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I stopped at the fuel stop at exit 32 to get a sandwich before I went to load and saw a lot of trucks going by on rt. 8 so I decided to take it over to 385 to 26 to get to Newberry. I usually go all the way up to Greenville and get on 385. It was a nice shortcut, probably no quicker but a lot shorter and less traffic. I like to get off the beaten path anyway.

Then when I stopped to get a sausage,egg,and cheese bistit, a red bull, and a pack of smokes- i'm all about healthy- this girl asked for help too, but I didn't have time to fool with her.

These wimmen tried to flag me down, but I know they just wanted me to help push, so I didn't stop.

I'm putting my ballot in the mail today. And the "Double Clutch" even has a U model in the vintage Mack ad- holy hamburgers!

I had just got on I-64 west at Clifton Forge the other day when 3 trucks with fancy paint jobs hauling golf carts with fancy paint jobs passed me. I don't know what this place is in Fairmont,W.V, but it looks important. I saw a big truck hauling an even bigger truck. I saw big trucks hauling a big yellow machines. Even saw a big yellow truck. My reflection- A car with tinted windows... I saw a Mackie the mover on 79 in W.V. Old steerable dolly at the yard...in the weeds. The big ugly rusty thing is the old stove out of the shop. Two coils I brought in from Sharon,Pa. A mower on a trailer. I had to wait for the train to go by in Gladys before I could get home the other night. That's about twice in the last 8 years i've seen a train on those tracks. I found some ripe tomatoes when I got home. I thought the tomatoes were about done for the year but they made a nice comeback. I even found another "mystery melon". This vine was growing where I had the cabbage planted. I didn't even know what it was. I was kind of hoping it was a cucumber vine, but I discovered a good size cantaloupe down under the anti-rabbit defense system in the grass. It's a mystery because I never even planted any cantaloupes. ...or any on these smooth skinned melons either for that matter. I went to Norcross,Ga. Thursday. Saw this log truck on 85 in North or South Carolina. Big peach ahead in Gaffney,S.C. Here's an older picture of the peach. Gibson's Truck Parts, Cowpens, S.C. Atlanta is a very popular place- all those folks over there are trying to get to it. I've unloaded in Norcross and heading to Newberry,S.C. to get a load of lumber. Saw a polar bear behind a bush along the way. It was very hot and very humid in Newberry. A girl at a gas station.

I like the Chevrolet truck, looked like a steal!

I've loaded beams at Bethlehem many times. One of those places where you'd wait all evening and half the night to get loaded, other than that it wasn't bad. Farmer, i've loaded at US Steel Homestead Works in Pittsburgh too. Now you go right past it going to Galv-Tech but you'd never know it was ever there, just stores and shopping malls there now. Loaded at Fairless Works a few times too, another one of those places where it took all evening and half the night to get loaded. US Steel in Gary, In. was a place that usually took all day and all night to get loaded.

It doesn't seem to be as powerful now as it used to be. A little bit too much used to lock an engine up pretty quick, now they'll spray half a can in at the shop trying to get one started after they change a fuel filter. They also use it for mounting tires and for hand cleaner. And when they turn an empty plastic pop bottle upside down and put acetylene and oxygen in it and quickly screw the top back on it they would spray a trail of starting fluid to it and light it, creating a loud explosion when the bottle melted through. No wonder we go through so much starting fluid!

I do not, haven't seen that commercial.

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)