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Hat City ,I live in Weeki Wachee where the mermaids are! Were you in S Florida when Andrew hit? Worst thing I've ever seen! Was supposed to make landfall in Mobile Al, I was running thru Mobile all they got was rain. Cutler Ridge looked like a giant was dealing aluminum siding(not cards) I spent a couple months hauling roof insulation from La Grange Ga to Miami,Grabbing backhauls of hot tubs out of D and M in Opa Locka. All Diesel,ever work on an 8.2 litre Detroit? The engine that put more "hotshot contractors" out of business than any other?
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Saw the thing in Hot Rod! Beyond cool! Ever see a Continental aircraft engine? Horizontally opposed 6banger very popular on airboats down here.might look good in a street rod! Always wanted to put a Buick straight 8 in something! Owned 2, but they were in Buicks. How about one in an A model or L model Mack? Didya see the shortened F5 Ford Freiberger and his buddy put the backwards blown 454 in similar drive arrangement with the marine drive line.Bizarre!
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"The gorge" is beautiful except at 3am in the fog! 1965, have you ever stopped at Flicks restaurant in Potts Camp ms? On 78 east of Memphis. Good little family owned t.s. O.D. When did Yuengling start making sausages,hope they're as good as their beer! Lol We are having a tropical storm here,Called Hermione, pronounced Her...Mine. Power was off from 0338 til 1100 had to heat water for instant coffee on the "Barbie" I'm spoiled since we got the Kuerig coffee maker! For some unknown reason my wife prefers instant. She's cheap to feed! Brocky, I noticed the same thing about the girls and their ever present cell phones! Statistically talking on the phone while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk! Texting,even worse! Down here they are both " secondary offenses" That means to get a ticket you have to be pulled over for something else at the same time! Thanks electronics lobby! My pet peeve!
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When I was in the towing and auto salvage business,m16 ty people used to leave all kinda stuff in the junkers.I have an extensive collection of cheap tools,like yourself they are my 1st choice for "custom" wrenches! When I mounted the winch on my new cab and chassis the pto required the thinnest wrench you can Imagine,I ground down a new craftsman wrench to less than 1/8" thick! Was a box wrench. There was a Ford truck a few yrs ago that the plugs used to freeze in the block I forgot which engine it was. Was a v8. Like your explorer the plugs never got changed even at the dealer! My daughter had an explorer 4litre v6. The damn thing had a timing chain in front and one back by the bell housing.as near as I could tell you'd have to pull the engine to service the rear one! Engineering my a..!
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Thanks for the comeback carlotpilot! I hated all the b.s. looking for a motel myself much preferred a sleeper.Never got into any shenanigans on the road,but many did! There used to be a motel in New Jersey,same exit as Perth Amboy,called the Swan handed you the room key and a beer! Ya readin' my mind?lol the reason I remembered the exit one night I went the wrong way,ended up in Perth Amboy! 11pm,7 shiny new Mercedes on the rack! Talk about your life hanging by a thin thread!Got directions from two drunken Portuguese seaman! Invited me for a drink! Politely declined! Whew!
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41,that Hendrickson would be a "one of a kind" hobby truck wouldn't it! Bet it's heavy!
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Greendash, I owned a home in Windser Highlands,moved from there to Weeki wachee Florida,where I am now.Pitt Ohio didn't have a terminal in 84 when I lived in Washington County.Are they by the race track or in 84 proper? Overnight had a terminal by the Racetrack, did they take it over when UPS. Bought Overnight? I spent many a night at the little t.s. in 84 off I70.Furthest I've been on the "island" is Ronkonkoma,used to deliver to a building supply there
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Underdog, is Ft Kent Me. On your load board? When I was pulling out of Dundalk M.D. for Leaseway Motorcar,We would get Ft Kent loads,and you couldn't touch one without 20 yrs seniority! 811 pay mi. Not bad mi,but upper new England wasn't popular with senior drivers takes too long to deliver no t.s., especially in the winter! So I asked an older driver one day, he just chuckled, said they have twice as many women in Ft Kent as men! You go in a bar you get attacked ( literally)! Ideal situation really,you're running a day cab so the company pays for your motel,most motels have a bar so no dui's Just wondered if that was true or if he was exaggerating! They do have a fishing contest annually and a dogsled race in the winter sounds like a party town lol
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A51T and A51S
BillyT replied to cncFireman's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
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Been to Simmons quite a few times,used to run the Shenandoah valley quite a bit. I haven't been to a flying j since pilot bought them is it better or the same? I kinda lean toward waffle house over huddle house,depends on the location. Harry...love your yellow B model on the subject of the cracked manifold, a good welder with a dc machine can weld a cracked manifold with a product called Ni rod the key to success is preheat and slow cool you bevel the crack (I used a dremel tool) and do short beads at low amperage.After each bead you peen the bead with your chipping hammer,and let it cool til you can touch it with your hand for a second.The second and each succeeding bead you start on the preceding bead(not on the cast iron) you need to preheat the whole manifold to just hot enough that you can only touch it for a second.When you're done it must slow cool.I covered some cast I welded with an asbestos cover. You can heat it in your barbecue grille just don't eat it! I used to weld flawed air brake castings for a friend who had a contract with WABCO we never had a comeback.Just thought of this, you cool it in your grille, just heat the grille and shut it off put in the manifold in and close the cover.
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Gearheads,If you're referring to Hurstscrambler' crash course in two stick 101, looks like he made it home! By the way I taught myself how to split a triplex,before any one taught me that little nugget of info,always split two handed held the wheel with my knee,couldn't figure out why I always got that little grind! Duh!Well I got my buddy a " master of the compound" a job with my employer and I was riding him to the office in the B model.After a few shifts he said pull over a..hole,and proceeded to illustrate how to split correctly!lol
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Don't know where to start! I'd rather tarp when it's 90degrees than -10 ! When I was hauling foam insulation to Miami after Andrew, there was a Cuban kid about 15 who would fold and roll your full lumber tarps for 10 bucks it was 90degrees 90 percent humidity,well worth it! When I was hauling steel out of Pittsburgh in the 70's I had a 35000lb single coil,the rule was 1chain per 10000#.73280 gross days.Our chains were welded to the trl to prevent theft, Could only get 3 on the coil.Very dicey! As I got ready to pull out saw a loose chain I forgot in the cab!What would you do?It was pretty hot, Pgh in August! I untarped and threw the chain over,and retarped. I'm doing 45,thru Columbus Oh. Next morning,a four wheeler pulls out in front of me had to "lock it up" Phew! Felt something I can't explain, pulled in a rest area, One of the chains thru the eye had broken and the coil slid about a foot forward! I'm convinced with out that fourth chain the coil "would have joined me in the cab" An r model is sturdy but it ain't that sturdy!! Keep in mind to scale a 35k coil it has to be in the middle of the trailer, It would have removed that bulkhead like a knife thru butter! I'm m not religious,but I had "an angel on my shoulder" that day! And many others in reality! On a more pleasant subject O.D., we should all chip in and buy you one of those police car video cameras to mount on your mirror so you wouldnt have to shift, steer,and take the pictures we all enjoy so much,!lol
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Been to Simmons quite a few times,used to run the Shenandoah valley quite a bit. I haven't been to a flying j since pilot bought them is it better or the same? I kinda lean toward waffle house over huddle house,depends on the location.
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He could have really ruined your day if he put the up marking facing the wrong way!
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The ones in Phoenix need to spend some time in Sheriff Joe Arapia's "tent jail" don't think they play Pokemon there! The local papers from Tampa Bay have garbage like this every day!
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DC 75,that's a sharp autocar,is that grille guard a factory option? My cousin had an Astro similar to the one in the picture.
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Teamster Grrrl, my best friend and trucking agent when I was an o/o had an old " Twinkie truck" A road commander white (road commode) was a single axle ex Hostess bakery truck. 250Cummins,10spd r.r.Was probably over specd for most bakery loads.
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Thanks for the reply teamster Grrrl! Thought it was a Hostess truck,was from Youngstown Oh area,maybe one of the other big bakery companies,was definitely a bakery truck, He referred to it jokingly as a "Twinkie truck" was definitely a Road commander were they built in the 60's? The reason I said 70s was I thought they weren't built til the 70s.
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There we're 2 different RCs. The first was just a new name for the boxy 7000 series cabover built in the early 70s. The second was the rounded cab that came out in the late 70s and was shared with the Road Boss conventional and Expeditor low tilt. After Volvo took over in the early 80s the "Road" names disappeared and they were just called Volvos.
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"If you can find a better car buy it" lol And many did! Ok underdog you asked for it! Ok I'm in a brand new New Car rig .Most of you remember the "Cottrell Ronald McDonald"trailer two arches,very distinctive,full trailer not a stinger.45000lbs mt. It's late August on I 64 near white sulphur springs wva.It's 90degrees,and I pull over on the asphalt shoulder to check my atlas. Get ready to leave the truck stalls.Start the truck,let out the clutch,stalls again! I get out and the tires are sunk about 4" in the pavement! I was fully loaded near 80000for sure! It took two tandem wreckers to yank me out! What a dumb move on my part! Good thing I was union, the company paid the bill! Next increment of "Adventures in car. Hauling" The half rate backhaul. I didn't know anyone at our Buffalo terminal seldom went there.
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You guys crack me up!,Mowerman I remember back in the 80's and 90's the truck stops in Nevada had the cheapest breakfast in America,the the reason I figured was they made their profits on the slots.Seemed to change in the 2000's maybe they just got greedy!
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Still for sale? What kind of body did it have? What is the frame like under the fishplate,what mileage?
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Do the brakes work? What size engine,what is the light weight ? Looks like a great truck thanks!
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When the major car carriers hold a " loading class" for new drivers the "wash out rate" is 70 percent!
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The first company I drove for was Automobile Transport out of the Pittsburgh Railhead,was bought out by Nu Car Carriers.I promised to reveal how to straighten the quarter panels on a Datson that you chained down too tight. You back it off the top of the rack way faster than anyone but a complete idiot would do!!,when it hits the pavement it bottoms out and the bumper or rear frame hits the pavement and straightens out the quarters!Lol They were built really light and easy to bend(and straighten) I also promised to tell you guys about the "missing bridge" I was running across rte 36 in central PA. One night and suddenly my headlights were shining into a 200 ft long and 100 ft deep empty chasm!! They had completely removed the bridge and either failed to put up a barrier,or more likely some teenagers had removed the barrier and were lurking in the bushes waiting for some idiot (me) to go over the edge!! Oh S..T! Somehow I managed to screech to a stop! I then had to back what seemed like a mile to find a cross street to turn around! Next increment in "Adventures in car hauling" We will discuss why we don't pull over on an asphalt shoulder with a fully loaded " parking lot" to look at our map when it is 90degrees out!!
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Whites t.s was one of my "must stop" locations since 1974, Must be about the third generation of whites now.the late owner Dave White was into motocross racing and has one of the best firearm and knife collections I've seen! Also have a good cafeteria with home style food,Also had a couple of antique motorcycles.Worth seeing if you have the chance!
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Freightrain saw your post about the young couple and the flood zone! We looked at the property we now live on for several months during hvy rains, and a tropical storm.Saw no significant flooding. We built our house,and 5 yrs later they declare us in a flood zone! We are 6miles from the Gulf coast and not near any body of water! In other words we have none of the benefits that make people willing to live in a flood zone (and pay flood insurance) Like living on the ocean or a canal where you can dock a boat and so on.There are 5 houses visible from our front door,and only us an our neighbor are in a flood zone! We got flooded and were glad to have the insurance,but we feel the county created the flood zone by not properly sewering the new school they built 1/4 mile away,or the toll road they built several miles away.We sit in the watershed between these two infrastructures.We obviously wouldnt have built in a flood zone without the "benefits". Of course they raise the flood insurance rate every year!
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Have you seen the reports of people in Florida where whole allotments were built on old swamp land. Now, 5 yrs later they find their property starting to settle and fall into the abyss(sink hole). Nothing they can do or say. They'll loose everything and no insurance to cover it. I'll bet there will be a bunch of law suits over it.
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In the 50's it was a common ploy to create phony brochures showing some tropical paradise,and elderly retirees would invest their life savings and find the land they bought was on the edge of the everglades,without the clubhouse and golf course they were promised! There were more of these scams than you could count. Around 2008 and before if you had a sinkhole your homeowners policy would have you get a couple of estimates and pay you for the repair. Sinkhole repairs start at 100grand and go up!Well,a lot of people,especially those who were " upside down on their mortgage would just take the money and run! Leaving the bank with a house nobody would buy! The banks and insurance companies got fed up and had their "bought and paid for" legislators pass a bill where there is a10 percent deductible on sinkhole repair money and the money goes to the contractor or the bank.The bill was slipped thru quietly,probably " on the back" of another bill! It really puts a screwing on honest people who would repair the damage!
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