other dog

one for today, one tomorrow, one the next day...

Only made one round this week. Thought I was going to Lisbon, Ohio or Mercer, Pa. with treated lumber Tuesday, so I lollygagged around here in no particular hurry to leave, but when I got to headquarters I had a load going to Roxana, Il. WTF?!! If i'd known that I would have left 2 hours ago! Brought lumber back to Moneta. Some of what I saw along the way- some trucks on rt. 60 in West Virginia this used to be known as "dead man's curve" on rt. 60. Used to be a lot of truck traffic on this road before I-64 was finished. trucks at the truckstop W.V. coal train a colorful Peterbilt barge on the Kentucky river, near Paducah, Ky. a cement mixer at the Pilot in Oak Grove, Ky. a field of dozers a load of big yellow engines The Peaks of Otter from rt. 122 there's still lots of ice storm damage visible around Paducah.

Do you ever race at Norwalk?

Other Dog and who?

me neither

there, he said "ALL"- smart fellow!

Yes, I remember him. Didn't know he went into trucking though.

There's always setbacks that seem to pop out of nowhere, but you've made tremendous progress! Shame about that cab though. I believe the old saying "nothing's as good as it seems, and nothing's as bad as it seems". Good luck.

Dang it! I went all the way to Appomattox to the tooth doctor and Mary the tooth babe was on vacation this week. Then when I went to the shop it was too late to load lumber, so i'll have to load it tomorrow. Have to be in Moneta by 3:00 to load, and my appointment was at 2:50 Then I was shaving off some more Irish Spring in the mixer and cut my finger. Haven't injured myself further since I got home.

...believe I must've hit the nail on the head with that one!

kinda looks like a cross between the blue aardvark from the pink panther cartoon and spongebob squarepants.

how about this one then?

oh...well, back to the spy plane.

I found this spot in Illinois, but i'm not sure what it is, if anything.

Yes, it's just a routine 6 month cleaning and check-up. If i'd rescheduled they said the next appointment I could get would be in June or July, so I kept it. And yes she is-Mary the tooth babe I call her. You know her too?

It's going to King George, Va.- near Fredericksburg. It's probably on the way now. Someone else is delivering it because I have a tooth doctor appointment today. I will however be leaving for somewhere this evening...I hope.

I like those too, though I never got to drive a cabover Mack since the F-models. They just look way better than a Cruiseliner, I think.

I think I could do the half load though...damn that looks good!

I know exactly where that truckstop is-you can see Lake Erie from there. I've stopped at the Kwik-Fill across the screet many times. Last time I stopped I got 2 sloppy joes, and they weren't very good-not like they used to be. Looked like the store was open over at the new/old truckstop, but I didn't know they had a restaurant too. Now i'll be hoping for an Orchard Park load so I can check it out...I'll have to go with the smaller burger though. Or just git one of the bigguns and eat leftovers for a while. That IS a fine lookin' sammich!

geez, I hope not...ain't been over to check on it today.

They got it all around you, on rts. 25, 9, 90 but not by your house yet. I could see your house on the satellite image but it doesn't zoom very close. My place has been updated recently because it didn't use to zoom in close here, but I looked yesterday and it'll come in pretty clear. And you could actually see the house because there's no leaves on the trees. The updated satellite photo were taken in February,2007. Before it was hidden by the trees. I'm gonna check out Rob now-hope he wasn't in the yard in a bathrobe bending over to pick up his morning paper when the google street view camera passed by.

I just saw recently where a woman saw her husband's car at his girlfriend's house using street view...divorce proceedings are in the works. I checked to see if the hot babe up here across from the store was pushing her mower in those short shorts, but no luck.

The same principle is applied to bleeding the booster as a wheel cylinder. You start bleeding at the master cylinder, then go to the booster, then the wheel cylinders.This may sound crazy, but when I worked at a garage in the early 70's we were working on the brakes on a 2 ton truck- relined the brakes and rebuilt all the wheel cylinders. We got it all done and all that was left was to bleed the brakes, and we couldn't get a pedal. Bled them again, got a good pedal, let it set a few minutes-pedal would go to the floor. The old timer there said "let me show you boys something". He told us to open ALL the bleeder screws. Then he had us pump the brake pedal until just fluid came out the booster,then closed that bleeder screw. Then to the left front wheel, same thing- right front wheel, same thing. Then did the rear wheels the same way, and no air was in the system. We had a full pedal and it stayed that way. Just a thought (Paul Van Scott), if nothing else works to get a good pedal.

imagine that!..they've even got screet view out here in the middle of nowhere now!