other dog

I started reading this and thought "gee,this sounds familiar"...didn't realize the original post was that old. But I would imagine that if you're not used to older equipment it's hard to imagine nowadays. The newer engines are so different. Lugging the engine was just something you never did, you had to keep 'em "wound up"-now they're all about like a maxidyne, you can pull down to 11-1200 rpms and it won't hurt them. That's what they say anyway, I still downshift at about 14-1500. And it used to be if you let the temp. get much over 200 too much, you'd cooked an engine. Now the fan doesn't even come on until it gets to 205 degrees.

I think it's peeing

better check the fuel first.

I think it enhances the look of the vehicle-just look how nice they look on double l's freightshaker!

Wow, nice Marmon! pretty rare aminals.

I couldn't drive without spot mirrors.

wonder if a bulldog pin like you put on a hat looks the same? I have one of those,but I think the hat pin dog is turned at a different angle.It's about that size though.

Gladys is on rt. 501 between Winfall and Naruna. Or between the larger towns of Rustburg and Brookneal. Or the even bigger metropolis' of Lynchburg and South Boston. I'm about 25 miles south of Lynchburg. I actually live about halfway between Gladys and Altavista, out in the sticks. I was born and raised in Cumberland, Va. and moved to Appomattox in 1979 and lived there until my wife passed away in 2005,and been over here since then. I went out to 501 and took a right to Brookneal, then took rt. 40 all the way to Keysville. I set the milage counter to check it, but forgot to look at it when I got back-I was thinking of getting the 2 t-bones we stopped and got at the Brookneal Food Lion on the way back on the grill.

don't know. I talked to Bulldogman on the phone last Sunday and he said they had gotten about 8 or 10 inches of rain in Millington and they were calling for more, but he was high and dry.

indeed,that's a good one!..her momma should have swallowed her!

quote name='HK Trucking' date='08 May 2010 - 05:24 PM' timestamp='1273353868' post='54714'] ame='other dog' date='08 May 2010 - 03:43 PM' timestamp='1273351439' post='54709'] That would be much better if it were a video with that compactor actually "jumping", if you catch my drift! . like this?..we probably can't handle more than an ice cream,the compactor might be too much. I got it all!

Once again,I ran like a dog this week-Negley,Ohio and back,Washington,Oh. and back with a 46,000 lb. single coil,then to Fremont,Oh. and back. When I left Fremont yesterday morning and went to Gerdau-Ameristeel in North Jackson,Oh. to reload is kinda when it went bad. I told myself I was gonna go with their stupid ass program and not get angry,like I did the last time I loaded there.I used the idiotic platforms to chain and tarp,like you're supposed to. Wore my hardhat,reflective vest,stood in the safety zone while the moron loaded the trailer.I pulled the back of my tarp towards the rear of the trailer,with about a foot and a half hanging over the end of the 40' steel.Had it tarped well,with a 24' and 26' tarp on it,lots of overlap.Then when I went in to get my bills and leave the stupid bitch in the office said "you've got to cover the end of the load,you cant have steel showing". So I went back and pulled the tarp down tight against the end,but it lacked about 6'' of reaching the floor of the trailer.I go back in the office and the hateful bitch,who has never tarped or hauled a load of steel in her life, gets on her walkie-talkie and says "how does that tarp job look now?". The reply-"I can still see the bottom of the steel". The ignorant c*#@+ says "you've got to have the load completely covered so there's no steel showing before I can give you your bills". Tried to explain to her I covered it like that on purpose,so the sharp ends of the angle and channel I had on wouldn't cut my tarps to shreds,and that with the overhang on the tarp it couldn't get wet. I told her that they should have said that at first,then it would have been no problem-now I would have to completley undo and redo the whole thing.She rolled her eyes...that's when I wished I could reach through the glass and wring her f@#+ing neck. So I go back out,get an old piece of tarp off the catwalk,throw it on the back of the load,tuck the excess underneath,put four rubber straps on it so the wind doesn't blow it off,and go back in the office. She once again grabs her walkie-talkie-"hows the tarp job look now?"... "he's good". Then she throws the paperwork at me and hissed "sign here!". So I signed there,said nothing,got in the truck,pulled around behind the building,took the piece of tarp off the back,fixed it exactly like it was at first,and left. I'll know what to do next time. If there is a next time. These pictures show how I had it tarped,but it didn't suit them.

...for different reasons than the last time!

they should fire the principal.

I think it was a wrecker. I was looking for another older picture I took of it but I must have deleted it. I've tried a couple of times before to get a drive by picture of it but none came out very good or there was something in the way.

I did...sorry 'bout that. ...and drive like a total douche bag!

Muladzh. I can tell from this one post that you are a good fit here.

might have to go to the "scrap it down in the passenger seat" J.B.Hunt/Swift/Celadon/U.S.Express type fridge. Then get some stupid looking gloves with the fingers cut out and a spinner knob for your sterning wheel and ride on!

Well, I took a ride over to Keysville today to look at that yellow G-model and get some pictures. It's only about an hour from here. I mean, it would have been if it had been there, but it was nowhere to be seen. Gone.

rusty Mack on rt. 301 in S.C.

Yeah, they're all pretty much the same. Salesmen and bigshots from Truck Enterprises in Roanoke (Kenworth dealer) would come to Appomattox and do everything but kiss H.H.'s ass (maybe they did that too,I don't know) to try to sell trucks but if you ever had to take it back for anything they didn't have time to fool with you. That's exactly why I told him i'd rather drive an IH,and I got one too-just because the shop foreman and service manager at Truck Enterprises were so hateful. Virginia Truck Center in Roanoke, the Mack and Freightliner dealer, on the other hand were always very nice and so are the folks at Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg.

I just had to tarp some kind of radar equipment going to some airport somewhere in central Illinois so it didn't matter if it got wet. I'm kinda just testing the gorilla tape. I used to use my "Clifford the Big Red Dog" bandaids on my tarps but they're expensive too and they blow off pretty quick.