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Other Dog, at least ole Moore doesn't have to compete with Baxter Huss anymore. Did TMC takeover the Griffith Pipe account in Lynchburg or when Baxter Huss sold Huss Inc. to Western did Western get the account?

Western Express is in the old Huss terminal in Madison Heights, but TMC opened a terminal at Concord Turnpike and old 460, right on the corner there across from where Templeton's Market used to be before they put the bypass in.

Western Express was hauling most of the pipe from Griffin, but now I see mostly TMC hauling it.

Saw this coal train in West Virginia, headed west. It should have been going east, so I flagged it down to see if the engineer was lost and needed directions. Santa Claus himself was at the controls. Said he had several stops to make in Illinois and needed a train to carry that much coal, and as soon as he dropped the coal off he would get on with his regular deliveries.

The flat bed binness is the same way. We get paid by percentage and every load paid pretty good. They wouldn't take a load if they couldn't make a profit, wouldn't haul cheap freight. Then you get big companies like say, TMC, and they come along and cut the rates so low you can't compete. They took several of our hauls out of this area altogether, and some others that we used to be the main carrier for we now only get a load here and there if they don't have a truck available.

It's not ALWAYS a lake....sometimes it's a dirt track But when it IS a lake I can fish, and sometimes I pretend i'm a pirate.

I'm glad you got a good sense of humor-or that I live too far away for you to get me!

...or sell any and every part I could find a buyer for in order to finance the rental of a car to get me & my stuff home.

...stereo, seats, tires, batteries, lights, fenders, tanks, etc. EVERYTHING MUST GO!

Enterprise...they'll pick you up

The only other option would be to fuel the truck on my own dime to get me home...and then hold the truck as collateral until I was reimbursed every penny I was owed (including the fuel money to get home).

That's what I would do under those circumstances.

And I know a guy that did hold a truck until he got the money he was owed, in the 80's. He brought the Astro he was driving home and chained it to a tree in his yard.

Damn!! I'm gonna have to work on my image in order to make the honor list in 2010

you're on the Canadian list- I had too many names on the list to publish them all. Rob was number 13,843-but he's on the list. He likes to gripe about being picked on but it's all in his head.

I saw that on 700WLW's site, on Scott Sloan's blog, or his site, onequickbeer. They have good stuff. I used to listen to 700WLW in Cincinnati whenever I was in range, then I listened 24/7 when they were on XM radio. Now I don't get to hear it much anymore but I always check their website.

I must go and change my hankie as I am drawn to weeping as my feelings become hurt; (I'm such an impressionable young man).

Everybody picks on me around here.

Rob

Not so- I consider you one of the greatest living Americans, along with Paul, Herb, Mike, Morgan, Barry, Larry, Larry, Rowdy...uh...well-never mind.

FaceBook: Sounds like my daughter. She's always got her face in a book. So did I when younger come to think of it.

Rob

I did too, love to read. Of course that splains how I got to be so smart

Tis the same with a little makeup......

The other photo was a couple years old.

Still easy to see why I'm the "Chick Magnet".

Rob

uh-huh...yes indeed.

The kids got us one of those new fangled digital camera things so as long as people have been asking what I looked like, and feeling in the Christmas spirit, I've decided to oblige.

Momma couldn't quite figger out the new camera so she took my picture with our old one, while I was playing trying to find the best settings for the new one.

Anyways, I hope you're satisfied.

Rob

That's amazing- that's exactly how I had you pictured in my mind! I knew that other picture wasn't really you.

I just got back from Wal-Mart, where I got one of those digital picture frames for Mom and Dad. Got home and opened it up to load pictures off the p.c. onto it and the instruction book said "USB cable to connect to computer sold separately". Sunnuva-!!! they shoulda had that information on the outside of the box! Now I gotta go back to Altavista to get a #$%@in' USB cable-if I can find one. Wal-Mart will probably say "oh, we don't have those". None of the ones I have will fit it of course.

Sounds familiar.

I joined Facebook about 2 months ago after it was suggested by my daughter (25 years old) and after seeing that BMT has a Facebook page.

I've found a lot of people on there that I knew years ago and had lost touch with.

Now we gotta get Rob to join!

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that's pretty much my story- my son and his girlfriend were over here a while back and she said "you really need to be on facebook". So now I am, but I really don't even look at it that much except when I get an e-mail telling me somebody commented on something. Looks like a lot of people get on there and tell every move they make. I usually check BMT first when I get home to see if Rob's said anything funny . Then on to WLW, one quick beer,flash your rac- anyhow...I must be off now.

My brother and I park our trucks in an old Kwanzut (not sure on spelling, they're the half round kind) shed...mainly because it's too old/small/outdated to park any of our farm machinery in. It works fairly well though, 12x12 door and 60ft long I can get my truck w/long dump hooked to it in all the way. I re-wired it last spring and quadrupled the lighting and outlets. When my wildest dreams come true, the shed will be torn down for my 100x80 shed with everything for everything complete with a hot floor.

We burnt down the house that was out at that farm this past august. Someday I'd like to build out there, but that's a whole 'nother story...the local and surrounding fire depts did a practice burn and I had the chief talked into letting me suit up and go into the fire but the head training guy nixed the idea...some pix of the fire...

...screen door in a hurricane...

Now that's just funny right there

Only thing Santa brought me this year was flannel shirts and a new pair of Dickies work boots. Cheap bastard!

Well, if you just want something to play with get you a pair of bib overalls and cut the pockets out.

Now all of this climate change junk is just that JUNK! It is a vailed ploy to gain control and power. To establish a "Ruling Class" (those who know what is best for "us".) I will decide what is best for me......Thank you very much.

To imagine that we (Man) can have an impact on a system that is as large as the world is taking ourselves way to seriously. This world has been here for millions of years and is in a constant state of flux. Nothing remains unchanged.

All it took was one meteor in the Yucatan peninsula and POOF the dinosaurs were gone (World wide). What makes us think we are any better?

Merry Christmas

Jim

Amen brother! (Bulldogman)

Notice in the last few years the terminology has changed. The ENVIRO-NUT JOBS now refer to it as "climate change", no longer "global warming". So far 1998 has been the warmest year on average, and average temps have been lowering for the last ten years. No one can predict the NATURAL climatic cycles of mother earth, nor should we try to change it. This is all part of the greatest HOAX perpetrated on mankind the end game being to destroy the few capitalist economies that remain and promote one world socialist government. DON'T FALL FOR IT, PEOPLE!

That is absolutely 100% true!.. I listen to George Norrie at night.

He was driving a Peterbilt in it.

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It wasn't the Peterbilt's fault, the driver just didn't know...

December '08 was pure crap around here. "Unfortunately" I was in Florida for 8 days then...darnit. I missed the worst of it while relaxing poolside, beer in hand and enjoying the 85 degrees and sun. The best part was coming home and it being 5 below zero and knee deep snow.

The ice storm around Paducah, Kentucky last year was terrible. We used to go from Roxana to Calvert City to load and they were clearing trees for months afterward. Had knuckleboom trucks all along the highways loading up brush and debris...it was so bad they might still be cleaning all that mess up.

Looking forward to seeing that, that's one of my favorite shows.

I think it's all b.s.

You should be able to set your computer to display photos as a screen saver! Thats what I do. Just sayin'

yeah, that's what I do. I change it periodically, got Pikes Peak up now. Some of the Montana pictures were great screensavers, as were some of the truck show pictures- different from Eva Longoria for sure. But she wasn't bad either!

That's very true but usually best when their detached from the truck!!

Rob

great for burning a brush pile.

Most of them work by uploading pics from your PC or by inserting a card or usb drive into the frame. I've tangled with a few for family members and they aren't too hard to figure out.

great, that's what I was wondering, about the ones on my PC. I have well over a thousand Kodak pics on my computer. Thanks for the replies.

just wondering- anybody know anything about those electric picture frames? I looked at some in the store yesterday while I was getting my eye drop prescription filled. The box said they hold 1,000 pictures, but how do they work? Can you put pictures off your PC on them or do they use a camera memory stick? Couldn't find anyone to ask in the store, besides I know I can get the straight scoop here.

Already made my Christmas list- I ain't gettin' nobody nuthin'. But I thought my mom and dad might like one of these because they like to see my road and truck show pictures and I put them on discs for them, but they have to look at them on the computer.