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..."watch your mouth son, this is a public market".(the storekeeper guy)

I just checked my books and found that picture in "Mack-Driven for a Century". Never paid any attention to the name on it before.

that's right, I remember that scene from the movie now, "Rob's European Vacation"

I saw the show last night for the first time. I really liked it. They sure do talk funny up there in Maine though - "i'm taking my truck to the gradge".

Well, Big Jim said he was there 2 hours before he finally got loaded, after the guy told us to quit talking so he could get in and get loaded. But he said the guy came outside and brought him his bills when he was tarping, and apoligized for taking so long, so he might not be so bad. Yeah, that's where that B-model is-across from the Go-Mart in Fairplain. I've seen it there for a long time, but I don't know what the place is. I've asked at the truckstop and they didn't know. Never seen anybody over there, all the doors are always down, and there's a fence around the place and the gate's always closed. Lot's of trucks and equipment in there. I thought maybe it was a truck dealer, but i've never even seen a sign at the place.

You were right-former sheriff, now judge the honorable Buford T. Justice said, "I always said 'you can think about it-but don't do it!'. And there is no evidence that this plan ever got past the 'thinkin' 'bout it' stage. Case dismissed". Now undoubtedly the gang leader who earlier fled the country will return and claim he was just taking a vacation, and deny any knowledge of the plan.

Geez, I can't remember anything...oh, it's coming back slowly now. Made three rounds last week for the first time in a while. Took some treated lumber to Akron Thursday and thought I was coming home empty, but got a load out of Malta, Oh. late Friday evening going to Bedford, Va. When I unloaded in Bedford Monday I went to the shop and got a Conestoga and loaded Kyanite for Chester, W.V. Sat all day in Chester after I unloaded Tuesday-didn't have a return load. I did get a load Wednesday going to Roanoke, but it was next week's load, so I just brought it to the shop and dropped it. Then Thursday I loaded treated lumber going to Middlefield, Oh. and reloaded in Canton at Ohio Steel Slitters. I don't know if everyone who works there is an a-hole, or just the guy that loaded me. Probably just him, odds are against everyone there being one, but he was certainly an arrogant, hateful jerk-pure a-hole, like he holds it against you for coming there to pick up a load in the first place. Unfortunately, that's most often the case where ever you go to load steel or make a delivery.Big Jim loaded there too. I was already backed in when he got there and he walked over and asked me where the shipping office was. As I was telling him, mr. hole walked over and told us we need to quit talking so I can pull out, he's on a tight time schedule, blah-blah-blah. I had 2 big coils, 20 and 21,000 lbs. so I put 1 chain through the eye of each one and pulled out. Put 2 more chains on each outside, then tarped the load and left. I was heading south on 77 down below Dover when I was talking to Jim on the phone-they still hadn't started to load him.Makes it hard to be sympathetic when they close the doors because people decide to get their steel from China or Brazil. Gotta deliver in Suffolk tomorrow. And I got started on the garden yesterday-planted some cabbage. Gotta pick up some onion sets this week, and i'll be good for a while. I'm going to start some tomato and pepper plants in a plant bed. took a few pictures last week, nothing spectacular- loaded with lumber at the truckstop couple of Macks in Fairplain,W.V. closer view of the b-model, Fairplain,W.V. sitting in Chester,W.V.-you have to blind side through that gate to back up to the dock.good picture-if anyone wants to learn to drive that truck that just passed by,just call that number. Mack dump on a dirt pile strange looking VW crew cab bus van pickup thing in Moneta. Old White on rt. 20 in W.V.

waiting on those photos...i'll post a couple to help pass the time

As Delmar said "I don't mean to be talkin' 'outa school...", but Rob and Joe, AKA Larry and Curly, might be gone for 5 to 10 (maybe less,with time off for good behavior) for "conspiracy to hijack a cement mixer against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth...blah-blah-blah". The ringleader Paul, AKA "Moe", has already fled the country and is still at large. Larry and Curly are already furiously denying any involvement in the plot, but the evidence against them is overwhelming, mostly their bragging about their plan right here on BMT. Gee, sounds like you have a pretty good size garden compared to mine. Mine is only about the size of the kitchen and living room together here in my single wide

you're right Mike...looking back now, any time spent with her was the highlight of my life. Just didn't realize it at the time. But, hey-time marches on, right? I put the "Miss Becky" sign on the front of the truck shortly before she died and showed it to her. Just used stick-on letters, and i'd never put letters on so straight before or since- they were perfect. Now it's a double meaning, not just the name of the truck.

Just as I suspected.

your story reminds me of when I drove the mixer home for the first time-my wife was following me in the car. Felt like I was flying! When we got home I said "how fast was I going?" She said "about 53, but you got up to 55 once, going down rocky run hill" . It has 7.?? rears in it.

Hey Bulldog man, back... wtf is Rob talking about ?! I think his clutch might be slipping again-they say your mind is the second thing to go. Anyway, I just got done planting some cabbage plants. Gotta get some onion sets now, everything else can wait. I always plant a little garden too. I thought my PC was a goner too, but I called Teresa Moore for free tech advice and she got online with the HP tech guy while I was on the phone and we finally got it going. It wouldn't even start at all at first.

my detector ain't working right anyway. goes crazy whenever I say anything, and that can't be right...must need recalibrating.

I like an occasional cold one...but that's just wrong right there. there's something familiar about that guy though. His head looks too big for his body too.

AMEN Brother! (Bulldogman)- Absolutely!

I don't know why they shut down. Jeff and Todd went to the sale when they auctioned their equipment and Jeff said it sold really cheap. They bought 2 of the Conestogas for less than they paid for one when they bought it new.

oh no,I know you don't lie. But sometimes my new B.S. detector I installed on here indicates a high level of B.S. on this site.

the old one's too depressing. How about this weather, eh? (Canadian)

Now you've done it-next time you ask your GF to bring you a sammich and a rootbeer she'll say "s#@% you, why don't you call 'what's her name',who's aged so gracefully, to bring you a rootbeer and make you a sammich".

I commend you for that Rob-even though I don't believe everything you say-that's the way I felt about my wife. After she passed my Ma told me "I'll tell you one thing, in her eyes you could do no wrong". Now I seldom seem to do anything right. My scanner still doesn't work, but someday i'll post a picture of her here-when Jo's gone to the store or something

So true. I think it's also true that time heals all wounds. I lost my wife, whom I loved more than anything, almost 4 years ago to cancer, but "Life won't ever be the same".

no, it was "stupid computers" wasn't it? I hope so, or i've been misquoting him all this time!

I don't remember a lot about this, but we'd-no, I mean i've seen others-take that little cap off the top of the pump and loosen the nut towards the rear and back it off just a little. Half a turn made a big difference, and wasn't enough to hurt anything. Remember-a little dab'll do ya! Backing the rear nut off one full turn was about as far as you'd want to go, then tighten the front nut while holding the rear one. Trying to turn it up too much is what got most people in trouble-the old "if a little is good, more's got to be better" theory. I had some offset wrenches, it's a tight spot in there. This was late 70's maxidyne engines. There was one guy in particular around these parts who was famous for turning up a Mack. He'd blow a 300's doors off with a 237. He drove a company truck and wasn't concerned about hurting the engine of course. When he got a new R-model with an econodyne he wouldn't mess with it because they told him at the Mack place he would end up screwing everything up if he tampered with the fuel because everything had to be set together. Far as I know he never did because he was afraid to mess with it, because it was something new to him.

well, you should be pissed! how st-...uh... I mean, it's just one of them things. Could happen to anybody.