other dog

i hafta' agree,todays drivers are a different breed,seems like they dont care or want help/advise...It's just so different now,i see guys getting out of trucks that weigh 800 pounds+,look like they have'nt had a shower in a year,filthy,rude and in-considerate of other drivers and people in general. I see things that burn me up almost daily! guys dumping their trash on the ground (when theres a can 10 feet away) "piss bottles" all over the place,guys leaving their dam driving lights on all night,making it dam near impossible to back in next to them,i REALLY hate the newbie way of giving the "lights" ,pass another truck,look in the right mirror,just in time to be blinded by the high-beams! then they get mad when you say something,or try to explain the right way to do it....i've been in a truck almost 30 years now,still try and learn something everyday,try and conduct myself in a safe and professional manner,but the mentality now seems to be 3 months at truckdriving school,i know it all,been there done that! when i started,you were a greenhorn,no more no less,and looked up to the older experienced drivers to help you along...

Yeah, and most of those 800 pounders wear sweat pants with half their ass crack showing as they waddle in to the buffet. I wear a company uniform shirt and blue jeans all the time, a man wearing sweat pants just never looked right to me. I have one pair that I wear under my jeans when it's really cold, otherwise I don't even wear them at home.

And then there's some with the backwards cap and short pants-nothing wrong with wearing shorts when it's hot but I don't at work because most places I go require long pants, long sleeves, hard shoes,etc.

I s'pose I've been pretty lucky. I've had a lot of old-school mentors throughout my career.

You can learn a lot more in 5 minutes from an old-school hand than you will in 6 months from a 90-day-wonder.

I agree.

On my very first trip west bound through the Eisenhouer, I discovered that I really did not know how to drive in the mountains. It didn't take me long to find some local drivers that did, and was glad to sit through a tutorial which was freely given. Over the years I have not forgotten the kindness of other professional drivers, who were quick to share their knowledge, and experience, with someone who was as green as a gourd. In my lifetime, I have made a point of doing the same thing, whether be trucking, or working on them.

I remember my first trip across Colorado on I-70 too, same trip I first crossed Donner Pass on-1979. I stopped at the scales west of Denver and asked the scale man "how long before I get out of these mountains?" He looked at me like I was crazy and said "son, you're just getting started".

I couldn't even cross Donner until they opened it to all traffic because I had no tire chains and it was snowing so I hung out at Sierra Sid's truckstop in Reno. This was in April or May, snow was long gone around here. Good thing I was hauling furniture at the time, a typical load was about 12-14,000lbs, or things might have turned out different,eh?

But Bollweevil reminds me of another story, and it just brings to mind how different things are now and how different drivers are today. I welcomed any advice I was given by older drivers and was respectful to them even if I didn't follow their advice, like the time I was loading some steel coils in Burns Harbor.

I had several coil coils,loaded shotgun, and I was criss-crossing 2 chains through the eye then putting one across the top. A couple of other older drivers were in there loading and one of them said "you don't need to do all that,one chain over the top is enough."

They might have been going across town for all I know, but I was going to either Walker muffler in Harrisonburg or Modine Mfg. in Buena Vista, Va. so I was going across rt. 60 from Charleston, so I chained them like I wanted.

Many years later when I had hauled hundreds, maybe thousands, of loads of chips and pulpwood across the mountains on rt. 60 to Covington there was a Schneider truck coming east on 60 one fine day. 2 of our drivers met him just after he had started off the last mountain, Long Mountain. They asked him on the radio if he was loaded, and he said "yes". So one of them told him "you're going pretty fast" and he said "...eff you, I know what i'm doing!"

When they came back across after unloading in Covington, there he was, turned over at the last "s" curve before you get to the bottom.

A piece of the trailer was stuck in a tree there about 10' off the ground for years...might still be there.

Musta been on autopilot to not have a driver and reading that kind of roadspeed!!

Rob

I started to change that,Rowdy Rebel's speedometer reading, and thought "nobody will ever notice that anyway"...hmph!

...or maybe he took the picture instead of me...

That was a HELL of a truck! i cant remember all the details,but i believe it was cummins powered,had more levers,switches,buttons etc. then the cockpit of a 747! i'm trying to get in touch with the company that has it now,to see if they can get me some more info on it...........Mark

I just happened to take a picture of the interior last time I was by there.

Name: International Scout II (1971)

Date Added: 12 April 2009 - 01:02 PM

Owner: other dog

Short Description: '71 Scout I mud bogged for several years, I later sold it for several reasons, but mainly because the local track switched from mud racing to sand drags.

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I went to Nashville last week, but I didn't see anything. This week i've been to Ambridge,Pa, Atlanta, Fort Wayne, Bluffton,In. and back to the yard.

Saw a new Freightliner Cascadia with a DD15,10 speed at the shop but I didn't take a picture of it. Nice looking unit though, solid black.

This is a coal pile in Newport News-they hauled this coal here on trains. They're going to load it onto the ships, then they'll be sailing off to central Illinois-don't know why they have such a demand for coal in central Illinois every year around Christmas.

Saw this big twin steer KW pulled by a Peterbilt near Butler,Pa.

This is Mack 2, in warm Cartersville,Ga.

Saw this Mack mixer in Bluffton,In. where I loaded aluminum ingots Thursday. It was cold.

Ford grain truck for sale in In.

The old stove at the shop. They replaced it with the stove from Jamerson Bros. Trucking, which was much prettier until they put the chrome stack on this one.

And a re-run from Mark-because I like it!

Randy:

I've not left yet so please bring back my bear.

Rob

That rascal!

Two days before New Year Day we started getting snow. It snowed for two days straight, but only about 6-8" stuck to the ground. Jan. 1 and 2 the temperatures dropped well below zero, Sunday morning it was -28 with the wind factored in.

Where are you located,if anywhere?

If you smoke that shit you may go from being reletively flat chested to a 54DD cup practically overnite. Fortuneately, I know they sell men's brassieres as I seen a guy climb out of a Peterbilt, (true) at a Hardee's restaurant wearing one. My daughter about fell out of her chair she was laughing so hard. This is also true.

My advice would be to leave that stuff alone.

Rob

I would never smoke something Randy dug out of a pond, might be toxic aztec waste in there. I just didn't want him to think I was unappreciative of his efforts to send the pond scum.

The last dairy lagoon I dredged had a lot of those floating on water, if I do another one this summer I will fill a toesack up and mail it to you, oughta have a lot of protein in it, just hope you dont contract mastitis and have your tits swell up. randyp

It'll be dried up by then,maybe i'll roll it up and smoke it.

I have heard of them before, in fact you talk about them every year about this time. I don't remember seeing them grow before, but I would not be against trying them.

I've been eating them all my life, they're my favorite green. I find it astonishing that no one else has ever had them. We'd go out and fill sacks up with them when I was a kid. Used to find them growing in corn fields a lot in the early spring. Hardest part was washing the dirt out after you got them. We'd pull the leafy part off the ends and cook them and throw the stems away- the cans I bought are full of stems.

I figured they probably grow in Georgia too- they're hard to find because they're so close to the ground, but by summer you can tell where they were because they go to seed and grow up tall then, and they'll have a yellow bloom on them and you see them all over the place.

I've bought the seeds at the hardware store before.

aint never heard of "creeces", never even seen that word before, you not doing acid again are you? randyp

Naw,that was yesterday. This is what the can looks like. The canned is not nearly as good as the ones you find growing around here and pick yourself,it has a lot of stems and stalks in it that are pretty tough.I've sowed them in the garden before,they grow flat on the ground and when they get big enough you take a knife and cut them off even with the ground.

But wait-there's more!

Collards, black eye peas.

LL should be along shortly

Don't forget to stop by KFC.

I like collards,kale,mustard,and turnip greens-some people eat beet tops for greens,nocluejoe talked about polk salad-but still, nobody else ever had creeces?

Hey James,happy birthday and happy new year!

Bet you've heard of creeces,eh? I was just remembering last new years,had black eyed peas and creeces,or creecy greens as some people call them, but nobody else had ever even heard of them.

I got black eyed peas with some smoked hog jowl in the crockpot now and a can of creeces. Not as good as cutting some yourself,but not bad either.

Sorry, lost my head...

Dozer

"You just can't plan for every problem, but a few bits an pieces will make your life easier."

... Maybe one of the best tools ever invented.

You're right about that.

Otherdog,

Nice Video, I really like the B Model- the engine in the B sounds great, is that a 673?

You can always tell it's a Mack from the sound, I love the sound the E6 300, the only problem is it's just a 5 speed!

Firemack

yeah,mine's a 673. Don't know who posted the video, but I was proud to see myself in it!

Got Freightrain and myself on this video-

well its too bad you feel that way.I guess your mom or wife wont let you have a hot rod. why do I want a c-15 with my mack history. I outpull stock 550cats now and get 6.5 mpg

The truck I drive has a 550 Cat,and it's pretty much a pos in my opinion.It's too big for a paperweight but it would make a nice boat anchor.

Found this early black and white picture of Rob's Chevrolet wrecker,circa 1958. Rob had just gotten out of the navy, where he had learned all about body repair. His job was fixing navy tanks when they got bent, so he decided to open a body shop when he got out. A wrecker was a must have so he took his savings and went to the local Chevy dealer and purchased this unit and made a wrecker out of it.

This was his very first wrecker call, pulling a car carrier out of the ditch in the snow. It also started his desire to have a trailer...

Due to the holidays,other dog's pictures are all reruns so special guest poster Marling Perkings has these photos for you...

Before you make the final determination to replace you might have someone sit in the driver's seat while the engine runs at a fast idle. Flash the fields again on the generator and have the person in the seat tell you if the ammeter deflects when you touch the "F" terminal with the battery positive jumper lead like before. If the generator is defective, the needle will not deflect. If the needle moves toward the positive side, you have a defective regulator, or interconnecting wiring between the two units.

Replacing the generator with a modern day alternator is not a bad idea, however there really is nothing wrong with a properly operating generator also.

Rob

A generator is easy to rebuild too, though I haven't done it for years. Can you even get new brushes for them anymore?