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Oh yeah,The Rifleman, Lucas McCain- forgot about that,it's a good one-liked it when I was a kid and still like it! I used to like "Palidin-Have Gun Will Travel" too,wish they'd rerun that.

Wonder what's up with all these dead snapping turtles i've seen in the road? I've seen a few over the years, but just this year I must have seen a dozen! I don't mean terrapins, but big snapping turtles that live in the water-saw 2 this week, one was probably the biggest i've ever seen, dead on the shoulder of the interstate and far from any water. Finally got a good drive by of this B-model on rt.422 in Pa,somewhere between Butler and Kittanning. This is also on rt. 422-the picture doesn't reflect nearly how steep this hill is! This is a 45,000+ lb. single coil I loaded in Sharon,Pa. Friday. It's going to Emporia,Va. Wide load I saw on I-76 in Ohio,between Akron and Youngstown Friday. Took up pretty much both lanes of the interstate. Cooking stuff can be very dangerous! I hit my thumb with the ax while chopping a piece of oak wood to smoke some ribs last weekend-barely managed to hit the ax brakes before I chopped my thumb off. Speaking of cooking stuff,i'm cooking these ribs now-been slow cooking them over charcoal and wood, then I wrapped them and smothered them with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and put them over direct heat. When the bones pull loose easily they're done, so as you can see it won't be long now! Back of my trailer Tom loading a steerable dolly on a PGT truck at the shop Loaded! Token hot babe,for no particular reason except hot babes are always good-

don't worry,i'll chek yer spelling fer ya,i'm alsmost like Rob,borderline genious, except he's not borderline....hmmmm-yer fine,evrythings right!

Yeah, people can do most anything with a phone now that you can do on a computer. Fortunately (?) for me, all I know how to do is call people, which some people probably wish I didn't know how to do, and answer it when it rings. My ring tone is the "Peter Gunn" theme by Emerson,Lake,and Palmer though so that's pretty cool! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUcU2ip3nF8&feature=fvwrel

I didn't know that-I still watch Gunsmoke and Bonanza reruns.

That might be Shawna, I don't know. The only name I remember is a Charlie Baker,I think anyway-I know it was a Baker, whether he was kin to Buck and Buddy I have no idea. I also remember they had a terrible time trying to keep steer tires from blowing out, and the series didn't last very long at all. Ther's several youtube videos of big truck races-

Found this old picture in my race album. This was taken at Rockingham, N.C. sometime in the '80s. They used to have "big rig races" then, but they decided the trucks tore the tracks up too bad and they stopped. I remember a lot of truck racers ran old Sterling trucks when they could find them. This was not taken at a truck race, it just ran an exhibition lap before a regular NASCAR race.

You and Rowdy might be on to something. I drove those Transtars and F-models for years and never had AC and it didn't bother me. But I could stay in the hayfield all day too, once upon a time. Now I can't stand the heat, and being in air conditioned comfort probably makes it worse when I do have to be out in the heat. I told Jeff before "if the AC quits, tha' motor might as well be blowed up, cuz I cain't drive it".

Great pictures Randy, reminds me of my younger days- I cut a little pulpwood myself when I was still in high school, with a borrowed Ford F-600. That's hard work! Seemed like everybody and their brother had an old 2 ton truck, or a 1 ton if they were a 1 or 2 man operation, and cut pulpwood then. That's when the woodyards bought 5' billets and you could cut and load it by hand, all the equipment you really needed was a truck and a Homelite XL-12.

That must be where these fellers are going! Never seen a Cruiseliner wrecker before-it'll be there too if they can find a broke down Pete to bring along.

identical twins,eh? did they ever try to switch and fool you?

Naw, I worked there over 25 years, been gone over 6 years. PGT later bought the company, so H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. Inc. no longer exists. Jeff and Todd Moore, whom I work for now-Jeff (and his lovely wife Teresa) owns the Pete I drive-are H.H.'s grandsons so i've been driving for the Moore family for 32 years. Started working for H.H. in June,1979.

Thank you,it's a shame my scanner quit working,some came out pretty blurry but i'm taking pictures of pictures so it's hard to get them but so good,and some aren't too good to start with!

some more old pictures from the album- inside front cover-i'd just finished washing the black T800 with the 444 Cummins and 18 speed. Notice my T-shirt is soaked with sweat from my hard labor (for that matter,notice I had lots of hair, and it was dark- unlike today!). At this time I was driving the pride of the fleet! My old '64 Scout and my mud bogger's there too,a '71 Scout with Chevy running gear. Had my cb handle on the door of the F-model '79 F-model I drove First KW,1983,350 Cummins more KWs I drove,'84 and '85 models with 400 Cummins. The '85 was the first truck I drove with an engine brake. Inside the back cover-I saved these when they were about to be thrown out at H.H. Moore's. Pretty much the whole fleet. That's the other Transtar Eagle on the end of the back row, and H.H. and his wife Evelyn standing by the pickup. The IH next to it might be another Eagle-I know it had a 400 Cummins-but H.H. bought it from Montague-Betts when they went out of business.

Yeah, a 903 wasn't exactly known as a powerhouse. The VT's had a little more power, but they were about the same a driving a 318 Detroit- more famous for that V8 sound than how they pulled! But, back then it held it's own. Most of the other Transtars had 290's in them with 10 speeds, only a few had 350's. That was one of only 2 Eagles H.H. had, they were the fancy version. The other one was the pride of the fleet, it had the two tone blue with white stripes paint job, twice pipes, and the only 400 Cummins he had.

Yeah, he went back to driving after he recovered. He has pins, screws, bolts, nails, staples, gorilla tape, and elmers glue in his ankle but that was actually about all the damage he got. His feet were caught up in there somewhere and it took hours to free him from the truck, but looking at it you wouldn't think he survived.

I looked in my oldest photo album and found these bad pictures of Transtars. That's what H.H. Moore mostly had, with a few KW's and Macks. Later he went to mostly Kenworth K100s. These pictures are old, some are polaroids and they just don't age well at all, and I just couldn't take a decent picture then apparently. This is the first truck I drove for H.H.Moore,a 1974 Transtar with a VT903 Cummins and 13 speed direct trans. The 13 speeds i'd driven before were overdrives, much more common, and this transmission took a little while to get used to because the splitter worked backwards- direct was in the same place but when you moved the button clockwise it went to underdrive, which was a down shift. The first picture was taken at the old Ponderosa Truckstop at the bottom of North Mountain, near Clifton Forge, Va. I was either on the way to Covington with a load of chips or was empty and on the way back to Dillwyn. I drove the International until I got this '77 F-model. F-model with a chip trailer and my brother's combine. This was a nice Transtar Eagle with a 350 Cummins and 13 speed. The driver that wrecked this truck only lives about a mile from me now.

I did have to look pretty hard to find one. I told Jo "he's got to have one in the background somewhere!"

Now that's just funny right there!

First truck I drove was a 1974 4070A Transtar.

I got the mixer running again today. Best I can figure, first time in 6 months! Took a while to get it going, I jumped it with a Ford Ranger pickup. I used silicone spray, and Randy was right, it worked great. I dumped 14,000 gallons of water out of the drum- shoulda stocked it with catfish and left it-then I made 3 or 4 laps around the shop. I was going to take it around the Concord loop, but there's just too much traffic today. Let it run about 30-45 minutes I guess, and i'm not gonna let it go so long again,i'll try to start it every week or so from now on.

I just checked the pictures, they're great. Excellent job taking pictures of things! I liked the orange and black B-model, not fancied up, just looks good. And the big Diamond T,and the Cannonball GMCs. I just have one question-"I'm not takin' any pitchers of any Petes!"- so what the hell is this?

I take lots of pictures of things and i've found the Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries to be the best. I was going to get Duracells for my camera and the camera guy suggested the energizers,said they lasted longer than Duracells. I took well over 300 hundred pictures on the Washington trip a few years ago and never put new batteries in,and they'd been in the camera a while to begin with. Energizer. Lithium. Batteries.

crap...the dreaded double reply! I'll delete this one and write something else-pay no attention to this post.

Saw this in the truck paper, http://www.auctiontime.com/OnlineAuctions/Details.aspx?OHID=1613005&lp=trk&bcatid=27&