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That's what I was thinking.

I just read the new Double Clutch and there was a good article in it called "Trucking With Edward Woodward". It was very well written too, by some guy named Jim Hancock. There's also some guy named Jim Hancock on BMT. Wonder if they've ever met?

One of my favorites- the D860 GMC.

I hauled a bulldozer once. Allis Chalmers HD16.

We talked to a Bushwick driver in the break room at Bushwick Steel. He said he drove a trash truck or roll-off truck in the 70's, and went to the power plant every week. He said the stuff they threw away was unreal- he said he made as much on the side from what they threw away as he did for driving the truck. He said "...perfectly good welding leads as long as here to there-" and pointed to the far side of the building. He also said he saved the crane mats they threw in the dumpster- all good solid oak wood- for firewood, and tons of good plywood that they threw away.

And the old GMC logo.

You know the deal- you run like hell to get somewhere so you can sit there and wait...and wait...and wait some more.

Fortunately I didn't have to go in the "secure" area.

After I cleared the snow off the driveway with the leaf blower, it started to sleet...then came the freezing rain. So I still had to go out and break up the ice with a shovel before I finally got out Monday morning. I was planning to go around 3 or 4 am, I thought it was supposed to be about 40 degrees by then but it was still freezing. It was only up to 34 when I finally left at 9am. Then I got to the shop and got a broom and swept the snow off the trailer and load of coils, then I hauled ass to N.C. to try to get 2 stops off. Just a little ways into N.C. on rt. 86 you couldn't tell it had even snowed- There's still quite a bit laying around here now. By the time I got to the second stop in Benson I was sweating when I was folding my tarp. Then I had to haul ass to Kernersville to pick up one of these stainless steel canisters. They're for storing spent fuel rods. Took it to the power plant near Pottstown, Pa. We - me and Curtis were running together- went up 52 to 77 to 81. I've posted pictures of Pilot Mountain before, but it's always an impressive sight to me. It was warm that day, but if you go by there on a really cold dat it looks like this- another old joke...moving on- After spending all night and half a day at the power plant, we went to Parker Ford, Pa. to load steel going to Monroe, Va. It was 9 miles from the power plant, but as the crow flies it only looked like a mile or so- this is the power plant from where we loaded at Bushwick Steel. Spot mirror on the wall at the steel getting place- I saw this log truck on rt.24 when I was going to Dillwyn to get a load of Kyanite in a van yesterday. It's called the "Log Hog". It has a 6-71 Detroit in it, and it used to have straight pipes, don't know if it still does or not. When I lived in Appomattox you could here it coming long before you ever saw it. The owner stopped by the house and gave my youngest son a ride in it on his birthday when he was about 10 years old. My son was about 10, not the owner of the truck. Anyway, it had a "for sale" sign on it. Then on the way home yesterday I saw this girl from Texas in Winfall. I stopped and she said she had fallen and couldn't get up- she asked me if I would help her into the back seat of her car, then she winked at me. Like i'm stupid enough to fall for that! I told her she looked fine to me, and besides "you can't drive the car from the back seat!" Then she looked at me like I was nuts!..I left her sitting there and went on home.

Check "Pictures of the Week" Mike, I try to throw in a Winfall wimmins picture.

And have a weight limit- they'll run you across the inbound scales when you come in the door and across the outbound scales just before you get to the cash register on the way out.

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http://worldstartmz.com/man-kicked-out-golden-corral-after-eating-50lbs-of-food-sues-for-2-million/ The article said this man, who looks to weight about 700 lbs, was thrown out of a Golden Corral restaurant after eating for 7 hours, consuming between 50 and 70 lbs. of food. So now he's suing Golden Corral for 2 million dollars.

My "snow blower"- looks just like my leaf blower. Didn't do a bad job though, beats my old square point shovel. I blew the pickup off at first, it's still snowing and it looks like a little sleet mixed in it now so I won't be able to blow the sleet away, but that little bit should make it easier to get out. The highway hasn't been touched of course. And I was going to drive the blue truck home, but I decided at the last minute to drive the blue one because I had planned to leave last night.

Neat stuff there- I read the book and have seen the movie about PT109 several times. And who could forget McHale's Navy?

probably had those too, I quit reading when I got to spleens.

Oh. And how did you know what my phone looks like, do you have a secret spy camera hidden in here somewhere? I'd better start looking...

rabe? that reminds me, I saw Rapa scrapple in Food Lion today. Never noticed it before, but I never looked for it before either. Had all the good stuff in it- pork liver, snouts, spleens.

I can get everything but butcher string- I know, i've got some speaker wire around here somewhere...

Wow, that's awful nice of her.

You're right about that, it's kind of the same situation with truck driving jobs and what we're paid . Sure, as gearhead grrl said, we should get payed more, or would like to get paid more, but it's a catch-22 situation- I work for a small company too, and if they had to pay everybody by the hour for every hour they worked and extra for everything they did like tarping a load, dropping trailers, mechanical work, and so on, they would probably have to close the doors because they just couldn't afford to stay in business, then there would be that many more people out of work. Union workers can't work if a light bulb needs changing, then they have to call a union electrician to come change the light bulb while they just wait and do nothing, all the while probably making as much in a day as I do in a week, and never doing anything "over and above" exactly whatever their job description says they have to do. No wonder why some companies look overseas for cheaper labor.

That's the way they are now, they're all about "me me me, eff you, it's me me me!" No such thing as respecting your elders, or even common courtesy any more...very little anyway.

HMMMM...almost makes me consider moving to Australia, except for this- https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/things-in-australia-that-will-kill-you-animals-that-will-try-to-kill-you

I thought it was a T800 with the high hood at first, but now i'm thinking it's probably a C500. We were rushing to get the dozer unloaded and reloaded and I didn't even get a chance to look at it, just snapped those couple of quick pics when he got there. Mr. Burke was in a rush, thinking we'd get it back to Concord anyway, and we would unload it at his place yesterday morning, but I told him we'd be lucky to get to Danville by sundown. And his brother was in a rush to get going because him and his helper hadn't eaten all day. C500 KW His brother was real nice too, he has a completely restored B61 that was a Jamerson Brothers truck that he said I was welcome to stop at his place in Walterboro and look at whenever I was in the area. It's a mate to this one-

He said it weighed about 35,000 lbs. That's probably pretty close, this web page http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/003/0/8/3084-allis-chalmers-hd16.html says 31,500 lbs and i'm assuming that's without the blade, hydraulic cylinders, cab,etc.