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Here's one that slipped through the cracks- a big Mack truck sitting in a field somewhere.

You're right about that.

Yes indeed. I always thought I was careful around that pipe, but i'll be even more careful now. I still would like to know exactly what happened there. Each layer of pipe is banded together and there's a wooden chock nailed to the 4x4 at each end of the row of pipe. If the loader was unloading the front stack, no bands should have been cut at the rear.

Thanks Mike.

I haven't been taking many pictures lately, not as many as usual anyway. I did see a land beaver in the road last weekend when we were pulling in the driveway. Some people call them groundhogs, but my son always called them land beavers. I saw a trailer at the shop with no axles under it. They're inside the shop, right in front of the forklift. They're refurbishing the tandems, and they said it's easier to just take them out where they can get to everything easily rather than do it under the trailer. Harvest time in Indiana. I took a 60' load of beams to Columbia City, then had to go to Marseilles, Il. ...to get this 60' load of tubing. It had to be fully tarped- meaning everything. The beams going out had to be tarped, but only what's on the trailer. I had to tarp what was hanging off on this load. I had to use three tarps, I even woke my co-driver up to help tarp it. And, sadly, we had a driver get killed at a job site this week. He had a load of the pipe that we haul all the time and from what I understand he was winding his straps up on the opposite side of the trailer from where the loader was , which is very dangerous, but they said- and again, i'm not sure who "they" are in this case- he was at the back of the trailer and the loader was at the front. I don't know if the loader man bumped the rear stack, if the bands were already cut, if it was one piece of pipe or the whole stack, I just don't know. But his son drives for F.L.M. too, and he said his Dad was always very careful around that pipe, and always made him stand in front of the truck when they were unloading together. http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2016/11/11/coroner-trucker-dead-falling-pipe-dover/93636360/

I did too Mike.

Yes, to roll those beams out. I'd like to take a mill tour one time and see exactly how they work, but they won't let you do that now. They used to give tours, but not any more.

I think almost- but not quite- everybody here is on the same page!

Terradackles in the field- we haven't seen any of them for a while! A dead rabbit in the parking lot at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg. I made stew this weekend too, it was really good. Everybody seemed to enjoy it. Sunset over a mill roll, Milton, W.V. A blue car in Petersburg. I saw two Jules Savard trucks on I 85 in S.C. Seen lots of their flatbeds before, with solid green T800's, but I don't remember seeing any van trailers or this paint scheme before.

"everybody likes boobage"- other dog, 2016

Here's the old bridge after they started tearing it down, with the new bridge in the background.

'Tis better to have more chains than you need than to have too few! I put all the straps I could get on two mill rolls the other day, then I went about a mile or so over to a big parking lot across from the store to put chains on them too, because they won't let you get on the trailer in the mill. I put three chains on each roll, along with the straps- I loop a chain through that hole in the big end, put another in that groove and pull the chain to both sides under the groove, and loop another one around that groove on the small end. I wouldn't feel safe at all going up the road with just the straps on them. And then this guy pulled in- 4 straps, total, and the beams were longer than the trailer, he had 3 or 4 feets hanging off the back. And the straps were outside of the rubrail too. I would not even get on the highway with this, it's not much different than being not secured at all- yeah, he's got corner protectors under the straps, but those plastic corner protectors have little or no friction against the beams. If he had to get on the brakes hard like you did with that coil he might as well have duct tape and rubber bands on it as those straps.

I've hauled some big singles, not quite that big though. I know i've hauled singles over 48,000lbs, and they are definitely not my favorite thing to haul. Most, or maybe all, of our trailers have the "coil package", where the cross members are closer together and they're designed just for hauling big singles. The worst trailers to haul them on were those flimsy steel trailers H.H.Moore had, you'd go around a curve and the whole trailer would bend in the middle, looked like a boomerang in the mirror.

The old bridge-

I even saw a girl in a car yesterday- I really like Fox News, because it's fair and balanced. Abby's face isn't so blurry in this one- After I watched Fox News because it's so fair and balanced I ran the tiller through the garden and cooked a few wings on the grill. New Boston, Oh. Looks like a storm's coming. I delivered a load of beams in New Boston this morning, then I went to Milton, W.V. and picked up a mill roll going to Petersburg. I saw a horse and 2 birds in Milton. The mill roll secured, i'm ready to ride. Meanwhile, at the Hellertown Truckstop... later, at the Hellertown Truckstop... The customer service there leaves a lot to be desired. ...before he ever opened a truck stop, way back before Roger Penske bought Detroit Diesel from GM, the owner was a big shot Detroit Diesel executive. ...but Penske dumped him like a hot potater when he took over, so now he has a bad altitude.

No, it doesn't, but those coils weighed about 20,000 lbs. each. I had 41,000 lbs. total I think. Not a real heavy load, but a decent load.

I didn't have many pictures last week, so I figured if I took a day off nobody would notice...wrong! I saw a pedestrian 8 miles from Hancock. I've posted pictures of this before, but it's just cool looking to me. Part of the old Weirton Steel plant, Weirton, W.V. The leaves on the maple tree are turning. I took this in the mirror, so the girl wouldn't think I was taking a picture of her fine looking ass instead of the leaves. Chester, W.V. It was a little chilly in Chester last Tuesday morning, a lot of people were blowing smoke out of their stacks. Chester is also home of the big tea pot. I went to Sharon Coatings- that's in Sharon- and I was the only truck there. That's never happened before! Got 2 coils going to Lynchburg, Va.

I don't know if this will work, I saw this on facebook. You can turn the sound off, you won't miss anything, I just like the video. " So let me get this straight.. these ladies are going to a Donald J. Trumprally to protest Trump for saying he treats women as sexual objects ...by taking off their clothes and walking around half naked there? I am honestly asking how this makes sense ? " https://www.facebook.com/The-Doc-1590114687938933/videos/

Yes it was like that for a long time, now it's really getting congested, they got the Lowes and Walmart, the Walmart distribution center, a slew of new apartment buildings or something, and all in the last few years. I can still remember the traffic circle at rt.15 and 250, and that was it. The Crescent restaurant was there, a motel, and a gas station or two, that's all- and no stop lights!

Yeah, that's about the stupidest thing i've ever seen....well, that might be a stretch, but it's definitely strange!

Yeah, I only remember the scales on 60 being open like one time. They had a similar weigh station on 522 just south of Berkley Springs too, never saw those open either. The ones at Mineral Wells were easy to get around then, now they've put a weight or length restriction on the road that goes around them. But even now they seem to be closed most of the time. I took a load to Mullens one time and ran rt. 10 out of Princeton. It was terrible, turns so tight I had to take the whole road to get around them, and I was wishing there was more road there to take. When I finally got to my destination in Mullens they said "you idiot, nobody goes that way- you should have taken the turnpike to Beckley, then rt. 16 south down to here- it's a little farther but it's way quicker and a lot better road." So when I left I took rt. 16 back up to the turnpkie at Beckley. It was a little farther but way quicker and a whole lot better road.

No, I haven't been to Modine for a long time- don't remember exactly, but it's been years.

Fitzgerald Gliders- this is a small part of the units they have sitting there. Load of lumber I picked up in Mt. Pleasant, N.C. I saw this blurry Superliner when I unloaded that lumber in Troy, Va. A big Mack truck at Zion Crossroads. Some units at Zion Crossroads. Blowed the leaves away today- i'm glad that's done with!

That old freezer belonged to my Grand Mother. I got it when she passed away, had it outside in the shed at the old house and on the back porch since i've been here. I have no idea how long she had it, but I've had it about 20 years I guess. It started making a funny- not "ha-ha" funny, but funny weird- noise, so I figured i'd best go get another one. It was just a small one- the replacement I got was a 7.1 cubic feet Frigidaire, the smallest they had, but it's still a good bit bigger than the old GE. It was about full, but when I put all the stuff out of the old one in the new one it still looked empty, so I took the stuff back out and put the frozen gallon jugs of water in the bottom, then put the food back in. They say you should keep a freezer full for best results- I'm not sure who "they" are- but I keep frozen water jugs in mine all the time, when I need the space I just take some out. Anyway, enough about the freezer,eh? I saw a white car at the gas station, near Norcross, Ga. Then I think I might have seen Dolly Parton at a red light. Looks like something's on fire over there-i'll call 1958FWD to see what it is.

I'll be back, got to go to Lowes ASAP and get a freezer. Oh, but this is a left handed dog wearing boots and a leather jacket playing a guitar on the side of a truck...near Norcross, Ga.