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We have one in our yard. Myself and another supervisor will go out periodically & check on it then grab the shops plow truck and clear it. Yesterday during the busy evening rush of P&D drivers coming through one of them called me & said "I'm stuck across the street". He was going to a customer to do a trailer switch that is less than a mile away that we always refer to as "going across the street" so I asked him "going to or coming from" and he replied "I was going to take my 15 minute break". That's when I realized that he, with an empty 48', had pulled out of our yard and across our street to the recently build but unoccupied building that has a nice lot that they all like to take their breaks in which has not been plowed at all! I asked him, what made you think that was a good idea? Um, there were tracks in the snow (4X4 tracks).... I told him to log his break and as soon as I could, as I'm the only supervisor working from 17:00 until 20:30, I would get over there and pull him out. I just ran my strap through his ICC bumper and hooked my J-hook into the last notch of the slider rail and gently pulled him out with my Chevy/Duramax. A lot of guys were already laughing at him but not as hard as the previous day when our P&D dispatcher left and immediately went nose first into the ditch about 90' after leaving our exit drive in his 4X2 Dodge pickup. Kids today.....

This first picture was Jan of 2014. This was the forth or fifth time that I had plowed this driveway, which belonged to a county police/fire dispatcher who had to get to her job daily. We aren't seeing snow like this around here, so far, this year but the temps for the next week and change don't get above the teens. I'm really looking forward to summer & getting back to the beach with Kim (second picture). Our hope is to get married on this beach (Sliver Beach, MI) this summer.

The Indiana Air Natl Guard 122nd Fighter Wing (base in Ft Wayne, IN) began stepping up day & night training sorties about 4 months ago and haven't slowed them down. Our Service Center (Terminal) sits near the north end of runway 14/32 and we can see the F-15's climb out about 3-4 seconds before we hear them when they take off. I've been saying since we began hearing the night flights that we're gonna be getting deployed in the near future.

If you haven't watched it, do so.

I cannot remember names but there is one or two guys on this forum that have moved a number of trucks over the years. Hopefully someone with a better memory that I will chime in soon.

Geoff, If you're referring to the one I posted, it did have air brakes.

This is the 1967 Loadstar that I drove on the farm. If memory serves me it was a 549, 5 and 3. I loved driving this truck and would have bought it if Jim would have been willing to sell it at the right time.

Try reaching out to this group: https://harvesterhomecoming.com/contact-us for information on your truck. Fort Wayne was once called the truck capital of the world due to International Harvester. They have a big show each summer and there is a lot of info available from this group of former employees and collectors.

That day started, for me, at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft Wayne with the recovery of a vac truck that had loaded and then was top-heavy for the grade that it was parked on. I learned of the 1st, 2nd & 3rd crashes on my way to the call & the 4th while there. After the recovery my team & the vac truck driver left and I went into the building that the vac truck is facing and stood and watched a large TV along with students & faculty. The room was filled with people & I could here gasps, crying and quiet praying all around me. I stayed busy that day and later, along I-69 while doing a tractor swap myself and the truck driver paused for a rest in the grass and looked up at the sky. No planes in the sky, no jet trails, nothing but a very blue sky and a few white clouds.

This was at my fiance's home (soon to be mine as well) on May 23th of this year. a90ada81-406b-48bb-bddf-2ccd16a83bd7.mp4

Berger Auto Service is in Ft Wayne, IN just a few miles from where I live. They often have interesting comments on their sign.

We have outside carriers come to our service center to drop off refused freight from grocery warehouses on a regular basis. They drop the product off to us to be returned to the shipper. This is not an exaggeration... 9 out of 10 of the OTR drivers are not American born. Of the 9 that are not 7 of those 9 have so little comprehension of the English language that they either have an interpreter app on their phone or have to call their company to have someone who speaks English speak to us.

USA.gov - Understanding the deportation process. https://www.usa.gov/deportation-process?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ35G9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFkanp4eTA1Z3JoN3c1T3hUAR6xPjvQMswdIven27k5ioxZjG6vpZxZ_5WwXSN9wH4oKUlOWzrOhTkCn0W11w_aem_hV3gZHy3-9gRIjLdmf8X4Q

GA Dave... YOU WIN THE INTERNET tonight with that comment!

According to the information that Dan Bruno had years back when he was building his RD replica (technically became the restoration of one the actual movie RD700's) & researching the movie the Mack Cruiseliner was sold and then totaled in a severe jack-knife crash in California. I still haven't read his book even though it is setting next to me on my desk now to see if that info is in the book.

Old Age & Senility... I wish I still had that calendar. IMO the best paint scheme ever.

Look up Mike Harbison (Jr) on FB. Mikey was organizing his dad's collection after Mike got sick the 1st time around and long before he passed. I know that he has some C's out there & I'm sure that he has the items you need in a parts bin/box someplace.

Happy Birthday Barry!

This is a picture that I took of the R&H Raider at ATHS Convention in Auburn, IN years back.

That DM definitely looks FDNY. I noticed that one right off. Michael Martinelli probably has a picture of it as FDNY & the SN#!

Geoff, I got to visit with that "someone" last summer in Ft Wayne at the Harvester Homecoming. I hadn't talked to him in over 10 years. Hasn't changed a bit!

Affirmative Action. That's what it was called in the late 70's until the end of the century in Indiana. I was a county volunteer in the late 80's & early 90's. My cousin was a city FD district chief (Now called Battalion Chief). I rode out of his house a few times with him & on the Engine, I wanted to get on but basically I was the wrong sex, color, etc. Norm couldn't even get his own son on and he would have been 3rd generation because of AA. Today every FD & PD in the state is looking for recruits to fill classes and increasing pay to try to lure laterals from other departments.

Originally a Halliburton truck. There was one near Garrett, IN many years ago, only a mile & a quarter from the Auburn ATHS convention. I tried to buy it but they had no interest in selling it then one day a few years later it was just gone. I have a lot of pictures of it in a box someplace.

Late model's, Modifieds, Crown Vic's, Mini stocks. The usual Saturday night/regional type shows. The Crown Vic's or Panthers have become EXTREMELY popular in the past couple years because of all the ex-cop cars & taxi's out there that could be bought for cheap. There was something like 50+ that requested to run on Thursday night so they went to a back up plan and made it invitational and only invited 16 to race.

Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola is a 1/2 mile asphalt circle track. It's home to The Snowball Derby which is the largest short track race of the year in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Derby