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They were just getting that accident in Beckley cleaned up yesterday afternoon.

Happy birthday Vinny!

Saw a few of them yesterday.

Thanks Joe, i'd love to have a picture. I can send it back to you if you want. It's been one of my favorites since I was a kid. I remember several of them running around the area. The one in the picture used to be a wrecker, it had a 6-71 too, with a 5 speed and 2 speed rear. Then it was sold and used as a grain truck for years, then sold to this guy where I saw it and took the picture.He said he was going to make a rollback out of it, now it's gone from there and I have no idea where it is now.

Burns, out of Marlinton, West Virginia is still going strong. I've seen an IH or two over the years, but mostly all Mack.

I think they were Vermeers, another truck came in with him with a load of Vermeer balers. I thought hay equipment was about all Vermeer made.These machines had a little blade on the front too.

Since it's Wednesday, might as well start a new pictures. I snapped the snout off my strap bar the other day...don't know my own strength- that, or it was already cracked a third of the way through. Stopped by Lee-Hi and got another one, it's already bent in two places. Saw these machines and a duck while I was there. Then I went by the old Ponderosa Truckstop site at Longdale Furnace. This was the restaurant. It's about all that's left there and you'd never know it was a truckstop. Saw the old smoke stacks... http://www.firmstonemanor.com/history/ The North Mountain Motel, and this place. I don't remember if it was a store, or service station, or what. It was already closed in '79, but you could still get in the overgrown lot in front, and on the other side of this sign you could still read "six hotdogs- $1". Rt. 269 now, but it's old rt. 60. Heading west to get back on I-64 at the next exit. Snow blower in West Virginia. Yesterday in Petersburg,Va- woo-hoo!

Even more rare in the east apparently, i've never seen one. Always thought they were neat looking trucks.

You don't even need a helmet here, a tinfoil hat works fine.

Stopped- well, I was going to stop, but the lot was still snow covered- at the old Ponderosa Truckstop yesterday. This is the old restaurant, but it looks like it's now a home. Good thing I didn't pull in, looks like some shrubs growing in what used to be the parking lot...probably grass under there too. I took a drive-by picture though. The fuel desk was to the right of the restaurant in a separate building, and there was a shower room in between, towards the back, also in a separate building.

I don't know Bob- but it sure looks real!..wish I could do that...

I saw that last night on the way to Milton. Nocluejoe66 saw it night before last when he was getting on 19 there, and called me yesterday. Told me to get my camera ready when I went up through there, but it was too dark for a picture when I went by. Great picture!

Saw this snow removal unit sitting on top of the mountain on rt. 60 just west of Rainelle, W.V. last night.

Paul Van Scott had a similar idea a few years ago, buying R models and refurbishing them to resell. It's a wonder some truck makers didn't go with a retro look cab, like the PT Cruiser, Mustangs, Challengers, Camaros, or that Chevrolet that looks like a 50's model panel truck. For instance a new B model cab, but bigger than the original, would look pretty awesome today and be very aerodynamic too. Or maybe a Cannonball GMC, or Ford Super Duty? Or for me, how about a modern cab that looked like this?..bitchin'!

I think they're still around, I used to see them on I-79 a lot. Haven't noticed any lately, but i've seen them in the last year I know.

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Oh, there it is- wow!

yes.

Yes, there is, but they're exempt when they're blowing my doors off.

Nothing goes on in sunny south Florida without hatcity's knowledge and permission.

Well, thank you very much indeed!

They did that in Va. one time,several years ago. There was a salt shortage and every salt truck had pretty much free rein, weren't supposed to be stopped or held up for any reason, didn't even have to cross any scales. Of course some people took advantage of the situation, and hauled several loads of scrap metal that grossed well over 100,000 lbs.

but did the horn blast before she crashed it through the sheetrock?

Yeah, their Friday topic is wayyyyyyy... different- but I had to look!

I have a Fisher-Price, but it's different from that. Mine has a picture of "Goofy" on it.