Terry T

The dropped coil is the responsibility of the towing company. The reason for the tow is the responsibility of the driver, not the GPS. I don't use GPS in my personal vehicles and I wouldn't use one in a truck. I will always call for directions because only a person familiar with the area can tell you about the "rouge" tree limb that the city won't do anything about or that 3 blocks of that one street that are strickly residentual, etc. At least once a week I see a truck someplace he has no business being and I can just about guarantee that the driver is following a GPS unit. A GPS unit will never replace an atlas and good old common sense.

Indiana got hit with it as well. At the time my dad was living in my cousin's apartment. The cousin was a captian with the Ft Wayne Fire Dept. Norm called dad and said the FWFD needed his snowmobiles and they would have a FF on a snowmobile there in an hour to get the keys to the building that the sleds were kept in. Fire & PD borrowed every sled available and the FD, PD and Street Dept went to every car dealership in town and took every 4X4 on every lot in town and pressed them into service as emergency vehicles. In 1978 there were not nearly as many snowmobiles, 4X4's 4X4's with blades, snowblowers... None of the things we pretty well take for granted today. I lived with my mom & step-dad on a dead end street that was 3 blocks long with no cross streets. Everyone pitched in and we all dug out, using 3 snowblowers and a whole lot of shovels and muscles, our driveways and the street in front of our homes. We could get to the next "major roadway" but that was it. It was two days before the city got it opened. In 1983, when I was 17 I bought my first 4X4 and have had one ever since with the exception of one winter.

I'm very suprised that no one has linked to this site. I had forgotten that I had this book marked until a few minutes ago. http://www.restoreevelrig.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=56

They were first built in Emeryville, CA and later in Ft Wayne, IN if I remember correctly.

Several of the guys over at Hanks got up in arms over the past few years because of different people setting up "Truck Spotting" websites then taking the pictures off of other sites like Hanks and posting the pics as their own. I understand why they got upset over those issues but at the same time once you put something on the web, it's on the web.... I think Michael Martinelli (FDNYtrucks.com) has the set up and if the guys over at Hanks are all so concerned about their pic's being stolen then they should do what Michael has done.

If you think about it, one might be better off under the truck. The thing that often causes the fatal injury to the occupants of a tractor is the crushing between two trailers. In this situation, depending on where the axles of the trailer ahead are, there is a good chance that the cargo area of the Strick will make solid contact with the truck ahead before the Strick cab has a chance to crush. Re-ending a car would not be much different in this then in the front of a passenger van... Just an opinion.

I don't remember the model, but I'm going to have to go with the Corbitt as well. One was featured in WoT a while back. That was a long way up (or down!).

Just Old Trucks is not in anyway a part of ATHS. It was created by the same group who rebuilt the ATHS forums a few years back. Some issues occurred and Just Old Trucks was created for old truck people. Most of the ATHS forum regulars moved to JOT, a few are on both sites and as Mike H mentioned there is still some issues at JOT once in a while, but nothing like what was occurring at ATHS. I really think that what Mike is referring to was a very unusual incident and it's too bad that it happened.

http://www.mydeathspace.com/article/2007/01/20/Samantha_Merchant_(17)_was_electrocuted_after_crashing_into_a_power_pole This happened in 2006, it doesn't seem that long ago, to a couple local kids & a couple by-standers who just wanted to help. Always be completely aware of your surroundings.

So... Mikey was playing with chicken lights while you were bustin' your butt? Son, you and me.... We need to talk!

Back in '99 when I worked for Evans Equip one of our drivers was traveling near Sulphur Springs, TX on I-30 in a new IHC company truck. An illegal driving an un-insured pickup truck crossed the median and hit our truck in the left steer tire and fuel tank, the IHC burst into flames. Killed the illegal instantly, our driver got out of the truck with minor burns. He had recently filed for divorce and had everything he owned in the truck, tax papers, titles, clothes. Everything burned up. It took him more than a year to get everything squared away.

Ben, I think it's the same trailer and in the pic of the blue paint scheme the trailer is a tandem. Enlarge it and look again.

I guess I see things a bit differently. As mentioned Haiti is among the poorest countries in the world, a few years ago devastating earthquakes added insult to injury there. I have a couple friends who perform missionary work to Haiti from their church in Tampa, FL several times a year. The pictures & stories that they bring back will make you cry and turn your stomach at the same time. The simple fact that these trucks continue to do what they were built to do makes me happy, There is probably just barely enough money to keep them running and no where near enough to maintain them. Had they never been exported they would have been scrapped. Everyone on this board and several other boards want every truck saved. Can't do it, there isn't enough disposable income in our society with the current economy so the next best thing to happen to these trucks is for them to live on doing what they are suppose to do in these less than desirable situations.

I have wondered what ever happened to this truck. It disappeared from Corunna, IN a while back, I was afraid it had been cut. Cannot remember the guy's name who owned it but he is a stick hauler.

Well I was gonna paste the article that I read about this last week but for some reason I can't paste anything to this thread. The article was from a local TV station and stated that she fired all 6 rounds, 5 hit the perp and he had 4 exit wounds with punctured lungs, a punctured liver & a punctured stomach and was on a vent.

I have these and maybe a few others. Sold a couple on ebay so far but I would love to put a value on them before blindly selling them.

Is that Rick's Truck Service in Converse, IN?

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's a fun place to visit. Mike & family are wonderful people. (don't tell him I said that though...)

Can anyone guess this place?

Just a thought, it's been a few years since I was working in the flatbed world but rates out of CO into the Great Lakes region were fairly low but from the 'Lakes to the east coast they were high. If you could get it moved commercially to one of us in the Great Lakes/Midwest area then find a "friend" to get it the rest of the way might be cheaper.

you musta just missed me....

with a torch and a sawz-all you can make anything fit any place.

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Shoulda fired up "Thumper" and unloaded 'em with him!