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But I did think about you again! I left Indianapolis a little after 10am- actually Westfield, just north of Indianapolis- and drove straight to Wooster. I thought they'd probably load me the next morning, but I called the guy in Wooster and he said to come on , they would load it that evening. So I didn't stop anywhere, and got there a little before 3. By the time they finally got it raised, loaded, blocked, situated, and I chained it down it was after 6, and I couldn't run after dark, so I had to get going. I had hoped to get to Mineral Wells, W.V. but only made it to Newcomerstown- then I had to tarp the thing! And my Ohio permit had me routed 30 east to Ohio rt. 94 south to 250. I don't know why I couldn't take 250 all the way, 30 all the way to 77 would have been better than rt.94, it sucked! I went up 94 with a load of Kyanite going to Orrville one time, and said i'd never make that mistake again. It was narrow, with a lot of crown in the road, crooked as a dog's leg, Amish buggies everywhere, and very steep hills- not real long hills, but so steep I was in 3rd. or 4th. gear in the low side getting up one of them.

I'm in a tight spot. Silos on the AA Highway in Kentucky. I took a load of beams to Indianapolis, then went to Wooster, Ohio to pick up a roll mill to take to Bedford, Va. It was 9'3'' wide and heavy- they told us it weighed about 55,000 lbs. but we might want to get a permit for 60,000 lbs, just in case. It took three forklifts to lift it... and they had to put a big electric motor on the back of the biggest one for an extra counter weight. When they finally got it up in the air I backed under it. It didn't just flatten the arch in the trailer, it put a noticeable sag in it! It was top-heavy too, rocked like a load of logs. I stopped and weighed it, and found out that the permits weren't worth the paper they were written on. I weigh a little over 31,000 empty, so that machine weighed over 66,000lbs. But I made it to Bedford OK, and got it unloaded Thursday evening. Oh, and I saw two girls throwing some trash in the dumpster in Petersburg Monday. Saw two blue trucks... and two red trucks. Actually, I've been practicing on my poorly photo-chopping work.

I interviewed another potential employee today, she even came down to check out the facilities, but still no luck, she didn't work out either. I told her to find her own way home, because I wasn't gonna take her back.

Yeah, only got 12 Yuenglings so i'm rationing it- i'm finishing up the Bud Light that's left from last weekend. Only had about 8 or 9 cans in the box...down to 4 now.

Well, I can't go back today- had a Bud light or three since I got back- but it's not that far, I can go back on a Saturday morning and see if I can find out anything. It's at some kind of business, but I don't know what it is. We just pulled in and when I saw the "for sale" sign I figured that meant I could get out and take pictures of it.

There's no such thing as too many pictures on here!

No Paul, there was no phone number or price on the sign. I can investigate further if you want.

I've been on a secret mission today. I went over to Concord to turn the refrigerator off in the red truck and get the half a pack of ham and half a bottle of Miracle Whip that i'd left in it- I was afraid it would run the batteries down and it wouldn't start tomorrow. Anyway, when we left I said "we should ride down to Drakes Branch and see if that B model sleeper cab is still sitting there." I had seen it a couple of months ago when I was passing through but I didn't get a picture. So we did, and it was still sitting there. It looked a lot worse up close than it did driving by that day, lots of rust- but there was two new looking coil racks laying in the passenger seat.

I unloaded a load of beams in Roanoke early Monday morning, then went up here to Milton, W.V. and picked up two mill rolls and took them back to Petersburg, Va. Picked up another load of beams in Petersburg going to Roanoke, but I dropped it at the yard and took a van load to Fuquay Varina, N.C. Cleaning up damage from the recent tornado in Evergreen, Va. The railroad tracks are over in the background, that's where I lived when I was renting a house in Evergreen, just this side of the tracks. The house later burned. Got distracted by Fox news... I hauled a bulldozer a while back and the man that hauled the dozer to where I picked it up has a restored B 61 Mack. I finally got to see a picture of it yesterday- It's an old Jamerson Brothers truck, like this one except for the tandem axles. Here's some of his old tractors behind the B model on the same trailer he had the dozer on- Fox News, B models, and a bulldozer inspires me to post a poorly photo-chopped picture of a Winfall wimmins posing in a field by a bulldozer...

H.H.Moore had a guy from Covington that had an old green and white Transtar with a 318 leased on with him. It was really weak, even for a 318. His uncle used to ride with him sometimes and when we were hauling chips from Ivy, Va. to Covington for Westvaco one summer you would see him climbing Afton Mountain about as fast as you could run- he had his foot holding the driver side door open and his uncle would be holding the other door open with his foot.

I took fertilizer to Sam's Market in Lookout, which was mainly a grocery store, but they had a little of everything, and they unloaded it - by hand of course- in a little shed beside the store. I always had fake bills that said I had a load of Kyanite when I went to W.V. with fertilizer because we couldn't haul fertilizer in W.V. but we could haul ground ore. I never got checked anywhere anyway, but if I had and they looked under the tarp and saw it was fertilizer they would probably have been in even bigger trouble with the false documentation!

Helluva load of lumber on that wagon! Where's the engine on the Convoy car hauler, and how does it keep cool? Always liked the old "snub nose" trucks. Cool little mixer in there too.

The rack inspector showed up a few seconds later- she's inspecting her own rack right now.

Ran across a very interesting link on facebook, a story and history about the Orville Body Co. Lots of pictures too. http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/o/orrville/orrville.htm

I interviewed what I thought was a great candidate for potential employment today, but she just didn't work out. I think she was just too lazy.

Yes, sounds right- "I scaled Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen wearing only shorts, tennis shoes, and a Hawaiian shirt with a picture of Bob on it"!

But what does " scalable " mean- enquiring minds want to know...

That's what I did, I changed it to ''CARBON" and it's pretty good.

Kind of like Richmond Dragway, I used to take my 350 Nova and my '70 Chevelle SS there in the 70's. You could run 12.00 all day with no safety equipment at all, but if you turned an 11.99 you were done, unless you had all the safety equipment- roll cage, helmet, drive shaft loops, etc.

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.