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It remains a mystery...perhaps an alien abduction case.

Of course- if it's on the internet, it's got to be true. I heard that on the TV.

I don't need anything moved to Texas, but i'd hate to see you miss your wedding so i'll donate a few bucks to the RowdyRebel'sweddingfunddrive.

you're not in Brisbane, you're in New Hampster- says so right there.

Not much to be seen this week, been running mill rolls from Petersburg, Va. to Milton, W.V. all week. I should be in Milton right now, but I had to wait 10 hours last night while they finished cutting the second roll. Got there about 4:30-quarter to 5 yesterday evening and left this morning at 4am. Went straight to Petersburg and unloaded and loaded up another one, which i'll just take up there Monday. The wind has been wicked all week, not just Tuesday. I think yesterday was the worst- weather channel in Lewisburg said there were gusts up to 55mph. Here's a picture of the wind blowing- ...OK, moving on- I did get a better picture. Neat looking tall skinny house in Iron Gate, Va. Even has a red and yellow Smart Car in the driveway. Saw this parking lot coming down Sandstone Mountain with his trailer brakes smoking. He went in the runaway ramp- I was talking to NoClueJoe66 on the phone and watching in the mirror, I think he managed to get it stopped on the edge of the escape ramp without getting over in the pea gravel. He wasn't going all that fast, and if you get in the gravel you aren't coming out without a wrecker, and probably a substantional bill. Fueled at Lee-Hi- lot different now than in Mark's picture, and I didn't even get all of it in the picture. Saw one of those SGT trucks this morning. The Mack trucks lined up at the mill. They load beams on these trailers up there where the Big Red Taylor is and carry them out to the yard where they're stockpiled. The gps- A while back A driver going west on 460 asked me if I knew where the sawmill he was going to in Blackstone was. I told him "yeah, just turn left at the first Blackstone exit, it's rt.460 business, sawmill's a little ways on the left." Then he said "oh, never mind, my gps said to turn here." So he turned there... It was still 15 miles to Blackstone. He should have turned here- There's the sawmill he was looking for, up there on the left.

I usually put at least three chains and three straps on the rolls. Can't use chains on the ring or the part that goes in the bearings, so I try to get a strap across the ring and one on each side of the ring. No telling how long the bar was cracked, might have put too much pressure on a load of lumber.

Wonderful...but I was really hoping to win the new Chevette, must have been behind door no. 2.

Wow! That's pretty rough to have to deal with there.

oh...I meant no clue as in "I have no clue"- you can just mail me my prize-woo-hoo!

That's what I was saying about "stuff happens", you try to be careful, but it can happen to anybody. I loaded a load of sheetrock in Philadelphia one Friday morning in 1980 and unloaded in Fredericksburg, Va. that afternoon. I was driving an '84 K100, going across rt. 20 over to Orange, where i'd take 15 south to go home. It was raining and a car pulled out in front of me from a store. I hit the brakes and started sliding, got off the brakes, car still sitting there, jump on the brakes again, see I won't be able to stop in time, so I got off the brakes to pass in the left turn lane, and sure enough- the car decides to turn left. I nailed him in the left rear quarter panel, and I also got a ticket. Just bent the bumper a little on the truck, I drove it on home. Probably totaled that p.o.s. Cordova I hit. He shouldn't have pulled out, and when he did he shouldn't have been lollygagging around. They go by the "big truck rule" there, which states "Whenever there's an accident involving a big truck, the big truck is automatically at fault, regardless of the circumstances".

Saw this IH today. And this car- i'll get a better picture of this, it's sitting out here at the stop sign. I took a rooma-zoom-zoom drive-by today in the pickup.

Got a nice package in the mail, some pictures and and brochures of a D860 GMC. I put it in the corner cabinet with my truck stuff, at least for the time being. Thanks Joe Ditchkus, thank you very much indeed.

No Clue.

Got one of these on it, not visible in the picture.

Not really Vinny, it was on a page called American Trucks,Past and Present.

Saw this on facebook.

took some concrete pipe to a new landfill they were building off of rt. 100 north of Dublin,Va. They had to pick the back of the trailer up with a chain hooked to the bucket of a track hoe and swing it out over nothing but air while we turned around.

I certainly wouldn't do it again, restriction or not!..unless I absolutely had to- no place to be in a truck for sure.

I was hauling big concrete pipe to Shinnston, W.V. once. 84 inch, biggest they made. Had to haul them on a drop deck trailer because they were so big, and I was rounding a curve and had to take part of the wrong lane to make it around and clear everything, but I met a car and had to get back in my lane. When I did the trailer tire caught a rock that was sticking out and blew the tire and bent the wheel beyond repair too. Stuff happens...

This was rt. 16 down near Marion, Va. Crookedest road i've ever been on I do believe! No way to stay on your side, mountain on one side, edge of a cliff on the other. google earth image-

I probably won't be home Tuesday, so... This was unit no. 72, owned by F.L.Moore, leased to H.H.Moore. 1974 Transtar with a VT903, 13 spd. This was around 1980, wreck happened on rt. 604 between Troutville and rt. 460. The road is now 220 alternate. It was a 2 lane at the time, and a Toyota Corolla crossed the center line and hit the truck head-on. Didn't hurt the truck driver, the boy in the car was killed. It was thought to be a suicide, the truck driver, who is still with F.L.Moore and Sons by the way, said he could see him grinning in the car right up until the impact. That's part of the car stuck in the truck's grill.

It's nice to be able to go to places you've been before, like I do most of the time. But there was a first time I went to everywhere i've ever been too, as it is for everyone. Jobsite deliveries are the worst, some of the places we've taken the crane mats to in West Virginia and Pa. are not good places to be in a truck either, they might be off on some dirt road in the middle of nowhere, but you have to do it. About all you can do is call the job site and hope they give you good directions. I went across rt. 16 from rt. 42 back over to I-81 once, not knowing any better. It was down right scary! Now it has a 35' length restriction on it but it didn't when I went across it.

Rant for the day- Did anybody happen to see or hear the Nationwide race yesterday? I was listening on the xm in the pickup on the way back from Altavista yesterday. Some rock band sang the national anthem before the start, don't remember their name, i'd never even heard of them before. But it was the worst i'd ever heard- they made Roseanne Barr's version from several years ago sound good. I mean it was barely recognizable- I told Jo that somebody should have been standing off to the side with a big hook on a long pole and snatched the singer away from the microphone. That's one song that I just think should be sung like it's written, especially before a nationally televised event- they can do what they want in their basement. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith did a fine job of it before, he sounded like Steven Tyler but he sang it like it's supposed to be sung.