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you're welcome. There really was a U-model in Concord, parked right beside the C-model that was for sale, but they're both gone now.

Very true. I learned the same way. Actually a lot of "trial and error" when I started too. Nothing against Mark Freeman, I wish you well, but there's a lot more to driving a truck than most people realize, just my opinion. Not on this site of course, but the general public has no earthly idea what it's like...none. I've been doing it a pretty good while too, and the job related stress is enormous but you can't let it get to you. Did you know the average life expectancy of truck drivers is way lower than for everybody else? Yeah. In the 80's I read where like 90% of truck drivers smoked, might be less now. You don't eat healthy, much as you try, and you never really get proper rest, even if the FMCSA folks say you do- you just don't. And you've still got to be proffessional even when the teenage girl on the cellphone cuts you off then gives you the middle finger because you were there. And when you're already tired but you've got to go because the customer's out of material and they'll have to shut the plant down if you're not there at 7:00 am the next morning. Then when you get there they have pallets of "the material" they were about to run out of stacked up to the ceiling-i've heard that one many times. And Bob's got to be professional when he has to chain up 13 times on a run...then do the same thing the next night...and the next. And Mark, when he has 13 stops in New York and New Jersey in all that traffic, 4 wheelers cutting in front of him, trying to pass on the left, right, underneath, over top, anyway they can. Oh wait- that's a bad example, he loves that stuff. Traffic is getting worse all the time, everywhere. Middle of the day now is like what rush hour used to be. All kinds of weather, traffic, a-holes in 4 wheelers, heavy traffic, mountains, traffic, the DOT, traffic, weigh stations, heavy traffic, securing and tarping flatbed loads, worrying about reefer temps, delivering to a grocery warehouse and having to unload your own trailer or pay someone else to do it after sitting the all evening and half the night, picking up at a steel mill and sitting all evening and half the night then hearing you've got to be 600 miles away by 7 am with that load or "they'll have to shut the plant down", leaving on a beautiful Sunday afternoon when everybody else is grilling a nice sirloin in the backyard- it all contributes to the stress of driving.

Don't look too bad. Wish I had money to burn! Wonder what year they are

I had to go to the dentist in Appomattox today and I was watching for U-models all the way. Didn't see any U's but I did see this nice looking Chevrolet.

funny you would say that- I actually do that on the side! I use a camera exactly like this one.

I must be an aardvark. I write left handed, but do most everything else right handed.

I would take the cover off the voltage regulator first, the points might be stuck from sitting.

I've seen an old round nose van trailer parked in the woods on rt. 220 between Eagle Rock and Iron Gate. Been there a long time. I don't know anything about it, tried to get a picture but it's in a hard spot to get a decent one driving by.

A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money. The first does a total makeover. She goes to a fancy beauty salon, gets her hair done, new makeup; buys several new outfits and dresses up very nicely for the man. She tells him that she has done this to be more attractive for him because she loves him so much. The man was impressed. The second goes shopping to buy the man gifts. She gets him a new set of golf clubs, some new gizmos for his computer, and some expensive clothes. As she presents these gifts, she tells him that she has spent all the money on him because she loves him so much.. Again, the man is impressed. The third invests the money in the stock market She earns several times the $5,000. She gives him back his $5,000 and reinvests the remainder in a joint account. She tells him that she wants to save for their future because she loves him so much. Obviously, the man was impressed. The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the money he'd given her. Then he married the one with the biggest tits.

I'm going to the dentist today

Nope, I see where he pops in from time to time, but he hasn't posted anything.

because I can't find a picture of him that shows his face?

was there much of a language barrier between New England and Tennessee, or did you have a "How to Speak Southern" book?

"now, if everybody would just send me $200 so I can go to Boca Beach and git me one of them there hotdogs"

I thought that bus looked fermiliar!

this is true. and the engine brake on that paccar engine is about the same way as your Sterling. It's not nearly as stong as the one on the c-15 cat was,but it's geared higher,got 3.36 rears and the Pete had 3.55's. I can go down Sandstone in 7th. gear at a low rate of speed with 45-46,000 on and not even have to touch the brakes, in 8th I have to hold them lightly all the way down, so I always ease on down it in 7th. Unless it's snow covered, then I park at the top until a salt truck goes by. Oh, as for the "rule of thumb"- the only one I like is "you can go down the hill too slow many times, but you can only go down it too fast once."

now, if everybody would send me $10 so I can get a cup of coffee...

just save the picture and where it says "file type" or "save as type" change it from bitmap to jpeg.

...and now- the rest of the story.

.I don't get it Ed- what do boobs have to do with a Superliner?

Does look great!

Wonder where our intrepid leader Rob's been lately?..I just feel so lost and aimless without his guidance...never mind, I always feel lost and aimless.

Hi Speed! dammit, long time no-hear from! Anyway, all this is news to me too- i've never heard of this before, sounds like b.s. to me, but I don't know.

If you could find one of these you'd be set- but, like Payhaulers, they are very rare.

I ordered a DVD from Farmington Implement Co. called 70 Years of International Harvester, got segments about the Payhauler, Scouts, snow fighters, the LCD 405, and more stuff. Pretty good video, the Payhauler part is from 1976, Scout from 1959-1960, snow fighters is from 1938, the LCD 405 is from 1952. I think I ordered it out of a Wheels of Time magazine.