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A fellow around here had a pretty good size fleet of tandem dumps in the '80s with 427 engines and 5x2 setups, and they ran and pulled well with no major issues that I know of. I could have bought a 1960,61,or 62 C-80 once for $500. It was a single axle,5spd,2 speed rear,no body on it,good cab,just a little rust on the fenders,and it had a good running 348 engine in it. The owner didn't have a title but he said he'd help me get a title for it. I've wished ever since i'd bought it, the engine was worth the asking price. Don't know what ever became of it,but the man who had it was killed just a year or so ago when a tree he was cutting fell on him.

I don't remember seeing any either. I have seen cabover Diamond Reo UPS trucks though.

wow, didn't know they'd wear out that fast.

I took a load up there from the same place a few years ago, it wasn't too bad.

Too many folks!

I went north to Oakland, Md. this week, reloaded in Leetsdale, Pa, to Petersburg, Va. then took a trip south to Dothan, AL. Saw this Freightliner for sale in Oakland- no big deal, but it was way over yonder from where I took the picture. Saw a really neat John Deere combine made out of hay bales. A girl in a car. Beautiful fall scenery. A bulldozer on a trailer going down the mountain. An Autocar with bulldog mirrors. Another girl in a car. A big Mack truck. Some construction equipment in N.C. on I-85. Another bulldozer. Eufala, Al. is a pretty place. Another girl in a car, this one had a KW emblem between her legs. A big cotton pickin' machine in the field. 3 nice looking Petes for sale just up the road here on rt. 29. Load of things I picked up in Enterprise, Al. yesterday. They deliver Monday in Lakehurst, N.J. Good paying load, but I dread the thought of having to go to New Jersey.

Dang, sorry to hear of this! My thumb is still sore from where that strap broke when I was tightening it, and that's just a thumb- you gonna be hurtin' a while!

I've never seen it either, apparently I haven't missed anything though. Ice Road Truckers did kind of jump the shark. Except for Hugh, Alex, and Rick, all they do is whine about who's leading the load count. The gold mining in Alaska show is pretty good though- I heard that guy on a radio interview once and he said not one bit of that show is staged, it's all real just like it happens.

Sorry to hear of your loss.

Thanks Vinny.

From the Full Throttle Saloon facebook page.

sounds like something olive would say- are you really olivetroad, posting under an assumed name?

Here's a picture of an extremely rare, seldom seen, and never before photographed UB-53S mixer.

I added that myself.

looks like it was taken at that place in Troutville that had all the Macks for sale.

It's just a rude thing to do. I can understand people not wanting folks crawling all over their trucks uninvited. My truck's not really a show truck so I don't mind, but the doors being ajar is sort of an invitation to look in if they want to, but I've never even seen anybody in it. " ...I don't really have a way of keeping people out."- put some yellow "crime scene" tape around it.

thanks Vlad!

Once again, I didn't see anything noteworthy this week...except this blue tanker, I did see that. And a cement mixer And this runaway ramp just west of Moorefield,W.V. The first picture is heading west, the other one is coming down the mountain heading east. I did send off 2 rolls of film last week. It was taken years ago because I first got a digital camera 4 or 5 years ago and haven't used the film camera since, until I just shot up the rest of the rolls in 2 35mm cameras I had to see what was on them. Nothing spectacular, just this good looking Chevrolet truck in Appomattox, and one of the old Peterbilt. I don't even remember where it was taken.

...where's the hooters pictures?

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Yes, I kept seeing that crackerbox GMC in the background, this is the first picture posted of it and the Diamond T cabover.

I leave my doors open because...well, it's a cement mixer. But i've never opened anyone's door myself to look inside, that's why my interior pictures are by just holding my camera up to the window and taking a picture.And I agree, I just like to see the older stuff preserved, I really don't care about it being perfect, "numbers have to match for the production year or it's garbage" b.s.

I saw this Chevrolet pickup in Winchester in '06 with a Detroit Diesel in it. I think it was a 3-53 though, like in the green forklift at the shop...the one they never use any more.

striking resemblance,eh?

Good-bye Grandpa A father put his 3 year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which ended by saying, "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma and good-bye Grandpa." The father asked, 'Why did you say good-bye Grandpa?' The little girl said, "I don't know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do." The next day grandpa died. The father thought it was a strange coincidence. A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers which went like this, "God bless Mommy, God Bless Daddy and good-bye Grandma." The next day the grandmother died. "Holy crap" thought the father, "this kid is in contact with the other side." Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say, "God bless Mommy and good-bye Daddy." He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch and watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound. Finally midnight arrived; he breathed a sigh of relief and went home. When he got home his wife said, "I've never seen you work so late. What's the matter?" He said, "I don't want to talk about it, I've just spent the worst day of my life." She said, "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me. This morning the mail man dropped dead right in our driveway!"