Outbehindthebarn

22 hours ago, carlotpilot said:

NEED A SOURCE FOR EITHER OEM OR A M SLEEPER BOOT

 Try giving these people a call...   http://www.starclassinc.net Website show's APU's... but I talked to them a year or so ago about boots. Pretty sure they can fix you up.

8 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

When you called Able Manufacturing, they weren't able to help you?

http://www.ablemfg.com/about.html

Word on the street says Able is useless for sleeper stuff now....

4 hours ago, BC Mack said:

That certainly takes me back... just as I was getting into my apprenticeship.

ERF A series, probably 220 Cummins, 32 tons gvw, non sleeper doing "a Continental"...

second driver is probably a holdover from when you needed a "brakeman" for the trailer, they shared the driving once the brake lever was removed... that load was probably worth a lot of money in those days as pheasant was a rich-man's delicacy.

TJC... 16 tons was probably close to the mark... with a fibreglass cab and a sheeted flat trailer you could squeeze 20 tons of load on a 32ton gvw 4 axle articulated unit... that trailer was built mostly of steel framing and wood rather than the lightweight materials of today.

TIR still exists but the constant customs stops have gone in the EU

BC Mack

 

 

BC

The trailer had separate brake controls, operated by someone other than the driver?

55 minutes ago, fxfymn said:

I'd ask the person who worked with the US military for years in Iraq who was denied entry and sent back to Iraq. I'm sure the enemies he helped fight with the US were very anxious to provide a welcome home to him and his family. Or maybe the legal immigrant who had lived here for years and was denied re-entry after a family visit so she could see her dying son.

Trump ran as an outsider who will change the way we do everything. That's fine, but more often than not a certain way of doing things has developed because it works. When you arbitrarily change the system you will probably have to pay the price. In this case we will all have to pay because we will end up with a less robust intelligence system due to folks being afraid they will be betrayed by the US after they served us.

I feel no remorse for those Iraqis who 'helped us'. I'm certain they knew the risk of aiding the invaders, and were compensated handsomely for doing so. 

That green and black Super..... (drooling)

Start at 1:06   !!!

What is this connection you have with the middle east Paul-o,,,,,, lived in Israel too? I have ALWAYS wanted to visit Lebanon... Ramallah.... Tehran ..... But too scared too now.

5 minutes ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Given that the muslim population is a majority in many places and vastly outnumber the jews and christians, how come they haven't acted on your purported animus and wiped out the jewish and christian minorities? Are they too lazy to carry out that mission, or are you lying to us?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Persecution_by_Muslims

14 minutes ago, Outbehindthebarn said:

Idioms aside (why don't you just call me deplorable?), the threat to Western culture is real.

 

 

These happened THIS MORNING!

http://www.dw.com/en/austrian-police-arrest-man-allegedly-planning-terror-attack/a-37217741

Militants blow themselves up after gunfight with Saudi forces

44 minutes ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Idioms aside (why don't you just call me deplorable?), the threat to Western culture is real.

I've always wondered how many tows require the driver to use a sleeper... can't be many.

17 hours ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Since when was Kosher or Halal certification a threat to anyone? Are you going to refuse to eat food that is Kosher or Halal certified?

You need to learn a few things about culture... CULTURE COUNTS..... second only to biology.... ask any persecuted minority in a Muslim country. A culture's food supply (and certification) says A LOT about their value systems. 

Its worth noting here the rich irony exhibited in these comments. . . A liberal, long-time union retiree lauding the virtues of Adam Smith's invisible hand... You didn't seem to care for that much when it came to protecting your pension. Oh the hypocrisy never ends with the Left.

By the way, Douglas Murray is a homosexual whom I greatly respect.

Says Francis Engineering... right down the road in Ohio..... 

1 hour ago, james j neiweem said:

The red one above is a 9000 with the large A-car cab. The coup cab was pre A-car cab. So I guess the engine did tilt to the passenger side in the coup cab. Makes sense.

I wonder how many other trucks had tilted engines.

I know Ford L9000's tilted... maybe the LTL's too.

Is this the cab you're talking about??

Is this the truck you're talking about? 'Cause I'd like to buy this one and put a 400BC in it.... Does that make me crazy?

13 hours ago, Vladislav said:

Some months back Barry had to update the site sofware and that forced changes in the interface. Many daily visitors were gone after that moment. Or got scarce. I suppose that was not mostly a matter of the change itself. Probably many got upset of being here for a long time. So additionas troubles dealing with the site made a kind of hit. Previousely that day you usually could see "collapse" in the "members online" count at the top of the page.

Facebook makes its work either.

I agree, I noticed a big drop off after the change... and even I stopped visiting as much.

On 1/7/2017 at 0:43 PM, stevedfd said:

The belongs on a 1066 International!

On 1/8/2017 at 0:01 PM, j hancock said:

I think you post this truck porn just to pump-up your 'like' numbers!

That white one is the tits.

11 hours ago, j hancock said:

You are dealing with stuff that is too new for me but here is some previous discussion.

http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/43948-engines-to-avoid/

 

Boy, that sums it up doesn't it!