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good answer, good answer! ...but is it the best answer, that is the question.

we give up...why?

She's already checked into it some, and apparently these people had already been run out of West Virginia for doing the same type of scam.

I've seen stories about scammers on the Lynchburg news several times, usually somebody offering to do some type of work real cheap, then they take your money for doing little or nothing- replacing shingles and paving driveways are two common ones. They have some material left over from the last job, you'd be doing them a favor if they could use the leftover asphalt to pave your driveway, just pay for the material used. They especially like to prey on the elderly. I talked to my Mom on the phone last night- i've heard her say maybe half a dozen cuss words my whole life, and I think she doubled the total last night. The driveway paving con artist lowlifes got her and Daddy for $6600. She was hot too, and mad at herself for falling for it. They live in Cumberland county, closer to Richmond than Lynchburg. The paving company was out of Appomattox,Va. They're both right around 80 years old, and it makes me so mad I could...well, never mind. My son stopped by when the crooks were there. When the sheriff came later he asked him why didn't he run them off. He said "because there was like 9 of them and only one of me". He's been driving a dump truck for a long time, and worked on paving many miles of highways around Richmond, so he knows a lot about the paving binness, and he said they used about $300 worth of material on the driveway. And they took Ma's check straight to the bank and cashed it, so she didn't have time to stop payment on it. She said the commonwealth's attorney in Cumberland said they didn't do anything illegal, but they lied to her from the start about what they were going to do and how much it would cost, so that's some kind of fraud, or doing business under false pretenses or something. And she said a young boy stopped there at first, and he was so nice and polite...i'd like to see his ass swinging off a bridge somewhere...by a rope attached to his neck.

you can, just come to Winfall and sit in the ditch until the bus comes along. You might want to bring a sammich with you.

Sorry Mike, a few weeks ago I stopped by Watts Mack on the way home from Pittsburgh. I went in and said "hi there, i'm Mike, and i'm here to collect my winnings". Watts Mack said "nice to meet you Mike, here you go!" Then they handed me a large bag of cash, some hats,T-shirts, tools, clocks, a new Rawhide with a big sleeper,505,18 spd, and a Watt's Mack pen. Nice stuff. When they said "by the way Mike, could we just take a quick look at your ID?" I said "thanks guys, gotta go, see-ya, bye!" and jumped in the red anteater and took off down rt. 22 at a high rate of speed.

I think these two were waiting for the bus.

reminds me of sitting in the chip line in Covington.

I used to have a snatch rope, used it for four wheeling, mud bogging. It was a big blue rope, and you could hook it to a stuck truck with lots of slack in it and take off ''hammer down'' to pull the stuck truck and it wouldn't break. I later made a tire swing for the kids out of it.

Kind of a slow week for pictures, but I did see a nice looking Chevrolet going down rt. 29. I'm thinking 1964? Saw an Autocar too. It hauls in the steel mill in Petersburg all the time. I saw the Liberty University sign on the mountain. Saw this equipment working across the river when I was waiting to get unloaded at Neville Island. This is how far away it was. Yard tractor at Triad Metals in Neville Island. Beams on the ground at Triad Metals. This guy pulled in beside me while I was waiting. Opened his passenger window and asked me where the shipping office was. I told him, and said "by the way, your fuel cap is off". He said "really?..hope I didn't lose too much fuel." Then he gets out and walks inside to the shipping office. Comes back after a few minutes, gets in the truck and pulls inside. Never did put the fuel cap on. Saw this nice looking Peterbilt there too. I hadn't even noticed until Jo asked me tonight why it didn't have a headache rack...good question! Saw a lot of snow when I left Pittsburgh yesterday too. Snowed pretty hard until I was almost out of West Virginia. And I saw the Winfall babe of the week on the way home today.

Happy birthday Barry.

I'm going for a ride now, my bike riding partner is waiting in the driveway. I must be off.

This is true. I have called places for directions before and the person on the phone made me wonder how they managed to find their way to work there every day. I usually call headquarters for directions now, they can look it up on the computer. I don't know if they use google earth, google maps, or some other program but i've been in the office and seen Neal look up directions for other drivers and it zooms in really tight and it's really fast so they can usually find you the best way to get to a place in a truck.

I like that blue B model with the sleeper too, that's sharp looking. I noticed that several of the pictures used came from Hank's Truck Pictures too.

oh...well, yeah, I was gonna say use fingers, like I do, but I guess a plastic spoon would work as well.

I was looking at related videos after watching Pawel's video and eventually found this one. Pretty neat, had several High Point Towing pictures, a Fuzzy Buzzard picture, and several more we've seen here.

Yeah, i've been on some tight roads in W.V. I don't think they have any restrictions, you'll be on some pig path and think "I probably shouldn't have went this way" and then you'll meet a Burns truck with a load of lumber or a bunch of coal haulers.

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I started out with Hondas, my first vehicle was a '74 360 Honda. Bought it new, think it cost about $1400 at the time. Then I bought a 500 Honda, then went with Kawasakis. Bought this red 750 Kawasaki, then traded it in on the black KZ1000. It was an '80 or '81 model. Sold it in '84 or '85 and bought a 1969 Ford F100 pickup. The one on the bottom is the only one I have now.

Probably Wildwood? I think that was the name of it - It was on the right going north, before you got to the Blue Ridge Parkway. 130 and 501 was how we went too. Even going to Big Island you went 130 to Snowden and back south on 501 instead of taking 501 out of Lynchburg. 501 looking towards Lynchburg. The road was narrow and the turns were so tight it was hard to keep a trailer on your side of the road. They widened and straightened it some a few years ago, but there's still a length restriction on it.

I've heard several drivers at Handy talking about what a rough trip it was from Pittsburgh or Sharon to Lynchburg, an all day job, or something like "never again". When I asked them how they came down, they said "501 from 81, that's how the GPS routed me". That's across the mountains and crooked as a dog's leg, we never go that way. Besides, it's restricted to 65 feet. It's about 7 hours from Pittsburgh to Lynchburg coming down 79,19,39,20,60,64,220,and 460. Probably a little quicker running the turnpike to Breezewood, then 70 and 522 to 81 to 64 to 29, but much more expensive of course.

Tim, the man who unloads trucks at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg, said they lost a coil last week when a truck coming in got stuck in a ditch. He followed the directions from his GPS which sent him across Mayflower Drive from Campbell Avenue. After you pass the fertilizer plant it's very narrow and crooked through there- you can make it in a truck, but it's tight. Where he screwed up was when he tried to turn left on a little side street that cuts across to Oddfellows road instead of just following Mayflower Drive to Oddfellows, where it would have been an easy left turn. But no, the GPS said "turn here,turn here-now!" I've cut across that street before myself- bobtailing. He should have seen that he couldn't make the turn, but he attempted it anyway and got the trailer in the ditch all twisted up. He never lost the 2 coils he had on though, they were still safe and secure. They had to call a wrecker to get him out though, and somehow they managed to drop one of the coils on the ground- one of the wrecker crew guys wanted to pick the back of the trailer up and set it back in the road, but the other guy didn't like that plan, so they went with his plan,whatever that was, and dropped the coil. Now the wrecker company and the trucking company are at odds over who's responsible for ruining the coil. The trucking co. says the coil was fine until the wrecker crew monkeyed it up,which is true, and the wrecker co. says it's the truck drivers fault for getting hung up in the first place, which is also true...but- they could have done the job without losing the coil if they'd went with plan A, or they could have unloaded the coil, set it aside, got the trailer out of the bind, then set the coil back on the trailer. They weren't half a mile from Handy when all this took place. He followed the street with the red dots, and was turning at the red lines. He was trying to get to the red circle and should have went up to the green lines. We always follow the green line to N.B.Handy- Candlers Mountain Road off of 460, rt. on Mayflower, rt. on Bradley Drive. He was following the red line. If you don't know you don't know, but you can call, or ask on the radio, but you should never rely on just that GPS, it can get you in trouble.

oh...well, never mind then.