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Hi Double L,ain't heard from you for a long time. Sorry about the gf not working out,but glad you're doing well in your other endeavors.

You have a pool? It's a wonder Rob hasn't come over and hid the chlorinator and stocked it with catfish.

I thought the Irish Spring smelled so good i've been using it ever since. The only think I don't like is that I miss the old gear oil smell the truck used to have.

I've had ramps before. I asked Joe about them once and I don't think he'd ever heard of them. Every little town in West Virginia has a ramp festival in the spring, they're crazy about them up there. I thought they were OK, just scrambled in eggs with crumbled up fatback, but I wouldn't travel out of my way to get them.

well...wonder what i'll do for entertainment now. might as well go finish mowing the grass I guess.

that was my first question here on BMT. Several people suggested shaving chips off a bar of Irish Spring soap and sprinkling it around inside the cab. Seemed to work for me. Some Bounce dryer sheets would probably work too.

how much weight and wind resistance would the bulldog possibly make? ridiculous! sounds like taking a grain of sand off the beach as far as overall effect.

Now I can mark North Dakota off the list. Oregon is the only state I haven't been to, in the lower 48 that is. Can't go to Hawawii because I might run out of fuel on the bottom of the ocean before I got there. Wasn't much scenery along the way to North Dakota-or at least not the spectacular scenery like there was going to Washington. Never seen so many sunflowers before though.Huge fields of them. I left Saturday and drove to Pittsboro, In, home of NASCAR great Jeff Gordon. That's what the sign said. Sunday morning I left the Loves truckstop and drove on to the Pipeline truckstop at the 100 mile marker in Minnesota. We were scheduled to unload Tuesday morning but we got unloaded Monday evening. I got to Williston about 4 or 4:30 mtn. time. I made such good time I figured i'd be the first truck there but the other 2 were already at the jobsite. The load paid good going out, but we ended up having to deadhead all the way to Chicago and Indiana to load back. I had to pick up 4 coils in Kingsbury, In. and 1 more in Greenfield, just east of Indianapolis. Couldn't find anything in North Dakota. There was lumber coming out of South Dakota, from Rapid City and Spearfish but the broker said it was 48,000 lbs (which really means 52,000) ,which I can't scale, and you needed lumber tarps, which I didn't have, plus it didn't pay anything. So we deadheaded about 1200 miles. I got home Thursday night about 9:30. Could have unloaded in Suffolk yesterday, but I only had an hour and a half left to work so i'll unload Tuesday. Ran 3,840 miles in 6 days. I can't upload pictures on my blog for some reason, so i'm posting no pictures.

be careful out there!

oh, I wouldn't eat those odd looking orange mushrooms in the yard-I just eat the ones growing in the compost pile But a true mushroom story-I used to haul chips and pulpwood from Buckingham,Va. to Westvaco in Covington. Rt. 60 west of Amherst goes across the mountains and a couple of guys that lived up that way,one in Amherst and the other in Lexinton,both said they would go out in the woods after it rained and get mushrooms from under poplar trees.They said that was the only time you could find them,after it rained,and only under poplar trees.Both said they were delicious fried.

If you have a steel cab grounding shouldn't be a problem. I had a fiberglass cab and just ran a fairly heavy gauge wire from the antenna mounting bracket to a good ground under the hood somewhere. It didn't help my situation any.

You know if it was up to me you'd be the only man i'd deal with. I'll pass on any details to Jeff and Todd Moore about your deal. Todd is V.P. of F.L.Moore and Sons, his brother Jeff owns the truck I drive, so his truck doesn't necessarily have to be the same as the rest. I'll see if I can talk Jeff into giving one a try whenever he trades this Pete.

I can feel your pain.I'm a company driver,drove a brand new 9900I International with an ISX 500,and it stayed in the shop. Always EGR problems. Now I got a C-15 Cat Accert and it's just as bad,always something wrong.Drove several N-14s and never had a problem with anything. All the new trucks we're getting have ISX 485s and they out pull the 550 Cat I drive-or at least stay right with it on a hard pull, and they've had no problems that I know of...so far.

No,not to my knowledge anyway.I like mushrooms in pasketti sauce and on pizza.In fact,I saw some in the yard this morning...

I drove a T800 that did the same thing-the more things you turned on,like lights,heater,AC,etc. the worse it got.It was the first truck I drove with electronic/computer control. If the antanae ground doesn't work you can buy a noise reducer thing that goes between the coax and the radio at any CB shop.I don't know what you call it so I call it a "noice reducer thing".

Nice looking unit,I like the B-67s.

thanks-I can hardly wait.

I'd sure like to have an APU. Anti idling laws are becoming more widespread. You sure can't sleep in a truck when it's 90+ degrees without AC, or heat when it's cold.Probably add a good bit of weight though.

I spotted this truck near Peoria, Illinois Sunday. I was driving along minding my own binness when it pulled off the shoulder in front of me. Two guys jumped out and picked up a dead animal carcass, threw it in the back, and sped off. It even had a lift gate to make loading large animals easier. Had a swarm of flies chasing after it. I don't know what they were up to, they must work for the state cleaning up road kill.

I made only one trip again this week,and i'm about one paycheck from the poorhouse. Took a load of 55' piling,almost 49,000 lbs,to Sharon,Pa. Had to back in half a mile to the jobsite, but it was pretty easy except for a couple of dog-legs, tree limbs and bushes obstructing my view past the back of the trailer, and the mud. Took some pictures of course, and got some of a big Mack dump truck at the jobsite. I'm going to post smaller pictures from now on, better if you're on dial-up anyway, and delete old pictures after a few weeks. Had to lay over after I unloaded, and loaded some scrap coils in Ambridge,Pa. and Weirton,W.V. the next day going to Suffolk,Va. Unloaded early Thursday in Suffolk and went to Petersburg and sat all evening waiting for a load that we never got, so I came home. Today I went to Petersburg and picked up piling going to Williston, North Dakota,that delivers Tuesday so i'll be leaving tomorrow so I can stop at the "Road Kill Cafe" in Farmington,Il. Never been there, but i've heard a lot about it-excellent cuisine i've heard. North Dakota and Oregon are the only 2 states in the lower 48 i've never been to. I'll put new batteries in the camera.

I have a drill exactly like that except mine's is a quadruplex instead of a Powerglide. I get my bits at Dollar General.

ok, thanks Barry-i'm gonna clean house!

TESTING

hey,it hasn't broke down for over a week now.