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If you're driving a 5 speed Maxidyne don't even try to downshift it on a pull until the rpm's drop to about 11-1200 rpms. It's a waste of time. They're a pretty neat deal once you get used to them. With the high torque rise engine you can let off it going down the highway- loaded- until the rpm's drop to 11 or 12 hunnert, then just mash your gas and it'll pick right back up. I used to go through Buckingham Courthouse with a 50,000+ lb. load, slow down to 35mph. going through town, and never have to downshift. Just left it in the big hole, when I hit the 55 zone I just put the hammer down, blew out a huge cloud of smoke, and was off! That was in a 300 Mack that had the fuel turned up a little, and it would turn 2400 rpms. If it's an 8 spd, it's an 8 spd. The 8LL is a 10 spd. transmission.

Happy birthday!

I have an antique truck magazine here somewhere, I think it's one that's no longer published, that had an article about a Euclid in Pa. that had 2 6-71's in it. They were still using it on a job, and supposedly it was going to a museum as soon as the job was finished.

they make artificial water?..I never knew. I'm always learning stuff here.

I've never driven any newer Detroits, but I did read in Heavy Duty Trucking a year or so ago that the Detroit Diesel engine was rated higher in customer satisfaction than Cummins or Cat, with less breakdowns per so many miles, forgot what it was. The "big horse" in H.H.Moore's fleet for a long time was the brown K100 with a 440HP 8V-92 in it.I drove a 1977 F-model 300/5spd. for several years, trouble free except the turbo went out in Massachusets one time. I remember one time when it was in our shop for something, and I drove another F-model with a 237 to run a trip. Took a 50,155 lb.load of Kyanite to Washington, Pa. in it and reloaded coils in Butler, Pa. Before I left I got my radar detector out of my truck and was walking over towards the other truck with it in my hand and Jeff Moore said "don't worry- you won't be needing that!" He was about right- 2nd. gear on a lot of the hills that that 285hp. would pull in 3rd, but that ol' 237 got the job done.

I can't find a really good example, but this is a hand lettered unit, a 1984 K100. This fellow had all his paints laid out, always had a cigarette dangling out of his mouth, and used a baton like thing in his left hand to steady his writing hand with. Did some nice pinstriping too. Yes, that is me in the picture.

well...they've said it all, great story indeed Mark.

and now- the REST of the story...

I was going to tell about me calling headquarters this morning and asking about the status of the red truck. They said it should be ready this afternoon. So, I went over there around 3:30, figuring if the red truck wasn't ready, i'd just drive the yellow one again. Got my check first, and went to the bank. Came back and noticed that the yellow truck wasn't there. Low Rider was driving it, so his truck must have broken down too. I went in the office and asked what the deal was with the red truck- "Truck Enterprises said it should be done this evening sometime". I said "well, if it's gonna be 7 or 8 o'clock tonight, you might as well call Lowe's in Oakland and tell 'em i'll be there Monday- I leave earlier than this if i'm just going to Roanoke". So I called Truck Enterprises and asked them if they had any idea when it would be ready. They said it would be "late tonight, if then- they've got the whole dash out of it now, trying to get those bushings in". So I went back in the office and told Neal "might as well make that call, 'cuz I ain't waiting until late tonight to see if they get it finished, when it still might be tomorrow sometime- screw you guys-i'm going home!" (Eric Cartman) But i'm not gonna say anything, lest I get Rowdy Rebel started up.

Ed hired the taxi in Florida to take him to Connecticut to see his homeys. He apparently didn't realize he was being "taken for a ride".

wow! that thing ought to out pull any truck on the highway. A V8 Mack,325hp, with the fuel turned up just a tad, will leave a 400 Cummins in a cloud of dust...it's true! That 375 hp V8 would probably have blown that old Peterbilt with the 550 Cat's doors off going up Sandstone, hauling 44,000 gallons of pool water.

that's wonderful news, we're glad to hear it!

H.H.Moore used to have all the trucks hand lettered, and the man that did it was good. Probably a lost art now, they print out and cut a decal on a computer and stick 'em on now

...and, in a related story- The unidentified Texas man-

Your spelling, grammer, and punkshuation was good too.

Hi there Vinny! Yes, Narrows, Va.

You done good- that is a fine looking unit.

The only thing I don't like about firefox is that I have to sign in every time, even when I check the "keep me signed in" box, but that's no big thing.

We've had problems with all of them, all in new trucks. New DD15's, PACCARs, and the IH Maxforce engines. And again, I don't blame the engine manufacturers, it's all the gummint/epa no pollution b.s. Saw one of our Freightliners swinging behind a wrecker yesterday, headed to Roanoke. The driver tried to take off from a stoplight and it just acted like it was out of fuel. Nobody could figure out what was wrong with it. Jeff said yesterday we had 6 trucks broke down, including mine. I got to Princeton, W.V. and tried to push the clutch in at a stop light, and it wouldn't move. Had to practically stand on it to push it in to get stopped- it was too late to bump the throttle and get it in neutral. And it never got tight or felt like it was binding before, it was all of a sudden. Jimmy the mechanic said it was probably the bushings under the dash, as they'd had trouble with them before. When I told him it had worked fine up until now, he thought maybe it was broken springs in the clutch. I said "the clutch? this is a new *%^#ing truck, only 86,000 miles on it!" Then Jimmy says " that don't make no difference, we've had to put a clutch in one of them already". That's when I dropped the trailer and bobtailed it back and got the "spare" truck. Jeff said yesterday that Truck Enterprises said the clutch was OK, and it was the bushings. And KW has already replaced one PACCAR engine that blew to smithereens with a new crate motor.

Wonder what became of Tarheel Banana Co? Used to see them all up and down the east coast. Still ran a bunch (get it- bunch? like a bunch of bananas?) of older Autocars in the 80's.

I stayed with IE for a long time, but now I go with Mozilla Firefox to get on BMT- everything just works better, faster too. I don't know what happened to IE, but it has issues that Firefox doesn't.

Here's a few pictures from the first trip, when I took some mats up to a drill rig in Avella, Pa. this is plastic pipe, for water. that device these guys are using joins the pieces of pipe. It heats it and bonds it together some kind of way, and it's strong enough that they could pull all that pipe, about half a mile of it that I could see, from the other end, then they'd add another piece up here. Narrow road to the drill rig. I was on the way out here. Saw this rolloff truck coming into Lynchburg yesterday, dusting everything down. When it crossed this rough bridge you couldn't see behind it. Saw a truck for sale in Lynchburg. Olive needs this truck.He could raise a load of hay up to the barn loft door with it, not to mention the fun the boys could have with it. Just think how funny it would be if his blushing bride came out one morning to go somewhere, and the boys had her car loaded on this truck and raised up about 12 feets in the air- hilarious,eh?

West Virginia...what can I say...

I was gonna post some pictures of all the U-models I saw this week. But now i'm too tired- I got all the way to Bluefield,W.V. with a load of pipes last night when the clutch monkeyed up on the truck, so I went back to Prinecton, W.V. and dropped the trailer behind the Wal-Mart store, bob tailed back to Concord, left the red truck, and bob tailed a yellow truck back to Princeton, got the load of pipes, and went on to Vansant, Va. That's out near Grundy. Way past Possum Hollow Road. Saw some excavating going on on 81 between Roanoke and Christiansburg. And I saw a good looking B-model out around Richlands when I was going to Vansant. Saw another one when I was on the way back. This one was around Richlands too. Looks like a couple of Emeryvilles out back too.(Note the school bus yellow truck in the mirror) Saw a big Mack mixer too. ...and a girl in a car. narrow road going to the pipes unloading place passed by a coal mine ...and a Superliner another Superliner in Narrows,Va. more old Macks in Narrows and it's still too danged hot! got a few more pictures, i'll do it tomorrow.