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PBR is a big favorite in Winfall too.

Pics. from the second trip, to Chester, W.V. DOT man fixing to jack somebody's ass up! Load of Kyanite in Dillwyn. A blurry picture, but this is a super-sharp looking short bed GMC stepside for sale near Blue Ridge, Va. Then I met Greendash in one of his straight trucks in Clifton Forge, Va. Brockway at Rupert, W.V. Going up a hill on rt.20 in W.V. There are many hills there. Saw this big Mack dump truck on rt. 30 when I was heading to McKees Rocks to load. Got behind a wide load along the way. Skidded coils I loaded at Lane Steel in McKees Rocks. I've posted this before too, the green B model still sitting in McKees Rocks. I met Greendash when I got on 79. Then I met him in again on rt. 19. Going down a hill on rt.20 in W.V. The waterfall in Levaisy. I went to the Walmart store a while ago to get some items, picked up some beer while I was there- I approve!

Coming in late, because i've been busy today, but here goes- Posted this before, but here's a big orange soda dump truck in West Virginia. I was going to Reno, Pa. I passed Greendash on I-79, just south of I-70. ...but he passed me back going up the hill. Storm ahead! The next day I went to Sharon to load, saw Greendash at the state line on rt. 62. Load of coils. When I left I met Greendash just down the road. Some round rocks on rt.39 in W.V. Waterfall at Levaisy, W.V. A girl in a car- one's a little blurry, so I got a backup.

I thought of a song title, all I have to do is breakdown there 18 more times...

I have several cans of beanie weanies, ritz crackers, a gallon of water, a can of spam that's about 3 years old, some sardines, etc. for emergency situations but I was thinking i'll be out of here soon, so I never got into my emergency stash. One day when it was snowing this winter I told the girl over at Newcomerstown Truckstop that I had beanie weenies in case I got snowbound. She said "ewh, yuck!" I told her "well, it's better than a snowball!"

I had a little breakdown yesterday, but it had a pretty big price tag on it. I had just loaded 5 coils in Sharon, about 45,000 lbs, and was on 376 just a little ways south of I-80, heading for Lynchburg. Then the alternator light came on and the volt meter dropped. I was pretty sure what it was, another broken belt. So, I pulled over on a ramp, opened the hood, sure enough, the belt was off. I made a flip on the ramp and headed back north to 80 and went over to Youngstown Kenworth at Hubbard. I went in and told the service manager I needed a belt, and asked if they could stick it on for me. I could do it myself, I put a couple on the Cat in the Peterbilt, and one on this Paccar on the side of the road- two of those times were at night by flashlight. But they could do it in less time than it would take me to think about how to get started, so I let them do it. They said they could get it pretty quick, so I went back outside to wait around. I looked at the belt again and it wasn't broken, it was separated between the little ribs. So I said "hmmmmmmm-why would that belt separate like that?" So I checked all the idlers and they turned freely, alternator spun free and easy, AC compressor- locked up tight. So the belt had been just spinning on the AC pulley until it finally gave out. I went back inside and told the service manager what i'd found. They checked to see if they had a compressor, which they did. They put a new one on, recharged the AC, installed 2 new belts, topped of the radiator- which was barely low, might have held half a gallon- used some new O rings, some clamp ties, and a few more small miscellaneous items. The bill came to a little over $1100. I called headquarters and got a Comcheck number and went back inside to pay. Then I got in the truck, backed it out the door, and was just fixing to pull around to hook back up to the trailer when I noticed that the amp gauge was almost over to 100- normally it's just a little past zero. Turned on the lights, heater fan on high, sleeper fan on, and the needle never dropped a bit. So I cut it off and opened the hood again and the alternator was so hot you could only touch it for a few seconds. So I told the guy that had worked on it I had a problem, and told him what it was doing. He said "well all we did was take it off and put it back on- i'll check it." He got a little hand held tester and put it on the alternator. It didn't even have a meter to show the volts or amperage, it just had a red light that lit up if it was over charging. The light never came on. He said "ain't nothing wrong with it, it's probably just because it's working to catch the batteries back up because you drove it here with the belt off". I called Jimmy, our head mechanic, and asked him what he thought. He said if I didn't feel comfortable with it to get them to put an alternator on it, it would be better than having somebody have to put one on it down on rt.39 or 20 in West Virginia. So I told them to put an alternator on it too, because "this one's gonna burn up before I ever make it to Lynchburg". So they checked the batteries first and found one completely dead and shorted out- the one that the alternator went directly to. They repaced the battery, then rechecked the alternator. The alternator was bad, way over charging still, so they put an alternator on it. They said the bad battery might have ruined the alternator, and I said "or the bad alternator could have fried the battery". "Very possible" they said. Anyway, it was $780 more dollars. I couldn't get anybody at headquarters on the phone by then, it was about 10:30pm by then and i'd been there about 9 hours. All i'd had to eat all day was 2 bags of bacon cheddar potater skins, a bag of bugles, and a pack of donuts out of the vending machine. So I told the service manager that I could go over to Truck World and get something to eat and go to bed and call for another Comcheck number in the morning. I'll leave the trailer here I said. They didn't like that plan, so I paid with my Visa card and left. Only got down to the West Virginia line on 79 and went to bed on the on-ramp at exit 1. Left there at 9 this morning. I dropped my trailer in Lynchburg and bobtailed to the shop. Randy- that's dispatcher Randy, not Randyp, Randym, or Randy y- said "you can back that trailer in the shop, take your tarp off, get a van, go to Dillwyn, load a Chester, W.V, then go load at McKees Rocks coming back to Lynchburg, that'll put you back in here Friday". So I said "OK, i'll do it tomorrow", then got in the pickup and came home...after stopping by the bank to deposit the check they wrote me for $780.

True that, like not all 6-71s are 238s , something a lot of people seem to assume.

52 is about top end for me too.

yup, must be 1958 F.W.D. all right. Congratulations on your new position Randy.

Exactly, I thought it was bitter too- I don't like bitter!

I took a ride up Tower Hill Road to the top of Long Mountain in Rustburg yesterday too. This is the mountain from the Food Lion parking lot. The towers- A turkey in the road in front of the house last week- The Food Lion store from the mountain. Rustburg, taken from where the power line goes up the mountain. Tower Hill Road- You can see that radar station on Apple Orchard Mountain from here too. This is between where I live and Gladys- the Peaks of Otter are behind the pole. I'm still planning to ride up there and check it out one day.

So, I made some kabobs, not as impressive looking as Vlad's. I got chicken, pork, and some scallops I found in the freezer stuck on sticks, along with some peppers, onions, and cherry tomatoes. I had some hamburger left over from last weekend too, so I made some patties and threw them on the grill. world class burgers right there- Some had a big-ass beer while I was cooking.

He probably just works too hard to put forth the extra energy it takes to wave- i've seen him driving a Mack, then a Sterling, then get into his straight truck and make deliveries, all in the same day, and hunnerts of miles apart. No doubt he works his ass off.

I did , I was, and I didn't. And that reminds me- I ran across rt. 422 a time or two, and just east of Indiana where he two MH's, a Brockway, and the 4 wd. International tractor are parked in the field there was a bright red MH hooked to a dump trailer, and an orange and white B model sitting there that i'd never seen before. I didn't get a picture because I wasn't expecting anything new.

The re-enactment at Appomattox was going on this week too.

I started to delete this off the camera immediately... but upon further research, I did get the first one of the year- a girl in a car! Imagine that- talking on her cell phone too. I saw fog- and cars with no headlights on. Still got snow hanging around at Conneaut Lake, Pa. Got my dumpsters strapped down, ready to ride. I stopped at the rest area to put more bungees across the doors because they were flapping open when I got up to 95-100 mph. Knocked the bark off my shin when I stepped back and ran out of trailer to step on. I saw a reflection of some jackass in a Kenworth when I was unloading the dumpsters in Montross, Va. Then I went to Saluda and picked up a load of lumber. They said the sawmill was down past the racetrack a few miles. Saw this old Ford at the sawmill. They said they still used this truck up until a few years ago to move trailers around. This old Emeryville was there too. And this Loadstar 1800-

arrrright then, i'm back from doing shit that it was highly suggested that I do,or else doing a couple of things i've been meaning to do for a while. Finally did my taxes...finally fixed that annoying leak in the toilet tank in the bathroom-put everything in that sumbitch new. And Vlad's picture looked so good I went to the store and got some meat to put on a stick...couldn't find the exotic stuff, like the ram, but I did find pig and chicken. Anyhow... where was I ? A dog in a truck. A sharp dressed pig on the roof. A big bucket for sale. Steep grade up ahead...slow me down...making no time. Kinda says it all,eh? Lumber strapped down, ready to go. Looks like it might be clearing off up ahead.

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I saw some stuff this week- I saw a couple of big Mack trucks at Taylor Bros. in Lynchburg, where I delivered the cross ties. I saw Greendash in Lynchburg too. I saw the goat on Powell Mtn. Pittsburgh- I saw Greendash in Pittsburgh too. more later...

All these historical and interesting pictures from our nation's capital, and all you say is "wow, your wife is hot!'' ? ...I agree, i'm right there with you!

Happy birthday!

I've been through there, loaded beams there before, it's just south of Knoxville, in Nocluejoe66's neck of the woods... Joe should go check it out.

You're over on the wrong side of the state!