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I liked that big Detroit powered Oliver tractor making a full pull in the related videos too, the tone of the engine never even changed- that thing looked like it could have pulled 2 sleds out the back door!

I remember when pretty much all the little shopping centers- that's what we called them, before they invented the malls- had a photo booth in them, and an ice machine, where you could buy a big block of ice that you took home and made smaller pieces of ice out of with a tool called an ice pick. Then you made home made ice cream in a hand cranked ice cream maker.

I know Banquet and Tyson well...not sure about Weaver though.

With the usual gripping descriptions- A white Mack, a red Mack, and a yellow machine. Road shot, rt. 20 in West Virginia. A cabover Peterbilt in Pa. A twin steer Western Star in Pa. An Autocar and an Astro in West Virginia. This girl asked me to give her a boost up into her big truck. I asked her "what do I look like, a forklift"? and kept walking. The Greenbriar Hotel and rich folk resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.V. ??? Once again I was struck by something I had no control over. This time it was a whole tread off a truck tire that was laying in the road. It was just to the left of the center line, plenty of room to go around it. Everybody did except the tool driving the black mini van who was paying no attention to anything except his phone. I looked down when he passed me, had his phone on the steering wheel just texting away. He hit the piece of tire and knocked it right over into me, that's where the black marks on the paint, steps, and tanks came from. Bent the rear part of the tank step too. Jackass! Picked up some saw blades this morning to take to the saw blade place in Canton. Since there's fans of girls with hoses here, here's one for ya' - Oh no, wrong hose, sorry about that...how about this? or pantyhose?

I think this must be her and her sister and her other sister, back when they attended Winfall High.

huh?..wtf...

wonderful!

Nice A-car. Around here 1.9 million would probably get you....maybe Altavista with about half of Gretna thrown in.

True that, you can "preselect" the newer ones, works great. The older ones are supposed to be shifted like a two speed rear, you shift to the next higher gear and then move the button into direct just before you let off the clutch, or gas on it.

So, uhhhh...who's that feeding the chickens? Is that your mom? Nice looking chickens she has.

We forget stuff easily.

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I like green too.

Saw this on a Mack facebook page, one of the nicest looking B models i've seen.

The T660's at work have an insert in the fuel filler opening so you can't get a hose or anything in the tank. Only bad thing is you can't get the nozzle in there far enough to hook it under the edge when you fuel, so it might jump out if you don't stand there and hold it. I keep a bungee on the tank step to put over it when I fuel up.

Ain't that just a neat looking truck? Trucks used to have class...like a '67 GTO or a '55 Chevy, or an F model Mack or a K100- you knew what it was when you saw it. Not so much anymore.

This is true, but as Mike said in another thread the gummint is trying to regulate us out of business- no common sense seems to apply any more. Used to drive the old trucks and service them regularly and they were pretty much trouble free, never broke down. Now new trucks stay in the shop as much as they stay on the highway, engine light's always on, just one thing after another. 10,000 sensors on them for stupid shit, all because of EPA regulations. We did it to ourselves...well, no not really ourselves- the gummint stuck one in us and broke it off...stupid tree hugging hippies.

Wow, you done good for yourself! Truck looks nice too.

I could artificially enhance Pilot Mtn. to be as big and impressive as this, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Not as impressive as Pilot Mountain though,eh?

Me neither, but then I seldom stay at truckstops. I usually have enough fuel to get from Concord to where i'm going and back, but not always. So that motorkote really works,eh?By the way, even though I drive a company truck, i'd like to catch somebody trying to steal fuel one time. When I called the cops i'd tell them to bring the coroner, because the thief had a binder pipe imbedded in his brain. I've actually heard company drivers on the radio trying to sell fuel on the radio at a truckstop. They had just filled up and wanted to sell fuel for a dollar a gallon. If I could have found out who it was I was going to call the company, but I never did. This was at Maybrook, N.Y. some years ago. I told him just what a lowlife scumbag he was though.

Yep, fuel is the big one, amongst the many little things. When the truck I drive is full of fuel, it has well over $1,000 worth of fuel in it. A thousand dollars- in fuel! You can buy a half decent used car for that kind of money. And you gotta fill that sucker up 2 or 3 times a week!

I couldn't eat that- well, unless I was really, really, hungry.

Nice! I missed the picture of the week this week when I saw a Dodge Bighorn going north on I-77 in Ohio with a load of logs. Seen some at truck shows, first one i'd seen still working that I know of since the '80's.