tjc transport

back in my lowboy piloting days, all i ran were DM800's, and they all had 237's and mud stick transmissions with 12X24 rubber, . trailer was an old Rodgers 100 ton unit with 10 X 23 deck, and it ran 14X24 tires on the tandem axles. i would move anything with that rig, including 14 foot blade D8's and 245 excavators. never worried about speed because with something that big i never went over 25 MPH. with the "S" tags, i was legal for 225,000 lbs, and regularly hovered rite around 200 to 210k lbs.. when not in the lowboy i was usually in a 73 DM with 237 and a quad box. until they finally bought me a brand new 1988 R model with 350 and mud stick trans tandem dump.

what year is the Falcon?

OJO Trucking in Sayerville NJ still runs 5 DM800 tandems. oldest is i beleive an 83, newest is a 88. i remember one of the guys that parked in our yard back in the late 80's had a first year DM800, it was on a B81 frame. big old tank, but you could not get it stuck with the automatic trans that was transplanted in it. i want to say it was a 1966, but not sure on that.

local towing company here had one for many many years with a 12V71 under the hood. he used to to haul broke down tractor trailers for the town tow list. .

i see that all the time in new yawk city. the red lights there are only for the out of staters. people from new yawk can do what ever they want at traffic lights.

from the line of dark liquid trailing from off the road to under the last vehicle, i am going to bet rod through the block with engine parts in the road that caused the flat tires on the other cars.

it probably happend at night and by the time they got to dislodging it from under the bridge it was daylight. that is usually how it winds up here. we can not remove the body until the overpass is inspected by engineers and deemed safe for removal.

more like road being repaved and the dumbass never put the body down after leaving the paver. i see it 2-3 times a year on our major roads here in New Jersey.

that is not a thingamabob. it is a thingamajig. a thingamabob has the knob on top of the lever, a thingamajig has the knob in the middle of the lever.

they sure do!! usually takes 4 men 3-4 days of welding to make it one piece.

it looks like the body of a Caterpillar 777-D

and let me guess, star transport only hauls alcohol, rite?

i had a guy try that yesterday in static island. he had to lock up the brakes when he realized he was not going to make it, and almost got hit head on by a NYC sanitation truck who did not slow down. the was nothing i could do, it was a two lane with no shoulder so i could not move over even if i wanted to.

the bed up light and buzzer are one of the first thing people disconnect, because they are freaking idiots that should not be allowed to drive a truck!!

with the Ford Superduty instrument cluster, i am going to go out on a limb here and say it is powered by a Powerstroke diesel, and sitting on a Ford Superduty dually pickup frame.

must be an Austrailian truck!!

and check your cab mounts, the throttle linkage runs on a jackshaft across the firewall. if one of the springs breaks the throttle can get a mind of its own when the cab flexes seperatly from the frame and engine.

only reference i have ever seen for them was with a 195 HP or a 220 HP V8 gas engine.

that econoline was fabricated, not made by ford.

unbolt the muffler, and put a chrome stack on.

that would look sweet sitting in my driveway at home with the rest of the fords.

new jersey plates. i wonder where he is from, i have never seen that rig before.

Frank still has it and uses it. he just picked up a giant prime mover and trailer, i think it is an 18 axle.

this truck is still on the road, i just worked with him last week. he put an aluminum body with electric tarp on it last winter because the steel body was ready to fall off it.

i remember way back when Glasofer Mack was in Edison NJ and they would always get DMM trucks in for service. dual steer axles, triple or quad rear axles, and large V8 engines. every once in a while they would also get the large quarry end dumps in on trade they had a few BIG ones in the back lot for 2-3 years.