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A girl pondering the situation by the gas pumps. Everybody's sitting here waiting for the gate opener dude to get here and open the gate so we can get in- be nice to get my tarps off before it gets too hot! The ramp from 85 to 77 north was closed Friday while they were clearing an overturn accident. I thought this large unit was thrown off a truck, but a truck had turned over on the ramp earlier in the day, so this is probably what it was hauling. Some wild animals where I unloaded in Verona, Va. Friday evening.

Over here in Amelia county, on rt. 360. I had my camera ready because there used to be an H model cab sitting there. Didn't see the H model, but there were lots of other Macks there.

A girl in a car- A girl in a car. I-85 in N.C. Another girl in another car, showing almost all the goods, just couldn't get a good picture. Saw some nice shoes in S.C!

Some big machines on the Pa. Turnpike- More big machines- A girl in a car. Stupid birds- Some big Mack trucks.

I hauled a few loads like that from Joliet, Illinois to Winchester, Va. in the '80's. They would band the material to the trailer, with these big-ass heavy duty bands, at least an inch wide i'd say, then you'd still have to chain it- straps hadn't been invented then.

I usually do all the above, in this order- I start a bar fight, get beaten up, then I throw up, then pass out.

Bah, you're just a bunch of old white dudes that just don't get it!

Just in case anybody missed it-

Yes, I had to have an oversize permit for every state. I could run 24/7 in Indiana with no escort because the load wasn't wide, everywhere else-Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia- I had to have an escort and could run daylight hours only. Illinois was daylight only, but I made it to Indiana before dark, so I was good. The escort met me at the Ohio line at Richmond, In. both times, and we got to Lynchburg before dark both times.

Found this dead black snake in the garden just a few minutes ago. Looks like it was trying to crawl through the fence and got stuck.

Yeah Bob, the ones I loaded in Elkhart last week were 77 feet long, these were 80. I had to open the trailer another hole though, from 68' to 73'.

That's Jessica Alba, I don't know what movie it's from.

Because I didn't get any "a girl in a car" pictures-

I saw a big Mack truck on rt. 35 in W.V. And a big yellow Taylor at Atlas Tube in Chicago. It was way bigger than the big red Taylor at the shop- Over the hood view, T800 Kenworth...nothing much to see here, eh? At Atlas Tube in Chicago. I picked up another long load of tubing there, going to Lynchburg. It was 80 feets long. Some jackass in a Nissan pickup. I took a load of steel from Lynchburg down to the galvanizer in Ashland, Va. yesterday. Saw this boat going north on I-95, it belonged to some professional fishing team and had not one, not two, but three 300 horsepower engines on it!

Me too.

Couple more-

Saw this on Facebook-

OK, that's enough Winfall wimmin/Diamond T pictures for today!

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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.