other dog

I wonder what year it could be? It does have great lines and looks to have been taken care of by it's owner. Some point in time I would have polished aluminum tanks to go with the front wheels.

Have a safe trip home.

mike

p.s. I'm still about 3/4 on the sauce. Best i've ever had. And i'm stingy with it.

I'm home now. Long Island's only about 6 or 8 miles frm here. Took the truck to Concord, now i'm officially on vacation!

I'm gonna make more hot sauce,but don't have many peppers this year.There will be a higher ratio of habeneros though,so it'll probably be hotter.I'm just gonna mix them,habeneros,jalapenos,tabascos,cayenne,and a few hot cherry peppers.Got one plant of each.

Saw this at Long Island Lumber, Long Island,Va.

Thanks for the welcome...You never heard of Worcester Mass ?

I hauled some structural steel to Worcester in the 80's. Way better than having to go into Boston. We hauled so much steel to Boston-downtown and all around-that I hope I never have to go back. I'm too old to deal with all the traffic and assholish drivers there now-too much job related stress ya know.

Honest immigrants are 100% fine by me. Illegal aliens are the huge problem. People who did not apply through the proper channels to come and visit or live here should not be here. The proper action is to arrest and deport them.

For some reason people think its okay to let them stay because life is so hard for them in their country, we should care for them. Well that's too bad. I am not saying this out of callousness but through principal, the USA cant take in every poor soul in the world. Its just not possible. Yea it is sad some people have to live in an impoverished or war torn hell hole, everyone should be happy in this world as you only live once. But there are rules that apply to those who want to immigrate here. If we let everyone just walk in here the economy would collapse, national growth to support new comers cant take place overnight.

There are those who believe that since we are a rich and wealthy nation (although that is highly debatable), they believe we are obligated to help those in need. As if we have a surplus of wealth and jobs for everyone. Shit if that was the case I am going over to Bill Gates house because he has so much money he can easily take me in. Hell why ask him when I can just walk into his home and make residence there, he shouldnt mind right? Wrong. I would be arrested and thrown in jail. Bill never gave me permission to come in. And neither did the American government let in all the illegal immigrants. So why should they get special treatment?

well said. that's the liberals way, "share the wealth" instead of working hard for what you get.

Ah. So I see your a regular then?

nah,I just shop at the one near here a lot. found a good shoe last time,hope to find the other one later.

Without car keys, (I hope).

Rob

nah,I don't drink or drive. I had to walk 2 miles to the dumpster to get these props to set this picture up.

Saw another of our drivers at the shop yesterday. He had mentioned to me before that he had a Mack jacket that I might want. I didn't know if he was going to give it to me,wanted to sell it,or what the deal was. His son had given it to him,and Mack had given it to his son because he used to be a Mack salesman. Anyway,he said he'd had it a year or two but had never worn it and probably never would. He got it out of his truck and said "make me an offer".

I said "I cain't,that's a nice jacket and I might make too low an offer and offend you-might be worth 2 or 3 hundred dollars,and I ain't got that kind of money".

So he said "how about 25 dollars?"

"Deal!"

I still owe him 5 on it,but I think I did very well. It's 100% leather,with "MACK" embossed on it and bulldogs in the lining and on the zipper thingamabob.

All I need now is a big black and chrome Yamaha.

All the stuff on the desk is supposed to indicate you're a genius, so I'm guessing the pyramid of beer cans qualifies you as some kind of avant garde interior design genius. Feng Shui master perhaps?

I don't know about all that,but I like the genious part.

Here I sit all broken hearted, first my radar shit, then it farted. Now I'm stuck working on it, rather than trucks I've started.

See, I'm a poet and didn't know it.

Rob

sounds more like you were reading in the stall at some truckstop. here's another one-

here I sit with a broken heart,

took two pills and my truck won't start.

Just to show that i'm a true trucker,

i'll take two more and push that f*#@er!

uh-oh!..wonder where that leaves me?

Nothin' to it! once you hang them 10-15,000 times you kinda' get the hang of it! LOL! worst ordeal i've ever had with chaining up was just this past winter, delivered to a ski lodge up in eagle,CO had to go up a snow/ice covered grade (about 8%) had everything locked down, was putting on my first set of 3 railers, entire truck /trailer slid back about 15 feet! scared the shit outta' me! decided to go to sleep,wait for the sun to come up before going any farther! (wise choice).......they had an electical fire and the place burned to the ground before i got there!.............Mark

I was talking to a Jordan Carriers driver when I was loading beams in Blytheville,Arkansas. He lived in Mississippi and used to drive for TMC. He was like myself,knew nothing about chaining up. Said the only time he ever used them was to get across Cabbage mtn. in Oregon, just so he wouldn't have to set for several hours. When he got across to the unchain area he had lost one set entirely,broken another one,plus damaged both quarter fenders and tore the light bar off the back of the truck...maybe hearing all that scared me!

I was coming back from Chillicothe,Ohio once with an empty log trailer and got stuck on ice on rt.60 in West Virginia. I was sitting on a hill (of course) before you go down the mountain into Rainelle.Couldn't move.So slick when I got out I almost slid up under the fuel tank. After a while a state dump truck came by salting the road-first vehicle i'd seen.

He passed and said on the cb-"you stuck?"

""uh...yeah,i'm kinda is"

"arrrright then,i'll back down in front of you and dump some salt"

He started to back down the hill to me and started sliding immediately. He said "whoa,that's slick ain't it?!! I'd better put my chains on".

"yeah,pretty slick,or I wouldn't be sitting here looking stupid".

I figured i'd give him a hand with the chains but by the time I got my coat on and got out he was done and I followed him off the mountain.

Damn tom! now i've seen it all! LMFAO!.............some of your competition hauling the "load" of pipes?????? don't believe i've ever seen an OD load hauled on a bicycle!!!!!!!!!...............Mark

I liked the pig hauler best.

Hey otherdog... We haul out of that block plant in Morris all the time. We are their "house carrier" Too bad I didn't see ya around. I've been looking for Gambini all week around Utica,IL. Hauling corn down there. -Brad

oh yeah,it is-I didn't realize that. saw several of y'alls trucks in there.one even passed me in the driveway as we were leaving,right after I took that picture.

Went all the way to Orchard Park,and all I saw was this Autocar

But coming home today we saw this fine looking Peterbilt on rt. 24 between Concord and Rustburg. Took this out the back window of the pickup.

And I tried to get a picture of a nice looking single axle Mack dump in Rainelle,W.V. but it didn't come out too good-good reflection of my orange vest though.

This week I got a better picture of the dump truck and this big red Mack in Morris,Il. where I picked up a load of brick.

The wait is finally over,the new volvo cabover arrives in america this week!............Mark

http://www.thedieselgypsy.com/S-E%20Asia-trucking.htm

Is he related to LL?

OD-food looks good

thank you, yes it was good. best ribs I ever cooked in my opinion.

naw,I don't think they're related,it was a dark and stormy night.

Tom,

First......who is Jeff Burton and it musta ben midnite when you took this shot......or he must be from Nigeria? What kicks me is......me and the g/f went flying saturday evening and didn't take a camera and should have done so. Was some beautiful territory to be seen.

mike

Jeff Burton is Ward Burton's brother.

Damn!! I'm shocked!! Looks just like me!!! Spittin image I must say. Really nice to meet you about 800 miles west of our original meeting point. I did eat the BBQ and ribs this afternoon for lunch. If you was here I'd surely have you makin more cause they was damned good.

I'll assume you made it back alright now that you're posting again; and with all Pete jokes aside, "that's a good thing".

Rob

Here ya go...all that good bbq here and Jobyna wants to go to Altavista to the Chinese place!..guess we're heading to Altavista.

That's all right-i'll load of another big container of it to take with me tomorrow.

I could have unloaded those bricks in Palmyra today right after lunch,but I wouldn't have many hours left to do anything else, so i'm gonna go unload in the morning.

I met the man,the myth,the legend himself Sunday. I was pretty much in awe,but not so much that I didn't get a picture of him to post-without his knowledge of course.

Of course,it would have been better if it were in the daylight,or if the flash worked on my camera,but as Jeff Burton says at least 17 times whenever he's interviewed-"it is what it is".

Nah, there are a lot of jackasses in trucks these days!......................Mark

yes-hi everybody...hee-haw!

im going to get in trouble running west in the winter with the chains i have, an oldtimer cut a bunch off them and put them back in bags, he gave them to me when i started, and said if you need chains set it out.....

that was always my plan. I had new chains,but I know about as much about tire chains as I do about flying an airplane.

been waiting a long time i see. Ran out of Bud Lite-went to Natty. Ran out of Camels-went to Marlboro full strength

yeah,was going cheaper...now i'm going to bed

Were you in my house?

ummmm...i'm not sure-excuse me if I interrupted anything.

Lets see here. Blue area should extend all the way down east coast

redneck AND trailer trash

Any thing below Palm Beach is "no hablo ingles"

except for old rich people

and the fags on South Beach

Speaking of-Jimmy Buffet land should be colored in rainbow

like Provincetown South

Everglades-you forgot GGGG gators-bigens too

Areas in pink should be known as "The Money Pit'

I figured, but it was too much like work to change all that,so I took the easy route...i'm a world class slacker.

for Rob to call. But I think he's shunning me.