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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.

yeah, i've seen that somewhere before- figured there might as well be an other dog collection.

She's on the way, she even has her own shovel.

Holy hamburgers, that could actually be Vinny's truck!

I'm out of likes, but I like the B models plowing too- great pictures.

...and feel free to use these spectacular, blurry, and poorly photochopped pictures any way you want. you could print and shred them...or you could print them and then use the paper to start a fire in the trash barrel. "the gripping descriptions are better than the pictures anyway"- Green Dash,1967. I took the last mill roll load to Milton Monday. Here's some road shots on rt. 60-i'm about to go around a curve to the left here- and here's a curve to the right going up a hill here- some S&H Green Stamps I still have, that have absolutely nothing to do with anything. now i'm going down a hill- thought I was done with all that, but here's another curve to the right. some mill rolls at the steel mill- more rolls- the odd shaped one on the lower right is for piling instead of beams. bulk tankers parked at the mill- now we'll have a brief intermission... A green R model in Appomattox. A white R model in Clinton, Pa. A red R model in Steubenville,Oh. Some Euclid trucks Western Star trucks at the mat unloading place in Clinton,Pa. Unloading... this is the road coming out from the mat unloading place. pretty steep hill there- you can see the hill on the other side in the mirror in the second picture. there were some horses in the field too. back on the "big road" back on the really big road now. Going back to Long Island for another load of mats. Gotta turn off this skinny road onto the even skinnier road to the left here. coming back out- got to get to the left as far as you can to make this right turn. A little chilly to be wearing short-shorts and sneakers,eh?.. apparently not, in Sharon,Pa. I've posted this before, but that's a good looking Superliner right there. Some more yellow machines by the road. A red KW, just got in last night-loaded 5 coils in Sharon,Pa, 48,000+ lbs. Saw this girl in Winfall- I think she's trying to fix that junky looking fence, but i'm not sure what she's doing. Then when I got down to Gladys I saw this girl-

Amen Mark! I'm already out of likes, and i'm not even all the way to the finish line in the first topic i'm reading since I got home.

This is true, there are hundreds of contributors to Hank's site, I met Johnny Click at a truck show in Lincolnton,N.C. last year, real nice guy. and i'm facebook friends with him, Dennis Shull, and Hank. I'm sure the majority of them don't feel the same way as Mr. Sissick. He has a picture of an F.L.Moore truck in his collection, a white Coranado that was taken at a truckstop in New Jersey several years ago, so he's probably a Jerseyite himself, and you know how they are...(just kidding Mark!)

Loved the Red Green show!

Thanks Barry, I too have posted pictures from Hank's here, and they're all over many different truck pages on facebook- one place he specificaly said not to post them- but I won't post any more.

Saw this one when I was headed north on 501.

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here's a few, found on facebook. Nice model-

Don't know what this is. Looks like it might be a Pacific. It's very tall anyway.

here's one I found of a girl sitting on an MH.

that's a big'un! I got Jo to stand in front of it for a size comparison but she's a good ways away from it here. Especially her feets.

Went through Winfall the other night. Saw two girls that had gotten their car stuck. Maybe I should have stopped and help them push it out, I don't know.

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An MH I once saw. I had Jo stand in front of it and sip a soda for a height comparison. She was arrested for trespassing right after I took the picture. Sippin' a soda in front of a Freightliner. 9000 Ford