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What happened?

"you give up to easy"...Benjamin Moore,1244 B.C.

I used to use a picture as my desktop background picture-any picture,usually one of mine,except for Eva Longoria for a while.Kept the same picture 'til I got tired of it.I recently went to the control panel and changed the background picture so it keeps changing,going through all my Kodak pictures-over 1900 pictures at last count- that I had saved on my pc. I gave my parents one of those electric picture frames for Christmas last year, selected a few hundred pictures and put them on a memory stick to use in the frame. Now,Jobyna said I should update a card for them since i've added so many pictures in the last year.So I went to the Wal-Mart store and got a big memory stick card that held like 3,000 pictures and put every picture in my Kodak collection on it. 1,907 pictures in all. Problem is,some of the pictures in the rotation on my screen are pictures that I deleted years ago.You know me when it comes to pictures...one was the one of Jo where I cut-copy-pasted her looking at a car at Toga and she wasn't wearing any pants. Caption said "I knew I forgot something". I told Ma there might be offensive content and she said not to worry about it...but still,it's my mother. I hope they didn't copy to the card,like I said,i've deleted them from the computer,but they still show up when they flash across my screen-even Jo cussing at Santa Claus-Santa with the huge...eh,never mind. She put the memory stick in the mail Wednesday.

That's the main thing...still a bummer though.

We've never had a trailer that had them,the trailer I pull has short lengths of chain on each side that you can pull up thru a hole and use for tie-downs.Has basically a big washer at each end,one covers the hole when you don't use them,the other is slightly bigger than the hole so the chain doesn't pull all the way through the hole.These are for tie downs if you use a side kit. Getting back to the question,i've seen many steel haulers use them to tie down coils,so there shouldn't be any problem with load securement,they're easy and convenient to use,I think it's a great ideer.

I'm pretty sure some of the giant "unloaders" I've seen were Wabcos too, unloading logs in Emporia. I believe it's Meritor-Wabco nowadays.

I stand by the previous statement-"if it ain't green,it ain't a Euclid"...George Krylon,1832. "John Henry Rudolph Behr was a dick"...George Krylon III,1908. "If I owned General Motors,I would make huge off road trucks,call them Euclids,put only Detroit Diesel engines in them,and paint everything lime green"...Sherwin Williams,1763. See,I know my history too. I had a picture of a red Euclid I saw in Ohio,but I must have deleted it.Looked odd to see one that wasn't green,as that was the only one i've ever seen that wasn't.

Great! I found the shop,now i'm gonna get on google earth and search rt.116 until I find an ugly ass green Jeep Cherokee in a driveway.

More pictures of the week- This is a mill roll I brought back to the steel mill in Petersburg from Milton,W.V. I took one up there to be refurbished,and brought this one back. It shined like chrome when I loaded it,looked like this when I stopped by the shop. They have many mill rolls at the mill. And they have a Euclid-a green one. A new KW at the shop-these have the new Paccar engine,the new Freightliners have DD15's. Drivers are already complaining about the lack of power the paccar engines have.

...huh?

Couldn't be a Euclid,they're all green.Matter of fact,there was a Euclid parked over to the far side of this truck but I didn't take a picture.

Great! I found the shop,now i'm gonna get on google earth and search rt.116 until I find a rusty,yet trusty,crusty Dodge in a driveway.

I...uh...well-OK,I look at facebook too! Ther's a link to it right here on BMT. By the way,Double L is mr. facebook,he's all over it.

I asked him if he had a pipeline to his house from the mtn. dew plant and he said no,he had a bulk tank of it on his roof.

There's a couple of places in Va.that I know of that pay top dollar for old lumber like that. You probably couldn't get much for it now though.

He's been plowing snow,eating lots of pizza,plowing snow,drinking lots of mountain dew,and plowing more snow.It's on his facebook page.

Perhaps-there was a name or insignia on it but I couldn't make it out.

Some trucks I saw in Cincinnati. I don't know what the big ugly one is- meaning the one with the dump body.

I was at Thurston Metals in Lynchburg one cold morning to unload years ago and the driver of one of their 2 trucks came out and started his truck, an F-model V8 Mack. As soon as it started he had it pretty much wide open and about 3 seconds later there went the oil filter rolling out from under it and across the parking lot.

Yep, I only had about 21,000 on coming back last Thursday. I don't like driving at night when it's slick because it's hard for me to "read" the pavement. I can't tell what's wet,dry,frozen,paved,or dirt,but between that or less traffic on the road I opted for the latter.

It is that! I clicked on the red x, then on show picture,still nothing happened.

Last one I went to was in Salem...think it's Kroger,and they charged $300 for the lumper service. I unloaded a flatbed load in Cincinnati this morning,reloaded a flatbed load in Aurora,In. both tarped loads,and i've been back home over an hour.

I put the long snorkel on and drive across the bottom of the ocean.

That's the best thing about Fox News-they got all hot babes. But back to the story-yeah,a cell phone can get you in all sorts of trouble. Long story short-A speaker at one of our safety meetings told us about a driver that was involved in an accident and of course he was sued,they subpoenaed (or however you spell it) his cell phone records and proved he had falsified his logs,so he was guilty because he shouldn't have been where he was in the first place. I could be in Minnesoter,call Rob to chat,but if my logbook says i'm in Hawawii and they go back and see the cell tower was in International Falls at that particular time,i'm screwed. I've got my phone set where the gps is off except when you dial 911, but they can still tell what tower your signal was bouncing off of anytime you make a call.

You got that right! I've unloaded at grocery warehouses before with a dry van,never a pleasant experience.