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There are some Peterbilt drivers here too ...and they tend to break down a lot it seems . Glad to have you!

No, I couldn't tell-in fact I thought it was a frozen lake until I saw a few plants of some sort sticking through the snow.

I was trying to get a rise out of you-know-who with the cornfields, but he's ignoring me. I must say, I learned something today. I was looking at Alto Pass on Google Earth and I never knew there was that kind of area in Illinois. There's a Skyline Drive through the mountains of Virginia too. I could probably see where you live but didn't have enough info to pinpoint the location.

Indeed there is-this is a beautiful country we live in. And those are nice cornfields too. I was talking to my Ma on the phone and told her I was in Illinois going by a corn field about 6 miles long, and she told me to "take lots of pictures", so I did. You don't see corn like that around here! By the way, where was the picture with Dozer taken?

I'm kind of the same way-I can deal with cold but not the heat. Not like I used to anyway.I'll be soaking wet with sweat just tarping a load in summer. I told Jeff before "if the AC quits,the motor might as well be blowed up,'cause I cain't drive it!". And i've spent many a day in the hay field in 90+ weather when I was younger...guess i've gotten old and soft.

you hit the nail on the head there! Truck drivers get dumped on by pretty much everybody and it's the same everywhere evidently.

forgot one

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.