other dog

what?..the part where I said I was smart? Yeah, that was a good one!

I'm with you, I think there's some king of trickery involved and they had an ulterior motive, but I was too smart to fall for it.

What a coincidence! I stopped in Winfall on the way home today and this girl also claimed to have lost a quarter in her car. Wanted me to help look for it...of course I told her I didn't have time. Then just as I was leaving, this girl had the nerve to ask me if i'd help her with a splinter she claimed to have in her thigh. I told her my eyes weren't that good anymore, I couldn't see something as small as a splinter. So I got in the truck and left.

A-Hah! Now I remember his name- I ran across an old picture of him when I was looking for the randyp short bus picture.

I had to Google lally columns to see if I was a super trucker. Never heard that term before.

Old Bill asked me a few weeks ago if I wanted a new leather cap that he got from Trimac. I said "sure, if you're going to throw it out i'll be glad to have it." It came in the mail yesterday- nice cap! Never seen a size adjuster thinga-ma-bob like this- It's way too nice to wear to work, i'll just stick it in the memorabilia cabinet with the other trucking memorabilia stuff in the trucking memorabilia cabinet. He sent me a webcam too, way nicer than the one I have now, but it wouldn't work on my computer. It only worked with Windows XP and older systems.

This was just a few miles from here- http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/one-dead-in-campbell-county-fire/article_7c7db18c-ad84-11e4-95ab-5f84373ca792.html I passed by there on the way to Concord this morning. I didn't even notice the house because there was frozen water all across the highway there in a spot about 15 or 20 feet long. It was only 12 degrees at the time. I took a picture on the way home, it was about 37 degrees by then and they had put sand on the ice spot.

I did.

Stupid picture of the week-

All the rivets in my tool box door broke last summer, so I got a cordless drill and some screws and fixed it myself in the parking lot at the shop. It only had four rivets in it to begin with. I put six screws in it- The other day I opened the tool box on the headache rack and it almost came off in my hand- only the top rivet was holding the door to the hinge. They fixed it at the shop though- put all of two screws in it. They were supposed to have fixed this one too, all the rivets have come loose, but I guess they figured it didn't need more fixing- I already had a rubber strap on it. I guess the road bounce and vibration breaks the rivets, this door on the passenger side tool box rarely gets opened. I went down to Dillwyn with a van today, picked up a load of Kyanite going to Chester, W.V. Leaving the Mullite plant ...in a big cloud of dust.

I think everything Art's got is for sale.

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/more-details-emerge-about-crash-landing-of-liberty-university-plane/article_3997397a-ad97-11e4-96ee-97dc3361ebee.html

All I know is Milt Pappas pitched for the Orioles and the big bad wolf wanted to eat little red riding hood...probably no connection to the car.

I'm at the point where i'm too old to fight and too fat to run, so I'll just stay home and let medium TCB for me. I didn't really care about the game either, none of my favorite teams were in it, but I did listen to it on the radio when I was parked for the night in Carlisle, Pa. It was a good one though, I thought Seattle had it won- just like I thought Green Bay had it won when they played Seattle in the playoffs.

Is that Steely Dan? They were great!

I want to come see you and take the tour visit and bring you some hot sauce when you're in Fork Union.

...then there was that other guy on Ice Road Truckers that I called "the brown noser". I can't remember his name, but he was on the phone calling headquarters every time somebody else did something that didn't suit him. And he had turned a truck over himself.

Thanks Fred, I don't run 29 a whole lot anymore, just once in a while. Getting through all those 10,000 stop lights between Charlottesville and Ruckersville is a real pain in the butt with a heavy load. I used to stop to eat at that old truck stop that was on the right just north of Ruckersville sometimes, it's closed now, or maybe it's something else. Had a little tire shop out back. When I first saw those things off in the distance I thought it was a roller coaster!

I'm the old guy too, but I have my name on the front of my shirt.

P.L.Duncan Trucking, in Cumberland, Va. used to have an F model with a V12 in it. It was eventually wrecked and totaled in the crash. But they would go- A man from Buckingham had one in a cabover Peterbilt and had it leased to H.H.Moore Trucking. He pulled chips from Dillwyn to Covington with it, and i'd see his driver hook to a load of chips at the wood yard and take off down rt.15 and I remember thinking that I couldn't take off that fast bobtailing. I was driving an International with a VT903 at the time. Johnny Harris had a V12 Fmodel too. He told me the story of when he stopped at the truckstop in Berkley Springs, W.V. one night and got to talking with a couple of "large car" drivers. They were all going to the same area and decided to run across the turnpike together. When they went outside to leave one of the other drivers asked Johnny what he was driving. He pointed at the F model, with a load of green lumber behind it. So they asked him if he minded if they pulled out first so he wouldn't hold them up, because they were in a hurry.He said "not at all, go ahead". You had about 6 or 8 miles of 2 lane to run before you got to I-70. The other guys pulled out, Johnny followed them up rt.522 to 70, and the first big hill you get to he pulled into the left lane and smoked them both. He said by the time he got to the top of Town Hill Mountain he couldn't even hear them on the radio. And "Hard Rock" told me one time that they had several trucks hauling chips from Rupert,W.V. to Covington, from the yard Burns hauls from. He said it got so cold up there one night that every single truck except one froze up and cut off during the night, even with them idled up. The only one that kept running had a 318 Detroit in it. On the other hand, the old saying "it'll pass anything but a fuel stop" was pretty much true about those V12 Detroits. That's all the Detroit Diesel stories for today,........ unless I think of another one.

Thanks Mike, I did not know that, and have often wondered exactly where Camp David was.

Here's some pictures from last week that I didn't post, because nobody wants to see that stuff...anyhow, ...fish frying in the pan, with the hush puppy batter ready to go next- Clouds across the road- I wanted some country style ribs to cook last week but they didn't have any at the store, so I picked up some spareribs that were in the "reduced" bin. Slightly green looking, but- hey, I haven't felt too good lately...anyway, they had country style ribs in Food Lion the next day and Jobyna said "hey, let's get some of these!" I said "we just had ribs yesterday, i'm not getting more ribs today!" A little while later, they were on the grill. I par-boiled them first in Miller High Life beer, with garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Then I put them on the grill and smothered them with Bone Sucking Sauce when they were almost done. I got what I wanted too though, the skinless-boneless chicken thighs- they're "the cat's ass" as Larry Wales used to say, or "the bomb" as Jo would say. I marinated them for a couple hours in...I forgot the name of it, some store bought marinade... before I grilled them, and they were delicious. After plattering, ready to take it inside- Then, after cooking stuff I eventually had to get back to work, because like most of us I like to eat and have electricity, a phone, and other things that cost money. I saw this dawg on a four wheeler when I left Sunday- Then I saw these old trucks in the field- Saw this structure off in the distance just north of Ruckersville, Va. Upon further investigation on Google Earth, it's a highway traffic safety something there, where they do crash tests on various vehicles. The next day, coming down rt. 15 in Maryland, I saw a sign advertising Keystone beer for $15.99 for a 30 pack. Then I saw this beautiful golden statue- When I left going to Fairview, Pa. I saw a big Mack truck, a Chevrolet, and a short bus at Art Reed's place in Montvale, Va. Saw this great looking tuna salad sammich at the little fuel stop on I-90 just before I got to the Fairview exit. I told Bulldogman that this was my motivation for getting all the way up there. I don't know who Teresa is but she sure makes a good sammich. I parked beside this truck...looks like it had been there a while. Snow removal equipment- Carter Lumber in Fairview. I had to wait until they pushed the lot before I got unloaded. They did a nice job! I need to turn between these two buildings, so they left a stack of lumber and the plow truck there to make it more difficult. I went all the way down to the end and circled around to get out. Rt. 98, south of Fairview. Corn in the field, near New Castle, Pa.

Thanks Paul, Timothy, and Ed, yep, "been there- done that" a couple of times, not a pleasant experience. I probably should have toughed it out today, feel pretty good now, but it was a different story this morning.

Long post there...thank you Brocky, thank you very much, I certainly do appreciate everyone's concern. Oh, I saw this girl in Winfall on the way home. She wanted me to help her look for a quarter she lost in the back of her van, but I told her I didn't feel too good.