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I took a load of pipes to Monongahela the other day. I was coming from the opposite direction here and my directions said to make a right on Baird Street- the street right there with that pole on the corner. I said "I can not make that turn without taking that pole with me." I probably could have made it if I took the whole road, but there was a long line of traffic coming towards me, and as usual, a long line of traffic behind me. So I continued onward to the grocery store parking lot that was just a little ways down on the left and called the contractor. He said there was another way in and to just wait right there, he'd have somebody there in just a minute. So a minute later a guy in a dump truck pulled in and said to follow him. We went back up the street,rt.88, made an easy left on a big wide street, and it went straight to where they unloaded me. Who gives these directions anyway, they should have said to turn on that street in the first place. Then I went to Galv-Tech in Pittsburgh and loaded one 19,000 lb. coil going to Salem, Va. Had a light load so I came back down across Mt. Storm. Stopped at the scenic overlook and saw some windmills. And some scenic views... It's harvest season, I saw lots of harvest equipment on the road, some even in the field.

Oh... you're a smart fellow, you'd be great in the personnel department, $50 a month is way better than $100 a week! Besides, I haul more heavy loads over more big hills than anybody else. It's uphill all the way from Lynchburg to anywhere in Pa, and all the way back. The W900s they've got have 550s in them.

If Jeff ever calls you axing for binness advice, just ignore him.

I'm hoping the ISX Cummins won't have the issues that the Paccar engines had, they were nothing but trouble. The red truck has 440-some thousand miles on it, and it's on it's third turbo.

I looked for bulldogs, but I didn't see any.

I spent most of the day yesterday moving stuff out of the red truck into the other red truck. That's a job! We switched the headache rack, tool boxes, chains, binders, tarps, all the equipment in the side boxes, and most of my personal belongings. Got to go back to the shop today and finish. I got lucky just because I picked the red truck- the last time I took my truck to Truck Enterprises because the red engine light was coming on Jeff said he was going to trade it. He said there were about 6 T800's up there, and to "look at them and see which one you want." They had 2 charcoal gray ones, a lavendor one, a red one, a blue one, and a green one. I walked out there and took a quick look, not a close look at all, just to check out the colors that were available because I thought the color was the only difference in them. I called him and told him I liked the red one, so he said that was the one he was going to tell them he wanted. Come to find out that the others had 455hp. engines but the red one has a 500 with a heavier frame and driveline. He said the warranty was more because it has the 500, but "don't worry, i'll just take $100 a week out of your check to pay for the warranty."

I drove a couple of Freightliners, one was a 1998 classic. It was a good one, but the other one was one of the crappiest trucks I ever drove. Don't remember what year it was, it was a lot newer than the '98, mid-roof, ran good, but was just a shoddily built truck.

I have a nice Peterbilt jacket I could send you, but they're probably not required in sunny south Florida. It's the one that Jeff Moore said cost him $100,000, and he gave it to me. He kept the free truck that came with it though.

He gets all his hats here-

geez, out of likes already?..I just got here!

Nope, nothing wrong with that, you gotta do what you gotta do. The 60 series Detroits are good engines, and a Peterbilt is a good truck. I liked the one I drove. I caught some flack for driving it, especially from Rob, but actually all 19 breakdowns were Caterpillar issues, nothing to do with Peterbilt.

Wonderful.

...but the chrome ring around the right headlight doesn't look too bad.

I heard about this on the Howard Stern show, so I downloaded it for Google Chrome- works great, and it was free. https://adblockplus.org/

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But it's not all bad, now it even covers auto collision repair-

Oh, I forgot- Jeff's new truck is at the yard. I think it's getting lettered today. It has a 500hp. ISX15 in it with an 18 spd. and 3.55's.

I'm with you there!

Just like social security- when it was first started there was a surplus for years. People- or workers I should say- were paying in way more than was being paid out. Then just a few years ago it was breaking even, now it pays out more than is being paid into it. But there's all that surplus from previous years, right?..no, because whenever the gummint needed money for something they'd just "borrow" it from social security...

Yep, it has a lever on it and was probably made in Cleveland, that's about all I know. Here's another view, which is almost the same as the first view. I was traveling about 2 mph. in a long backup on 79 when I noticed the big tree. I saw no sweater puppys.

I took a load of beams to Metals USA in Ambridge, Pa. this week- I see they've still got the old yellow U model sitting there. I saw a big Peterbilt wrecker there too... ...on the side of a truck. Then I saw a thingamabob at McKees Rocks. Fire truck going south on I 79 in W.V. A tree. A big Mack dump truck in Canonsburg, Pa.

Good stuff- and now we know where Mark has been.

"I've got cash and a trailer"...Richard Rawlings, Fast N Loud. Seems to work for him most of the time.

No, the one looking through the fence.

She walked that dog from all the way across the street over to the back of the place where i'd unloaded some beams so he could take a dump in their grass. ...then walked him back home. Nice ass, eh?