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That's what I was saying about "stuff happens", you try to be careful, but it can happen to anybody. I loaded a load of sheetrock in Philadelphia one Friday morning in 1980 and unloaded in Fredericksburg, Va. that afternoon. I was driving an '84 K100, going across rt. 20 over to Orange, where i'd take 15 south to go home. It was raining and a car pulled out in front of me from a store. I hit the brakes and started sliding, got off the brakes, car still sitting there, jump on the brakes again, see I won't be able to stop in time, so I got off the brakes to pass in the left turn lane, and sure enough- the car decides to turn left. I nailed him in the left rear quarter panel, and I also got a ticket. Just bent the bumper a little on the truck, I drove it on home. Probably totaled that p.o.s. Cordova I hit. He shouldn't have pulled out, and when he did he shouldn't have been lollygagging around. They go by the "big truck rule" there, which states "Whenever there's an accident involving a big truck, the big truck is automatically at fault, regardless of the circumstances".

Saw this IH today. And this car- i'll get a better picture of this, it's sitting out here at the stop sign. I took a rooma-zoom-zoom drive-by today in the pickup.

Got a nice package in the mail, some pictures and and brochures of a D860 GMC. I put it in the corner cabinet with my truck stuff, at least for the time being. Thanks Joe Ditchkus, thank you very much indeed.

No Clue.

Got one of these on it, not visible in the picture.

Not really Vinny, it was on a page called American Trucks,Past and Present.

Saw this on facebook.

took some concrete pipe to a new landfill they were building off of rt. 100 north of Dublin,Va. They had to pick the back of the trailer up with a chain hooked to the bucket of a track hoe and swing it out over nothing but air while we turned around.

I certainly wouldn't do it again, restriction or not!..unless I absolutely had to- no place to be in a truck for sure.

I was hauling big concrete pipe to Shinnston, W.V. once. 84 inch, biggest they made. Had to haul them on a drop deck trailer because they were so big, and I was rounding a curve and had to take part of the wrong lane to make it around and clear everything, but I met a car and had to get back in my lane. When I did the trailer tire caught a rock that was sticking out and blew the tire and bent the wheel beyond repair too. Stuff happens...

This was rt. 16 down near Marion, Va. Crookedest road i've ever been on I do believe! No way to stay on your side, mountain on one side, edge of a cliff on the other. google earth image-

I probably won't be home Tuesday, so... This was unit no. 72, owned by F.L.Moore, leased to H.H.Moore. 1974 Transtar with a VT903, 13 spd. This was around 1980, wreck happened on rt. 604 between Troutville and rt. 460. The road is now 220 alternate. It was a 2 lane at the time, and a Toyota Corolla crossed the center line and hit the truck head-on. Didn't hurt the truck driver, the boy in the car was killed. It was thought to be a suicide, the truck driver, who is still with F.L.Moore and Sons by the way, said he could see him grinning in the car right up until the impact. That's part of the car stuck in the truck's grill.

It's nice to be able to go to places you've been before, like I do most of the time. But there was a first time I went to everywhere i've ever been too, as it is for everyone. Jobsite deliveries are the worst, some of the places we've taken the crane mats to in West Virginia and Pa. are not good places to be in a truck either, they might be off on some dirt road in the middle of nowhere, but you have to do it. About all you can do is call the job site and hope they give you good directions. I went across rt. 16 from rt. 42 back over to I-81 once, not knowing any better. It was down right scary! Now it has a 35' length restriction on it but it didn't when I went across it.

Rant for the day- Did anybody happen to see or hear the Nationwide race yesterday? I was listening on the xm in the pickup on the way back from Altavista yesterday. Some rock band sang the national anthem before the start, don't remember their name, i'd never even heard of them before. But it was the worst i'd ever heard- they made Roseanne Barr's version from several years ago sound good. I mean it was barely recognizable- I told Jo that somebody should have been standing off to the side with a big hook on a long pole and snatched the singer away from the microphone. That's one song that I just think should be sung like it's written, especially before a nationally televised event- they can do what they want in their basement. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith did a fine job of it before, he sounded like Steven Tyler but he sang it like it's supposed to be sung.

You know Mike, you are right about that. I never laugh at another's misfortune, because it could be me. Everybody fuc makes mistakes, and i've made plenty myself. I turned a truck over once, sitting still. Turned into a jobsite about 3am, dead tired, just waiting for the wheels to stop turning so I could jump in the bunk, and the trailer tires dropped in a ditch- a completely unmarked ditch- I felt it when it dropped in and the truck started rocking...I thought "this sumbish is gonna..." and then it turned over. I used to follow a facebook page called "big rig wreckers and wrecks", I think it was called. But I "unliked" it because everybody made comments about how stupid the truck driver was, not even knowing the circumstances of the accident, having no idea what might have caused the driver to do what he did- but it was always the truck drivers fault because he was just stupid. Things can happen to anybody.

Yep, it's huge now, got everything there. Even made that show on the Travel Channel, top ten best truckstops or something like that. It actually looked pretty much like this picture when I first stopped there. There was a little shop out back that one mechanic ran, I don't think he was even connected with the truckstop, but i'm not sure about that. And they had like a shed built off the back of the restaurant part there that you pulled through to get tires fixed, one big shower room upstairs, and a very limited menu after 10pm. When we were hauling chips and pulpwood to Covington we stopped more for fuel and food at the Ponderosa until it closed, then we started fueling at Lee-Hi.

yep, he still has pins, rods, nuts, bolts, and screws in his ankle, but is otherwise OK.

RULES!!!.....RULES!!! I don't like too many rules...hatcity,2014 I know this is against the rules, but i'm not usually home on Tuesday. One of H.H.Moore Jr.'s Transtar Eagles that got "tore up" in the 80's. Turned over with a load of structural steel on rt. 15 just north of Orange, Va. Took most of the night to get the driver out, but he survived with only injuries to his legs and feets. He lives about a mile from me.

Today I saw an orange truck that couldn't get over 45 mph. all the way from Eagle Rock to Clifton Forge. Thought maybe it was broke down, but as soon as it got on the interstate it took off like it was shot out of a cannon. Saw some green Macks too. Big gully! A dump truck. Lot of welding here. After they machined this shaft and cleaned it up it was too small, so they have to weld the whole area all the way around. When it's done they'll have to machine it again. The man welding on it said he was on his third roll of wire. Starting down Sandstone Mountain.

Probably just so the front and rear ones are facing the same way, you can't get the front ones in from the top. They put them on at the shop, I don't know if there's any other reason or not.

A fine looking fleet.

...and you drive the red one?

Jamerson Brothers Trucking later had KW's and Freightliners, but were all Mack at first.

H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. fleet, 1984. That's H.H. and Evelyn standing by the pickup. I drove two of the three F models on the back row, the one at the end of the line, and the one third from left. I was driving one of the K100's when this was taken, the one that has the stack turned straight to the side instead of angled to the rear.

Saw some Macks, and an IH. Saw a steel mill... and lots of mill rolls. Saw Engines Inc. in Milton, W.V. too.