other dog

Now if I could figure out how to shrink down the picture to put it up as the avatar I'd be in binness...

I figger the job will require about two dozen or so.

Rob

guess he'll just have to make more trips, as it might be unsafe to stack them higher and using smaller grenades might require more than 2 dozen.

what are y'all fixin' to blow up anyway?..you're right, it is none of my binness.

...must be gonna get one of them "ACME" catapults to throw 'em...

how many grenades do you want?

sharp lookin' R-model there!..you should check it out.

Ahh...haha, ok I found it.

what, the latest customization job and deluxe interior? not to be tootin' my own horn, but that is funny right there!

oh, you meant the other thing...OK.

I actually wasn't asking for advice, I was more looking for some info.

Do you talk to Micheal Gully personally? If you do you should ask him for his honest opinion. He knows Freightliners and he knows the business. You know what you want. If he thinks it's a good deal and you can make a go of it with his company, why not? You could probably even get your maintenance and repair work done at his shop and have it taken out of your weekly settlement. I don't think he would steer you wrong. Just a thought.

Sue their asses for false advertizing!

yeah...I followed Gambi's link about the 'puters and clicked around a bit while I was there...

So,with that information I snooped around a bit myself...read all 6 pages. Some hateful bastards over there,eh?

At least everything here's all in fun! Rob's been off on a road trip so I had to pick on you Double L...not that I really pick on Rob or...never mind.

Except he isn't sweaty from flatbedding.

I watched the Dodge 900 with the 318 in the related videos. I saw that truck at an ATHS show in Troutman,N.C. a few years ago.That show is the one they have in Lincolnton,N.C. now.

Now this is a truck!

indeed!..and the driver dresses like me!

Double L, on 17 April 2010 - 12:16 AM, said:

Thank ya, I plan on keeping it the way it is,with just a few custom touches,like bigger tires and wheels,a bigger bumper,bigger stacks,chicken lights,and maybe a drop visor.Then i'll decorate the interior to my liking-I love fuzzy steering wheel covers, bigger radios,and 400 watt linears! Then i'll need a bigger alternator of course.

I think i'm done now...forgot the chicken lights.

hey...could ya do that grenade pic without the added words? Just the big-ass grenade in the back of my truck? Friggin' awesome!

Now that I like! Makes me want to get some aluminum wheels for her now.

I still like the red ones best, but hey, it's your truck.

Not liking that either.

you're as picky as Rowdy...i'll be back.

Nah...I was in the truck when it was going up. Once it was up, that's when I got out to make sure it was all coming out. Hell, someone had to steer the truck to keep it from getting too close to the edge (which was crumbling away beneath my wheels). I've had trickier dumps...I love the challenge. Any idiot with half a brain can dump a load off a trailer onto a concrete pad.

It's all good, though. Company driver that dumped ahead of me pi$$ed the guys off at the jobsite...guess he was either too skeerd or not good enough to get his truck lined up and dumped into the pit...so he dumped about 3' in front of the pit onto the gravel road. Probably 6 or 8 tons that he hauled out was lost in the ditches and on the gravel road. Then the knucklehead pulls out without rolling his tarp back over the trailer and leaves a nice cloud of dust trailing behind him as he heads into town...

30 seconds earlier...

I was hoping you would leave those details out as we don't want to discourage any potential new flatbed drivers.

well, it's like everything else in that it has it's good and bad points.I'd rather do it than sit all day at a grocery warehouse waiting to unload all day where you have to do it yourself or pay a lumper. Sometimes you load and unload quickly, have no-tarp loads, and everything's lovely.

i'll see what I can find for ya.

couldn't find any chrome,but I found these nice green ones.

C'mon man have some class at least make the rim aluminum. I'm a chrome addict ya know.

i'll see what I can find for ya.

Oh I know a few like that. Just don't have the rack like you. GUN RACK

one of the best racks i've ever seen...

That's prolly more true than you'd want to believe.

Until you have to tarp, strap, and chain in the rain, snow, and ice then you'll be ready to pull something else.

don't forget sitting all day waiting to unload at some jobsite and then spending half the night waiting to load at some steel mill,then having to tarp outside when the wind's blowing 40 mph in the snow,sleet and rain, then be expected to deliver 500 miles away at 7 the next morning-then when you get there they put the load outside in the weather anyway.

Thank ya, I plan on keeping it the way it is,with just a few custom touches,like bigger tires and wheels,a bigger bumper,bigger stacks,and maybe a drop visor.Then i'll decorate the interior to my liking-I love fuzzy steering wheel covers, bigger radios,and 400 watt linears!

everybody just calm the f*** down!..that's better.

Mastering the Quadraplex (5 x 4) is a badge of pride not a lot of drivers can carry . Not for the lazy or faint of heart. But then neither is a real Mack . A real driver is the guy who can go down the road with 42 ton in a sand box shiftin a 4 by drinkin a cup of coffee smokin a cigarette and talkin to you while cussin the traffic and readin the address on the delivery ticket and still doesent grind a gear or miss a shift .

I'll agree with that. I always said it takes way more skill to drive a 5 speed Mack than any of the roadranger transmissions.

If you drive a quadruplex like a 5 speed you must have way more horsepowers than my B-model's got.

I've been hauling these big aluminum coils from the Port of Wilmington (N.C.) to Ball Metal Beverage in Bristol,Va. all week. They make the pop-tops for aluminum cans there. Almost 400 miles each way. We'd do a load every day,they unload until midnight.

I was pulling a Conestoga because I don't have a TWIC card and wild man would go in and load his load then come out and take my truck in and load it for me. They had to be tarped before you could leave,so the Conestoga made it easier.