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Hope he's got at least 6 ply rated tires on it.

Sorry to use Kinley to goof on Mike without Nikki's permission and authorization- here's a serious biker babe for you Mike.

problem solved.

If the lining is good- not worn out- and you still have adjustment, you might try taking some rough sand paper and sanding the lining some, just enough to take the glaze off. I've done that many times, especially if I had oil or grease on the linings. Some people will pull the parking brake before they come to a complete stop, which just wears everything out faster.

I've been using a headset all along. Got a new one at Wal-Mart a few weeks ago that I really like because it has a speaker on both ears, where my old one only had one. Made by GE, around 20 bucks. And I see way more people in 4 wheelers talking on cell phones than I do truck drivers, seems like half of them are on the phone all the time.

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Central Va? whereabouts?

I use my "back yard -shade tree mechanic training" to fix stuff, and my "hillbilly radar" to find my destination. Worked pretty good so far.

you're right about that Bob.

I'm running 2 now, but I always had better luck with a single antennae, and a single is easier to set the swr on.

what about the rf gain? is that turned all the way clockwise?..if it's getting out but you can't hear- sometimes you overlook the simple things.

Good job Lars!

Sure did snow up there yesterday- I was in the area. Never got over 22 degrees either!

I'd rather be wallowing around in the snow and folding frozen tarps and winding up frozen 'scraps' than putting off 27 stops in New Jersey or somewhere similar!

So do I Vinny, i've tried and tried to get a good picture of it, but it always seems to be late in the evening or after dark when I get by there so the picture always seems to be a little blurry. But it is a good looking truck, still working but always clean, not too "gussied up", just looks like a Superliner ought to look.

I was stopped when I took those, except for the dump trucks. Randy hasn't given me permission to say Kodacketronomy, so I still have to say taking pictures.

Gotta love that flatbeddin', eh?

Thanks Ed, I needed that. As you might have guessed, that's one of my favorite pictures!

That's pretty much how Other Dog's day goes too-

It started off kinda bad, and it didn't get much better. I unloaded some landscaping timbers in Moneta Monday, and reloaded a load of treated lumber going to Akron. Ed wanted me to weigh the load somewhere because he's still trying to figure the weights since they started using some new chemicals in the treating process, which is supposed to be more "environmentally friendly". So I stopped at the Love's in Fairplain,W.V. and weighed it- 83,740 gross. This after i'd burned probably 40-45 gallons of fuel off. Then I get about a quarter of a mile from Carter-Jones Lumber in Akron and Case Ave. is closed, so I had to follow a detour, knocking down poles, driving through people's yards, underneath clotheslines, around trees, but I managed to get there. Then of course the reciever guy says "oh, you should have just went to here, turned there, then there again, it's a straight shot from the expressway". Fine then. Anyway, I went from there up to Elyria and loaded some plastic pipe on big metal reels and delivered them to Roanoke. Unloaded in Roanoke Wednesday, and coulda went home Wednesday night, but couldn't get anyone on the phone. I got to the shop around 2 o'clock, and phoned home all evening, no answer. So I spent the night in the truck, eating beans out of the can, when I should have been home. I finally got a response to my messages at a quarter to 10 that night, when I was asleep. I did not answer the phone because I was very irate at that time. "My phone never rang"..."it got accidently turned off when it was in my pocket"..."it'll never happen again"... So, Thursday I went to Moneta and got a load going to Cortland, Ohio. The store is right at Warren though. Weighed that load at Fairplain too, just for curiosity- it was only 81,840. Rained almost the entire way, and I went one exit past Carter Lumber and parked at Flex-Strut in Warren. We deliver and load there, and they told me I could park there. It was 41 degrees and still raining when I got there. When I got up Friday morning it was 17 degrees and snowing pretty good. I released the brakes to go down to Carter to unload...and nothing happened. I knew right away what the problem was, so I put on all the clothes I could find, and crawled up under with my flashlight, hammer, big screwdriver, strap bar, and commenced to beating on the brake shoes. Every single brake shoe except the steering axle was frozen solid to the drums. Finally got them all free and when I was putting the bar back in the tool box on the headache rack I noticed that the tray on the bottom of the headache rack that my chains go in was full to the top and frozen solid too. So I took the bar and started beating on that too, and tried to pull the chains out. I finally got 3 or 4 loose but the rest wouldn't budge. I finally had to hook the binders that were hanging from the rack to the chains and use my pipe to tighten them, and finally pulled them out in a big block of ice. I threw that down and beat the hell out of it to free the chains, as I was seriously pissed off by then. Then I went and unloaded, and all my straps were frozen solid. I had to hold my bar in one hand to release the pressure, then take the hammer in my other hand to release the pawl. When I got the straps loose on the winch, I still couldn't unhook them on the other side- they were frozen solid to the lumber, so I had to climb up on top and free the straps from the lumber. They were so stiff I couldn't even wind them back up, and had to use the bar to rewind them, so what should have been a 5 minute job took half an hour. Then I went over to Sharon and loaded 2 coils going to Lynchburg. Other than running in snow all the way back to Lewisburg, W.V. I had no further difficulties. And I saw some things and took pictures of the things I saw. This is the load that grossed 83,740 lbs. This is a big Mack truck I saw at Newcomerstown. This is a big Mack truck I saw on rt. 220. This is a big Mack truck I saw in Fairplain. This is a great looking Superliner dump truck on rt. 7 in Ohio. Saw this KW in Concord, Va. this morning. Saw this on the back cover of a Canadian trucking magazine Old Bill sent me. He also sent me this-

Glad to see you're not lacking for toys.

thanks Bob- been a helluva week!..that's a good title-helluva week.

try to get some pictures of half nekkid Florida women with big hooters please- don't forget your camera.

speaking of barefoot- when I was a young'un my brother and I would go barefooted from about April until school started in September. Not because we didn't have shoes, we wanted to go barefooted. Our feets would get so tough on the bottom we could go anywhere barefooted, in the woods, across gravel, on a hot tar road, through the briar patch, didn't matter. Now I can't step off the porch barefoot.