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we had a hard time finding dolly drivers sometimes. if another truck driver couldn't take off to do it,you'd have to pretty much get whoever you could find and sometimes they just didn't have a clue what to do.

no, but i've driven them dollies and I liked doing that.

I don't know what it is, but it's a big one!

Steerable dolly. Wow!

I've heard a lot of drivers joke that they had to wear a raincoat when they drove in the rain.

with B models?

that's OK...most of- well, actually all- of the female type hitchhiker pictures come from facebook. I save them every time I see one, for future use here research purposes.

lookin' good, a job done right!

I copied and pasted the whole thing from my homepage at first, but I didn't know whether somebody else could click on it and be signed in as me so I just put my name. Never checked to see how many more there are with the same name, but i'm pretty sure there's no more with my mixer picture on them.

me too, but she was standing on the step...on her tiptoes.

I'm William Thomas Blackwell- there's a picture of a B model Mack mixer on my profile picture.

I found this one.

Pictures of the day for Friday. I went to Va. Tech in Blacksburg today to pick up that scaffolding material. It was cold as heck up there, 25 degrees but the wind was blowing so hard it felt a lot colder than 25. I was supposed to go back up there Monday morning to get another load, but now i'm going to Petersburg to the steel mill and pick up some saw blades instead. Saw this impressive looking building way over there. some girls in the parking lot. a girl looking the truck over.... Saw a GMC Astro log truck in a backyard on the way home. ...and this girl standing by the road in Winfall.

spot likes it too...

They had the old dump,the new dump, and the swamp when I last hauled chips. I never dumped on the new dumps they have now. I've waited in the chip line for hours to get dumped on the old dump, all for $30 a load from Dillwyn. When I last hauled wood lots a times a chip truck would come in and be unloaded and gone before you'd get a load of wood off.

Of course I did- just don't tell Farmer52, the scantily clad female pics are our his favorites, so I always toss a few in. or.............as Mark might say- "looks legit to me!"

Since I only worked one day this week so far. Saw this R model for sale in Suffolk. and fields covered in sea gulls. A big Mack truck with an offset cab- but it's probably a DM. Some bimbo who must have lost her pants under the seat. A cabover International. The old Ford, and an old car. ...and this Mack mixer.

of course I didn't stop...I wasn't going to California, just to Phoenix.

I know that's right! My hands were burning because I didn't have gloves that fit, but 2 things you especially do not want to do is scratch your nuts or rub your eyes when you've handled hot peppers!

yeah, lots of places used to put used motor oil on gravel roads and parking lots. Kept the dust down, plus it would pack down hard as concrete, but you can't do that any more either.

didn't have a load. unloaded those scrap coils in Suffolk yesterday, then came home. gotta be in Blacksburg in the morning to pick up some scaffolding and bring it to Bedford, then hopefully i'll get lumber from Moneta to deliver Monday.

I'll send you some hot sauce Bob, but I can't send the chicks!

Very interesting- Mike HuckabeeLast month, the Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average US household below the poverty line received $168 a day in government support. What’s the problem with that much support? Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $25 an hour. And the person who works also has to pay taxes, which drops his pay to $21 an hour. It’s no wonder that welfare is now the biggest part of the budget, more than Social Security or defense. And why would anyone want to get off welfare when working pays $9 an hour less? For more of the Huckabe Report, visit MikeHuckabee.com. I was reading an article in the "USA Today" a few weeks ago about the longshoreman who were threatening to go on strike. The most surprising thing to me was that their average salary was over $120,000 a year- 3 times what I make.

I might have seen you there. H.H. Moore was a contract carrier for Westvaco for years and years. I hauled many,many loads of chips to Covington from Dillwyn and Howardsville in the '80's, then we started hauling long wood. We hauled the pulpwood from the new yard on rt. 60 in Buckingham about 5 or 6 miles west of Mt. Rush. Hauled mainly to Covington, went to Luke when there was too much snow in western Maryland for the locals to work in the woods, took the logs to GP in Emporia. I liked hauling pulpwood, if you didn't have a load going up the road- like my case now- you could always go to the woodyard and run a load or 2 of wood to Covington. I liked to just stay there and haul wood all the time. They got rid of most of the chip vans and got log trailers when they switched from chipping at the woodyard to hauling the wood to the mill. Then Westvaco went back to wanting chips, and opened a new chip mill north of Dillwyn on rt. 15, so Larry Moore didn't want to get a bunch of chip trailers again, sold the log trailers, and quit fooling with forest products.

I've got several "almost had the big one" in snow and ice stories. Been stuck a couple of times, never really almost had the "big one" but once though, that was in Wyoming a few years ago when I had to pass a car on the right- on the shoulder. Ran through a snow storm, road was about as slick as i've ever seen-ice on the bottom,snow on top. Cars in the ditch and the median. I was easing along making good progress when I came over a little hill and saw a car near the bottom just barely moving. Another truck was coming up on me in the left lane- i'd look at the car,look in the mirror...look at the car,look in the mirror. I knew if I touched the brakes it was all over, I was going to jack knife- it was that slick. When I realized that the other truck wasn't going to get by me before I hit the car I just hit the shoulder and passed between the car and the guard rail. I had decided to quit smoking a while before that trip, but after that incident I stopped at the next truckstop and got 2 packs of Marlboros.