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Dave sent a couple of "looking over the hood" pics- thanks Dave!

Funny you should mention that, i've been wishing ever since that i'd taken that picture looking over the hood!

Miscellaneous pictures-

I ran across Dave there, he let me sit in the Diamond T- he even let me start it. He was on the way back from Oregon, and he said the only bad part about the trip was trying to keep the wimmins off that Diamond T every time he stopped. He said he finally had to hire a bodyguard to ride shotgun just to keep them away, and he made pretty good time after she was with him.

Art Reed's place in Montvale, Va. Art always has some neat stuff around. A girl in a car- this was a fine specimen too. I took a load of 40' beams to Arthur, Illinois and when I got to the shop Tuesday morning they were about to unload them and put them on a different trailer. I figured somebody else was going to deliver them and i'd have to take a load of pipes somewhere, or that i'd been canned because I didn't leave Monday. But no, they were putting them on a stretch trailer because they had a 77' load in Elkhart, Indiana coming back to Lynchburg. I got delayed in Elkhart because Obama was in town the same time I was. He's in that limo- I needed to turn at that light to go load at Bull Moose Tube, but I had to sit there for a long time. I could run at night with no escort in Indiana, but needed an escort the rest of the way to Lynchburg. I met the escort at the Petro on I-70 at the Ohio line the next morning. Left there at 8:30am, got to Lynchburg and got unloaded that evening. The escort had to stop for gas, so we stopped at the truck stop on 35 just east of Jackson, Ohio. I saw this across the parking lot...

Now, where was I?..I'm a little behind on the pictures of the week. I'm behind on everything- there's so many members now I had to go to page 3 to start catching up on unread posts in "Odds and Ends". Never had to do that before, usually unread stuff would only be about half of the first page after a week. But anyway, I did see a Diesel Cop with lots of pretty blue lights behind me in Bedford, Va. one fine day. He just checked my paperwork, and I was good to go. Superliner chip truck in Petersburg, Va. A pteradactyl dog at work- I saw a donkey at work too- I saw a fine looking girl in a car, but got a terrible picture- she should have had the window down. A better picture of another girl in another car- I used my "old-school converted gas stove smoker oven" to smoke two boston butts last weekend, which I made into pulled pork barbecue. That old stove cooked them in half the time the Char-Griller smoker takes, i'm gonna start using it more.

US Silica-

I like that orange and white Hayes, always liked the looks of the way that big "H" is kind of made into the front of the hood. I like a lot of them at this show, lot of stuff you don't see around these parts- thanks Dave, and it was nice seeing you today. I got unloaded in Lynchburg this evening.

I saw a big Diamond T at the truck stop at Jackson, Ohio today. I don't know if this was the driver or not.

Wow Mike, that does suck, to the highest level of sucktivity.

I went last year, it was a very good show.

Got those dumpsters off at S.B.Cox in Richmond today. Saw a few big Mack trucks there too. Saw a pretty nice smoker when I was on the way back-

Oh yeah, that's right, it was Compton. At least I had the started with a "C" right. I heard once that the owner's son lost the company gambling, don't know if that's true or not.

Oh yeah, that's right. I remember they had a green Fleetstar International sitting there for years.

Palomar! Another name i'd almost forgotten- I stopped coming down rt. 15 one night, somewhere between Frederick and rt. 29 in Va. and bought an almost new 100 watt Palomar from another driver for $100. I already had a 150 watt Texas Star.

That's the one I was trying to think of, lots of people had them in the 70's and 80's.

I remember that- still remember my call sign, KAAT-3608.

I was looking for a Corbitt picture, among thousands of pictures that I have saved on the computer, and ran across these oldies that might be worth re-running.

Just south of Berkley Springs, West Virginia on rt. 522. This was once a terminal for a pretty good size trucking company- was it Colvin? They had a fleet of red and white cabover KW's, hauled a lot of silica sand from U.S. Silica, which is on 522 just north of Berkley Springs.

Nice!

Nice find! I'd have bought that radio too. First CB I had was a Sharp, bought it in 1976 I believe. I think a Royce was pretty much top of the line then! Royce, Sharp, Johnson, Midland,Teaberry, Pace...what was that other one?..can't remember, but these were all popular radios then, don't know if they still make any of them.

I have ran the turnpike hardly any in the last 15 to 20 years until recently. Thought i'd save on toll money for the company, and save having to match any documents to any other documents, so I just ran rts. 79, 19, 39, and 20 all the time. Now that we have to run legal and have secret spy cameras in the trucks I take whatever route is easier for me. And it is no doubt quicker, with a lot less hills. For example, I left Sharon, Pa. one day last week at 1PM. I had 2 coils on, 46,000 lbs, going to Madison Heights- that's just across the river from Lynchburg. My 14 hours were up at 9PM. I don't know if I could have even made it by 9 if i'd went down 79, if I had I would have had to "hammer down" the whole way, and pretty much non-stop. I jumped on the pike, went over to Breezewood and down, and got to Madison Heights at 8:30, 30 minutes to spare!

I went to Oswego once before. The late David Elder was with me, we had two loads of joists from Hancock Joist in Salem, Va. Before we got into town we saw dozens of people fishing in the river, some in the river with chest waders, elbow to elbow. We were going to stop on the way back because he wanted to see what they were fishing for and if they were catching any- he loved to fish. I was in front and ran by the pull-off spot we were going to stop at, so he didn't stop either, and complained all the way back because he didn't get to check the fishermen out.

I didn't hear a thing, it might have been this one-http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/10463629-74/somerset-accident-turnpike

That was part of the outfit that was clearing that wreck's truck.