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G'day mate! (that's Australian)

D'oh!

I unloaded in Cincinnati yesterday morning and sat at the place until after lunch before I got a load. Load of signs or something in Florence,Ky. going to Bedford,Va. I called Amber about the load details at 1:30,but she hadn't worked out the logistics with her customer yet,so she said she'd call me back.When she hadn't called at 3:00 I called headquarters back and told them I didn't know what was going on,but I had to leave the place where I unloaded because they were about to close the gate. Todd said she had just called him and said the load wouldn't be ready until today. He said it didn't pay enough to lay a truck over for,and for me to head this way.Got home about 1:00 am. Today's load is more like it! Gotta go to Orlando,unload sometime tomorrow,come back to Brunswick,Ga. and load a load of pipes Thursday going to Kyanite Mining in Dillwyn to deliver Friday.

A-HAH!..now I gotta go find that trench coat,double billed hat,and pipe before I go looking.

It's been nice running south for a while,but now i'm headed to Cincinnati.I have no energy...none. Just feel tired all the time. It said on the antibiotics prescription I got that that was one of the side affects. I didn't have a lot of energy to start with with the infected gum-waited a week too long to do anything,now i'm paying for it.

maybe I should bring a pallett of possums and armadillos just in case...you know,just to hold me over 'til I accumalate enough local road kill.

that's what I thought-you should jump on it!

remember-dull knife = more pain. ...but I don't know what someone could have done to cause that problem

if that's not a misprint,the fuel tanks are worth more'n that .Look at those bulldogs-they got everything covered-the two on the mirrors are lookin out and the ones by the headlights are looking in . Better sharpen all your knives,I hear a dull knife hurts much more.

I'm gonna wait for his report,and if he likes it I might come too. Plan to open a barbecue joint when I get there. Already ordered the plans for a kangaroo trap from ACME products.

I saw a move kind of like that on "Ice Road Truckers",except for the ice part.

I should've picked the tomatoes yesterday,but said "naw,i'll do it tomorrow". Now it's raining,and been raining all night. Not only is the 'mater patch muddy,the rain will cause them to split open ...but,my laziness aside,we do need the rain . The weather has been causing the satellite signal to come and go,so the pc works periodically. Watched Bullwinkle this morning.I thought he was Canadian,like Dudley Doright,but he's from Minnesota. A fine actor too,I didn't appreciate his humor as much when I used to watch him and Rocky years ago,but he's a great comedian-I like the way he talks...mmm-hmmm. and Joe,saw this in the Tractor House paper-got "NoClueJoe66"written all over it...

How about Ontario? I hear it's nice...but i've always wanted to visit Canada. I'm afraid if I go up there they wouldn't let me back in when I tried to come back

yeah,I agree,that N14 was hard to beat,I drove several of them,the W900 I drove for Jeff before he traded for this Peterbilt was my all time favorite truck-had an N14 525 in it,never broke down,only once failed to proceed when the air compressor "come undone". Todd's getting ISX Cummins engines in the new trucks and one of them had the water pump go out on the very first trip-like trucks,they don't make 'em like they used to!

I can understand wanting to get the hell outa' New Jersey,but all the way to Australia?

I noticed lots of cameras on the roads around Fishers on Google Earth,like they've got street view or something...not that I ever look at Fishers or anything,but if you were to disclose your exact location I could spy on you better

wow!- sounds like great advice to me! I like old GMC's too-I joined that GMC site a while back looking for 860 pictures but didn't see any-they're my favorite old Jimmys.

I went by Carter Cat this morning and pulled the truck outside the gate so I could get it Sunday,then went to Concord,got my check,went to the bank,then the post office for stamps,then to Appomattox to the drugstore,and when we got back to Concord and turned on 24 Jobyna saw a little water can at the little flea market they always have on the corner there,by the produce stand.Of course she wanted to stop and look around. I said "I don't want none of that crap",so we stopped to look around. I found 2 "Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" tapes for a dollar each. Made a pretty good score there after all.

that IS a great find-a jewel!

I told Jeff one time I had a gallon of gasoline in the side box in case it catches on fire . It should be fixed today,i'll be leaving for Cincinnati Sunday-it was just an intake valve actuator malfunction (about the third time,along with broken rocker arms a couple of times, one turbo, overheating problems-mostly Cat problems more than Peterbilt)

uhh...ain't been yet. But I did call my dentist from Alabama Tuesday,and he called in a prescription for some antibiotics for me. I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow. I might be a procrastinater.

I like the one with the 2 piece windshield-some of the best looking trucks ever.I always liked the looks of the Freightliners in the '70s and '80s, cabovers too.

...now that's just funny right there! Yeah,Jeff's pretty smart like that.I've got a refrigerator in it too. as a matter of fact i'm at home now instead of on the way to Cincinnati because it's broke down again. It did make it in under it's own power though. I passed everybody on I-85 from Atlanta to Greensboro with 46,000 lbs. of rebar on.Then the engine light came on and everybody passed me back before I got to Richmond.It's at the Cat place now.

thanks Underdog,for jumping in there first and sparing me from the wrath of Rob! Rob has never been known to be wrong(yet),but you don't want to get on his bad side.

sorry 'bout that,I have to drive what Jeff gives me