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but what's more popular in Australia, monkey grip or gorilla tape?

I actually have a decent hammer around here somewhere, probably buried under a pile of something in the shed. Most everything else is.

I had a headliner with my truck and never bothered to put it in. I guess it's still at the body shop where I got the fenders painted.That's where I left it, I really ought to go get it.

actually I sawed them all with my trusty Homelite XL12 chain saw! ...and when I did finally figure out which way to turn the hammer I found I could drive a nail twice as fast as I did at first. By the way, if you need any help in the building binness, i'm experienced now-and I have a hammer.

I was just browsing around Hank's today and came across some really neat looking Macks, and a twin steer KW that looked pretty awesome...

yeah Mike, been kinda slow. I'm loaded now to deliver Monday-loaded yesterday, so I'm home today puttering around, and browsing Hank's truck pictures. That's always good entertainment for a while. I've only made one trip for 3 weeks in a row now.

I agree Mike, I've met lots of good people on this site that I consider good friends even though I've never actually met them. Rarely do you here a discouraging word here, or people putting others or their trucks down. Sometimes you do, but for the most part lots of people just trying to help each other out. And of course after a while you know people well enough to know when they're joking and when they're not. I've heard there are some on here that are just full of b.s. but I have no idea who that might be. Probly' that nocluejoe...

see also http://www.truckpaper.com/ , they had quite a few, and http://oldmacks.com/trucks.htm , they always have B-models for sale. And don't forget http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm for pictures-there's thousands of truck pictures here.

Things must be slow around here, this is the third week in a row that I only made one turn. I went to Fremont, Oh. Monday and had to layover a night before I got a load back. Ended up loading 9 skidded coils in Hubbard, Oh. going to Orange, Va. After I unloaded in Orange yesterday I went to Petersburg and loaded for Roxana, Il. to deliver Monday. Loaded with H piling, going to a refinery. The rules they sent said drivers must be clean shaven, I guess in case you have to put a gas max on. I took it anyway. Got in some ice road trucking Tuesday night on the way from Monroeville to Hubbard. Freezing rain the whole way. Saw many cars in the ditch and in the median from just west of Lodi over to Akron. I just eased along and had no problem, but it was pretty amazing to watch cars spin out and go off the road. You could see it happening, but nobody seemed to slow down-one would go off the road, next car would come along like nothing happened, hit the brakes and do the same thing. On one hill about a mile or so west of Lodi on rt. 42 there was about 6 or 8 cars off the road in a stretch of maybe a quarter of a mile. I had to get over by the guardrail on the right to squeeze by one car that was crossways in the left lane, and had about half of the right lane blocked too. I was empty, even though being loaded doesn't help you a lot on ice, and I never spun once. Evidently they didn't realize it was slick and were just going too fast when they figured it out. My first clue came when the rain was freezing on the windshield from the time I left Monroeville about 5 o'clock that evening. By the time I got to Lodi the mirrors, hood, antennas, sun visor-everything I could see-had a thick coating of ice on it, so I suspected the road might be slick too. Nary a salt truck did I see until I got on I-76 at Lodi. Took a few pictures this week too, nothing very exciting though- the dog dancing with his donkey, tarping loads-like the song says,it's a dirty job-but someone's got to do it! Then your kyanite will be dry and your steel will still shine when you arrive at your destination. a sign on a trailer on rt. 422 near New Castle-I just like it! old digger machine on 422 near Kittaning, Pa. ice south of Altoona I'm also a master carpenter-I even have a hammer

Hey Ray, haven't heard from you for a while! You kinda got all this started for me- ''Ray's blog-cops and trucker stories''...one of my favorites

by the way,happy birthday AusChris!

gee... . all I said was ''gee'' when you were putting down someone else's equipment, don't usually see that on here.

sounds nasty, rat stew!

you could turn your Toyoter into one of these Only reason I don't do the Ranger like it is it isn't paid for yet, otherwise...

then you apply the gorilla tape and reinflate. you can wait 'til later to do a better repair with the monkey grip kit.

great, thanks a lot!-I won't need the batteries, got plenty of Duracells in all sizes...love those french maid outfits!

I have no idea, but since nobody's replied...Rob? ...he's probably at Red Lobster, i'm sure he'll get back to you soon

First truck I drove was a '74 Transtar, then a '78 Astro, then another '74 Transtar, then a '77 F-model, 79 F-model...now it's 30 years later-wtf?!!

If it did leak i'm sure he'd be the one to know how to fix it by the way, love that emoticon-reminds me of home!

I've never driven one of course, but I don't see a thing wrong with the looks of it. I used to like a cabover too, but I haven't driven one for so long I don't know if I could keep one out of the ditch now

Nice looking stein, at least you can use that, but that little dab of coal doesn't look like it'll keep you warm very long-I figured you'd get at least a tandem dump truck load of coal maybe you weren't bad enough?

Amen brother! (Bulldog man)