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http://www.oldmacksrus.com/Album%20Picts/Dennis-Overnight.jpg here's more pictures- http://www.oldmacksrus.com/photo_album.htm

somebody was looking for their perfect truck a while back,but I couldn't find the original post. I finally got a picture of the one at Art Reed's place in Montvale,in case it is the perfect one.

tires for the 16.5's might be cheaper. I ran the 12.50/38 super swampers on 16.5 wheels and I don't know why but at the time they were slightly cheaper than the same size tire for 15 or 16 inch wheels.

be back later,gotta haul ass to the mailbox to get my coupons...

I'm with you there,Popeye's hot and spicy chicken is hard to beat,but the red beans and rice is my favorite.

do they still make that? Used to have a mad dog 20/20 t-shirt...back in the '70s.

sounds like a fine place to be.

that is kind of odd,as the north end seems to be much more easily accessed. I'm gonna call 1-800-ax randy and find out the reason they did that.

naw, you can turn the google earth street view pictures 360 degrees-you can look ahead,look behind,up at the sky,or down at the pavement. It's pretty neat,almost like being there.The picture I took was from about the same place but a little closer. I was probably up around where you can see the truck coming down the hill, but I was indeed in the northbound lane when I took it. There were some good pictures and some short video clips on that second link I posted. Had pictures of them blowing the old bridge up too. It was almost 300 feet down to the creek below it said. And they moved more cubic yards of dirt and rock to build the turnpike-mostly rock-than they did building the Panama canal.Neat stuff,eh?

forgot this added bonus picture. This is the old power plant at Glen Ferris, also closed for years, which they're now putting back into operation. Nice fishing spot here! Up ahead and to the right, out of sight between the mountains, is the town of Gauley Bridge. Rt. 60 is pretty flat from Charleston to here, but when you leave Gauley Bridge you start climbing up over Hawk's Nest.

yessir, you pretty much came off the bridge and into the tunnel. I don't remember how high the bridge was, but it was a long-ass ways to the bottom!

Not sure what they keep in there. It's probably about half a mile long. It's 2 lanes through it,and i've been through it hundreds of times but it's been closed for years. Used to cross a real high bridge going in from the south, but they cut a new 4 lane highway across the mountain,closed the tunnel,and removed the bridge. http://wikimapia.org/8269980/West-Virginia-Turnpike-Memorial-Tunnel More tunnel info here. And a picture I got from google earth street view,similar to the one I deleted.This shows the south entrance.I remember they worked on that cut for the new road,seen to the right,for a long time-years it seemed like. It's all solid rock as you can see. More good stuff and pictures here- http://www.roadstothefuture.com/WVa_Tpk_Photos.html

Slightly modified joke Bollweevil sent me- > Subject: Texans Declares War on The United States Barack Obama is in the Oval Office when the telephone rings. "President Obama," Barack said, as A heavy southern voice said "Barack this is Randy P, down at the Joes Crab Shack in Daingerfield, and I'm callin' ta tell ya'll that officially we just declared war on you!" "Well Randy," Barack replied, "This is indeed important news! How big is your army ?" "Right now," said Randy, after a moments calculation "there's myself, my cousin Harold , my next-door-neighbor Archie, and the whole dart team from Hooters. That makes eight!" Barack paused, then said. "Randy, I must warn you that I have one million men in my army waiting to move on my command." "Wow," said Randy. "Guess I'll have ta call ya back!" Next day, Randy called again. "Barack, we're still gonna' fight you! Since yesterday I have have managed to acquire some infantry equipment!" "And what equipment would that be Randy?" Barack asked. "Well sir, we have two combines, a bulldozer, a B-model Mack, and Harry's old farm tractor." Obama sighed. "I must tell you Randy, that I have 16,000 tanks and 14,000 armored personnel carriers. Also I've increased my army to one and a half million since we last spoke." Randy said, "I'll be getting back to ya." Next day Randy called and said, "Obama , the war is still on! We have managed to git ourselves airborne! We up an' modified Harolds' ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Legion have joined us as well!" Barack was silent for a minute then cleared his throat. "I must tell you Randy that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000 fighter planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I've increased my army to TWO MILLION!" Randy said, "l'll call you back tomorrow." Sure enough, Randy called the next day and said, "Obama! I'm gonna' have to call off the war." Obama said, "Why the sudden change of heart?" Randy said, "We sit ourselves down las' night and had a long chat over a bunch of beer, and we done come to realize there is jes' no way we can feed two million prisoners.."

The story continues... Got the truck from Cat Tuesday afternoon and headed to the shop to get fuel and then go load kyanite for Orchard Park,N.Y. Made it all the way to Thomas Terrace before the engine light came on, or about 10 miles. So I went straight back to Carter Cat and they replaced the wire connectors on intake valve actuators 5 and 6. Now 4 days of trouble free trucking! I reloaded at Roll Coaters in Weirton,W.V. Thursday morning. Could have got loaded Wednesday night, but I had to wait for one coil that was over across the street at the sand and gravel place and they didn't open until 7am. Turned out pretty good because I was tired from the late start going to Orchard Park anyway, and I took some pictures of lots of trucks and equipment at the sand and gravel yard. This is a 992 Cat loader-makes a Peterbilt look tiny. GMC dump truck good looking old Autocar.While I was taking pictures of it a dump truck driver coming in stopped and yelled "that truck still runs good". I noticed it has current tags on it. The plate on the door said it had a 335 Cummins in it and rt915 trans. Might have a 335,but I don't know about that 15 speed! The little coil I picked up-had to use 2 extra pieces of wood to keep it off the floor.You don't want your coil touching the floor,or bad things could happen! ...especially on a big single like this. This was in the Clark loader beside the Cat loader-a V16 Detroit Diesel. and the added bonus pictures- This is what the north entrance of the old tunnel on the West Va. Turnpike looks like now. I used to have a picture of the south entrance,but must have deleted it. The south entrance is still open and the tunnel is used for storage. A closer look.Kinda hard to see any more. This is where an old weigh station used to be on rt. 60 between Ansted and rt. 19. It was still there since i've been driving, but I never saw it open. They only used portables there and it's been closed for years.

I know-how about this? the next day...

Sounds like a great truck as it is! But since you've already got the headers and are going with HP heads,Edelbrock intake,and Holley carb, you also need 4 new 12.50/38 Super Swampers so you can take it mud bogging on weekends.

I've delivered a few loads of steel to Milton Steel, haven't been there in a while though.

OK, i've done all that...wonder what I should do next?

Another driver, Sam, used to tell this true story - He had to take a long load into Boston to a jobsite. He got to where he needed to make a right turn but didn't have enough room because a car was parked on the corner-illegally parked, imagine that! While he was stopped in the street wondering what to do, with traffic bottling up behind him, a cop strolled up and asked him what was going on. He told the cop he couldn't make the turn because of the car. The cop looked at the car and said "hit it, he ain't supposed to be parked there anyway"! Sam said "I can't do that", and the cop said "run over it, or i'll give YOU a ticket for obstructing traffic"! So he made the turn and ran over the car and went on to the jobsite. Said he never heard another word about it. Sometimes we'd run 84 and 81, sometimes we had to go 95 through the city coming back if we had to go to Baltimore or the D.C. area. Once a driver went down the 684 to 287 to 87 route. 87 put you on 95 right at the north end of the George Washington Bridge. He got to the bridge right in the middle of rush hour, and as he was on the ramp to get from 87 onto 95 some complete moron, female type, actually tried to pass on the right and squeeze between the trailer and the wall on the right. She got up beside the trailer tandems- then there was nowhere else she could possibly go. Trailer tandem to her left...concrete wall on her right. Traffic was bumper to bumper, stop and go. It was impossible for her to back up, because if you pull up half an inch the car behind does too. And if the truck pulled up at all the trailer tires would hit her car. And that's what he did. When the opening came he was gone, and the trailer tires caught the car just in front of the driver side door and mashed the left front fender in and pushed the car over against the wall. Nothing else he could do really. He never heard another word about it either, and the stupid bitch got what she deserved in my opinion.

...2 days later...

looks like they had some rain in Texas-

You were safe- I went to the Toms Brook exit and came south on rt. 11 so it would be easier to back in from the road. A driver who'd been there before advised me to do that. Went back to 81 the same way, so I never got into downtown Woodstock.