other dog

I heard it was a pretty pink Schwinn with a flowered basket and tassels!

yeah,but she said her mom didn't let her go but a few miles from home by herself so she could only push to the top of the first mountain.

Rolled up on this today. Driver jammed on the brakes and jacked it into the ditch. He was pulling doubles. Nobody was hurt. He was sitting in the seat talking on the phone when I got there. We were just heading back to the station and came onto this about 20 seconds after it happened. It took the city fire another 10 minutes to get there. Driver was fine, just shook up. This was his 8th month of driving!!!!

probably hit a patch of ice.

My spies have "ratted" you out. Seems the Mack, although traveling slow because of the "treemendous" amount of weight it was saddled with, was pulling itself along steadily. However the silver Peterbilt, (although running for the time being) was being "pushed" with a bulldozer the camera neglected to show.

Yup. I knew there was a reason.

Rob

your buffoonish spies are eediots- it was not a bulldozer, it was a 992 Cat rubber tired loader!

Been by that Mack garage in Aurora many times myself. I am sure you noticed the bulldog on the top of the roof.

No, I didn't. I was lost, looking for the place I loaded at. I had passed it about 4 or 5 miles back and had to go turn around. Took the picture on the way back. This is the google earth street view.

Another Pete trying to keep up with a Mack!

Actually, I was waiting at the red light when I took the picture. He was on the ramp getting on 64. By the time the light changed he had a 13 mile head start, but I caught him and passed him on that hill like he was tied to a stump, and I had on 50,040 lbs,grossing a little over 81,000. I didn't want to say anything about it, it was pretty neat seeing that bulldog getting it done, but now I must take up for myself.

I've seen this before but can't remember if I've posted it.

Rob

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp

Someone sent that to me in an e-mail a while back and I reposted it here. Good to repost it, it all makes sense to me!

...or you could take the dump body off in winter, put the 5th. wheel on, and hook to the reefer and go to Florida and get a load of turnips to help meet the turnip demand in central Illinois. The possibilities are endless...

Stopped at Casey's in town the other day for a pack of smokes before work and stumbled upon this. I didn't stick around for the 'Wrecked' tv show style 2 rotator trucks pick 'em outta the ditch scene...but it happens every couple months there. Story goes it was a husband/wife team, husband was asleep in the bunk while she tried to get 80' of truck through 20' of driveway... Wonder if they teach that in truck driver skool...???

Sure doesn't take much to scotch a van trailer- they get on the tires and you're done. I got stuck in a mud puddle like that once in Butler, Pa. pulling into a dirt lot at a store to get a cold drink. Another truck had to give me a little tug, I couldn't move.

I could pull a flatbed in there and tear up the grass and cut some ruts for 'em without getting hung up, if I could get over that big ass curb!

saw some interesting stuff today-a Mack dealership in a round building. It's on rt. 50, west of Aurora Indiana.

And a big Mack truck with a huge load of pulpwood in Grayson, Ky.

Didn't break down? That is a surprise.

Now iff'n it did, THEN you can be like OD.

Had to get a window motor yesterday. Put one in not too long ago. Driver's side window wouldn't go up or down and as soon as I left the shop Wednesday to go unload in Louisa,Va. I ran into a roadcheck in Goochland. Told the officer that got up on the step that it had just quit-"it was working a minute ago!".

here's one you haven't seen. Taken when I met Rob in Illinois.

i think iv seen that pic

I think I have too- and didn't Mark say he drove that KW to Canada one time?..or is my clutch slipping a little?

just do like I do-

Something a little different came to mind.

I have a friend who's a mechanic at a shop in jersey,he HATES to see a waste management or BFI truck come in,he says its the leaking "gravy" that gets him everytime! gotta' love the garbage trucks!...................Mark

reminds me of working in a garage in the '70's. We had to service the Holly Farms equipment. BIG poultry outfit in the south, bought by Tyson Foods in 1989. They kept 2 busses in Cumberland, with seats in the front half, and ramps on the back to haul a forklift. The chicken catchers rode the busses to the chicken houses where they caught the chickens and put them in crates and they used the fork lifts to load the crates onto flatbed trailers. Rainy days were the worst...chicken poop, feathers, all sorts of chicken house filth dripping on you...

The truck is nice but I meant the gal in the blue jeans, wooohooo!!!!

I'm with you on that one!

...way better'n the woodpile...

I've been getting "Double Clutch" regularly, but I could ask the same question of "Shifting Gears" magazine. I subscribed to that a couple of years ago and only got a couple of magazines. That's the one the Bighorn Dodge was on the cover of.

Still get "Wheels of Time" and "Old Time Trucks", which is the best antique truck magazine. They will talk to you on the phone like regular folks. I've sent truck show pictures to the ATHS site and they put them online at their site but they don't give the sender any credit for the pictures. No big deal, I guess they're too big for that.

http://www.oldtimetrucks.org/ott_magazine.htm

It consisted of farm animals of all varieties and humans, pretty nasty, and raunchy.

Rob

oh...must not be the 1917 movie then...but it could involve bluegrass music.

Sick, twisted, demented, and obscure bunch of individuals on this board. Guess that's why I fit in so well.

Think that's sick? Look up "Barnyard Frolics" on the internet. It was banned on the ship when I was in the Navy with an automatic "Captain's Mast" hearing if caught with it.

Rob

Just some 1917 movie about bluegrass music is all I saw

Yea I kinda caught that spelling also. He needs to use his spell chick or check. You be the first to try it and let us know how good it smells or tastes.

Hope ya come out smiling!

yeah, it'd be a good idea to give it the sniff test before you eat there i'd say.

Yep...used to be called "Jack's Place". Now it's called "Kuntry Kitchen". If I were trying to be cute and spell "country" with a "k" i'd probably have just left the "o" in there, but that's just me.

Paul is shunning us again.

I made the mistake of looking up '2 girls, one cup' when someone told me about it a couple years ago, don't get much better (or worse) than that...

Hmmmm...I must investigate all these things...

Mark, Which man are you talking about........Milk Man or Post man?

mike

hope it ain't the UPS man-

milk man jr.

I must be off now, so i'll leave you with this-