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I like Howes myself, works good and tastes great. ...just kidding, DO NOT DRINK IT!..good stuff for your fuel though.
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I like cold...I just don't like the snow!
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Saw a few Burns trucks this week at the truckstop at exit 161 on I-64 in West Virginia, including the rare blue unit. I've seen a red one too, but most are Mack green, even the International. This is a shot of Burns' yard located on rt. 60 at Sam Black Church, W.V. I believe they still have the yard and main office in Marlinton, but i'm not sure. They opened this yard a few years ago, and they haul pulpwood from the Westvaco yard a few miles west of here in Rupert to the paper mill in Covington. The story in "Wheels of Time" a few years ago said they lost a lot of stuff in a flood at Marlinton.
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1987 Mack Twin Stick
other dog replied to jaspencer's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Swishy has several more trans. models and shift pattern pages in his gallery. -
1987 Mack Twin Stick
other dog replied to jaspencer's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
yessir, I believe Swishy is Australian. -
1987 Mack Twin Stick
other dog replied to jaspencer's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
from Swishy's gallery- http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images§ion=viewimage&img=5586 -
couldn't say, probably the 8V-71 318. Looks like a V8 emblem on the hood.
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Years ago Roadway (called big R) was the butt of all the jokes, then it was J.B.Hunt, then Swift... just insinuating that they didn't have enough sense to know which end of the truck was which unless it was painted a different color...I know, it's not funny. hope this explanation helps. my favorite- why'd the big R driver leave his wife? He came home and found her sitting on a trashcan eating a cornflake with a pie in each hand...now that's funny!
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I was looking around on Hank's and the captions said some had 6V92TT Detroits.
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I remember them very well, especially the R-models with Detroit Diesels in them. Old "Big R" joke- why does Roadway paint the fenders on their trucks blue?..so the drivers know which end goes under the trailer.
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I could always take the mixer off and put a fifth wheel on it. Plenty of room for a sleeper too...and I think it's slow going up Sandstone with 46,500 lbs. on now! Maybe I should just run local with it.
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installed it already I see. Looks great.
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true true true/no false- I get paid by percentage. If I don't haul any loads I don't get paid, regardless of whether the truck is broke down or just that freight is slow.
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I'm a company driver and I don't have the exact figures in front of me but I made quite a bit less than last year.
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Got an e-mail from Andrew in Australia this morning. He sent some pictures of some old car carriers and I recognized them from Hank's Truck Pictures. Went back to Hank's and looked at the whole collection- 7 pages. Lots of really great old pictures, including lots of Macks. This one's carrying a load of Packards. http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/john_jurkowski_trucks.htm
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That's "A" Coronado. Only got the one and Todd owns it himself. I drove it back to the shop from Carter Cat once, when I was dropping mine off at Cat.
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Amen brother! (Bulldogman) Thank you very much indeed.
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This appears to be an all Mack fleet. Took this on rt. 422 in Pa. somewhere between Kittaning and Ebensburg. Sign says Appalachian...something or other. Look to be oilfield exploration trucks?
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yeah...what they said.
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No doubt, they get around. Might see one most anywhere. There was a good story in "Wheels of Time" about Burns a year or two ago. Jeff and Todd know Mr. Burns. They were the first trucking co. around here to use Quaalcom that I know of. They'd come into the mill in Covington in a brand new Mack on a hot summer day and get in the chip line and sit under the trailer in the shade because they weren't allowed to idle the trucks to run the air conditioner-and this was 25 or 30 years ago. Very few of H.H.'s trucks even had a working AC at the time.
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Oh yeah, I see Burns trucks all the time. They've been hauling chips and pulpwood to Westvaco in Covington for years and years, and you might see them hauling lumber on any pig path in West Virginia. I don't know about HMX either, haven't seen any for a while but that doesn't mean they're not still in business. I was just looking at them on Hanks truck pictures yesterday. One of Todd's trucks is on Hank's too. It's an old picture, Todd traded this truck for another Coronado a couple years ago.
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It's all over now. I told Bulldogman the vols were going down like a cold budweiser on a hot August night.
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I'm watching the Va. Tech- Tennessee game now, i'm going to bed when it's over. It's not looking good for the volunteers- it's 37-14 VT with just over 2 minutes to go. But they only need 3 touchdowns and a field goal to win it, i'll watch the rest of it.
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they might know Bill. He had some great stories about trucking around in that part of Canada. I liked the one about the trip up rt. 41 to Pembroke with a load of cement.
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No, the Gorilla Grease is sold separately.
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