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It's all about the money in my opinion, they couldn't care less about safety, that's just their excuse to stop you. If it had anything to do with safety couldn't they let you fix an issue without giving you a ticket? Case in point, one time the DOT man pulled Big Jim over on 460 between Bedford and Lynchburg- probably the same a-hole that pulled me over for no reason one night- anyway, he didn't really find any violations, but Big Jim had his chain binders stuck down in the stake pockets of his trailer. The DOT man said that was "an unsecured load- I know, and you know, they aren't going anywhere but you need to put them in the headache rack." Big Jim said "can I just move them?" and the cop said "yeah, put them in the headache rack." So he did, but the cop wrote him up for it anyway. If the cop told him they weren't going anywhere, and he hung them in the headache rack so they were "secured", why did he have to write him up for having an unsecured load? We used to carry binders in the stake pockets all the time, never had one come out- it's all about the money.

I went to Moneta to get a load of lumber Thursday afternoon. Oddly enough, I didn't see any protesters, buildings burning, or people looting any stores.

I saw a colorful bug. A girl in a car- Wide open spaces- Another girl in another car- Headed up towards Mt. Storm, W.V. You can see the road i'd just came up over the guardrail. Another girl in another car. A truck parked at the scenic overlook. A dog in a car staring at a girl's ass. Wind turbines on top of the mountain. A girl chasing a dog in a car because he was staring at her ass. A big truck. A Volkswagon. Lots of traffic on 270 after I left Gaithersburg, Md. Thursday morning. Lots of apples on the trees this year- I wonder if that means it's going to be another bad winter or it's just a good year for apples? Another girl in another car. Big crane! Norfolk Naval Shipyard entrance- I didn't go there, I made a right turn here and went to Portsmouth and picked up 2 twenty foot containers going to Arrington, Va. Arrington, Va. A big Mack truck with a big load of pulpwood.

I saw a giant inflatable bulldog in Australia on facebook, but it doesn't look as good as your giant inflatable bulldog!

She sure didn't waste any time jumping on the gun control bandwagon after the two news people were killed at Smith Mountain Lake Thursday morning.

Fitzgerald offers a 500,000 mile warranty on their gliders, so they must be doing something right. Their engines are completely rebuilt by Fitzgerald, or factory re-mans from Detroit Diesel, I would expect the Cummins and Cats to be the same. I'd love to have one with an N14. Cline Everhart, owner of Everhart Transportation in Greeneville, Tn, likes them so much the majority of his fleet came from Fitzgerald, and he's still ordering new ones from them.

He's brilliant too! Taking a picture of each vehicle as it came in with the giant inflatable bulldog looking on was a great idea, really neat looking.

Happy birthday!

They were for me. When I was a teenager in Cumberland, Va. I remember seeing the local drag racing legend Raven Speas pull into Cumberland Auto Service in his famous (famous in Cumberland anyway) '55 Chevrolet. He left it running out front when he went inside and I just stood there staring at it in awe. I don't think i'd seen it before, just heard stories about it- it was running and just shaking, it even seemed like the ground was shaking because of the cam he had in it. He had an automatic in it at the time and he came out and got in it and took off up rt.60. He didn't even get in it hard and it chirped the tires both times it shifted, something i'd never seen a car with an automatic do at the time. He had a 454 in it and ran 12 second times at Richmond Dragway. Not 41Chevy or Freightrain fast, but for a street driven car in the early '70's, it was fast! Still fast to me now. Unfortunately Raven Speas was killed a few years later when he was driving his 60-something Chevy pickup, also a hot rod, at a high rate of speed and a car backed out in the road in front of him. He had to jerk the wheel to the left to keep from hitting the car and put the pickup in the woods. I remember seeing it and it looked about like it had been dropped into the Grand Canyon, just completely demolished. His family had a guy with a bulldozer come and dig a hole and they buried the truck in it and covered it up. I don't know what ever happened to the '55, it might still be down there sitting in a barn somewhere.

Yeah, Barry might have been too out of breath to talk anyway after blowing the bulldog up.

WTF?!! Didn't bring a camera?!! 58FWD once fired me for a way lesser offense than this... I forgot what it was...but I know it was way lesser. Didn't bring a camera?!!

Gee, a few years ago I had a pretty regular run to Fremont, Ohio. Used to run up rt. 250 from Strasburg, Oh. to Norwalk, passed lots of Amish buggies. I could have been taking "a girl in a buggy" pictures, but I didn't know anybody was interested.

Happy birthday to...uh...you fellas!

good looking sammich you got there too!

You're absolutely right, I never thought of that.

I know there's a double standard- if it was an adult man and a 15 year old girl, that's just wrong. But a 15 year old boy is scarred for life? Really? I doubt she had to hold a gun to his head or a knife to his throat. Dad's probably jealous because it wasn't him, being angry because his wife told him to, while secretly thinking "way to go son!" http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/08/21/former-nfl-cheerleader-sentenced-for-raping-teenage-boy/

I went across rt.22 when I left Pittsburgh because 885 south was closed and to avoid the Friday backup at I-79 and I-70 at Washington, Pa. Probably a big mistake- construction, left lane closed, more construction, left lane closed, backups, more construction, accident on 81 at Staunton, more backups... Took this in the mirror of trucks blocking the left lane to keep all the 4 wheelers from running the left lane all the way to where it was closed and then forcing their way into the right lane- I did see some nice rides on 22 though- I was going to stop and see Barry, but I didn't have time I was afraid this big dog would bite me because I was driving a Kenworth. I've posted these garage doors before, but I got a really good picture yesterday because I was only going about 2 1/2 mph. I passed a beer store... At least my engine light didn't.......eh, never mind.

I saw a dog in a car. I saw the big star on Mill Mountain from Truck Enterprises in Roanoke. A little closer look- It was very warm that day- A dog on a bike- A girl in a car. I saw a ship that had run aground- A big old Brockway dump truck- A big old load of logs. A big old Autocar- A fan in a car. A girl in a car. A boat by the corn field.

good thing I went back to the shop, the bearings were shot in the wheel with the leaking seal. I'm sitting at the little Marathon fuel stop at exit 18 on I-90 in Pa. now. No engine lights, no issues on the way up here.

I went to Roanoke to pick the truck up yesterday. The nice lady service manager showed me 3 pages of stuff that they did when I asked, very little of which made any sense to me except they updated the ECM and did a re-gen. So it was all sensor/electrical issues. I got the keys and went to hook to the trailer and saw a puddle of oil on the ground under the trailer by the left front tires. So I went back in and said "I know this is a stupid question, but could you fix a grease seal on the trailer"? She said it would probably be a few hours before they could get it in, and they probably wouldn't have the right seal because they didn't carry many trailer parts. I figured if I went to Lee-Hi it would be the same "a few hours" story and it was already about 4:30, so I went to Concord. I started to get a bottle of hub oil and go on up the road with it, but if I went through a check and they saw it i'd have to have it fixed on the road, so I called headquarters and told them it would be sitting there this morning. So now i'm back where I was 2 days ago, about to start over again.

I deleted the pictures I took the last time they put a turbo on it, but in this interweb photo it looks like it's made of silver- a little cheaper than gold. Old turbos had 4 bolts, an oil line, and 2 pipes, while these are almost unrecognizable as a turbo because of all the lines, hoses, sensors, wires, pipes, valves, doo-dads, and thing-a-mabobs that make them so expensive.

I would have, but the shed's so cluttered I couldn't find it.

Just sittin' at home, looking at the interweb...I left Concord yesterday morning about 10:30 going to Fairview, Pa. with a load of lumber. A couple of miles from Iron Gate on rt. 220 my red engine light came on and it started pinging. I pulled over and the orange engine light with the little wrench in it came on too. I spun the wheel to see the faults and it said turbo actuator,delta pressure, Bus2,CAN,..that's all I remember. I tried to google CAN and Bus2 but I couldn't find any info, so I have no idea what they mean. I called Jeff yesterday because Dilley had told me when the red light comes on and it starts pinging you'd better be looking for somewhere to pull over, because it's going to shut down. Jeff said it would let you drive 30 miles, so I don't know. He told me to try to get it back to Roanoke. Redneck was with me and he said he would keep on to I-64 and run that back over to 81 and down to Roanoke so I could at least get on the shoulder if it conked out, because if I turned around and went back down 220, which was much shorter, it would quit on the 2 lane part for sure. The light went off when I was pulling North Mountain and stayed off until I got all the way to 581, but it was surging and would quit pulling periodically all the way down 81 and the turbo boost would drop. I parked it outside the gate at Truck Enterprises and Tom who works in the shop bob tailed up there in the new white T800 to pick me up. That was the only truck sitting there with fuel in it he said. He brought a truck in case I didn't make it to Roanoke he could at least bring the trailer in. I was just about to call headquarters a few minutes ago to see if they'd heard anything when Jeff called to ask where i'd put the keys, so apparently they're just now about to pull it in the shop. I guess I should have told them the keys were in the side box under the box of triangle reflectors. I don't know if it's a sensor issue, electrical problem, or the turbo's going bad. It's on the third turbo now, has a little over 400,000 miles on it. A new turbo's about $6,000- hope it's still under warranty.

Yeah, i'm on the right side of the road. You, on the other hand... These videos are at least 4 years old, been driving the KW 4 years in October. Stuck a little Kodak camera up on the dash and took them. That was the ol' Pete I used to drive with the 550 Cat and 18 speed.

Here's a little video I took over on Hawk's Nest several years ago. This one is heading east on rt. 60, coming off the mountain into Rainelle.