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the one on the farm did not have the windshield that stuck into the door like that, it had th e"square doors". also has a 190 cummins with a duplex trans and swing fenders.

every time i see one of those hideous looking internationals all i can think of is the movie were the trucks went wild, maximum overdrive.

mehhhh. that would wear you guys out too quick, and then you would not be able to do anything for the rest of the day!!

exactly this. the local leaders were the scum of the earth. made all kinds of false statements and hid their greed/graft from everyone until it was too late. plus about 15 years ago they started giving concessions to the laborers local just like the operating engineers did and ended up giving teamsters jobs away. operating engineers first let the companies go without an oiler. they then agreed to let the laborers run the machine for the "little job" instead of bringing in an operator for the whole day. then the companies went to the teamsters and said we do not need a driver for the whole day, we only need to move one load on site. the operating engineers let us do it, will you? and the teamsters said yes. come 10 years later and there are no more new teamster jobs. so money going out to money coming in starts to differ. soon there is one dollar going out for every ten cents coming in. plus with the mismanagement of the funds, illegal transferring of moneys from annuity and pension funds to general funds to pay bribes and political payouts for lobbyists, and extremely inflated union officials pay, there is no more money left in the kitty. then when asked where the money went, the fund manager says "i don't know, we made poor market choices"

snow is frozen rain. an anomaly that is usually only seen in the north.

union is a dirty word around here too. 32 years in the union to find out when going to retire they pissed away almost all of the annuity fund money. i got $34,000 out of the $342,000 i put into the annuity. and my monthly pension payout is $0 because the pension fund is bankrupt because of improper handling of the funds.

happy turkey day all, and here it to hoping you find a nice fat juicy one.

one of the three 79 F350's with meyer C-8 foot plow.: another 79 with a meyer plow: the third 79, this one still needs an engine stuffed in it.: my 88 F-SuperDuty Diesel 4X4 pickup conversion with meyer C-8.5 plow: the 02 diesel when it still had the meyer plow setup: the 04 gas job before plow mount put on: one of the two brand new western fleet flex untramount II 8.5 foot plows for the 02 and 04 trucks.

a few years ago they built a squatters village on town land 30 miles from me. crime went through the roof, and police were there 3-4 times a night due to fights and first aid calls. judge told the town there was nothing they could do, the courts had to decide. by the time the court decided the town had to build the squatters living there houses somewhere else on the towns dime, there were over 300 squatters living in the huts and tents. two days after the court hearing a bulldozer drove through the camp and leveled it, pushing everything into a ravine. the area was then posted private property and ringed with barbed wire. the problem left the area. no one ever found out who owned the dozer or was operating it.

the 12X24's on my old 99 r model were the same size as the 12X24.5 on the kenworth T800, only heavier. the granite had 11X24.5 when we got it, and we switched it to 12X24.5 so both the granite and the kenworth used the same tires and rims. made it a lot easier to have the same size tires on the trucks, that made for no two different size spares in the shop.

the difference between 12X24 and 12X24.5 is the 24.5 is a tubeless tire. and the 24 is about 50 lbs heavier than the 24.5

8 of them on the back of the truck adds rite around 400 lbs over the 11X24.5 tires. 12x24.5 rubber is also good for about an extra 7mph over the 11X24.5 rubber.

yup, pay that much or maybe even more to have someone do it, or buy one already done and hope it was done correctly.

you can also make a green leaker stop leaking by draining all the oil out of them.

sucks that it has a green leaker in it. but i guess that was all they could find in a pinch to get it running again.

those are pictures of the same truck Swishy. Frank Conforti bought that truck from Hess Brothers around 1990. at the time it had a V8 and a quad box in it. if i remember correctly, Central Jersey bought it from Hess when Frank started working for them they swapped the V8 for a big cat engine after the V8 got sick. then when Frank left Central Jersey and started out on his own he bought the mack from them.

sorry, but no pictures of that rig, the tractor has probably been recycled 2-3 times by now. a union operator put the bucket of a 988 through the cab back in 95, and they parted it out because it was getting tired.

been there and done that more than one time over the 15 years i ran the mackwith those big sneakers Billy. and i am very glad those days are long gone!!!

they had fun with it for a while, then put it up for sale. never saw it again after it went up for sale.

actually, yes it did, and pissed me off too, because we had just got the trailer back a week before from getting painted. that dang mercedes bounced between the trailer and concrete barrier around 6 times before she turned and wedged in between the wall and trailer destroying the car and ripping the paint off the trailer. but her insurance company paid for a gallon of paint so we could reshoot it. 2 months later another idjiot in a caddoolak tried passing me on the right. on a right turn off ramp. because she did not see the 8 blinking lights on the back of the trailer, front fender and rear end of the tractor, or the 4 blinking lights on the side of the trailer. i turned that caddoolak into a pile of scrap metal too, and had to repaint the passenger side of the trailer.

i would say somewhere around 40,000 lbs. and it looks like it has 14-24 rubber on it. with "S" tags on the trailer, we go by tire rating instead of the states 80,000 lb max weight rating. my old 79 DM800 tractor with 60 ton rogers trailer weighed 78,000 empty. but because of the 12-24 tires on the tractor and 14-24 tires on the trailer i was legal for 198,000 lbs. with either the 235 cat excavator or the D8K dozer, i was running down the road around 180,000 lbs.

i am sure it can be done, John Lacey trucking here in New Jersey has 73? i think it is DM800 with a newer 350 electronic engine and 8LL trans swapped in it. truck used to have a V8 in it. when the V8 went he put in the electronic 350

That rig is still in service here in New Jersey. i see it 3-4 times a year. The company specializes in bridge replacement. They use that truck to haul the BIG cranes to the sites.

i have had that happen to me here in joisey with the low boy!! the idjiots see the tractor, but do not see the 8 foot wide X 40 foot long trailer and drive into the side of the trailer.

yea, there was nothing i could not do with that beast. it was in an old "L " series tandem wrecker with a quad box. had a 6 inch straight pipe stack on it, and sounded like a diesel. name on the back of the truck was G.B.M.F. i used it to pick up broke down tractor trailers for the town police. guys used to freak out when they heard a gas wrecker was coming for them..... until they heard/saw me rolling up on site.