Joseph Cummings

Sam Walton believed running a successful business boils down to 10 simple rules 1. Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you — like a fever. 2. Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. 3. Motivate your partners. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score. Don't become too predictable. 4. Communicate everything you possibly can to your partners. The more they know, the more they'll understand. The more they understand, the more they'll care. Once they care, there's no stopping them. 5. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free — and worth a fortune. 6. Celebrate your success. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up. Have fun. Show enthusiasm — always. All of this is more important, and more fun, than you think, and it really fools competition. 7. Listen to everyone in your company. And figure out ways to get them talking. To push responsibility down in your organization, and to force good ideas to bubble up within it, you must listen to what your associates are trying to tell you. 8. Exceed your customers’ expectations. Give them what they want — and a little more. Make good on all your mistakes, and don't make excuses — apologize. Stand behind everything you do. 9. Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. You can make a lot of different mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient. 10. Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. You can read more about Sam's business rules in his book, Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story.

Maybe Walmart/Sam's is going back to Sam's way of thinking

In school they thought us he was just a screaming madman. Nothing he said was valid. And believe me I am proud of my father and my uncles who fought in WW2

What do you guys think? Winner? Flash in the pan? Same shit in a different baggie? https://www.autocartruck.com/

Or just bite thebullet and spend the money on a Lenco

The brass syncro rings get in the way. You can do away with them and get faster shifting. In this diagram they are called "blocker rings" https://tremec-blog.com/manual-transmission-synchronizers-101/

Warsaw Poland London England I'd say the Pollacks are winning

Only when you back off the throttle? and as soon as it hits idle, it goes away? Dropped exhaust valve seat. With the truck idling crack the injection line at the pump one at a time. When you crack the one and it goes pop pop pop from the exhaust, that is the cylinder with the dropped seat. When there is zero fuel delivery the seat comes loose and makes that popping noise, as soon as there is even enough fuel even to idle, the seat expands and seals in the head. It's a pretty common problem, especially with heads that have been redone by some third party, They don't fit them tight enough. It happened to me so many times that I only trusted heads I did myself, or the heads Mack rebuilt at their Hagerstown plant

For a lot of people it's cheaper to buy their insulin at Walmart and pay cash than it is to use their insurance and pay the deductible. Big time predatory profits in pharmaceuticals. In Germany Ozempic is like 60 bucks for a month's supply, in the US it's like 1,500.

Not sure what to say

It might be a little late to help you now, but Walmart sells Insulin for $24.88 a bottle. All three types 70/30. N and S. One is long acting, the other is short acting, and the 70/30 is a combination. No prescription needed. Ask for the ReliOn brand. Everywhere else the same product is like 165 bucks

Are we breaking the 1st law of thermodynamics here?

Maybe in a strong wind it can fly

That surface has to sit down flat onto the rocker shaft mounting. The problem that happens a lot is people loose the correct washer that goes on the bolt that holds the rocker shaft to the head. So then they put a regular flat washer on it. The OD of a standard flat washer is too big and the valve cover bolt hits it on one side. That shoulder outlined in red will be sitting on top of the too big flat washer. There is no need for double fiber washers, or doubled up gaskets, or RTV if you use the correct hardware and press the rocker covers straight in the area of the bolt holes. I used to use an arbor press to press them, but no reason you can't use a hammer and a punch. And yeah on some of the early engines there was a clip so the bolt and fiber washer didn't get lost while doing a valve adjustment. I think they stopped using the clip in the early 60's

Those cameras up top make it look like Sister Bertrille

Here is the Mack. I remembered wrong. It's a 1949 LF https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/hf12/lots/r107-1949-mack-series-l-single-axle-truck/#smallgallery_1140854

I remember when they used to make chocolate milk out of the "onion milk" to hide the onion taste. Happened when the cows ate the wild scallions

This is how I felt after leaving the Philly, NJ, NYC area. Egg Noodles & Ketchup

Made in Milton Pa because of the Tomato's. Our neighbor Ray Bowersox used to have a contract to haul for them. He was Milton Transportation and I kinda remembering him owning an IH dealership. His antique collection was huge, and really nice stuff like this too. He had a 707 gas powered LJ that looked brand new. I think it was a national first place winner https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/hf12/lots/r101-1931-duesenberg-model-j-barrelside-dualwindshield-phaeton-by-lebaron/