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23 hours ago, mowerman said:
i see your dogs leave toys all around like mine do god lovem
They have lots of toys
Plus a few more that's scattered about, and when the back yard had a small creek running through it a couple of weeks ago I picked up all these and put them on the picnic table. There's a gallon vinegar jug there, one of Zina's shoes, and much more 🤣
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2 hours ago, tjc transport said:
only time i ever did a log book was for that one trip. being local and under 100 miles from shop "as the crow flies" i am exempt from doing a log.
I did that for a while when I hauled pulpwood and wood chips to the paper mill in Covington. We had these books that I think you could put a week on one page, you had to keep track of your hours but not break it down like a regular log book.
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I did some more grilling today, I cooked some ribs for a neighbor. This nice lady dropped by and wanted to know if she could help and maybe learn a bit about smoking ribs.
I'd never seen her before, but she said she lived just up the road a little ways, so I said " sure, grab a Miller Lite and we'll get going here".
She drank about 4, then she said "you wanna see these?"
I said "heck no, they've only been on the smoker half an hour, they're nowhere near done yet, so there's no need to look at them!"
Then she said "I think i'll go home now".
She was weird, way too complex for me to try to understand.
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14 hours ago, tjc transport said:30???
i beg your pardon!
i have 53 years behind the wheel and climbing.
i tried figuring out miles driven by miles on speedometers of trucks when i got out of them for a newer truck.
i got a headache and stopped somewhere around 2,550,000 miles.
I drove for years and my log book said I drove 452 miles today, even if I drove from Seattle to Memphis. 452 miles. 🤣
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34 minutes ago, tjc transport said:i hated the T800. cab way way too small for big people.
455HP paccar engine with a 10 speed and 3.36 gears is great for an over the road truck that never has to stop or climb hills.
i have a 565 X15 cummins with 4.56 gears and an allison RSD4500 trans in my 2024.. perfect combination for the local driving i do, and gets me 7 MPG average local driving. i am in 6th gear at 45-50 mph.
the 2022 with 565 engine, 4500 trans, and 3.90 gears stinks. have to go at least 60 to get into 6th. and gets 4-5 MPG local driving.
No doubt, the T660 got great fuel mileage. I always said if I only ran to Florida or Texas every week, which I did not, it would be a great truck.
It was just not the best suited for what I was doing. If it had 3.70 rears, or even 3.55's, and a 13 speed with the 485hp. engine it would have been much better I'm sure. I think 485hp was the biggest PACCAR available at the time.
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Daggone it, I guess the big cup wasn't a good idea- this post is in the wrong category altogether! Can an official modulator move it for me, or do I have to do it manually?.. hate when that happens!
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I decided to make a meatloaf today, because Zina suggested that I make a meatloaf. I didn't wrap it in bacon, because I didn't have any bacon.
It looked like this after I mixed the ground chuck, Jimmy Dean sausage, peppers, onions, and some other stuff together. I found this pan laying outside of the dumpster last week, but I scrubbed it good before I put the meatloaf in it. I like it because of those holes in it.
Then I put it on the grill, as seen here-
After a while it looked like this.
This temperature gauge says it's done-
So y'all can come on over any time. I used this cup to cook the meatloaf because it holds 2 Miller Lites, so I only have to come inside and get a Miller Lite half as often. Not sure if that's really a good thing yet.
And this is what I did yesterday, made this walkway.
I'm trying to do 5 things, so I don't get fired. 🤣
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I used to drive a T660 and it was one of the best and one of the worst trucks I ever drove. But it wasn't the truck's fault, it was just set up totally wrong for what I was doing. I was hauling mostly treated lumber and steel- I would load the lumber in Moneta, VA. and take it mainly to Ohio and western Pa.then load coils and bring them back to Lynchburg, VA. It was uphill all the way up there, and it was uphill all the way back.
I was loaded heavy both ways, I never weighed a load of the treated lumber that wasn't over gross. And the truck had a 455hp. PACCAR engine in it with a 10 speed transmission and 3.36 rears. It seemed like a slug to me, especially after getting out of a Peterbilt with a 550 Cat with an 18 speed. When Jeff traded it for a T800 it was on it's 3rd. turbo, only had 400 and some thousand miles on it.
For the "best" truck, it was one of the most comfortable trucks I drove. It rode great, drove great, and was one of the best insulated- no, that's wrong, it was THE best insulated truck I ever drove. Unless it was under 20 degrees I could turn it off in winter and sleep comfortably. It had 3 way power mirrors that went up and down, not just in and out. I often said that if it had had the running gear that the T800 that I got after the T660 it would have been the cat's ass.
This is the T800 Jeff traded it for, it was a great truck. 500 ISX Cummins, 18 speed, 3.55 rears. I had no complaints about this one.
This is the 2nd. T800 Jeff bought, I was driving this when I retired. It had a 500 HP X15 Cummins engine, 18 speed, 3.55 rears too. Identical to the first one except for the external breathers.
And both of those 500hp Cummins engines would out pull the 550 Cat, easily. Same transmission, same rears.
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On 2/25/2025 at 3:01 PM, mowerman said:
yes, we also had a party line. I forgot all about that and yes if somebody was on it, you had to wait until they were done or continue listening ha haYep!
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20 hours ago, tjc transport said:
i have a son almost as old as you!!! he will be 51 in june.
My oldest will be 48 in August. I haven't seen or heard from him for several years, he shuns the whole family and nobody knows why.
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18 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:
I just love her!
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4 hours ago, mowerman said:
I never really noticed market prices until shortly before I retired sticker shock prior to that. I never really paid any attention to the price of anything like wow man four bucks for a bag of potato chips.
Yep, that's kinda how I am. Everything I go to buy costs like 3 times what I'm expecting it to cost.
And potato chips? When I was a kid- many years ago- a bag of potato chips cost a nickel for a small bag, like a single serving size you get in a vending machine, and a big bag cost a quarter.
The BIG big bag came with 2 bags of chips in the bag. At least Wise potato chips did, they were the best. I don't remember how much it cost for the bigguns, probably less than a dollar though.
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Speaking of Volvo, I saw on TV that they're going to lay a lot of workers off at the factory in Dublin.
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22 hours ago, mowerman said:
We were talking about letters and phone numbers. I’m sure you’re remember those days as well. Ours was Jefferson five in 1964
I have a picture of a Jamerson Bros. Trucking A model Mack on the computer, it just says "phone 15" on the door.
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13 hours ago, Brocky said:
Our crank phone number was 28Y22.. Line 28 The Y or F indicted the the length of the first ring.. our was 2 shorts and 2 longs.. The fire house was 4 longs and the telephone operator plugged into all the lines and alerted everybody to a fire..
I'd forgotten all about that! We were on a party line when I was a kid, our ring was 3 longs. Pretty much everybody knew what everybody's ring was because people used to listen in on other people's conversations on a regular basis 🤣
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13 minutes ago, mowerman said:
Out here there all Iranian looking and pulling Amazon trailers… like the chicks man thanks for that
I always liked Mary Ann better than Ginger.
And yep, all the truck crash pictures, jokes, memes, and videos used to feature Swift trucks, now it's Amazon. And I said many times before I retired that every Amazon truck I saw was being driven like it was stolen 🤣
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53 minutes ago, tjc transport said:
25 years since i had one. and they were only $2.50 a pack when i quit. 20 cents a pack when i started.
There was a little tiny country store about a quarter of a mile from where I grew up, had one gas pump out front. The building is still there. I remember my dad giving me a quarter and sending me over there to get him a pack of Camels when I was about 5 or 6 years old. That wouldn't happen today of course, a pack of Camels for a quarter or a 6 year old buying them 🤣
The driveway goes to my brother's house. We were just down there at Christmas and I didn't notice that the old store building was so grown over.
I'd like to see what's inside it now.
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3 hours ago, cruiseliner64 said:
Theyre about 22 dollars for a 20 pack in Ireland today.I dont smoke,never did and im sure happy I dont at that price.....
Paul
Yessir, I quit years ago and whenever I even think about smoking one now all I have to do is look at the price of a pack.
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9 hours ago, mowerman said:thinking back along time ago...i guess my mom could be pretty wicked at times but back then most moms were home all day,,,and had enough of us after a while....i was a pretty good kid,but sister was a hellion
Hmmm, I wonder if your sister remembers it the same way 🤔
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12 hours ago, 70mackMB said:Back when, We paid cash at the tolls and got a paper receipt. l carried a one hole paper punch in the truck. l would punch out the time stamped on the receipt because it was never correct. Sorry officer but you will need to go by my log book as to what time l passed thru. .....Hippy
We paid cash and got a receipt too. Turned our receipts in they paid us back for tolls and any truck related items we bought on the road. When we went to Boston we'd say "you'd better have at least $100 to pay tolls, and a carton of cigarettes".
Now if you only had $100 you'd probably have to turn around in Baltimore and come back. 🤣
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59 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:
I think it is, and covers the return back over the bridge.. i wanted to fuss about paying $20.00 to go over the George Washington Bridge decades ago,, but figured i was not in touch with today's cost... 🍻
The G.W. was $20 when I started driving too. The Pa. Pike cost $21 to go from Breezewood to Ohio, in class 7. West VA. Turnpike was $9 and some change. Then they all went up and up and up until you had to carry a suitcase full of cash to pay tolls, then we went to EZ- Pass and I didn't even keep up with it anymore. I have no idea what the G.W. bridge or Pa. Pike Costs to run now.
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2 hours ago, mowerman said:
i heard joy behar was arrested for trying to flee the country avoiding a 50 Millian dollar lawsuit against her big mouth,but later i found out story wasnt true,,,,,that bigmouth communist pig,shoulda been hung in the town square years ago along with that drag queen woopy the idiot
I heard that too, as a matter of fact I was watching YouTube videos on TV and saw a video about it.
Side note- I forgot I could watch YouTube on TV, that trailer those guys made must have weighed 500,000 lbs. by the time they were done. 😁
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Probably the last time I had a "real" milkshake was at the Cumberland Restaurant, in Cumberland, VA. where I grew up. That's probably been more than 50 years ago now.
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That's ok, it's not your fault, I'm sure Donald Trump caused it somehow.
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VA. does have a good governor, and I'm planning to vote for Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears when she runs for governor.
On the other hand, we also have worthless POS tim kaine here, and that other worthless a-hole POS mark warner.