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You know Mike, you are right about that. I never laugh at another's misfortune, because it could be me. Everybody fuc makes mistakes, and i've made plenty myself. I turned a truck over once, sitting still. Turned into a jobsite about 3am, dead tired, just waiting for the wheels to stop turning so I could jump in the bunk, and the trailer tires dropped in a ditch- a completely unmarked ditch- I felt it when it dropped in and the truck started rocking...I thought "this sumbish is gonna..." and then it turned over. I used to follow a facebook page called "big rig wreckers and wrecks", I think it was called. But I "unliked" it because everybody made comments about how stupid the truck driver was, not even knowing the circumstances of the accident, having no idea what might have caused the driver to do what he did- but it was always the truck drivers fault because he was just stupid. Things can happen to anybody.

Yep, it's huge now, got everything there. Even made that show on the Travel Channel, top ten best truckstops or something like that. It actually looked pretty much like this picture when I first stopped there. There was a little shop out back that one mechanic ran, I don't think he was even connected with the truckstop, but i'm not sure about that. And they had like a shed built off the back of the restaurant part there that you pulled through to get tires fixed, one big shower room upstairs, and a very limited menu after 10pm. When we were hauling chips and pulpwood to Covington we stopped more for fuel and food at the Ponderosa until it closed, then we started fueling at Lee-Hi.

yep, he still has pins, rods, nuts, bolts, and screws in his ankle, but is otherwise OK.

RULES!!!.....RULES!!! I don't like too many rules...hatcity,2014 I know this is against the rules, but i'm not usually home on Tuesday. One of H.H.Moore Jr.'s Transtar Eagles that got "tore up" in the 80's. Turned over with a load of structural steel on rt. 15 just north of Orange, Va. Took most of the night to get the driver out, but he survived with only injuries to his legs and feets. He lives about a mile from me.

Today I saw an orange truck that couldn't get over 45 mph. all the way from Eagle Rock to Clifton Forge. Thought maybe it was broke down, but as soon as it got on the interstate it took off like it was shot out of a cannon. Saw some green Macks too. Big gully! A dump truck. Lot of welding here. After they machined this shaft and cleaned it up it was too small, so they have to weld the whole area all the way around. When it's done they'll have to machine it again. The man welding on it said he was on his third roll of wire. Starting down Sandstone Mountain.

Probably just so the front and rear ones are facing the same way, you can't get the front ones in from the top. They put them on at the shop, I don't know if there's any other reason or not.

A fine looking fleet.

...and you drive the red one?

Jamerson Brothers Trucking later had KW's and Freightliners, but were all Mack at first.

H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. fleet, 1984. That's H.H. and Evelyn standing by the pickup. I drove two of the three F models on the back row, the one at the end of the line, and the one third from left. I was driving one of the K100's when this was taken, the one that has the stack turned straight to the side instead of angled to the rear.

Saw some Macks, and an IH. Saw a steel mill... and lots of mill rolls. Saw Engines Inc. in Milton, W.V. too.

They were just getting that accident in Beckley cleaned up yesterday afternoon.

Happy birthday Vinny!

Saw a few of them yesterday.

Thanks Joe, i'd love to have a picture. I can send it back to you if you want. It's been one of my favorites since I was a kid. I remember several of them running around the area. The one in the picture used to be a wrecker, it had a 6-71 too, with a 5 speed and 2 speed rear. Then it was sold and used as a grain truck for years, then sold to this guy where I saw it and took the picture.He said he was going to make a rollback out of it, now it's gone from there and I have no idea where it is now.

Burns, out of Marlinton, West Virginia is still going strong. I've seen an IH or two over the years, but mostly all Mack.

I think they were Vermeers, another truck came in with him with a load of Vermeer balers. I thought hay equipment was about all Vermeer made.These machines had a little blade on the front too.

Since it's Wednesday, might as well start a new pictures. I snapped the snout off my strap bar the other day...don't know my own strength- that, or it was already cracked a third of the way through. Stopped by Lee-Hi and got another one, it's already bent in two places. Saw these machines and a duck while I was there. Then I went by the old Ponderosa Truckstop site at Longdale Furnace. This was the restaurant. It's about all that's left there and you'd never know it was a truckstop. Saw the old smoke stacks... http://www.firmstonemanor.com/history/ The North Mountain Motel, and this place. I don't remember if it was a store, or service station, or what. It was already closed in '79, but you could still get in the overgrown lot in front, and on the other side of this sign you could still read "six hotdogs- $1". Rt. 269 now, but it's old rt. 60. Heading west to get back on I-64 at the next exit. Snow blower in West Virginia. Yesterday in Petersburg,Va- woo-hoo!

Even more rare in the east apparently, i've never seen one. Always thought they were neat looking trucks.

You don't even need a helmet here, a tinfoil hat works fine.

Stopped- well, I was going to stop, but the lot was still snow covered- at the old Ponderosa Truckstop yesterday. This is the old restaurant, but it looks like it's now a home. Good thing I didn't pull in, looks like some shrubs growing in what used to be the parking lot...probably grass under there too. I took a drive-by picture though. The fuel desk was to the right of the restaurant in a separate building, and there was a shower room in between, towards the back, also in a separate building.

I don't know Bob- but it sure looks real!..wish I could do that...

I saw that last night on the way to Milton. Nocluejoe66 saw it night before last when he was getting on 19 there, and called me yesterday. Told me to get my camera ready when I went up through there, but it was too dark for a picture when I went by. Great picture!

Saw this snow removal unit sitting on top of the mountain on rt. 60 just west of Rainelle, W.V. last night.

Paul Van Scott had a similar idea a few years ago, buying R models and refurbishing them to resell. It's a wonder some truck makers didn't go with a retro look cab, like the PT Cruiser, Mustangs, Challengers, Camaros, or that Chevrolet that looks like a 50's model panel truck. For instance a new B model cab, but bigger than the original, would look pretty awesome today and be very aerodynamic too. Or maybe a Cannonball GMC, or Ford Super Duty? Or for me, how about a modern cab that looked like this?..bitchin'!