other dog

some interesting things I saw this week,like this decal on the hood of an E9 powered Mack (the cigar the bulldog is chewing on has "Cummins" on it),a Mack log truck,and the B-model pickup on the cover of the free trucking paper.Didn't have any more details or pictures though.And,"The Mystery Hole".

Best one I've heard in a long time. thanks, Tom

I'm far from being the greatest truck driver in the world...or the U.S....or Virginia...or even Gladys...or probably in the neighborhood-you get the idea. But when I started I had no AC,power steering,radio that worked-and that was just an AM-no jake brake of course,they were very rare then,and about half the horsepower of today.For years I drove trucks like that and hauled loads heavier than I do now.Every load of kyanite was 50,155 lbs except Illinois,Indiana,and Missouri loads-they were only 42,210 because their weight limit was still 73,280.And I liked it.But ones that came before me,like Old Bill and Double Diamond that did the same with even less than I had-they're the real truck drivers.I came across 60 today from Charleston,W.V. and thought about Double Diamond making that run in an H-model Mack-2 sticks, 170 horsepower.That's a truck driver.Very few of these know-it-all drivers today could make that particular run- in todays equipment! In fact,I saw a load of paper turned over today on Armstrong mountain.

I've used rat shot in my .22-haven't even heard the term in years.Looks like a regular .22 cartrige but instead of having a bullet it's got shot in it and the end of it is crimped.

he seldom does it,but when he does i'm prepared

I'll tell you the truth,on the way to Cumberland yesterday he passed gas (farted in common-speak!) and I thought we were gonna have to stop the truck!

Otherdog even has his own chair.

ya gotta remember-a little dab'l do ya!

Been a long time since I operated a crane,probably 20 years or more,but I got the red alligator in only 4 tries at Wal-Mart today. 20 years ago it only cost a quarter,now it's twice that. I guess 2 dollars for a red alligator ain't bad though. I really wanted the Cartman but I knew there was no way-i've seen them pack those machines before,so I went for the easiest looking item. Then I came home and canned these pepper rings.Got a lot of jalapeno peppers from my Dad's garden yesterday and Otherdog went too.Wasn't gonna make any more hot sauce because I still got some of last years left,but I figured 4 jars of hot pepper rings would last me a year or more so I made more anyway to use the peppers up. We use the pepper rings on nachos a lot.I like nachos,but not the kind like you get at 7-11 with the melted cheese.They gotta be hand built...takes a little time,but not much. A friend of mine from Texas told me how to make nachos-put your chips on a baking pan,put a piece of longhorn cheese on each one,then top it with a jalapeno pepper ring and just broil it until the cheese melts.Very easy, and great with a cold beer.

there was a girl there,but I didn't get her name.I doubt if it was Hilary,but she didn't look bad even in a hard hat and work boots.

This jobsite

It was at the same jobsite in Sharon. It's owned by Swank construction. Swank must be pretty big,I see them working all around in that area,even down on 79 near Pittsburgh.

all these work good.I bought a small bottle of "Mean Geen" cleaner for a dollar out of the discounted items bin at Newcomerstown Truckstop a while back,and now I wish i'd bought all they had at that price.It worked really good,even dissolved the gunk off the fuel tanks.

also from 700WLW

Might have to have your own printed. The guy that letters the trucks where I work can make a decal of anything on the computer.I saw the woman hazardous sign on 700WLW's website,Scott Sloan's blog,and the trackhoe was at a jobsite I delivered to in Sharon,PA.

Hi Double L,ain't heard from you for a long time. Sorry about the gf not working out,but glad you're doing well in your other endeavors.

You have a pool? It's a wonder Rob hasn't come over and hid the chlorinator and stocked it with catfish.

I thought the Irish Spring smelled so good i've been using it ever since. The only think I don't like is that I miss the old gear oil smell the truck used to have.

I've had ramps before. I asked Joe about them once and I don't think he'd ever heard of them. Every little town in West Virginia has a ramp festival in the spring, they're crazy about them up there. I thought they were OK, just scrambled in eggs with crumbled up fatback, but I wouldn't travel out of my way to get them.

well...wonder what i'll do for entertainment now. might as well go finish mowing the grass I guess.

that was my first question here on BMT. Several people suggested shaving chips off a bar of Irish Spring soap and sprinkling it around inside the cab. Seemed to work for me. Some Bounce dryer sheets would probably work too.

how much weight and wind resistance would the bulldog possibly make? ridiculous! sounds like taking a grain of sand off the beach as far as overall effect.

Now I can mark North Dakota off the list. Oregon is the only state I haven't been to, in the lower 48 that is. Can't go to Hawawii because I might run out of fuel on the bottom of the ocean before I got there. Wasn't much scenery along the way to North Dakota-or at least not the spectacular scenery like there was going to Washington. Never seen so many sunflowers before though.Huge fields of them. I left Saturday and drove to Pittsboro, In, home of NASCAR great Jeff Gordon. That's what the sign said. Sunday morning I left the Loves truckstop and drove on to the Pipeline truckstop at the 100 mile marker in Minnesota. We were scheduled to unload Tuesday morning but we got unloaded Monday evening. I got to Williston about 4 or 4:30 mtn. time. I made such good time I figured i'd be the first truck there but the other 2 were already at the jobsite. The load paid good going out, but we ended up having to deadhead all the way to Chicago and Indiana to load back. I had to pick up 4 coils in Kingsbury, In. and 1 more in Greenfield, just east of Indianapolis. Couldn't find anything in North Dakota. There was lumber coming out of South Dakota, from Rapid City and Spearfish but the broker said it was 48,000 lbs (which really means 52,000) ,which I can't scale, and you needed lumber tarps, which I didn't have, plus it didn't pay anything. So we deadheaded about 1200 miles. I got home Thursday night about 9:30. Could have unloaded in Suffolk yesterday, but I only had an hour and a half left to work so i'll unload Tuesday. Ran 3,840 miles in 6 days. I can't upload pictures on my blog for some reason, so i'm posting no pictures.

be careful out there!

oh, I wouldn't eat those odd looking orange mushrooms in the yard-I just eat the ones growing in the compost pile But a true mushroom story-I used to haul chips and pulpwood from Buckingham,Va. to Westvaco in Covington. Rt. 60 west of Amherst goes across the mountains and a couple of guys that lived up that way,one in Amherst and the other in Lexinton,both said they would go out in the woods after it rained and get mushrooms from under poplar trees.They said that was the only time you could find them,after it rained,and only under poplar trees.Both said they were delicious fried.