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I was going to buy another McLean truck but a guy in front of me bought the one I wanted. It was a cannonball GMC cab, same as the tanker here, with a canvas top trailer. He had the tanker at first, already in the bag, then changed his mind and got the ragtop van. They were only $25. So then I asked about the McLean crackerbox. As soon as the man said "well, that's a hand built model..." I knew I couldn't afford it. He said "I got a hunnert and a half on it, but I will take a hundred." It didn't really look any better or more detailed than the cannon balls though. I left it there.

Almost forgot this one- here's the official BMT group photo taken at high noon.

Got more pictures here- http://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/

No Fred, I sure don't.

I went to the Colfax show today, pretty good show and excellent weather. I'll put the pictures on flickr or somewhere later, meanwhile here's a few highlights. Saw a parrot- and maybe one of it's offspring... Some fine looking behinds... I'm picking "D" myself. Girl taking a picture of herself in the shiny bumper. Saw a White with a bulldog on the hood. and a gold Granite They had turkey legs available too. I even saw a yellow General that wasn't even in the show. There were no U models seen.

I feel the same 84Superdog, DigDug, DailyDiesel, and 2stacksuperdog- i'm out of likes by the way. And I've said the same thing about my photos, other people use my pictures on facebook all the time. Sometimes they'll say it's my picture, sometimes not, but in the end- it's still just a picture.

Here's another one- no, wait- there's no car...how's this one?

Here's one.

It's an Oshkosh.

All that may be true, however I could not get any identifying info on this truck due to it's high rate of speed. I came up 79 though, and pulled into Triad Metals on Neville Island about 9:15 I believe it was.

Happy birthday Bigen.

I made two rounds this week. Should have been three, but the landing gear malfunction Sunday screwed that up. And it rained all week- so much for a clean truck. But I only had about 6 deadhead miles all week. Unloaded at Neville Island Tuesday morning and went 5 miles to McKees Rocks to load. Unloaded at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg and went a mile to C.R.Hudgins Plating to load for Flex-Strut in Warren, Ohio and reloaded there going back to C.R.Hudgins Plating in Lynchburg. Now I got a van load going to Chester, W.V. for Monday and a return load of firebrick in Alliance, Oh. going to Madison Heights, Va. I was going north on 79 Monday night and a Pitt-Ohio Sterling passed me like I was tied to a stump just before I got to the Neville Island exit. It was a little after 9pm. I was talking to nocluejoe on the phone at the time and we agreed that it couldn't have been green dash because he would have said something on the cb radio communicator device. Anyway, I saw various things on my journeys, like these colorful road shots. A red wrecker truck. A plane in the sky. A bird on a wire. Happy nuts on a trailer... Beaver Steel truck...beaver... Deer stands at N.B.Handy. I told them I was not a hunting expert or anything, but in my opinion they'd have a much better chance of getting a deer if these were in the woods somewhere, by the edge of a field. Nice stands though. Mack mixer trucks. Saw this steep road coming down the mountain that ended at a cliff... Cline trucks. And I saw a well tarped load in my mirror.

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...but they probably won't.

Nice! I first thought when I read the title that Mrs. 41 chevy was going to be in a family way too.

Happy birthday! ...but why do you get Kate Upton and everybody else gets that ugly ass toothless trailer trash gal with the cake?..

Great record, love the Floyd.

that's right Bob, i've seen them load the same 13 pallet load of kyanite that we haul in a 20' container. It weighs about 46,000 lbs. They had to double stack some pallets,crammed it in there,and then had to push the doors in with the forklift to get them closed.

That's a fine looking outfit right there.

Ditto what Bob said. I've never heard of this before.

I saw Brick on the map, I knew you were from there but I had no electronic communication device except my cell phone. I could have talked to the General and saved some time.

I should be almost to Pittsburgh now. I got to the shop about 11:45 and my truck wasn't there. The washer guy had it down the street washing it. I waited about an hour and a half before he finally brought it back, then the landing leg on the passenger side of the trailer wouldn't come up. We wound them up and down and got it most of the way up by lifting it as someone cranked the handle. Apparently the gears are stripped on that side. Then I was worried that it might drop on it's own as was motoring up 79 about 200mph, so I put a 2'' ratchet strap on it to hold it up. That didn't really look so good, might attract attention from the wrong people. So I called Jeff and 'splained the situation and asked him what he wanted me to do. He said he'd get them to fix it in the morning and just to wait until tomorrow to go, so I left there peeling rubber in the Ranger and came back home. All because the truck got washed.

I wouldn't post this, but I must as a public service to counter the possible ill affects of the previous pictures.

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