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I was sitting in the truck when I took that picture. I didn't get pictures of the prettiest one I saw because I was out of the truck leaning against the trailer working when she walked down the other side of the street. She was gorgeous- even looked at me and smiled. I was loading at a place called Bio-Tech Research- something or other, right near the Richmond Coliseum. Another beautiful Asian looking woman walked by with 3 or 4 big dudes, all wearing dark sunglasses, heads shaved bald. I didn't notice until they turned around and walked by again that she had a large black automatic pistol on her side, so I don't know who they were or what they were up to but it looked like serious binness- might have been gummint agents. I'll get a picture of the scaffolding today. Went to the shop yesterday to go to Bedford to unload and Jeff said "I've been trying to call you all morning- there's nobody in Bedford to unload you today,they won't be there until tomorrow". So I pulled my phone out,looked at it..."that's strange, the last missed call from here was Friday, January 4th. at 3:04 pm". I could have mailed hatcity's hot sauce yesterday too.....but I didn't. Took it with me, but didn't think I had enough cash to mail it. I forgot I had the checkbook in my back pocket. I'll try to get it in the mail today though.

That's how they load them. They had some of them in a rack that I picked up at the mill, pretty much just chained them like I would a coil. The first time I picked a load of them up in Canton I asked them if I needed to use chain protectors and they said "no, just criss-cross two chains across them, you can't hurt 'em". Must be some hard steel there, they don't even look like saw teeth, looks like straight cut gears, but that's what they cut the beams to length with at the mill.

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Concord,Va.

I've been by there a few times too, going to Carter Lumber in Lisbon. Right up the road from where the Macks with the tippers are parked. Did have some pics, but I must have deleted them. Nice looking crackerbox in their picture too.

holy baloney, that's a load and a half on that log trailer!

I remember APA well. When I used to run to Boston all the time there was a trucking company we'd see on the Cross Bronx Expressway all the time- New Penn? North Penn? They had red R models, and seems to me a bunch of U models. We'd be kinda easing along, hoping we didn't lose a load of steel in the road because it was so rough, and they'd get in the left lane and just hammer down across there! I started running 81 and 84 long before they told us to run that way to save on tolls because the Cross Bronx was so rough and traffic was terrible 24 hours a day around N.Y. and Ct. We used to haul junk cars around that time too. We didn't have cages, wire, sides, or any of that, we just hauled them from up north to Shredded Products in Montvale, Va.on regular flatbed trailers. You could walk around the trailer 15 times after you got loaded and pull off any loose parts you could find, and there'd still be stuff flying off the first few miles. We stopped hauling junk cars after a brake drum came off a load and landed on the hood of a four-wheeler.

This is the head of the Mac quality control department, looking over some new trailers.

I think hatcity does it by remote control.

wow Vlad, that's...what everybody else already said, very impressive work!

yep, she's real. this one is fake however. This is one also fake. Even this one is fake.

to Vision386, aka Mark- have a good one!

or, "what i've seen so far"... I saw this little Mack truck, and lots of steel at the steel mill where I went to pick up these saw blades Nice load of logs in W.V. Drop off rusty old blades, pick up shiny refurbished blades. Then I went to Mac Trailers in Alliance to pick up some parts for a trucking co. in Concord that runs a large fleet of dump trucks. Took some secret spy pics at the Mac plant. They said I was picking up some kind of arm, so I thought it would be about the size of my arm. It was not. Their forklift wouldn't pick up the blades to move them, so I had to put it on top of them. Scrapping a UPS trailer at the mill- Saw this IH over at the fuel stop in Petersburg. Then I went up to Richmond and picked up a load of scaffolding at a job site, where I saw this girl on the street.

Heather was my favorite!

Nope, can't use UPS. The nice lady at the Concord post office gave me the boxes free and asked me to mail them from there in return, so they'd get the revenue, and I agreed to those terms and conditions.

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be patient there Ed, it takes me a while. The nice lady at the post office that gave me the boxes said the bottles need to be in ziplock bags. So I had to assemble the boxes, tape the lids on the bottles,put them in ziplock bags,wrap them with bubble wrap,pack them,address them...and that's where i'm at now. They're in a big box in the spare room, ready to go, soon as I haul them to the post office.

Happy birthday!

speaking of facebook, some more bmt members that aren't on here much anymore but are on facebook a lot are HKTrucking (Herb Ketter on fb) , bulldogman (Mack Wortham on fb) and em6285 (Fabián Ortiz Nazario on fb).

think I seen her somewhere before...

This might be a U model

lots of neat truck pictures here- https://www.facebook.com/YouTruckMe/photos_stream#!/YouTruckMe/photos_stream

holy hamburgers!!!

Here's a girder I hauled on a dolly once. It was the longest beam I ever pulled, 150' long, but i've been in tighter places with shorter beams. This was a pretty easy run, from Abingdon Va. to Nashville, Tn.- interstate all the way. The dolly-