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We have a Jehovah's Witness that stops by here about every 2 or 3 weeks. I went to a Baptist church myself and I don't even know what Jehovah's Witnesses believe that's different, if anything, but I don't hide like some people when they come by- I actually enjoy talking to Ed. He always asks about work, trucking, the weather, the garden, and so on. He doesn't stay too long, reads a bible verse before he goes, leaves the pamphlets, and is on his way. Real nice guy.

I haven't used this for several years now, but when they make their big come-back I hope to catch and cook lots of them.

You're right about that. But I jumped to conclusions too when I read the story in the paper this morning. When it said the truck crossed the median- exactly opposite of what I was expecting to read- my first thought was that the driver might have had a heart attack or some other medical emergency. Once again a four wheeler caused it, as is usually the case, and we'd probably never have heard that on the news. It's always a truck drivers fault if a truck is involved. I'm on the road 5 or 6 days a week every week, and have been for over 35 years, and I have to do something every day- every day- to avoid an accident that would be a 4 wheelers fault. But we're incompetent fools and criminals because we drive a truck, don't even have sense enough to know if we're tired or not, so the gummint must tell me when to drive and when to rest...doesn't matter whether i'm really tired or feeling good, just work when they say work and rest when they say rest, because I'm too stupid to know how i'm feeling on my own. BP's gettin' up, better go- Thanks again Bob.

thanks Bob.

I've thought the same thing, wish I had kept some of those signs, but you had to turn them in with the paperwork at the end of the trip or they'd keep part of the money. I hated taping them to the door, it was hard to get all the tape off afterwards. If I got checked at the scales while trip leased and they wanted to know why I didn't have the signs on i'd just show them the signs and say "it was raining when I left and I was afraid they'd blow off, and if I lose them it'll cost a couple hundred dollars", even if it hadn't rained for 2 months. They never bothered me for it, or made me put them on though.

I have a "Hula popper" fishing lure...never caught anything on it though.

Jo was cooking again... Red truck for sale in Nettie, West Virginia. Green truck for sale in Va. A big single coil on that W900 KW over there. A big Mack dump truck in W.V. A big Mack wrecker truck in Pa.. A big Mack truck coming down Powell Mountain with a load of wood. A big Mack truck under a bridge with a load of wood. A load of logs going up the hill, pulled by an IH though. Figured i'd best get around this, before something fell off. Saw this in Summersville- kind of reminded me of C&A Transport from "Cannonball".

Yep, a B 275. One of our neighbors had one when I was a young lad, and my Dad had a B414.

Exactly! Wonder how much that will add to the price of a new vehicle? Bet the back up camera making people are jumping up and down and clapping their hands though.

It is, I saw your post and remembered the pic. I had.

I do not know, I saved this pic. a long time ago, I think it was from Australia. I just liked it because it had the Superliner, B model, and H model all together. I believe it's called a B train, just because j hancock says so.

I once took a poll while driving somewhere, back in the 80's. Strictly a non- scientific, unofficial, personal type poll. I took a notepad and wrote Mack, White, KW, Pete, GMC, Freightliner, IH, etc, across the top of the page. Then I put a mark for each one I saw, and I remember that there was more Macks than anything else, I think Internationals were second. I think I went to somewhere in Pa. or Ohio and went across the Pa. Turnpike from Breezewood. But that probably wouldn't be the case further west where Peterbilts and Kenworths were more popular. I was driving an F model at the time.

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naw, that's not how you did it back then- you had to chain to a tree. bigger tree the better.

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A little B53 info, from the book "Mack Driven For A Century".

out of likes, but

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I was just fixin' to post that! I went and found it, I ordered several extra copies of it, and took a picture of that picture. I also noticed it was a Hayes on the cover, not a Pacific. I also got the magazine info in case anyone wanted to subscribe or order back issues. This form has a different back issue order form, with the box for the 58FWD on it, in case you only want the 58FWD issue- that would be the February/March 2014 issue.

I never noticed that you were a redhead before, or I might have stopped...if I had time...but probably not. Maybe someday you'll get to ride in a big red truck- maybe you should go hang out around the firehouse, they have big red trucks.

Got lots of pictures last week, not so much this week. Just some brakes smoking coming down Sandstone Mountain. And a slightly better picture of the MH and IH tractor. Lots of goats on the cliffs of Moorefield. I hope this is the last picture of snow I take this year! I passed about a dozen of these Halliburton trucks on I-79 in West Virginia Thursday. I don't know what they are, but they must have been heavy because they were really slow getting up the hills. They had huge V12- looking engines on the trailers, amongst all that other weird looking equipment. ...And the best fish sammich ever, from the Fairgrounds Market in Butler, Pa.

It's a good magazine, I like it better than Wheels of Time- has more pictures. My mixer was in "Kicking Tires" several years ago, in the issue with the yellow Pacific on the cover. Joe Ditchkus and Mike Harbison were listed as charter members in the last issue too.

The Mack and Freightliner salesman that comes by the shop periodically is one of the brothers that owns Abilene Trucking and the museum and the farm and who knows what else, and he said they have at least one model of every kind of tractor ever made. I can believe it too. They had several kinds that i'd never even heard of before.

You should take a ride over there. 43 degrees here now, supposed to be 52 this afternoon with 70% chance of showers- that's for Lynchburg. Probability drops to 20% this evening, 0 tonight, so it might clear off. There'll probably be plenty of no-shows because of the weather, like there was at Bristol. I used to go to Martinsville all the time in the 80's-90's. We'd just leave Appomattox early in the morning and get unreserved seats. At the time the bottom 7 rows on the backstretch were all unreserved, don't know if it's like that now or not. And yeah, i've had a few little red Jesse Jones hotdogs.

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