other dog

Poorly photo chopped geese maybe?

They're pretty big, it's harder to do the smaller I make them- I figure everybody wants to see a little more detail anyway. Yeah, I thought it would have been a lot cheaper to fix the bearing, even if they had to call the "axle doctor", I think they're called? They come out with a truck with all the tools, cut the spindle off, weld a new one on, and guarantee it to be straight and true and that the seal will hold. I mentioned this to the other driver, because those rotator wrecker trucks don't work cheap. Apparently they had already checked into it because he said there was only one place in the area that did it and it would be a couple of days until they could get to it.

One of our KWs in Pottstown, with a poorly photo-chopped woman sitting on the step.

I only took a few pictures this week. I hadn't even had a cold all winter, but I managed to catch one this week- felt like crap from about Tuesday on, and still feel like crap. All because I got that haircut...took all my powers...should have waited a few weeks... But I noticed that you can see the radar station on Apple Orchard Mtn. from N.B.Handy in Lynchburg... after zooming in- I might get a bigger,better,stronger camera some day, but I like the one i've got for taking drive-by pictures. Sundown on I-85, headed to Charlotte. I went from Charlotte up to Greensboro and loaded one of these big cylinder things going to a nuclear power plant in Pottstown, Pa. It was almost 80 degrees in Greensboro, I was sweating in a T shirt tarping the load. I don't know why it had to be tarped, it was a stainless steel canister to hold used fuel rods. Anyway, when I got to Pottstown that night it was 30 degrees and the wind was blowing so hard that it felt like there was a gorilla on each side of the cab rocking it back and forth. Saw some geese the next morning. Cooling towers- Then I went to Wellsville, Pa. and loaded aluminum logs going to Prince George, Va. Unloaded them that evening and went home. Sundown on Long Island Road, near Gladys, Va. Old iron bridge at Eagle Rock, Va. I saw this Ranger stepside pickup like mine with a house on the back going up I-79. Guess i'll build a house on mine now... I got to Coconut Lake Pa. that night and parked in the K-Mart parking lot. Next morning it was 34 degrees and snowing...snowing. I was originally supposed to go to Greenville, Pa. and get another load of roll-off bodies, but we had a truck sitting at rt.22 and 30 with a load of steel that was broke down. A bearing had locked up on one of the trailer axles, so the plan was to get this big wrecker to put the coils on my trailer and chain the trailer axles up on his trailer so he could get it back to the shop. The plan worked great, except now I have to deliver the coils in N.C. Monday morning. The owner of the wrecker company- she supervised the whole operation.

Yep. I passed this girl in the desert between Winfall and Gladys- I think her truck might have broken down. She tried tried to flag me down, but I was suspicious of the situation so I never even slowed down.

I think a tarp like that- 24'x16'- is between 2 and 3 hundred dollars. The new one is going to be 27' long.

great!

Wow!..unbelievable that somebody would do you like that! But, on a brighter note, I now drive a tandem instead of that single axle so I can haul heavier loads of lumber and steel, with alumium wheels on the outside instead of those old steel wheels, and doubled my DEF capacity so I don't have to fill it as often. The new fairings they put on my truck raised my average fuel milage from 4.8mpg. to 22.5mpg! They also put a new DPF on it, since my old one had never been changed- I should be good to go for a while! Oh yeah, the next exit east of Barkeyville?..what do they call it- the "body shop" maybe?..never stopped there, but they're always on the radio advertising.

Me and this other driver had to load some shot in 55 gallon drums at Wheelabrator in Bedford about a month ago- that was the day it was 10 degrees. Randy called me (dispatcher Randy, not Randy, Randy, or randyp) and asked if I would loan the other driver a tarp because he didn't have one. Why he was pulling a flatbed and didn't even have tarps is unknown, but anyway, the tarp I loaned him was the old tarp that I carried just for tarping beams or bricks, or whatever didn't really need to be dry, just tarped because some a-hole in some office somewhere thought it was a good idea. Therefore, I had to use what used to be my good tarp on two loads of beams this week, one going to Neville Island, the other going to Ambridge. Now it's not even my mediocre tarp, it's pretty much just garbage now. I called Jeff Moore and whined and complained about it...my new tarp will be in sometime this week.

That was my "protest beard"- I said I wasn't going to shave or get a haircut until all the snow and ice was gone. There's still plenty of it around, but it won't be long now...I got it cut at the truck stop. The girl that cut it said "you should have taken a before and after picture, nobody will recognize you now- or robbed a bank." The before picture is over a month old.

I went to Portsmouth and Norfolk with a 2 stop load of steel Sunday. Stopped at Zero's Subs in Ivor on the way down. I threw some french fried potaters out, not because they weren't good, because I dumped them in the floor. Only took a few seconds for this crow to claim them. I saw green dash in Norfolk. Ate my last bananner for breakfast. I stopped at the store in Rustburg Sunday and picked a couple out of the box and the nice lady told me I could have all I wanted for free because they had turned a little dark, so I got 4. They were slightly over-ripe, but they're just getting good when they start getting brown. Then I went to the mill in Petersburg and got a load of beams that had to be tarped. Tore my tarp all to pieces. I had an old tarp that I used just for loads like this, but I "loaned" it and some tarp straps to another driver about a month ago...haven't seen either one since. I folded it on the trailer where I delivered at Neville Island because the lot was just sloppy mud. When I finally got unloaded after sitting there for 3 hours I went to Greenville to pick up some roll-off bodies going to Richmond, but they didn't have them ready to load. They still had plenty of ice there. So I went to Hubbard and layed over...got a little trim while I was there. Saw a bull wagon there too. Went back to Greenville the next morning- still plenty of ice over there. Still plenty of snow laying around in that part of the world too. I went across rt.422 for the first time since last fall. These units are still parked in the field. A big Mack truck at S.B.Cox in Richmond. The old U model, still parked in Ambridge, Pa. Stopped by the playground in Winfall on the way home. This girl wanted me to push her on the swing, but I told her I didn't have time. She looked very disappointed.

Happy birthday.

True that!

You're right about that. My best friend at H.H.Moore Trucking had the same thing happen to him on rt.58 near Suffolk, Va. Had a heart attack at the wheel and died just past the west bound scale house, truck ran off the road on the right into a ditch or canal or something there. That was in the early 2000's I think, and he was just a couple years older than me. Small fellow too, I don't remember him ever even being sick before. I think when it's your time you're going away from here.

I unloaded at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg Friday, and they said Johnny had been there earlier in the week. He was complaining then of shortness of breath, and told the guys there that he was going to the hospital to have stress tests done. His appointment for the tests was for March 16th...if only he had gone to the E.R. then...

Johnny Roy Dagenhart Sr.'s -AKA Wooly Booger- truck at the shop. RIP my friend.

ONLINE other dog BMT Certified Know-It-All! BMT Benefactor100% Positive Feedback1 0 08,733 posts0 warning points4,300Location:Gladys,Va.Make:MackModel:B-53sYear:1965Posted 15 August 2014 - 04:22 PM POPULAR Here's another old store. It's facing rt. 60 in Mount Rush, Va. Never open that I remember, but I remember my wife saying she had been in it when she was little. I saw this odd shaped mushroom in the yard last weekend. By the time I got home today it had turned from a mushroom head to a saucerhead. Just who comes up with these road names anyway? Trucks in the field. Truck by the road. Pretty neat looking little unit. I tried to get another picture of the car for sale in Canvas, W.V. but I accidently hit the button before I was close enough. There's Wooly Booger in front of me with another load of lumber. ...A "pictures of the week" post from August,2014. I just deleted the pictures a few weeks ago, now i'm sorry I did, as I've also deleted it from my computer. He was also with me that time I broke the fan belt on my truck, and the one little strand lasted all the way to Pittsburgh and back.

Freshly rebuilt V16- they should have no problem finding the oil leaks on this one-

I really don't know, I guess it depends on what the other driver said- or rather what he intends to do. The trooper said there was no way for them to tell what happened, it was my word against his, so I hope he's honest and doesn't try to say it was my fault and sue somebody. I know I did absolutely nothing wrong, I never left the lane that I was traveling in, but you never know what people might do. It wouldn't surprise me if he said he was driving along minding his own business and I came over on him. But like I told the trooper, I believe that he either got lost in the spray or just hydroplaned and lost it and hit me. The trooper asked me if I ran that way a lot and I told him I did. He said to me "well, whenever you come through here and it's raining do not get in the left lane- the road does not drain properly, and the standing water will pull you right into the wall." They didn't charge me with anything and said I was free to go...so I just don't know.

Yep...must have painted it yellow so they could find the oil leaks easier.

This is the recipe Jo uses. It's probably easier, and it's good too.

I have a Detroit Diesel powered computer myself, looks and works great!

.

Me too! stupid f***in' ice!