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I stopped at a couple of scenic view areas in Illinois on my recent trip to North Dakota, just wanted to share the pictures since I know there are members here from Illinois...enjoy!

I saw a big yellow machine on rt. 22 in Pa, like a Gradall, so I took a picture of it. And a truck in Portsmouth,Va. that apparently pulled over a little too far, and the shoulder gave way.

I didn't have another load to pick up after I unloaded that empty 40' container at Sonny Merryman's today, so I could have came back home, but I went to the shop to hang around in case something came in. And I needed a headlight anyway, and some cab marker lights were out on the mixer that I needed to fix. When I got in it to start it I saw a big brown rat-about the size of a wallaby-scurry across the passenger side floorboard. I remember Rob said you could smoke 'em out, or smoked wallaby was good-something like that anyway. So I got a metal can out of the shop, soaked an old grease rag in diesel fuel, then lit the rag and dropped it in the can. Then I dropped a hand full of green pine needles in. It smothered the fire, and smoked like a chimney. Then I put it in the truck and shut the doors. It sat in there and smoked and smoldered for about an hour. Then I felt so guilty about doing the mouse like that I left a box of D-Con in there for it to eat, and some anti-freeze to drink.

Try the Holiday Inn Expess first, because you'll be smarter if you stay there.

ah yes, I remember my first time too, in the back seat of a '70 Chevelle. I was- oh, you said first time in a B-model, best thing you'd ever DRIVEN! I thought you said "best thing you'd ever ridden"...never mind ...my bad!

I'm not a dump trucker, but I don't see any reason why you can't. I've seen several B-model dumps still working, around here in the Charlottesville area, and one in Ohio not long ago. And there was a B-model tri-axle log truck in Amherst a while back, still totin' logs over the mountain. I'd be as proud to drive one as I would any new dump truck.

I agree-a truck is supposed to "ride like a truck".

You're welcome,I had it saved on my favorites list. Barry also had a link to it here,but I couldn't get it to work.

I'm afraid you're right.

I know nothing about later model Mack transmissions, but on a lot of overdrive transmissions 4th. is back towards the seat and 5th. is towards the dash.Could this be the problem?..just a thought (Paul Van Scott). When you find out what trans. it is I saw these shift pattern decals on e-bay. http://stores.shop.ebay.ca/Pro-Gear-and-Transmission-Inc_Mack-Shift-Pattern-Decals_W0QQ_fsubZ277834018QQ_sidZ131090448QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322#item3ca108a75d

http://www.oldmacksrus.com/trannys.htm

OK,but I wouldn't get in their pool if I were you.

Another big Mack truck

You speak Canadian too,eh?

A whole lot of people seem to be jumping off the Obama bandwagon now...too bad they were too stupid to realize what most of us seemed to already know before the election. And the republicans would have done better with Mitt Romney I think, or Mike Huckabee. But Romney shoulda been the man, just my opinion. I would have voted for Hilary before I would Obama, and race has absolutely nothing to do with it. I said years ago if J.C.Watts would run i'd vote for him-whatever happened to J.C.Watts anyway?

I unloaded the coils in Suffolk Tuesday,then went to Dillwyn and loaded kyanite going to Fremont,Ohio.First time I had a Fremont load for a long time and it used to be pretty much my regular run. I've delivered there 3 times in a week many times.Then I went from Fremont to Erie,Michigan to pick up a load going to Metalsa in Roanoke.First Metalsa load i've had in a long time too,and we used to deliver there all the time. Today I just had to go to the yard and get a load of lumber transferred onto my trailer to deliver in Punxsutawney Pa. for Monday.Jo asked me how long i'd be gone this morning and I said "not too long-depends on whether it's a simple load or a complicated load to transfer". She was thinking about riding along,but decided not to. When I saw the load I figured it would be very simple-4 lifts and we're done.But noooo,things never seem to go as easy as you think-especially on Friday. For one thing whoever picked the load up didn't put it on big wood.Just had the little sticks under it,about an inch and a half thick.And the forks on the lift are about 4'' thick.So we started by lifting one end of a bundle and sliding a 4x4 under it to get the forks under it.The forks will reach all the way across the trailer but we could only lift one side at a time with this method. It was kind of slow,but we were making good progress until we tried to pick up 2 packs off the far side of the trailer-then the bottom stack "rolled" and the top stack hit the ground.So Jeffrie and myself have been stacking lumber all afternoon.2 packs of 8' 1x6's. Then we finally found a bander we could borrow and went to get it in the pickup and when we were headed back to the shop the tray that holds the clamps,ratchet,crimper,and cutters blew off and landed in the middle of 460.So we made a flip and went back and retrieved all the parts we could find.Didn't lose any of the tools,but a lot of the clamps had already been run over,and fortunately the tray itself was undamaged even though it was laying in the road,in the left lane.Helluva way to treat borrowed equipment there,eh?(that's Canadian) So what should have been a simple deal turned into an all day job,but we finally got the load transferred and scrapped down,now it's at the truckstop and Sunday i'll be off to Punxsutawney.

just learned from experience and trial and error.at first I would stop and run a piece of tarp from the front bumper up over the cab to keep the water from coming in,but that severely restricted my vision.it was only then that I hit upon the chest waders idea...another problem solved!

No,i'd always pull over and put my chest waders on.

My truck only had one seat in it and it was pretty ragged,so I had it recovered black and moved it to the passenger side and put a seat out of a wrecked T-800 on the driver's side.It was gray,but it came out of my best friend's truck who died of a heart attack,so I left it as-is.They look pretty much the same in the picture though.

the front vent shown on this Overnite F-model is the best vent they ever put on a truck in my opinion.There's another one on top of the cab right behind the three center cab lights.

You know,that's something I don't like about new trucks-they don't have the vents like they used to. When I drove F-models without an air conditioner you could open the vent in front and the one in the roof,put a kool-cushion in your seat, and stay pretty cool.Now I have no vents,and if I try to ride with the window down so much air comes in it just blows everything all over the cab.If the AC quits,you're just screwed!

I think that's him right there.

now you know what to do-leave them some peanut butter snack crackers and put antifreeze in their pool.

let's see- bucket can dowel perpindicular peanut butter ramp...crap,just send me a picture when you make yours!