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We figured we should have our shit together when we got there, so I had my hard hat, glasses, steel toed boots, and reflective safety vest on, but I was still wrong- they also required long sleeves.

You're right about that. Wouldn't surprise me if backup beepers are required equipment on jobsites after this. This might have happened before at some point in history, but i've never heard of a similar accident before. But I believe that when your time is up, you're going away from here.

Yep, I think there was two trucks from that same company there. They had to drop their trailers last Tuesday because they couldn't get unloaded because of lightning in the area. They were in a different area than we were, and from what I understand they had to back in off the highway to get to their trailers when they came back on Wednesday, so they were probably in a hurry to get off the highway too.

He asked me about backup beepers on trucks too, he said everything at that job site had backup alarms on them but the trucks coming in didn't. I said I don't know, the truck I drive now has a backup alarm, but it's the first one i've ever driven that had one.

True that. The man I was talking to said the man on the forklift was there and saw the whole thing. He said he jumped up on the side of the truck and was beating on the window trying to get the driver's attention. When the driver stopped and got out and saw what had happened he got back in the truck and would not get out. The whole thing was caught on the security camera there too he said.

Saw a girl or two in a car or two- they'll be getting smaller as the weather gets warmer. The power plant we took the crane to near Martinsville, In. After the fatality accident last week they put barricades in front of every dropped trailer at the site- I was talking to one of the guys that was unloading us and he said the man who was killed was their foreman. He was standing in front of a trailer, facing the trailer. The truck driver didn't see him and backed under the trailer to hook up, just mashing him between the 5th. wheel and 5th. wheel plate...horrible. So they made all these barricades. They didn't want us to start, stop, turn, pull up, back up, or anything else without somebody being there to tell us what to do, and they had an escort walking in front of the truck everywhere we went. They finally unloaded me with the forklift Tuesday evening, after sitting there most of the day, but the other two trucks didn't get unloaded until Wednesday because the wind was blowing too hard to use the crane. Then I went to La Porte, In. and picked up 16 scrap coils going to Suffolk, Va. The coil inspector had to inspect them even though they were scrap coils.

Not nearly as impressive as the above photos, but I did see a D7 sitting in a field.

Well, don't tell anyone else this, but it's mostly a pigment of my imagination.

Oh, trucks run it a lot- there's a Georgia Pacific plant and a chip mill just down the road in Brookneal.

I loaded 25 tons of fertilizer at Royster in Lynchburg, Va. in '80 or '81 and took it to Union, W.V. I took rt. 460 to rt. 219 and went north to Union, driving a '77 F model with a 300 ,5 speed. It was loaded on the floor, as most loads of fertilizer was then, and unloaded by hand.

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No, she was over in the electronics section- but she could have been lost. I saw this girl in the Winfall Wal Mart a few weeks ago and I followed her around the whole time I was in there to see if she was going to buy some pants, and when those cops dragged me away she still hadn't even looked at any pants.

Today I found an old RT910 laying in the junk pile in the back yard, so I put it in the Dodge during the commercials when I was watching Ax Men.

I saw this girl when I was on the way home from Winfall- she looked a little cold, but I didn't have time to stop and check on her.

She didn't need them, everybody else did!

She's just got her headlights on for safety.

I'm so glad you mentioned that- after I fixed a broken wire so the goat's eyes would light up again- ...I went over to the Winfall Wal Mart, where I saw this nice lady doing some shopping.

no lederhosen either? well, I can't bring my beer assistant then.

This is why we had to turn around with the crane- http://fox59.com/2016/03/02/contractor-dies-at-construction-site-of-new-ipl-power-station-near-martinsville/

She wears those 4X reading glasses...

Absolutely!

How come these pictures are so big? Or is it just me and my interweb machine? Usually they're small and I have to click on them to biggerize them, but they're full size in the original post now.

Oh yeah, it's been like that for a while. I got a new computer last year and did the windows 10 update. Still got windows 8 or 8.1 on my laptop, but I haven't been on IE on it. Still got the big "e" icon on here, but it says Microsoft Edge. I was wondering where IE went and had to google it to find out what was going on.

What did I do?..Oh, I remember- I went to Lynchburg Monday and unloaded the skidded coils that were in the Conestoga, then I took a van load to Fuquay Varina, N.C. When I got back from down there Tuesday I had to get a drop-deck and be in Ashland, Va. Wednesday morning to load crane parts going to Martinsville, In. There was three loads and 2 were wide so we left the shop at 5am and got to Ashland at 7 so we could get loaded as early as possible and get as far as we could before dark. It didn't matter though. I loaded first and didn't pull out of the building until after noon. Didn't get the paperwork until 3pm. We were all loaded and left around 4, and only got as far as Lee-Hi Truckstop in Lexington. I saw a motor grader way over yonder when I was waiting to back in. Part of the crane- I had this load- the hoists, cable, touch-up paint, the hooks, and all kinds of miscellaneous parts and pieces. We left Lee-Hi at daylight yesterday morning. I got a call from headquarters when we were just west of Lewisburg, W.V. and they said to hold up- there was an issue at the job site and they might not want the loads until Monday. Found out that a man was killed at the job, and they shut it down. We turned around and took the loads back to Lee-Hi and dropped them and bob tailed back to the yard. Heading back into Va... I had cancelled an eye Dr. appointment for the third time to take this load, so I called to see if my appointment time for today was still open. It was, so I told them I would be there. As far as I know now, we're going back to Lee-Hi Monday morning and leave at daylight again.