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This morning I was driving along minding my own binness like I usually- OK, let me start over. This morning I was driving along in Martinsville, Va. looking for some street that I had to make a left on. I found the street and just as the light turned green Vision386 (Mark) snapped this picture. He said on facebook that he wasn't sure if it was me or not, and if he had known he would have bob tailed over to where I delivered 4 roll off bodies. I told him he should have yelled, hollered, blew the horn, waved, something- but nothing. He said he only lived a half mile from where I delivered.

I don't know.

The guy that rode with me told me their trailers weren't cheap, but they were better built and a better quality than a Heil tanker, and come to think of it, about every tanker i've ever seen was a Heil. They had this nice looking boat there too, I don't know if they made it out of leftover parts on their spare time, or what, but it's a good looking boat.

I went to Appomattox to see how Dickie was coming along with the Dodge today, and stopped by D.S.Nash Construction to take a couple of pictures.

No, they build tank bodies at a place called Amthor in Gretna, Va. They only build a couple of trailers a year, and they just needed a truck to hook to it and test the lights and brakes and make sure it pulled all right. It pulled as straight as an arrow too. Here's a picture of when I was getting a load of fuel trucks there going to N.C. last year.

I dropped a trailer at a nuclear power plant in Southport, N.C. this morning and bob tailed back. I looked at the papers in the office yesterday before I left and it said "driver must be clean shaven, neatly dressed, and act professional." So I said "why are you sending me? I'm already o-for- three."

Not only that, I saw a big peach- A Ford almost buried in the dirt pile- I got to road test a brand new tank trailer- first time i've ever pulled a tank. It was really shiny- A nice looking young lady in an automobile- A big bird in the field- And this is apparently some kind of super high performance hotrod racing machine at a job site I went to in Gainesville, Va. Kinda neat looking- they were going to build a cooling tower here, then changed their minds. "They" are Duke Energy. They decided to go a different route than the cooling tower, they run water in over there for cooling, then out over yonder, but I forgot what it's called...pretty sure it's not the "water in over here, out over yonder" system.

O K, how about this-I saw some dump trucks... and a girl in a car. ...a girl walking the street A big red truck- A redhead pumping some gasoline- A train- A rusty tractor- The old Burlington Industries Plant in Altavista. Lots of wild aminals-

Hah- fat chance!

As a non-Farmer's Union member I get nothing on anything, however, I do feel like I could overhaul a Saturn Five rocket to better than new condition because I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Altavista last night.

I've seen a Bighorn recently -within the last year or two anyway, I haven't been running I-77 much lately- hauling logs on I-77 in Ohio. Tried to get a picture, but never could, except for one blurry one on a rainy day. It was hauling some big logs, as long as the trailer or longer, and i'd see it somewhere between Canton and Marietta pretty often. I don't know if it was this truck or not, but it might have been. And back in the 80's we loaded at Galv-Tech in Pittsburgh a lot, and there was some company out of Ohio that had several Bighorns that loaded there a lot too. They brought lumber over around the Pittsburgh area and loaded steel back to Ohio, that might well have been this company.

Day-ummmmmmm they look good!

You're right Bob, i've still got a big pile of scrap metal in the back yard from when my shed burned up Thanksgiving day, my Dodge pickup is in the shop, pretty much been in somebody's shop ever since i've had it, and I can't haul much on the Ranger pickup- but I did cook a little chicken on the grill last weekend, and two pieces of country style ribs. Served with fine wine-

Well, yeah, I guess so...the only reason I suggested a Happy Meal was so I could keep the toy though...but if you want the m*t#*!+g prize that g@*@mn bad, just feel free to keep that son of a b!#$h, no hard feelings on my part...you @$$#01#!

I'm pointing out my CVSA sticker- the one I got on the same trip I got the cracked windshield on. I hate to tell them I need a windshield, when I have a brand new CVSA sticker.

Courthouse in Berkley Springs, W.V. Some place in Berkley Springs. That's a well secured load of steel at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg right there, and I went over and told the driver it was. His Dad was the driver that was killed when the pipe fell on him last year. Wow, he's got placards for everything- must be taking a load of MEK to 41Chevy. Saw this in Concord yesterday. It's a lot like the one the man who bought the mixer has, not quite as nice though. Made into a single axle, reversed the hubs on the rear and running single tires, looks sharp!..it's for sale.

...and then- back to the real world. I had to get my flatbed and go to Lynchburg and get a load of steel going to Warren, Ohio- had to be tarped of course. Then it was snowing when I got to Warren. 12 seconds later... Saw this accident on the Pa. Turnpike on the way back, just as you come out of the tunnel.

Well, I sold the mixer last week- took a few more pictures of it when I left last Saturday going to sunny south Florida. I was hoping to get down to Jensen Beach early enough Sunday to get up with hatcity, but I had tire issues that held me up a few hours Sunday morning. But I called him, since I had his number on a coffee cup, and he came over to the power plant Monday morning for a little while- super nice guy, even brought me a cup of coffee. There was another F.L.Moore driver there too, and I don't know why I didn't think to get him to take a picture of me and hatcity, because nobody will believe it without a picture, but I really did meet hatcity...honest. The Areva guy came over to take me to where I had to drop the trailer I had, so we had to say a quick "goodbye", but I told Ed that if I got to go back to pick the trailer up i'd buy him a happy meal. But, there's no telling who might go back to pick it up, or even how long it will be there- could be anywhere from a few weeks to months. I dropped this trailer and bobtailed back to Virginia. I saw this in sunny south Florida- and all these- and this-

Great pictures all, thanks!

I think it did, the man that bought it has three restored trucks already, an old "deuce and a half" military truck, a cabover Freightliner, and a 1948 Kenworth- they all look outstanding, and he did the work himself, very impressive! I hope he posts some pictures of them some time. I probably could have gotten a bit more for the truck, but he came, he saw, he bought, and i'm glad he got it.

Wow!

You're right about that- he could stand there and tell you the history of all those trucks, where it came from, where he got it from, what was wrong with it- if anything- and everything else about it. He said when me and Joe was there that the next truck that he was going to get in his shop to work on was the highbinder IH, when I went there a year or two later with Wayne Ellis it was still in the same spot, just like I thought it would be. He was one of those that really wished he could restore everything he had, but he knew he'd never have time to do it. I posted some pictures of his trucks on facebook after I went there, and I wish I hadn't- instead of appreciating the pictures, and the fact that they were there to see instead of having been sold for scrap years ago, a lot of people just said how it was "a shame" to have all those trucks "just sitting there", some used the word "criminal" because he had them and wouldn't sell them. I told them they were his to do what he wanted with, but a couple of guys made me so fucking mad angry that I cussed them out and called them such names that I later felt bad and apoligized to them for it. P.L. was kind of like Super Dog and his trucks I guess. I really enjoyed walking around looking at the trucks, and even though he didn't know me from Adam he made me feel like family, he just could not have been nicer.

You're welcome. The gray cinderblock building is the old Davidson's Orchard apple packing place on rt. 15 a few miles north of Dillwyn. There was an old Davidson's Orchard truck at P.L.Duncan's so that's why I got a picture of the building. We used to go there and get apples and peaches when I was a kid. Now there's pine trees planted where the apple trees used to be. The store we're all in front of in the pictures is at P.L's too. It was Duncan's Store. We were there with Wayne Ellis, his dad, and his uncle when these pictures were taken. P.L. gave us a tour of the store that day, and it is packed full of stuff too- The American Pickers guys would go nuts, lots of old signs, oil and antifreeze containers, truck emblems of all sorts, even some grocery items laying around, and I think he told us the store closed in the 80's.

Bob hit some kind of big bird himself a few years ago and broke his windshield- I've even got a picture of it on the computer at home.