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Nice pics, never seen a Mack car carrier before.

Yep, down in Cumberland county where i'm from originally, and where my parents and most of my family still live, they wanted new businesses, jobs, something to help the economy. Some concrete co. wanted to put a ready mix plant there a few years ago- you never heard such whining and crying- "Oh hell no, we can't have that! there'll be dust! there'll be noise! there'll be trucks!" They didn't get it either. And there was a woodyard there before that had closed. There's not even a grocery store in Cumberland now. They do have a new liquor store though.

That's on rt. 422, east of Indiana I think, a little ways after the 4 lane ends.

Followed a load of hay up 501 Tuesday morning. My unit was all clean and shining when I got to the yard. Ran into rain going up 29 Tuesday evening...so much for the wash job. At least I saw a rainbow. Unloading more mats near Brockport, Pa. Lots of blackberries back in those woods. Saw a big yellow truck in Ohio. Can't keep the windshield clean for 5 minutes. Saw this in West Virginia. Thought it was an Oshkosh at first, but I think it said Huber Truck on it...or was it Humer Truck? It was something like that. They've added an orange unit to the fleet in the field now. I saw the goats on the hill in Moorefield, W.V. I took this picture from rt. 220 in Moorefield. That's a lot of goats! Two girls running to the chiropractor. A yellow Mack dump truck. Leaving Butler, Pa. with a load of skidded coils. Got 2 gears deep in the low side climbing that hill you can see in the distance, had about 46,000 on. Red MH sitting in the field. Everybody was gone when I got back to the yard yesterday, but this woman had pulled her car into the driveway. Made a tight squeeze turning in. She might have been broke down or something, I don't know. I just got in the pickup and left.

''Only two things smell like fish- and one of them's mackerel"- Redd Foxx. He never did say what the other thing was, and now he's gone.

Nice pictures, i'd like to see that too. Saw the "Big Muskie" bucket a couple of times- drove by it anyway. The bucket is all that's left of it.

Is it just me, or have I seen this post 3 times...I better take a shower and go to bed.

I fueled at Truck World Wednesday morning, got my 2 free hot dogs, and went over to Taylor Coil Processing in Lordstown and picked up a 44,000lb. single coil.

I think this is an "unofficial" BMT picture from last year.

Found another creature today.

Well said all.

Thanks Bob.

It is sad Vinny. There's lots of just plain mean people in this world, who knows why they do the things they do? I agree with 57bcr though.

The Mt. Washington Auto Road: The Mt. Washington Auto Road is considered by many hillclimb racers to be extremely technical with a narrow road surface that averages just over 16 feet wide. In addition to being very narrow with precipitous drop-offs that vary from side to side, the road is also incredibly steep, with an average 12% grade and gaining slightly more than 4,600 feet in total elevation change from the start line to the finish line. The road surface is mostly tarmac with approximately one mile of gravel and contains more than 100 turns and switchbacks as it snakes its way to the 6,288 foot summit of the Northeast’s tallest peak.

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Those are neat pictures. Isn't Mt. Washington where they got the highest wind speed ever recorded in the U.S?

absolutely!

thank you Bob, you do the same!

Same guy went to Martinsville with us several times. He'd stay over and sleep on the couch the night before so we could get an early start. The bottom 7 rows on the backstretch were all unreserved seats, so we usually left around 7am to get a good spot. I had to go to the Dew Drop Inn in Appomattox and retrieve him a few times on Saturday night so he could go, and not make us late. He liked to drink...anyway, he came over one Saturday night before the race. I had already packed my cooler, had some beer, a few diet Mountain Dews for my wife, ice, and I made 2 or 3 tuna salad sammiches and had them right on top. The race started at 1pm I think, and we got there several hours early to get the best unreserved seats, and to avoid traffic of course. After sitting a while I thought i'd get me a sammich...opened the cooler...can't find any. Hmmmm...I put them right on top...wtf?...dig through the ice...beer...sodas...no tuna sammiches. Well, I must have imagined making those tuna sammiches and putting them in the cooler. Had to go get some of the famous Martinsville hot dogs. He didn't say anything at first, but he finally said "I ate your sandwiches" I said "why did you eat my sammiches?" he said "well,I got hungry last night,so I ate them" I said "no problem, but if you'd told me I could have made more". I was a little pissed off at the time, but we got a lot of laughs about it later. I kinda lost contact with him after a few years, he got married, had several children. I heard he passed away a few years ago.

Thank you, they were very good, I just put some of my home made rub on them and poured about a cup of my home made vinegar based barbecue sauce over it after I pulled it apart.

I was kidding, I have no idea where I might be then either. I could tell them I don't care where I go that week as long as it's nowhere near Pittsburgh, then i'd probably get a load going to Pittsburgh...usually works.

My wife and I used to go to Charlotte to the World 600 every Memorial Day weekend in the mid-80's to early 90's. They used to say the pre-race activities were worth the price of admission, we always had a great time. One year some other people from Appomattox went and they camped in the infield. We always stayed at a motel in Lexington, most of the motels closer to Charlotte jacked the rates up about 3 times the usual rate on race weekend. One of the guys had either borrowed or rented a van. Had windows in the back with blinds in them. Several of them went out to some club in Charlotte the night before the race, and the guy with the van picked up some girl there and brought her back to the party in the infield. Before everybody turned in for the night another one in the group had the brilliant idea to get in the van and open those blinds. I heard later that they all got quite a show when the guy and girl spent the night in the van. They even called over strangers that happened to be passing by the next morning- " hey y'all, come look at this!" They were still sleeping, nekkid as jaybirds, and everybody around was looking and laughing. Another time a friend went with us, and after Saturday's race I said "if you want more beer for tomorrow's race we'd better get it now". he said "that's all right, I don't need beer, let's go eat." The next morning we fought the traffic, got to the track, made our way to our seats, race was minutes from starting, he says "eff this, I need a beer!" So he takes a cooler, walks out of the speedway to a store back down rt. 29 about half a mile or so away from the track. By the time he got back the race was well under way. He said people were hollering "hey dumbass,the race track is the other way" at him as he was walking to the store. But he got his beer.

Amen to what Ed said, first off. I cooked a pig yesterday- well, not a whole pig but almost enough parts to build a pig. Cleaned out the freezer last weekend and got out 3 boston butts that had been in there a long time. They looked fine though. They're in the smoker, 4:30 am. They looked like this at 11:00 am. Look about like this now- I couldn't catch the chipmunk...

No, I usually go past the rest area and sleep on the ramp at the Kirby exit. Nice and quiet unless someone backs into you. But no, I didn't stop there at all last week.

Here's a miscellaneus truck. I don't know what it is, but it's neat looking.