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They changed that too, when I click on the IE icon on the desktop, it says "Microsoft Edge" instead of Internet Explorer. I use Google Chrome all the time.

I started driving in 1979, and I remember enjoying it and even having some fun at first, but I enjoyed it less and less as time went on, now there's very little enjoyment and not much fun at all. Even in that time span normal traffic is now about like rush hour used to be, plus all the rules, regulations, HOS, DOT, GPS tracking,etc. that you have to worry about now didn't used to be much of an issue. Shoot, in '79 if they were checking log books at the scales in say, Tennessee, that's all you heard on the CB, and you might still be two states away, because it was a pretty big deal then. Now you hear nothing on the CB about anything, and you can be driving along most anywhere and a cop will pull you over just because he feels like it and check your log book, paperwork, or do an inspection. And not just the DOT, a lot of local county and township cops are doing that now. It has nothing to do with safety, it was because they found out they could make money doing it.

Now that's a good one!

I see a lot of dump trailers loading regular coils at Sharon Coatings in Sharon, Pa.

Well, ..uh...yeah, that's pretty much it.

No, they want van loads only at Chester, W.V. in the winter time, they'll unload flatbeds in the summer. And Kyanite Mining Corp. won't load a flatbed from the end, only from the side. They used to, but not any more.

I went over to the Winfall Saloon to have a drank today- ...but I didn't stay long, I came home to see if I could get my grill started after sitting idle all winter. It started right up, so I threw a half-rack of ribs and half a pork loin on it . I didn't have time to try 1958F.W.D.'s recipe, every thing was frozen solid, so there was no time to marinate anything. Every thing turned out very well though.

I had a van on the first trip, they can't unload the van at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg, so they have to unload them at the shop and put them on a flatbed so they can be side unloaded. The Conestoga was on the second trip to McKees Rocks to load.

Sorry about your Grandfather. Wow, I always said Montana was the prettiest place i'd ever seen, and I was only there once. Thanks for the pictures.

True that, it pulls hard even empty, it's so wide you can't see anything but the front corners in the mirror, and chaining is a hassle, but the tarping part is great!

I was looking at some pictures of the construction of the Smith Mountain Lake dam this morning and saw this neat picture- There's more pictures here, but no more B models- http://www.newsadvance.com/lifestyles/photos-building-smith-mountain-lake-a-look-back/collection_0ec57092-d580-11e5-aa7e-7f9c0e742de0.html

That would be my guess about the coyotes, there's another big plywood sign there complaining about an insurance company. There used to be a $50 bounty on coyotes in Appomattox, Cumberland, and several more counties around here. I should check Campbell County, if there's a bounty here I could offer him $25 each, load 'em up, and bring them here and say I killed them in the back yard. There's cattle there too, they might have killed some of his calves or something. I don't know if they're like the wolves or not- some years ago, somebody decided that it would be a good idea to bring wolves back into the mountains of western Va. http://www.vlrc.org/articles/42.html Now people are complaining about wolves killing their livestock, especially in Highland County where they raise a lot of sheep. This was pretty interesting too- http://www.c-ville.com/coywolves-albemarle-county-new-species-calls-area-home/#.VtK2sJwrIdU

I went from Columbus back to McKees Rocks, saw this Cummins powered Dodge getting fuel at the Go Mart across from the old Shenandoah Truckstop. Saw a couple of big Mack trucks at Neville Island. And I saw a wagon load of dead coyotes Sam Black Church, W.V. Saw this girl in Winfall on the way home today. She asked me to help her get her heel unstuck from her wheel, but I told her I was already running late and just didn't have time. I guess everybody heard about the tornadoes in this area on Wednesday. The Evergreen area was pretty much devastated. I used to live in Evergreen when I first moved to Appomattox, and I rented a house from the man who was killed there. http://wset.com/

I saw an oversize load going north on I-79 Sunday. Must have been really heavy, they had 2 trucks pulling it. Saw it again Monday when I was headed back south. I had a load of skidded coils in a van. They have to unload them at the shop and put them on a flatbed or drop deck trailer and then deliver them to Lynchburg because N.B.Handy's forklifts won't fit in the trailer. So they drag them to the rear of the trailer with a chain, then unload them with the forklift. When I went to Handy Wednesday to pick up a load going to Hanover, Md. in a Conestoga, they asked me about this coil- they wanted to know if it looked like this when they loaded it in McKees Rocks. I said "no, it did not look like that, it was round when they loaded it". They seemed to think they dropped it at the shop when they were unloading it. The guys at the shop said it was like that at first, and they took pictures of it before they unloaded any of the coils- this coil and another one just like it was side by side all the way in the nose of the trailer. They were the only single coil skids, all the rest had 2 coils banded together. I said the only thing I could think of was when they ran the next skid in the trailer they might have mashed it trying to get the skids tight...but the one right beside it was undamaged. I have no clue how it got like that, it's a mystery. I went from Hanover to York, Pa. to get a load of aluminum going to Columbus, Oh. Ran in a lot of snow across the turnpike, road never got too bad though. I got to Columbus and turned into this alley, where the sign said "shipping and receiving". Then I had to back out of it into the street and go down to the next street and make a right, and another right, to get back over here. All this because the place next door blocks their parking lot so trucks delivering where I was can't use it to pull up into and back straight into the door. I had to blind-side in the door from this side. Not a real big deal because there's a lot of room, but you can't turn the truck in the alley until you clear the corner of the building, and it would be so quick and easy if I could have come in and pulled into that parking lot over there at first and backed right in the door...jackasses.

Maybe you should do more writing, as I said it was very well written and enjoyable to read, good story, great job!

That's what I was thinking.

I just read the new Double Clutch and there was a good article in it called "Trucking With Edward Woodward". It was very well written too, by some guy named Jim Hancock. There's also some guy named Jim Hancock on BMT. Wonder if they've ever met?

One of my favorites- the D860 GMC.

I hauled a bulldozer once. Allis Chalmers HD16.

We talked to a Bushwick driver in the break room at Bushwick Steel. He said he drove a trash truck or roll-off truck in the 70's, and went to the power plant every week. He said the stuff they threw away was unreal- he said he made as much on the side from what they threw away as he did for driving the truck. He said "...perfectly good welding leads as long as here to there-" and pointed to the far side of the building. He also said he saved the crane mats they threw in the dumpster- all good solid oak wood- for firewood, and tons of good plywood that they threw away.

And the old GMC logo.

You know the deal- you run like hell to get somewhere so you can sit there and wait...and wait...and wait some more.

Fortunately I didn't have to go in the "secure" area.

After I cleared the snow off the driveway with the leaf blower, it started to sleet...then came the freezing rain. So I still had to go out and break up the ice with a shovel before I finally got out Monday morning. I was planning to go around 3 or 4 am, I thought it was supposed to be about 40 degrees by then but it was still freezing. It was only up to 34 when I finally left at 9am. Then I got to the shop and got a broom and swept the snow off the trailer and load of coils, then I hauled ass to N.C. to try to get 2 stops off. Just a little ways into N.C. on rt. 86 you couldn't tell it had even snowed- There's still quite a bit laying around here now. By the time I got to the second stop in Benson I was sweating when I was folding my tarp. Then I had to haul ass to Kernersville to pick up one of these stainless steel canisters. They're for storing spent fuel rods. Took it to the power plant near Pottstown, Pa. We - me and Curtis were running together- went up 52 to 77 to 81. I've posted pictures of Pilot Mountain before, but it's always an impressive sight to me. It was warm that day, but if you go by there on a really cold dat it looks like this- another old joke...moving on- After spending all night and half a day at the power plant, we went to Parker Ford, Pa. to load steel going to Monroe, Va. It was 9 miles from the power plant, but as the crow flies it only looked like a mile or so- this is the power plant from where we loaded at Bushwick Steel. Spot mirror on the wall at the steel getting place- I saw this log truck on rt.24 when I was going to Dillwyn to get a load of Kyanite in a van yesterday. It's called the "Log Hog". It has a 6-71 Detroit in it, and it used to have straight pipes, don't know if it still does or not. When I lived in Appomattox you could here it coming long before you ever saw it. The owner stopped by the house and gave my youngest son a ride in it on his birthday when he was about 10 years old. My son was about 10, not the owner of the truck. Anyway, it had a "for sale" sign on it. Then on the way home yesterday I saw this girl from Texas in Winfall. I stopped and she said she had fallen and couldn't get up- she asked me if I would help her into the back seat of her car, then she winked at me. Like i'm stupid enough to fall for that! I told her she looked fine to me, and besides "you can't drive the car from the back seat!" Then she looked at me like I was nuts!..I left her sitting there and went on home.