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Great pictures! I used to have a goat for a pet, he was a lot of fun.

Bullshit- we seen it!

Yeah, that was the trailer that the load was transferred from. He got in about the same time I did and put the trailer in the shop.

Example of a defective trailer axle bearing- A train. A dog. A...I dunno... Nice looking cab overs at Big Boy's Truck Stop in Kenly, N.C. I saw another aerodyne like the white one except it was blue with brown and white stripes while I was sitting in the restaurant, so I didn't get a picture. It was pulling a reefer too. I delivered those two coils from last week in Goldsboro, then picked up a load of lumber in Dudley going to Moneta, Va. I went to Moneta the next morning. There was a truck there in front of me waiting to unload. He still had his tarps on his load. I took all my straps off and wound them up... he still had his tarps on his load. Another truck pulled in behind me to unload, so I went back and chatted with him for a while. By now the truck in front had his tarps off, so I helped him fold them. Loads coming in there do not have to be tarped in the first place, but it could be company policy that his company tarps everything or the policy where ever he loaded that all loads had to be tarped. Then I walked into the office to see if they had a load there for me to pick up, which they did, going to Warren,Pa. I got the paperwork, went back outside, and another truck had pulled in to unload. The first truck still hadn't gotten his straps off yet. So there was three trucks, unstrapped and ready to unload still waiting on the first truck to get his straps off. He finally gets unloaded and pulls around the corner somewhere, then I get unloaded and pull around to reload. While i'm waiting for a straight truck to pull out of the loading spot where I need to be the first driver comes walking by with a folder in his hand with his reload info in it, then gets in his truck and backs into the spot i'm waiting to get into. Well, that's ok, he did unload first, so i'm not going to say anything because I had my pick-up info first. So they start loading his trailer...and the driver is nowhere to be seen. I'm wondering why he's not strapping his load down as they're loading it- he could have had it all strapped, but he sat in the truck. I'm not going to mention any names or anything, but he held up everybody trying to get unloaded and loaded in there. Since he hadn't even started to strap his load by the time the loading was finished, Kenny told him to pull outside the gate and strap it down so he would be out of everybody else's way. More ice in Pa. Leaning stack of lumber- Nice Chevrolet at Art Reed's-

We all like the truck stuff, and almost everybody likes boobage. I think I might know that girl in the car. Can't see her face well enough to tell for sure, but I think her name is Norma Stitz.

I didn't see any "add friend" option on your page. https://www.facebook.com/william.t.blackwell

dammit!..now everybody will know where all the Winfall wimmins really come from.

What the hell is that?..where's my dictionary?..never mind,i'll just google it. Oh- somebody to run the joint, eh?..good choice!

Ken might need to aquire another trailer and pull a set of doubles in there...sounds like a lot going on in that small trailer.

I certainly won't be starting any $#!t.

Then on the way home I stopped at the Winfall rest area. I heard a thumping noise coming from the trunk of this car, then noticed this girl in the trunk with duct tape over her mouth and hands. I think she was trying to tell me something, but I have no idea what. I'd never seen a license plate like that so I figured the car was probably from up north somewhere, so I just got back in my pickup and came home.

Poorly photo chopped geese maybe?

They're pretty big, it's harder to do the smaller I make them- I figure everybody wants to see a little more detail anyway. Yeah, I thought it would have been a lot cheaper to fix the bearing, even if they had to call the "axle doctor", I think they're called? They come out with a truck with all the tools, cut the spindle off, weld a new one on, and guarantee it to be straight and true and that the seal will hold. I mentioned this to the other driver, because those rotator wrecker trucks don't work cheap. Apparently they had already checked into it because he said there was only one place in the area that did it and it would be a couple of days until they could get to it.

One of our KWs in Pottstown, with a poorly photo-chopped woman sitting on the step.

I only took a few pictures this week. I hadn't even had a cold all winter, but I managed to catch one this week- felt like crap from about Tuesday on, and still feel like crap. All because I got that haircut...took all my powers...should have waited a few weeks... But I noticed that you can see the radar station on Apple Orchard Mtn. from N.B.Handy in Lynchburg... after zooming in- I might get a bigger,better,stronger camera some day, but I like the one i've got for taking drive-by pictures. Sundown on I-85, headed to Charlotte. I went from Charlotte up to Greensboro and loaded one of these big cylinder things going to a nuclear power plant in Pottstown, Pa. It was almost 80 degrees in Greensboro, I was sweating in a T shirt tarping the load. I don't know why it had to be tarped, it was a stainless steel canister to hold used fuel rods. Anyway, when I got to Pottstown that night it was 30 degrees and the wind was blowing so hard that it felt like there was a gorilla on each side of the cab rocking it back and forth. Saw some geese the next morning. Cooling towers- Then I went to Wellsville, Pa. and loaded aluminum logs going to Prince George, Va. Unloaded them that evening and went home. Sundown on Long Island Road, near Gladys, Va. Old iron bridge at Eagle Rock, Va. I saw this Ranger stepside pickup like mine with a house on the back going up I-79. Guess i'll build a house on mine now... I got to Coconut Lake Pa. that night and parked in the K-Mart parking lot. Next morning it was 34 degrees and snowing...snowing. I was originally supposed to go to Greenville, Pa. and get another load of roll-off bodies, but we had a truck sitting at rt.22 and 30 with a load of steel that was broke down. A bearing had locked up on one of the trailer axles, so the plan was to get this big wrecker to put the coils on my trailer and chain the trailer axles up on his trailer so he could get it back to the shop. The plan worked great, except now I have to deliver the coils in N.C. Monday morning. The owner of the wrecker company- she supervised the whole operation.

Yep. I passed this girl in the desert between Winfall and Gladys- I think her truck might have broken down. She tried tried to flag me down, but I was suspicious of the situation so I never even slowed down.

I think a tarp like that- 24'x16'- is between 2 and 3 hundred dollars. The new one is going to be 27' long.

great!

Wow!..unbelievable that somebody would do you like that! But, on a brighter note, I now drive a tandem instead of that single axle so I can haul heavier loads of lumber and steel, with alumium wheels on the outside instead of those old steel wheels, and doubled my DEF capacity so I don't have to fill it as often. The new fairings they put on my truck raised my average fuel milage from 4.8mpg. to 22.5mpg! They also put a new DPF on it, since my old one had never been changed- I should be good to go for a while! Oh yeah, the next exit east of Barkeyville?..what do they call it- the "body shop" maybe?..never stopped there, but they're always on the radio advertising.

Me and this other driver had to load some shot in 55 gallon drums at Wheelabrator in Bedford about a month ago- that was the day it was 10 degrees. Randy called me (dispatcher Randy, not Randy, Randy, or randyp) and asked if I would loan the other driver a tarp because he didn't have one. Why he was pulling a flatbed and didn't even have tarps is unknown, but anyway, the tarp I loaned him was the old tarp that I carried just for tarping beams or bricks, or whatever didn't really need to be dry, just tarped because some a-hole in some office somewhere thought it was a good idea. Therefore, I had to use what used to be my good tarp on two loads of beams this week, one going to Neville Island, the other going to Ambridge. Now it's not even my mediocre tarp, it's pretty much just garbage now. I called Jeff Moore and whined and complained about it...my new tarp will be in sometime this week.

That was my "protest beard"- I said I wasn't going to shave or get a haircut until all the snow and ice was gone. There's still plenty of it around, but it won't be long now...I got it cut at the truck stop. The girl that cut it said "you should have taken a before and after picture, nobody will recognize you now- or robbed a bank." The before picture is over a month old.

I went to Portsmouth and Norfolk with a 2 stop load of steel Sunday. Stopped at Zero's Subs in Ivor on the way down. I threw some french fried potaters out, not because they weren't good, because I dumped them in the floor. Only took a few seconds for this crow to claim them. I saw green dash in Norfolk. Ate my last bananner for breakfast. I stopped at the store in Rustburg Sunday and picked a couple out of the box and the nice lady told me I could have all I wanted for free because they had turned a little dark, so I got 4. They were slightly over-ripe, but they're just getting good when they start getting brown. Then I went to the mill in Petersburg and got a load of beams that had to be tarped. Tore my tarp all to pieces. I had an old tarp that I used just for loads like this, but I "loaned" it and some tarp straps to another driver about a month ago...haven't seen either one since. I folded it on the trailer where I delivered at Neville Island because the lot was just sloppy mud. When I finally got unloaded after sitting there for 3 hours I went to Greenville to pick up some roll-off bodies going to Richmond, but they didn't have them ready to load. They still had plenty of ice there. So I went to Hubbard and layed over...got a little trim while I was there. Saw a bull wagon there too. Went back to Greenville the next morning- still plenty of ice over there. Still plenty of snow laying around in that part of the world too. I went across rt.422 for the first time since last fall. These units are still parked in the field. A big Mack truck at S.B.Cox in Richmond. The old U model, still parked in Ambridge, Pa. Stopped by the playground in Winfall on the way home. This girl wanted me to push her on the swing, but I told her I didn't have time. She looked very disappointed.

Happy birthday.

True that!