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hmmmm...great movie ideer for "Odds and Ends".

It's even got the 5th. wheel tilted up, just like Vinny- that's got to be a sign!

The Christopher Speight trial was Friday. Actually the hearing I guess, there was no trial since he pleaded guilty. Kim Scruggs was my late wife's sister. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/christopher-speight-guilty_n_2697257.html?fb_action_ids=4567934311469&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%224567934311469%22%3A389874271111211%7D&action_type_map=%7B%224567934311469%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

https://www.facebook.com/SurveillanceVideo I just saw this on "pages you might like" on facebook, I didn't look at it but there might be something of interest there.

I probably posted this before at some point, but this is most of H.H. Moore's fleet around 1984. I used to drive the '79 F model on the far left, and the '77 that's 3rd. from left. I was driving one of the Kw's when this picture was taken, the one with the stack pointed straight out to the side instead of turned slightly to the rear. The blue Transtar Eagle was top of the line in it's day, best interior,400 Cummins,13 spd. H.H. bought it new, I think it was a '78 model. The one beside it was similar to it, but it was a former Montague-Betts truck that H.H. bought when Montague-Betts sold their trucks and started using an outside carrier to haul all their steel. The main outside carrier was H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. The guy that drove it for Montague-Betts went to work for H.H. Moore and drove the same truck for H.H.

I watch Joel Osteen on tv, I like him.

well said Mike, very well said.

Never met a barbecue I didn't like!

looks great too, nice job!

Yeah, I unloaded at...Comfort Engineering?..I think. It was near 70 and 147, off of Neal rd. Unloaded 4 coils from N.B.Handy, then had to get to Petersburg by 1pm. to get that load going to Neville Island,Pa. But I did think about you while I was there!

Herb is right, 4th. is direct drive in the main transmission, 5th. is overdrive. Direct is direct drive in the compound, hi split is overdrive. So if the main's in 5th. gear and the compound's in hi split that gives you double over. 4th. in the main and hi split in the compound is almost the same gear ratio as 5th. in the main and direct in the compound- that's why 4th. hi split to 5th. hi split is the last shift and you have 18 speeds instead of 20.

Must keep you pretty busy just delivering stuff to that Wile E. Coyote fellow, eh? He orders a lot of stuff from ACME Products- I seen it on the TV.

I passed a little store right out here on 29 the other day when I was going to Durham. Had an old Esso sign out front that caught my eye. I thought the place was closed but somebody reopened it, selling antiques and collectibles. So I rode out there today to see what they had and to take a picture of the Esso sign anyway...but I forgot the camera- don't tell randyp. They had tons of old signs in there, along with clocks, diecast models, some old soda boxes, couple of pinball machines, and more. Those American Pickers would love all the old signs. They even had a little Jeep out front that I was gonna let Jo ride in but I didn't have a quarter. I bought her an old rotary phone that she wanted for some reason, and I bought this '51 Ford F-6 RC Cola truck. Of course Winfall is in the opposite direction, but I went over there too. Saw a squirrel waiting to cross the road . Saw a girl climbing out of a hole. Then we stopped by the Winfall train station to look at trains for a while... .

I'm out of likes, so I used the new "best answer" feature that Green Dash invented- but you got that right. I'm sure he wasn't packing any heat, but they've got some shotguns there.

I don't know if she made it out to the paving co. or to the individual. But they know who the guy is because he used a West Virginia ID to cash the check. That's how they found out he'd been in trouble in W.V. for doing the same type scam. She said she told him not to cash it until the next day but he went straight to the bank, so she didn't have time to stop payment on it. What they don't know is whether the paving co. regularly screws people or whether these employees do this on their own. I looked the company up on the interweb and they had an office in Appomattox and in Lynchburg. She called the one in Appomattox and didn't get anywhere there- they offered to refund $1500 but wanted her to sign something saying that that would be the end of it. She didn't didn't go for that.

Batgirl meets Supergirl. Superman drops in...

oh...so it does, just noticed that.

A scam is a scam, no matter how big or small. They're still taking advantage of other people, and it just burns me up that those a-holes took advantage of my parents. One thing about it, they might get away with it now, but they'll have to answer for it some day.

Welcome Luis, I think you'll like it here. Great site, the members here are great too good too not too bad either.

wonder if this is a U model? I'm pretty sure this isn't.

yeah, that's about all I can do. I remember the first time I drove the mixer home, going down rt. 24 in Appomattox. The speedometer doesn't work, and my wife was following me in the car. It was loud, springs so stiff you could feel a bump if you ran over a dime in the road, and I was just flying. Thought I was doing 100+ anyway. When I got home I said "how fast was I going?" She said "about 50, except when you went down Rocky Run hill- then you got up to almost 55".

Hi Mack, I talked to Joe a couple of times on the phone this week. He'd been to Oklahoma City and was on the way back to get a boat to take to Georgia.

D'oh!!!

sure does look good in the picture, like a new one!

They have a Logitech security camera at work on top of a building that watches the whole area, except right behind the shop where it can't see. They can check it on the computers in the office, and on their phones. My older brother put a motion detector type camera on some property my parents have a few miles from where they live. You have to drive down a private road into the woods to get to it. It's just wooded with a couple of fields, and their hunting cabin. It was my grandfather's old homeplace. He set the camera up to get pictures of the bears they'd seen there, not for security reasons. Somebody stole the camera.