Pictures of the Week

[other dog]

I started to put this in "Other Truck Makes", but there's a couple of Mack's in there. These are every truck I drove for H.H. Moore Jr. Trucking Co. from 1979 until 2005.

 

 

[67RModel]

Looks like all they liked to buy was flat top sleepers except the very last one. How long did you typically stay out on the road before coming home?

[other dog]

4 hours ago, 67RModel said:

Looks like all they liked to buy was flat top sleepers except the very last one. How long did you typically stay out on the road before coming home?

I would typically leave on Sunday or Monday and get home on Friday or Saturday. If I got in on Friday I would unload and then load a load to leave on Sunday with. If I got in Friday night or Saturday I would unload and leave again on Monday. Sometimes I would get in and go home during the week, but not very often.

[MACKS]

What truck did u like the best?

 

[The Rubber Duck 006]

I'd drive all of them Just Sayin 

[Brocky]

About the same schedule I had over the years.. Spent maybe half dozen weekends on the road, except for about 9 months when I had Thursdays off and loaded out of North Jersey for Atlanta on Friday and about 1/3 of the time I had a load in west GA waiting for me to be back north on Monday AM

[other dog]

17 hours ago, MACKS said:

What truck did u like the best?

 

That's a tough question. I liked all of them, but some more than others. I liked the Transtar, it had a VT 903 and a 13 speed. Both F models were good trucks. The orange and white one was a 300/5 speed and I drove it all over, when I hauled kyanite they loaded 14 pallets of it, which weighed 50,155 lbs. Unless it was going to Missouri, Illinois, or Indiana, then they only loaded 12 pallets. The other one had a 350 Cummins with a 10 speed.

All the K 100's were good trucks. The first one was the first brand new truck I had, nobody else had ever drove them before. The first one had a 350 Cummins, the next 2 had 400's in them with top of the line interiors. The first 2 T800's were good, especially the black one. It had a 444 Cummins with an 18 speed. 

Now, the teal colored one- that was one of the worst. It had a cat engine and a 13 speed. I think it was a 3406E, but I'm not sure. It was supposed to be set at 425 HP, but it never ran right, it broke down a lot, people I ran with said it was the weakest 4 and a quarter cat they'd ever seen, even though it wasn't the old original "4 and a quarter". The transmission went out in it too. And every time I took it to Truck Enterprises in Roanoke they would pretty much say "ain't nuthin' wrong with it, it's supposed to be like that". The 350's I drove pulled better. That's when I told the boss that I wanted my next new truck to be an International, and they were. The red one and the white one both had 500hp. N14 engines with Super 10 transmissions and they were good trucks. 

The black Freightliner was good, N14 460hp. I turned it over when the trailer got into a ditch at a job site. The blue one was one of the worst. It looked good- from afar anyway- but it had the cheapest interior you could get in a truck, and you could shut both doors tight and still stick your fingers inside at the lower rear corners. My wife could put her whole hand inside. And you had to wear a rain coat inside when it rained. But it ran OK, 475 Cat with a 10 speed.

The last one was good and bad, it was a nice truck, looked great I thought. But it was when the ISX engines first came out, and it had a lot of EGR issues.

So if I had to pick a "favorite" it would be tough, but I'll go with the black T800.

[67RModel]

24 minutes ago, other dog said:

Both F models were good trucks. The orange and white one was a 300/5 speed and I drove it all over, when I hauled kyanite they loaded 14 pallets of it, which weighed 50,155 lbs. Unless it was going to Missouri, Illinois, or Indiana, then they only loaded 12 pallets.

How did the 300 and 5 speed handle that much weight? I realize the maximum speed limit at that time was 55 and I think the world generally moved at a slower pace but  you were probably at or over 80,000 pounds gross with that much payload.

[other dog]

1 hour ago, 67RModel said:

How did the 300 and 5 speed handle that much weight? I realize the maximum speed limit at that time was 55 and I think the world generally moved at a slower pace but  you were probably at or over 80,000 pounds gross with that much payload.

Actually it did a great job- or it seemed to at the time. I'm sure if I went back to driving it now after getting out of a 500 HP  truck I would think it was a slug though. It had 3.87 rears and it was comparable to the 350 Cummins they had as far as pulling. It was slow taking off from a dead stop, but once you got going it was fine. I remember having 25 tons of fertilizer in a van and went up Christiansburg mountain with it in 4th. gear. But most hills, like on 460 west of Blacksburg, and coming down rt. 8 from Butler, Pa. I had to pull in 3rd.

[other dog]

We're still moving of course, spending the weekend at the new place. It has a sleep sofa that had never been used before, still had the plastic on the mattress. It is extremely uncomfortable.

Anyhow, we brought the corner cabinet over and my son helped unload it Saturday and I was putting my stuff back in it yesterday. I took everything out of it in Gladys and put it in a box. Some idiot had set the box down on the arm of the couch instead of putting it on the floor, then I- I mean he- bumped into and it fell to the floor. Broke the mirror off of everything in it. Broke the little tiny bulldog off the hood of the mixer too. 

Old Bill sent me a lot of that stuff, like the Akubra hat with the crocodile hat band, and the leather Trimac cap. I bought the DM model in Macungie a few years ago, but it's too intimidating for me to even attempt to put it together. I might get a tube of Super Glue and some tweezers and try to put the bulldog back on the mixer, that's about all the model making I'm gonna try.

[mowerman]

Cool photos thanks. We had a brand new sofa bed about 10 years ago. Thing was absolutely horrible to sleep on. You were better off sleeping bags on the floor.  Moving bar humbug I don’t want to do it anymore… Bob

[mowerman]

Also, I have driven six of those photographs myself, of course different paint jobs  my  favorites were older international conventional and the T 800  and yes, I guess I could include the Mack F model   ..Bob

[mowerman]

Not a big fan of Cabover’s, although I did own two of them… Bob

[other dog]

Great, found 2 more boxes of stuff to try to fit in there somewhere.

Found this ring that I got from H.H. Moore's for being there for 20 years. Me and my wife also got treated to a steak dinner at the best steakhouse in Lynchburg.

 

[mowerman]

Pretty cool ring Bubba but I’m afraid it put you in there. You could be category if you wear it ha ha…. Bob

[other dog]

3 minutes ago, mowerman said:

Pretty cool ring Bubba but I’m afraid it put you in there. You could be category if you wear it ha ha…. Bob

Huh? 🤣

[mowerman]

I think I was trying to say you could be a redneck if you wear a wedding ring with the truck on it ha ha

[mowerman]

I did have a Mac steering wheel hanging in our dining room at one point ha ha

[Brian L Blaylock]

That’s a good looking collection if that mixer is a first gear it will have an extra bulldog in the box if you don’t have the box they are the same on the 1/25 and 1/34 scale 

[other dog]

18 minutes ago, Brian L Blaylock said:

That’s a good looking collection if that mixer is a first gear it will have an extra bulldog in the box if you don’t have the box they are the same on the 1/25 and 1/34 scale 

I got the bulldog and stuck it to a piece of tape, I'll stick it back on there when I get some glue. One of the mirrors is broken too, and the piece of the mirror bracket is stuck in the hole. I've just got it dangling by the top bracket.