...George Krylon,1832.

"John Henry Rudolph Behr was a dick"...George Krylon III,1908.

"If I owned General Motors,I would make huge off road trucks,call them Euclids,put only Detroit Diesel engines in them,and paint everything lime green"...Sherwin Williams,1763.

See,I know my history too.

I had a picture of a red Euclid I saw in Ohio,but I must have deleted it.Looked odd to see one that wasn't green,as that was the only one i've ever seen that wasn't.

The "Trusty, yet Crusty" Dodge seldom comes home any longer. Usually is inside the shop to prolong it's longevity. Right now it's still up on the center lift as I've not received all the parts to reassemble the front end from the pole interaction last December. I drive a lt. green, (and ugly) Jeep Cherokee since "Double Nuts" died on me due to rust.

Rob

Great! I found the shop,now i'm gonna get on google earth and search rt.116 until I find an ugly ass green Jeep Cherokee in a driveway.

More pictures of the week-

This is a mill roll I brought back to the steel mill in Petersburg from Milton,W.V. I took one up there to be refurbished,and brought this one back. It shined like chrome when I loaded it,looked like this when I stopped by the shop.

They have many mill rolls at the mill.

And they have a Euclid-a green one.

A new KW at the shop-these have the new Paccar engine,the new Freightliners have DD15's. Drivers are already complaining about the lack of power the paccar engines have.

It does have a rather "Euclidian" flair to it, exquisit perception and cerebral interpretation Mark,,,randyp

...huh?

I don't know a lot about these heavy-duty type trucks, but my guess is a EUCLID,especially being in Ohio...my two cents anyway!.................Mark

Couldn't be a Euclid,they're all green.Matter of fact,there was a Euclid parked over to the far side of this truck but I didn't take a picture.

That is the former Hanna City Radar Station. After the military pulled out, FAA took over the radar installation and the state took the balance to make an incarceration facilty. It closed in 2002. I've had my own "private prison" since. The radome, (golf ball) is where I work. I was there most of the day. Depending on the time you pass through there are a couple of decent places to eat in the area.

You would have driven right past my house if on rt. 116, (Farmington Road) as live on that in the middle of Farmington. Give me a call when in the area, (309) 219-2070. It's always on.

Rob

Great! I found the shop,now i'm gonna get on google earth and search rt.116 until I find a rusty,yet trusty,crusty Dodge in a driveway.

My wife does the facebook thingie, looks kinda interesting, she finds lots of long lost friends from school and such. Im thinking I may just sign up on that tonight and give it a go,,,randyp

I...uh...well-OK,I look at facebook too! Ther's a link to it right here on BMT. By the way,Double L is mr. facebook,he's all over it.

I figgered he might have snow to plow. As far as drinking that refrigerated fresh strained and sweetened "piss water" they call Mountain Dew, well that's a new one on me.

I don't do Facebook so haven't heard from him.

Rob

I asked him if he had a pipeline to his house from the mtn. dew plant and he said no,he had a bulk tank of it on his roof.

There's a couple of places in Va.that I know of that pay top dollar for old lumber like that. You probably couldn't get much for it now though.

He, (HK Trucking) hasn't joined us much lately. Wondering if anyone speaks with him on another board? Wondering how he's getting along.

I'll call him if nobody has heard anything.

Rob

He's been plowing snow,eating lots of pizza,plowing snow,drinking lots of mountain dew,and plowing more snow.It's on his facebook page.

Looks sorta like an "Oshkosh" setup with the cab but could be a purpose built truck also of some other vendor.

Rob

Perhaps-there was a name or insignia on it but I couldn't make it out.

Some trucks I saw in Cincinnati. I don't know what the big ugly one is- meaning the one with the dump body.

I never had any real need for starting aids, ether etc. with a "modern" engine,thing that bothers me the most now is seeing "newbies" fire-up a "cold" engine,and just run it up right away! hammering,banging,bucking! makes me cringe! had i done this to one of Pop's trucks growing up,i prolly woyld'nt be here to relate this story!.....firm believer in a a good "warm-up"....hell,i've seen guys spray an entire can of ether in a truck trying to start it all in one shot!.........Mark

I was at Thurston Metals in Lynchburg one cold morning to unload years ago and the driver of one of their 2 trucks came out and started his truck, an F-model V8 Mack. As soon as it started he had it pretty much wide open and about 3 seconds later there went the oil filter rolling out from under it and across the parking lot.

I'm right there with you on that! i got nothing to prove to nobody! gets bad anymore i shut down too,just not worth it. Most of the time i'm "light" so i dont do real well as far as traction goes. plus i dont see as well as i used to especially at night,i do prefer to drive at night when theres less traffic.but thats not always an option with what i do now,then of course if you're not at a truckstop by 2-3 in the afternoon,chances are you aint gonna find a spot to park anyway! even worse in bad weather...Mark

Yep, I only had about 21,000 on coming back last Thursday. I don't like driving at night when it's slick because it's hard for me to "read" the pavement. I can't tell what's wet,dry,frozen,paved,or dirt,but between that or less traffic on the road I opted for the latter.

THAT is one fine looking red x there Rowdy

It is that! I clicked on the red x, then on show picture,still nothing happened.

I backhauled a load of groceries out of Buffalo,NY to Salisbury,NC (food lion) not too long ago, 22 pallets (all the same product) arrived at midnight before the day of delivery,for a 6am appt.,got backed into a door at 1:00pm, had to use a "lumper" service,cost (to Clark transfer $250.00) restacked onto smaller pallets,1 box short,1 box damaged,ended up leaving at approx 9PM that night! food warehouses are a damn nightmare! and they wonder why you get pissed off!......Mark

Last one I went to was in Salem...think it's Kroger,and they charged $300 for the lumper service.

I unloaded a flatbed load in Cincinnati this morning,reloaded a flatbed load in Aurora,In. both tarped loads,and i've been back home over an hour.