other dog

On 5/16/2025 at 8:08 PM, Brocky said:

ASK Otherdog!!!! He is the one who started the food trucks.. 

No, mine was a comment on the gray button. 

4 minutes ago, 66dc75 said:

30- 40 years ago ( holy shit I'm getting old) there was a roach coach on every construction job I  was on and even at the car dealer I  used to work at. Now they have completely disappeared and you need to to go searching  for lunch. I miss them.

Maybe regulated out of binness. I told a good friend of mine who used to drive, but he had to give it up due to health issues, that a food truck would be perfect for him. He had a pizza place in Reynoldsville, Pa. for a while too, but sold it. And he said he had considered it, but they have to pass all the same inspections that a restaurant does, and you had to have all kinds of permits, and it was more hassle than it was worth. I guess that's good, it's just a lot more to it than I ever thought, at least in Pa. 

I thought you could just make 15 sausage bistits, 21 bacon bistits, 23 sausage and egg, 19 bacon and egg, and go sell 'em. Then come home and make 39 cheeseburgers and 28 hamburgers and go sell them at lunch time, but apparently it doesn't quite work like that.

 That job site was up near Frederick, MD. somewhere I think. They were building a new school but it's probably finished by now because it was about 7 or 8 years ago, so that food truck is probably someplace else by now.

38 minutes ago, mowerman said:

catering trucks can be the best,,,ive had many of them,,,,that thing looks amazing ,,,i usually order beef and rice..bob

This is true! I remember back when they were commonly referred to as "the roach coach", and some deservingly so, because they had just crappy overpriced food. But when you were a truck driver, stuck at some job site for who knows how long you didn't have any choice, you either bought some crappy overpriced sammich or went hungry. But over time they have gotten waaaay better, and I've had some absolutely fantastic food from the food trucks.

8 hours ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Did you remember to get me that bottle at aspirin, the left-handed philips screwdriver, a pack of socks and the rubber chicken that I asked for?

Oh yeah, got all that. It was at the top of the list. I'll bring it to Macungie.

Happy birthday!

4 hours ago, Mark T said:

God..... she's gotta be around 80 if she's still around.

She's 81 now. Here's a photo of her from this year.

48 minutes ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

What did you get at the Walmart store?

We got some plants, a bottle of Lucas because the front hub on the furniture truck was just a tad low, a bottle of power steering fluid because the reservoir on the GMC was just a tad low, a few bags of rocks for the driveway so I can back the GMC in beside the furniture truck... don't remember what else, I'll see if I can find the receipt and get back to you...

1 hour ago, Mark T said:

I was assuming it was t screw.  They were all tandems.  They were all kinda decent high mile used trucks. 

We found out that a single axle sleeper is kind of hard to come by.

2 hours ago, Mark T said:

Was it's frame red ?

No, it's black. I haven't seen any evidence of red paint on anything.

14 minutes ago, Mark T said:

Looks like it might have been a Bolus truck.

13 hours ago, Mark T said:

And what's up with the CH in the picture ?

Just a unit we picked up that was for sale. Zina saw it on marketplace and showed it to me and said "that's the truck we need". 

I said "yep, sure is, too bad we just bought that GMC".

I was actually going to go look at it for somebody else, then he said it was no longer for sale, then the owner called me and said I could get it if I wanted it, so we went to look at it and drove it.  And ended up bringing it home. I had already told both of them that if the other fellow didn't buy it we would, and he didn't, so I was committed to buy it then.

The GMC is too slow for her, so maybe this will be the one that we can get in and go places. 

It's a fleet-spec truck, has about a million miles, but had a Re-mack engine installed at around 800,000. I've been doing a little painting and polishing on it, and put a new mattress in the sleeper. Cleaned the interior, it looked like it hadn't been cleaned since 1998.

So I guess the GMC is for sale...I guess the big green International that runs now is too.

I had a Muncie 4 speed in my hot rod Nova that I had when I was a kid (18), then I put it in a 70 Chevelle SS that I bought. I had a Hurst Competition Plus shifter on it, but when I saw some guys small block Vega with a vertigate shifter in it I thought I had to have one, just because it looked so cool.

But it wasn't nearly as quick as the Hurst, had a longer throw too, but it did look cool!

I get e-mails all the time from trucking companies trying to to recruit me to drive for them. And some of them offer like TWICE what I was making before I retired. Makes me wonder...but I'm not going back.

1 hour ago, Freightrain said:

Maybe a truck pull front weight box???  You know, with the rollers on it????🤔

Sounds legit. I'm not an engineer but I don't see why that wouldn't work. I have an old lawn mower out back that you can the wheels off of if you want them.