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Thank you Vlad! And Zina says Hi!

Somebody will post this on Facebook from time to time, and you wouldn't believe how people will argue that it's real, it's what they learned to drive on, and all kinds of crazy stuff.

I used to talk to Old Bill from Canada on Skype every weekend. Haven't been on it for a long time now. Last 2 times I tried to call Old Bill I got no response, so I don't know if he's still with us or not. I called randyp from Texas a few times too with no response either.

Yes, that's the same Vinny- U model nut.

Last time I saw him was in Macungie, might have been the same year. He was holding one end of the bigmacktrucks sign in the group photo, I'm sure that's posted here somewhere.

Yes, people vote for "what is good for ME, right NOW" and not what is best for the country. They vote for whoever is promising them the most free stuff at the moment, never thinking of the consequences of "free stuff", that's not really free at all. "I wants my free $#!t!"

I've never tried it.

It is!

And don't forget Pennsylvania.

I said it when Donald Trump was president, and i'll say it now- it would not matter what he did, he could cure cancer, he could bring about world peace, and the liberals would still find fault in it. No matter what he did. And unlike now- totally unlike now- everything he did was for the good of this country, yet people still bad mouth everything he ever did.

yep, i'm in the same boat.

When I was driving for H.H. Moore his son Larry took over after H.H. passed away. I took a load to somewhere in Ohio, I think it was, and Larry told me to kind of look after this new guy that was going to the same place. He said his name was "David number five". I said "David no. 5?..What kind of name is that?" He said "well, i've already got 4 Davids working here, so I just call him David no. 5". I looked after him, we ended up coming back empty, so we went right across Hawk's Nest. Old David no. 5 did all right though.

Great guy. The first time I met him in person was when I was at the nucular pire plant at Jensen Beach, he brought me a cup of coffee. I don't remember what year it was. Then one weekend in January, 2019 when I was in sunny Florida me and Zina drove over to see him one fine Saturday. We met him at a nice seafood place and had lunch with him. I told him when we came back I was going to get the grouper sandwich like he had ordered, but he passed away before we made it back.

We were leaving when Zina stopped so I could walk over and get a couple of pictures of it.

But we had been driving all day, picked up Vicki in Deltona, then drove up to Leesburg.

I told Zina from Gladys that that looked like your truck!

Hmmmmm...I cropped the people out of this picture and just left the fantastic seafood and it failed to post 4 times. Tried to post it in this reply, and it still "failed to post,unknown error''. But when I tried the whole picture, it posted with no problem. So that's the lovely Vicki from Florida with the beautiful Zina from Gladys, and me holding a mug of beer. And the fantastic seafood- Vicki had the fish tacos, I had the fish and chips at the top right, there's some sweet potato fries there, and I don't remember what Zina from Gladys had, clam strips I believe.

Here's the rest of the pictures that I took in Leesburg, which isn't many. But like I said, I just wasn't going to pay $60 for 3 of us to get in when we didn't get there until 3pm on the last day and a lot of trucks had already gone or were loading up to leave. Here's a girl in a truck. This is a fine looking cannon ball. Here's a fine looking boat in the water over in Sanford, where we had some most excellent seafood. That fish I got was the cat's ass!

I know i've told the story before, but I one night I needed a headlight for the 2006 Peterbilt I was driving. I had just gotten loaded at Kyanite Mining Corporation in Dillwyn, Va. I was already a bit cranky because it was late, already dark, I had just gotten loaded, and I was supposed to have that load relocated to someplace else in the morning. I stopped at Advance Auto Parts and told them I needed a low beam headlight, and told them it was for a four headlight system, rectangular sealed beams, even told them the number on the headlight, I think it's a 2A1? Mybe a IAI..anyway, they're all the same, whether it's for a Peterbilt or a Buick. And the first thing the guy wanted to know was "what's the VIN?" I just said "I'm building a spaceship in the back yard out of 2x4's and I want to put headlights on it.'' Then I just started walking out the door and a girl that worked there put a headlight on the counter and said "is this what you need?" I said ''yes!" So I paid for it and when I was leaving she said ''good luck with your spaceship''.

Here's a girl on a boat then-

That's all I got so far... We had to make an unexpected trip to Florida, and we rode up to Leesburg to the truck show to check it out. We talked to our friends from the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum, so that made the trip worthwhile, but we didn't even go in to the show grounds. We didn't get there until 3 pm on the last day and most of the trucks had either already gone- hey, that reminds me of a song- never mind that, they were either gone or loading up to leave. We went over to the gate and they still wanted $20 each to get in, so we just left and went to a fantastic seafood place in Sanford.

That reminds me of a job site that we hauled some long bridge beams to one time. I don't remember how long the girders were, but they were loaded on stretch trailers (extendable), but the longer the trailer the easier it is to back anyway. We- there was two or three of us, I don't remember that either- got off of I-95 down south of Petersburg somewhere, and took this little small road that i'm pretty sure turned into a dirt/gravel road, but I don't remember that for sure either, and went probably 3 or 4 miles to the job site. It turned out that the beams were loaded backwards on the trailers, or we needed to be on the other side of the creek- which we were not. They couldn't spin them around with the crane so we backed up all the way to 95, turned around, then backed in all the way back to the job site. It wasn't hard, just took a while, and I don't think there was any traffic on that road to get in the way because the bridge was out.

thanks Bob!

Pretty much.