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I saw on facebook that it was spotted heading north on 95. Too bad Jeff Moore didn't buy it!

Saw this on a facebook page called "Cabover Lovers". Some guy said he saw it going north on 95 near the Florida/Georgia line and got a couple of pictures. Looks familiar,eh?..and getting famous!

Similar to my story, but I was a student at a small college at an undisclosed location somewhere in the midwest when it happened to me.

I got to use some duct tape on a major repair job last weekend. When Jo tried to move the table on the back porch she grabbed the pole and yanked on it (insert joke here) instead of grabbing the table. The umbrella pole snapped off so I found a piece of pipe about the right size, cut a length off with the hacksaw, and stuck it over the broken piece, then stuck the pole back in it (insert next joke here). I wrapped the tape around it to shim it up so the pole fit tighter (last joke here). Saw the diesel cop in Bedford Monday with a big Mack log truck pulled over. Saw this big Mack log truck in Alta,W.V. taking the day off. A big red dump truck. A big blue dump truck. A red truck and a blue truck in one picture- A big Mack truck rolling a little coal in McKees Rocks. A big yellow machine. I was driving down 29 on the way to Norcross when I noticed this stowaway. I put him out in Chatham. Diamond T in S.C. Aerodyne cabover KW at Cowpens,S.C. Saw lots of half nekkid girls in cars, but unfortunately I only got one picture. Fortunately, her thighs are big enough to make two regular size girls in a car. This guy got out of a Celadon truck and strolled into the Love's at Peeler Road in N.C, shorts, sandals, long sleeves, Tiny Tim hair and all. These two girls asked me to steer their car for them while they tried to push it backwards, but I told them I didn't have time to fool with them, I had to go. I saw an early morning flock of geese flying by just after daylight yesterday morning. I was waiting at the gate to unload lumber in Troy, Va. when I heard them honking. Then I went to Moneta and loaded treated lumber and came home and picked some peppers. I only picked one of these that had turned orange. I don't know if they're all gonna turn orange or if they're ready to pick now. They're this color in the picture on the little plastic tag that came with the plant. Pickled jalapenos my sister-in-law gave me last weekend. They were really good, put some on some nachos yesterday. We make home made nachos, put real cheese on a tortilla chip, pepper on top, then put them under the broiler until the cheese melts. Oh, put the chips on a pan first, I forgot that part.

Saw a video last week where a guy stuck an acetylene torch in a tire and turned the acetylene on for a few seconds, then lit it. Worked great, you could go that route.

I bought this book , from Amazon I think, that has the whole story of that convoy. It's a great book, about the trucking career and history of Cliff Bishop in Alaska and it's well worth getting.

Did you know that Pinochio was not a great motivational speaker?

Happy birthday.

Thanks Ken, i'll be laboring up to Chester, W.V. with a load of Kyanite in a little while.

Is that Massey Ferguson a V8?

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Like the B model.

Wow- they have them on facebook too?..shocking!

...and if you feel really adventurous you could get a bunch of raincoats and some glue, make a raft out of them, inflate it on the way to Alcatraz, find a makeshift paddle, and when you get there launch the raft and see if you can escape. ...just a thought. (Paul Van Scott,1953)

Oh yeah, that reminds me- I thought about the Cross Bronx Thursday in Atlanta. I delivered in Norcross and had to go to Cartersville to load. A little ways after I got on 75 north I saw a nice looking car parked on the left shoulder by the median. It was sitting on 4 cinder blocks, tires and wheels gone.

Indeed!

Nah, i've had boston butts smoking since 4am. They've already got a pile of Prostars, this is the first Lonestar though.

I told Jeff I was gonna do that, but I put it in the fan belt hall of fame- I hung it on the wall in the shop.

I saw some big Mack trucks Monday when I went to load at what used to be Cycle Systems in Lynchburg. Now it's owned by Gerdau. The mud there was knee deep and when we tried to back around through the mud and up over the hump and around the bend to back down the train tracks the frame rails on the drop deck trailer would bottom out on the hump and I was stuck. Tore a mudflap off in the mud trying to get in there. So they moved a few train cars so I could pull in and then turn left up the tracks, and then back down the tracks to the crane. By the time I got chained down I was covered with mud. Road shots, rt.220 at Eagle Rock. A girl in a car. The red light on the amp meter gauge came on on the way to McKeesport, it was showing discharge and the volt meter dropped to 12. So I told Wooly Booger "My fan belt just broke". So we pulled over on 79 at the end of the ramp at the rest area at the 50 mile marker, opened the hood,I pulled the broken belt out, and there was a piece left that was only 2 ribs wide, but it was whole. It wasn't much bigger than a shoestring but I got it back on, skinning my arm up in the process. Those fan blades are sharp. I said "this is a big waste of time, this belt won't last 5 minutes". But lasted all the way to Mckeesport. Then Tuesday morning I figured i'd go load at Gav-Tech in Pittsburgh then run over to the KW place in New Stanton. Called New Stanton, they didn't have the belt. So I figure i'll head on down 79 and stop at KW in Jane Lew and get one. When I got to Jane Lew it still hadn't broken so I never slowed down- I could make it to Concord by dark anyway. And I did, and that little piece of belt never did break. That's all I had left but it lasted about 500 miles...hey, that's blood on the fan shroud. Saw this girl in this car driving completely by mind control- and we weren't at a stoplight this time, she was motoring down I-85. Saw some kind of creature. Yep, those two Diamond Reos are still sitting there. I thought I saw a USA Truck on 81 in Wytheville that was going to turn over any minute, so I had my camera ready so I could post it on youtube. But it was just the trailer being pulled by a wrecker. Traffic on the D.C. beltway yesterday morning. I had to go from Atlanta to Baltimore and unload yesterday morning. Saw a pedestrian sipping a soda on the way back too. And a big yellow machine going north on rt. 15. Came through Fork Union, but saw no evidence of 41Chevy being there. Saw a new unit at the yard when I got in.

Yeah, sure you didn't- I think you wanted to show off. Well done!

I have a dog on duty to keep the squirrels away. Huh?..you talkin' to me? never mind.

I put some stuff in the compost bin yesterday and noticed this half eaten pear on the ground under the pear tree. And there was only one pear left on the whole tree- stupid squirrels! And I know the rules- no pictures, it didn't happen. But- I stopped by the dumpster on the way to the store yesterday. After I slung my bag of empty beer cans trash into the dumpster I noticed a bunch of kid's toys laying on the ground, lots of dolls and stuffed animals. One doll was huge, about 3 feets tall with curly blonde hair. And one of the stuffed toys was a big pony about 4 feet long. Sooooo...when I got done the doll was in the "feet back and spread 'em" position, bending over with it's hands on the little concrete wall and the pony was straddling it. I got back in the pickup and Jo was trying to make herself even smaller than she is, which is pretty small. I said "where's the camera?" and she said "it's in the glove compartment...of my car." She always had her camera in the truck, but not then. That's her story anyway. I thought it was pretty funny, but then my sense of humor is a little different from most people's I guess.