grayhair

yes, very cool. Thanks for posting!

This weekend???? Took the seats out of my B20 and dumbed out about 10 lbs. of mouse crap, rat crap, a squirrel nest, and squirrel crap. I unbolted the drivers-side seat frame and as I started pulling it out one of the feet dropped right through the rusted floor. Looks light some serious sheet metal fabrication and welding ahead to repair that floor. (I must be crazy to try to bring this thing back from the dead.) Labor of love I guess... Sounds like you guys with motorcycles had more fun!

Good deal. Glad to hear he did what he could for you. I'm gettin old now - been working for 50 years and ready to retire soon. One thing I learned along the way... Only want to work for a boss that "has my back." I take care of business and he has my back. Life is too short to work hard for someone that doesn't stand squarely behind you when you're doing the job to the best of your ability.

I don't drive for a living but reading about this kind of stuff going on blows my mind. Awful way to treat an employee. Seems to me... a) your boss should ask for a cancellation charge immediately upon receiving the cancellation notice b he needs to pay you the driver a percentage of that cancellation charge whether he collects it or not c) if he doesn't collect it he can write it off his on his tax return as a bad debt d) he can also write-of what he paid to you the driver. Seems like the boss must be too lazy to handle that way (or too dumb.) He should talk to his accountant about how to handle cancellations in a way that benefits both him and his drivers. Just my two cents from afar...

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There aren't very many out there and the few I've seen have already been restored and are VERY expensive. I saw an unrestored one several years ago in Gold Bar, WA, but didn't check on it and haven't seen another one since. Good luck with your seach.

Lawyers are why they are scrapped. If someone buys one of these things with a million miles on it and then has a wreck, chances are they will sue the "deep pockets" party claiming they were sold something that was known to be defective, subpoening service records, deposing maintenance shop mechanics, etc. Or some guy driving one that is pretending to work for UPS. For the releativley little bit of money they would get for a used tractor - just isn't worth the risk. Same two reasons that every piece of perfectly good food machinery that leaves a Frito Lay plant is cut up. No sale - ever. I saw a dozen brand new Ford cars being cut up one time because the rail car carrying them tipped over. The yard doing the cutting wouldn't even sell me an engine. They had to be destroyed too.

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From a non-owner, non-driver - my two cents. I'd say, deregulation is not the real source of the problem. True, government causes the problem but not directly from deregulation. If the federal government would lower corporate income tax rates (now among the highest in the world) then we would have a flood of new employers and new manufacturing plants here in the USA. Our export numbers and balance of trade would blossom. And the huge load of raw material being carried to those new manufacturing plants and huge amount of goods to be exported would be carried to and from our ports by trucks and truck drivers. Right now our US industrial capacity is being strangled by excessive tax rates. Besides truck drivers, those new factories would employ many people of other trades and professions. Demand for more drivers and more owner-operators would propel driver wages to new heights. The underlying principle, the more you tax something the less of it you get. And that my friends is our national problem...

Now that's funny!!