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We use the plastic junk coils on everything. I carry an extra set of plastic junk hoses in the side box because they do get very brittle when it's cold and if you accidently step on them or kick them when you're getting on the trailer they just snap. I used to braid the old rubber hoses with the light cord on the cabovers I drove, never remember replacing a hose.

Topping Sandstone Mountain in West Virginia, on the way to Louisville, Ky. There's Kentucky, just over this hill. I took a load of beams to Roanoke and had to drop another driver off at Va. Truck Center so he could pick his truck up. They were doing some body work on his Freightliner because somebody backed into him at a truck stop. I saw some new big Mack trucks there, they're the Mack and Freightliner dealer...and maybe Western Star too. I want this one- Saw some nice older units at jettertruck's- I even saw an excavator excavating. Nice load of wood at Art Reed's in Montvale. Good knuckle boom operator loaded this load! He might have stopped to shop, or he might have been waiting out the weight watchers, the DOT was everywhere that day. They even pulled this pickup with a load of hay. ...and this little box truck- They were even checking trucks in Winfall, I'd never seen that before!

Happy birthday.

...especially if it's his wife's Jeep! "oh I just love my new Jeep honey- it's great to drive back and forth to work when the weather's bad. And don't you even entertain the thought of going 4-wheeling in it with your beer guzzling buddies while i'm visiting my mother this weekend, just keep your hands off it!" "Yes dear."

That's what it looked like to me, waaaaaay too fast for conditions!

Looks like a fine place to eat.

That's only about the second vehicle that i've heard of that went for less than a hundred grand. I was watching today for a while, an original '68 Roadrunner brought $90,000 I think. That one Corvette got up to 2 million and didn't meet the reserve!

I'm gonna have a piss-up and a BBQ soon, everybody's invited. https://www.facebook.com/pages/PISS-UP-AND-A-BBQ/120291614825 These are some ribs I cooked that are pictured on their page-

I did too, it was a good solid looking truck, with no visible rust or bents, just a few vines growing on it.

Neck strain relief-

I did. When I leave McKees Rocks I come back through McKees Rocks on 51 and get on 79 at the Neville Island exit, because of the construction on 51 south.

This was sorta-kinda interesting, to me anyway- I watched a video of this White- I took this picture at the "White Bash" at the Keystone Tractor Museum a couple of years ago. And they were interviewing the owner- What caught my attention was when he said he bought it from a car lot on rt. 86 between Danville, Va. and Yanceyville, N.C. He said if he hadn't bought it it would have been crushed. I remember seeing the truck, an old Frederickson unit. It sat there for several years and I called the number on the sign to see how much they wanted for it, but I never got an answer. That was just before I bought the B53 mixer, and I probably would have bought it if they had answered the phone, and been on bigwhitetrucks.com instead of here- how lucky can you be?...............well, anyhow,here's a couple of drive-by pictures I took of it when it was on rt. 86-

I've loaded skidded coils in Butler, Pa. in a van before and they got up in there with a stack of short pieces of 2x4's and a nail gun and shot 9,863,004 nails in the floor to secure them. Took me half a day with a six foot crowbar to pull all the nails out of the floor....there's probably a few still in there. Non-skid pads, or "jack-rocks" under the pallets?..well, of course they used those!............................................not. The only thing holding them down was gravity.

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And thank you for thinking of us! Holy mackerel- i'd buy all four of those beers that girl's holding, and anything else she might be selling...I mean like a bag of potato chips, a sammich, another beer, doesn't matter...

Nice! I'm going to try to talk Jeff into getting one of these whenever he decides to trade my truck in. I'm not picky, but I want the 505, 13 spd, 3.55's.

They rode just like that- I pulled over on the ramp at exit 2 right after I crossed the Va. line on I-64 to check them, and took that picture. I came down 79 to 19 to Summersville, then across 39 and 20 to rt. 60. I asked Todd before I left- "how am I supposed to chain coils down in a van?..do they nail blocking in the floor?" He said "no, just close the doors and ride- where are they going to go?" I said "through the wall- what if I bring the van back with a big hole in the side and the steel is laying in the woods up on rt.20 in West Virginia somewhere?" He said "then we'll have to talk." I did take it easy around the curves though.

Been slow for pictures lately... I took a van load to Chester,W.V. I was looking on my laptop in Chester to see if I could pick up any free wi-fi signals. I did not, but I saw some strange names listed- Loaded steel in McKees Rocks. Saw this old picture in a National Lampoon magazine from 1983. I found a cardboard box full of them over at the dumpster last summer and brought them home...yes, really. No info on the picture, the caption was ridiculous because it's a comedy type magazine, but it looks like they were checking at the scales somewhere. Looks like a B model behind the crackerbox.

Thank you for thinking of us. I started watching that on TV the other night before I went to bed. Saw Reggie Jackson, Richard Rawlings, and Ray Evernham there. The first couple of cars they sold brought crazy money- crazy to me anyway- over $100,000! I can't even remember what they were now.

You're absolutely right, that's common sense- which nobody thinking up all this crap and thinking it's a good idea seems to have.

That's what I was saying- http://www.answers.com/article/1181946/20-things-that-show-everything-in-australia-will-kill-you?paramt=1&param4=fb-us-de-lifestyle&param1=dailydose&param2=29738051&param5=10152155151086186&param6=29741441#slide=1

...and they wonder why there's a driver shortage?..really? As far as speed limiters, we've talked about how truck A is running 62 1/2 mph. trying to pass truck B running 62 mph. It only takes a minute for traffic to be backed up for miles, then everybody behind gets impatient. If everybody is governed at the same speed, there's gonna be fuster clucks like they've never seen before- everywhere.