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well said! http://www.thedieselgypsy.com/TRUCKING%20STORIES%202.htm here's some good ones.

Nikki will swing that sledge hammer for you-lure her with Jack Link's jerky. She's probably too old to fall for this, but when all my kids were small I needed some gravel in my driveway where I parked the truck. I ordered one big 24 ton boulder because it was cheaper and had it unloaded in the driveway. Then I gave all the kids a toy hammer and told them "enjoy your hammers-you can do whatever you want with them except beat on that big boulder in the driveway-I must be off now". When I got back there was nothing but a big pile of gravel where the boulder was.

well, ,click on the smiley face at the top, ,and the emoticons should appear on the right of your post.

job related?..no,Iknow,I know- you're engaged to the redhead in the picture!..got one in the oven there,eh?

Old Bill sent me this hand carved Peterbilt that used to hang on his wall,along with this sign from Australia. I told him not to send me anything,but... I'm gonna hang it on the wall too,but I had to glue one of the stacks back on that got broken off during shipment.

Actually I had just returned from delivering a van load of shavings (bagged,on pallets-not loose in the van like a load of chips) in Eighty Four,Pa. I came home empty because the return load back to Salem,Va. they had been promised had been shipped the day before (imagine that-some broker telling false doctrine!) and we had loads sitting on the yard. Might have been a good thing,since it was raining and the trailer leaked so bad I probably would have been up inside the van tarping whatever the load was. I got back to the shop and my flatbed was loaded with pipes going to New Jersey...so I went home. Unloaded the pipes on the ground Thursday morning and went to Fremont,Oh. with a load of kyanite and loaded 2 coils in Sharon yesterday going to Greenville,S.C. So there! Passed this odd looking unit on rt. 60 in Pa. yesterday-think it might be Freightrain but i'm not sure-along with a convoy of old cars and hot rods. Must have been going to a car show this weekend.

had to be the bulldog,a b-model's not big enough for people to do much in.

saw these crows at the shop yesterday...I threw a cracker out the window at them.

This B-61 (either a 1957 or 1959,I forgot) is the first diesel truck Herbert Jamerson bought for Jamerson Brothers Trucking in Appomattox,Va. G.H. Jamerson, one of Herbert's sons, said he put many miles on it himself and said he used to leave at lunchtime on Sunday to deliver lumber in Charleston,W.V. on Monday. Now it takes about 4 1/2 hrs. to get to Charleston. They had a tag axle installed at one time and later removed it. G.H. said he hopes to restore it for himself some day. He also said if he pulled it ten feet right now it would start.

They were right on 158 a little ways below the Sheetz store I believe. They'd be on your left headed towards Winston-Salem,by the edge of some woods. Easier to see going towards Reidsville,but they're not far past the stoplight at Sheetz best I can recall. There's an old International 2 ton there too backed up into the woods-or it was.I hope they weren't loaded up to be junked as they looked to be in good shape,best I could tell just passing by.

I'm a couple hours up 501...maybe less. Know it would be if it weren't for 10,000 stoplights.

sunnuva!..as soon as I read the title I knew I was gonna say that, but you beat me to it!

Yeah, I like the old pictures too. Lots here- http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/gruin.htm You could browse Hank's all day and not look at all his pictures!

thank you for thanking QC- Hank's has more pictures than you can shake a stick at!

I took a load of pipes down to Pineville, N.C. last night and picked up a load of rebars just north of Charlotte this morning. I saw a red Superliner pulling a feed trailer on I-40 and when I got on rt. 158 I saw a B-model and a red R-model sitting on a flatbed trailer somewhere around Walkertown. Didn't get any pictures of them, they caught me by surprise. However, I did check the google earth street view about where I saw the B and R model and found this B-model. Not sure if this is the one I saw on the trailer or not, but it probably is. Looked like a big junk yard back off the road behind where it's sitting in the google earth view.

that's a good one!

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The 300 (285hp) engine does have plenty of power as is. I pulled loads of kyanite and steel weighing over 50,000 lbs. regularly with one,through the mountains of Va, W.V, and western Pa. Turning the pump up is easy and a little more fuel makes a lot of difference and won't hurt anything. I knew some guys that got a little carried away turning them up though, thinking if a little is good a lot must be better...not always true!

great pictures- but I don't know if i'd go that far.

Good story and pictures. Not that tipping over is good. Reminds me of the early chip hauling days- paid $30 a load from Dillwyn to Covington,Va. Sometimes you'd have 20 tons,sometimes 25. Sometimes you'd wait in the mill for hours to get dumped but it all paid the same $30 a load. 9 or 10 loads in a week was a very good week.