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A guy just sent me a picture of my old unit at Truck Enterprises. He had just polished it. Apparently the man who told me he was buying it did not, so it's still available!

I thought NOS meant "not on sale".

And lest anyone think i'm anti-union, I am not. They were started for a good and necessary reason, to protect the worker. Now I think it's swung way too far to the other side. Must be a happy median in there somewheres...

I wear the same buckle every day!

oh. by the way, it's doing it again. Maybe I should check another site to see if it does it...hmmmm...hotasianmidgetsdot

Welcome to tha' club!

Back on IE now, was gonna try what bluebonnet said, but now it's not doing it.

Thank you very much indeed gentlemen- and same to you and yours.

Farmington,eh? Do you know rhasler?

I'm back- on firefox. no blue words, no underlined words...hmmmm-what could it mean, if anything?..I'm turning around, going back home. And I was almost to the bridge.

Hi there hatcity..."save" is blue and underlined in your post...going to find nearest bridge now. Later y'all.

Nice red R-model.

Nice B- but how do you see where you're going at night?

Geez!..Thanks Pawel, "please" is blue and underlined in your post on my end! The box that opens says "answer this one question and win a free I-Pad". I'm not about to open it though! I'm on Internet Explorer now - maybe I should go to Firefox and see if it's the same.

Well, that's kind of what i'm saying about unions- they have no work ethic, they don't care about "the common good", they just want all they can get for doing little or nothing, and screw everybody else. The old "that's not my job" mentality. They could not care less if I sit at their facility all evening and half the night waiting to get loaded, but they still expect me to deliver 500 miles away at 7:00 am the next morning- and they will not work throught their break, or 2 minutes late to load a truck, because it's in their contract that they don't have to.

This is true. The law here -and I guess it's everywhere, I don't know- says that a logging crew working in the woods have to report any leak or spillage of fuel, oil, or hydraulic fluid, no matter how small. I'm sure most don't- I wouldn't. But every time they blow a hydraulic hose and lose ten drops of oil replacing it they're supposed to report it?..how much would the fine be if they got caught not reporting it?..at least in the thousands of dollars probably. I remember when you'd change oil in the equipment in the woods and drain the old oil out right on the ground. And they can't even cross a creek anymore without a bridge, can't even muddy the water. I'm not sayin' it's right to drain your oil on the ground, but enough's enough- there's just one rule and regulation after another, each one more strict than the last, just like in trucking, and it never stops.

the word "website" is blue and underlined in my original post. Says "powered by text enhance" when I put the cursor on it and a box opens up with a link to another website...dammit!

Does Freightrain still drive a school bus? Does Randy and Spot still ride one?

My opinion is that greedy unions had a lot to do with it. But i've loaded at many union steel mills over the years, so I might be a little biased. But the union workers just wanted more, and more, and more benefits and wages for doing less, and less, and less. And not just steel workers, unions put many, many trucking companies right out of business too. Where can I get one of them flak jackets?

Nice stuff! I have the Classic Macks book, but not the others. I have "Big Rigs of the '50's" and "Big Rigs of the '60's" but not the '70's- I was kinda there..sort've. All I got was this, but at least it was a Mack lump of coal.

I noticed today certain words in any post are blue instead of black, regular words like "back", "money", "loan", "truck"- and when you put the cursor on it a link to another website will open- is everybody's like this, or should I do a virus scan right now? Doesn't really bother me, just hadn't been like that until today.

Here you go James!

Wow, it did work! Gee,thanks Ed- and Merry Christmas!

Well, i'm jest gonna try that to see iffen it really works...i'll be back.

Other Dog got a new dining facility- he look impressed,eh? Looks kinda like a bulldog on the box. Got a box of sweet potatoes from Ma and Dad yesterday- they're huge, like Bollweevil's. Probably get 2 pies out of 1 potato. I do not clean them with carb. cleaner, it's just for size comparison. Got these cayenne peppers they'd been saving for me too. Might try to make a little hot sauce. They were still on the plants, hanging in the shed to dry.