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I used to stop there a lot a couple of years ago because one of the prettiest gals I ever seen was working there that summer, looked college age and she always wore tiny shorts and a tee-shirt they do have pretty good food there. They even let me park a Peterbilt there. The hotdog stand up the road must be pretty good too, i've never stopped there but there's always a long line there.

That's why I hate Advance auto parts- you-or "they" I should say- can't find anything without a VIN no. they can look up on their computer, even a generic part like a sealed beam headlight or a wheel stud. And there's nothing like a V8 Mack. Pullingest trucks i've ever seen. The old V8 325 would hang right with a 400 Cummins, turn a little fuel to 'em or put a 375 pump and turbo on it and it was no contest. I've told this story before, but i'll tell it again. Back around 1979-80, we hauled wood chips from Dillwyn, Va. to Covington. Al Moore had an F-model with a V8 325 with the fuel turned way up. We had company trucks, I was driving an IH with a VT903, the rest were 290 or 350 Cummins. If a bunch of us were running together, Al would pull off on the ramp at exit 50 on I-64, right at the bottom of North Mountain and wait for the rest of us to pass by and then pull off from a dead stop and pass every one of us before we got to the top. True story.

The real cold plane crew...

Amen brother!

well...I must confess- I learned that word from randyp. And the local cops in Rostraver are DOT certified, like in Bedford, Va. By the way, they had periogiesesess on the sign at Bill's in Rostraver. I did not stop.

I was, I was! When I leave Galv-Tech in Pittsburgh I usually take 51 down to Uniontown and run the new toll road down to 68 and over to 79. Sometimes I run 40 down to Keyser's Ridge and 219 down to Oakland, then 560, 50, 42, and 55 to Baker, then 259 to Broadway and on to 81- hills are killer going that way though, especially with the new no-power unit i'm driving now.

He's not talking about me- unfortunately, I no longer get to drive a Peterbilt.

...wonder what they're all talking about?..anyway, welcome!

I was on routine patrol this week scouting for U-models, but I didn't see any. I did see an R -model for sale in Troutville though. ...and a big yellow machine of some sort the old White's Truckstop sign A Superliner- it had a for sale sign on it too. bulldozers, porta johns, and Macks A big ol' Mack dump, almost overtaken by brush and vines Nice looking fleet here, one of everything. There's a CH too that's not in the picture. There's a B-model dump truck over there, it was too far off the road to get a good picture A red Mack with a tank body Here's an overloaded Dodge 1 ton leaving Blue Ridge Wood in Moneta. He had 6 packs of treated 10' 2x4s. Nice looking '67 Camaro,eh? I took this through my clean windshield at the shop Thursday morning. By the time I got back last night it looked like this...the windshield that is, not the Camaro.

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I like women's beach volleyball myself.

It really cleaned up nice.

Rob said he was going to the great far west sometime this spring to get that R-model he bought, maybe that's where he's been.

I don't remember, I didn't pay much attention to it. There were no U-model nuts here at that time I'll try to find out what happened to it..

this is them-

yeah, all 3 cabs look to be in very good shape. Paul Van Scott might be interested in these units.

you're welcome. There really was a U-model in Concord, parked right beside the C-model that was for sale, but they're both gone now.

Very true. I learned the same way. Actually a lot of "trial and error" when I started too. Nothing against Mark Freeman, I wish you well, but there's a lot more to driving a truck than most people realize, just my opinion. Not on this site of course, but the general public has no earthly idea what it's like...none. I've been doing it a pretty good while too, and the job related stress is enormous but you can't let it get to you. Did you know the average life expectancy of truck drivers is way lower than for everybody else? Yeah. In the 80's I read where like 90% of truck drivers smoked, might be less now. You don't eat healthy, much as you try, and you never really get proper rest, even if the FMCSA folks say you do- you just don't. And you've still got to be proffessional even when the teenage girl on the cellphone cuts you off then gives you the middle finger because you were there. And when you're already tired but you've got to go because the customer's out of material and they'll have to shut the plant down if you're not there at 7:00 am the next morning. Then when you get there they have pallets of "the material" they were about to run out of stacked up to the ceiling-i've heard that one many times. And Bob's got to be professional when he has to chain up 13 times on a run...then do the same thing the next night...and the next. And Mark, when he has 13 stops in New York and New Jersey in all that traffic, 4 wheelers cutting in front of him, trying to pass on the left, right, underneath, over top, anyway they can. Oh wait- that's a bad example, he loves that stuff. Traffic is getting worse all the time, everywhere. Middle of the day now is like what rush hour used to be. All kinds of weather, traffic, a-holes in 4 wheelers, heavy traffic, mountains, traffic, the DOT, traffic, weigh stations, heavy traffic, securing and tarping flatbed loads, worrying about reefer temps, delivering to a grocery warehouse and having to unload your own trailer or pay someone else to do it after sitting the all evening and half the night, picking up at a steel mill and sitting all evening and half the night then hearing you've got to be 600 miles away by 7 am with that load or "they'll have to shut the plant down", leaving on a beautiful Sunday afternoon when everybody else is grilling a nice sirloin in the backyard- it all contributes to the stress of driving.

Don't look too bad. Wish I had money to burn! Wonder what year they are

I had to go to the dentist in Appomattox today and I was watching for U-models all the way. Didn't see any U's but I did see this nice looking Chevrolet.

funny you would say that- I actually do that on the side! I use a camera exactly like this one.

I must be an aardvark. I write left handed, but do most everything else right handed.

I would take the cover off the voltage regulator first, the points might be stuck from sitting.

I've seen an old round nose van trailer parked in the woods on rt. 220 between Eagle Rock and Iron Gate. Been there a long time. I don't know anything about it, tried to get a picture but it's in a hard spot to get a decent one driving by.

A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money. The first does a total makeover. She goes to a fancy beauty salon, gets her hair done, new makeup; buys several new outfits and dresses up very nicely for the man. She tells him that she has done this to be more attractive for him because she loves him so much. The man was impressed. The second goes shopping to buy the man gifts. She gets him a new set of golf clubs, some new gizmos for his computer, and some expensive clothes. As she presents these gifts, she tells him that she has spent all the money on him because she loves him so much.. Again, the man is impressed. The third invests the money in the stock market She earns several times the $5,000. She gives him back his $5,000 and reinvests the remainder in a joint account. She tells him that she wants to save for their future because she loves him so much. Obviously, the man was impressed. The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the money he'd given her. Then he married the one with the biggest tits.