tjc transport

i still say volvo is trying to ruin the mack name. all the construction companies here will not even look at macks anymore with all the problems they have, and lack of parts. kenworth T880 with Cummins engine and allison trans is the hot ticket here these days. they just run with no issues. the paccar engine with eaton automatic on the other hand is a headache when they screw up.

hell, for most politicians an accomplishment is being able to claim "i went 3 months without getting arrested for anything"

one month should be more than enough time to campaign for reelection. either state your accomplishments, or let someone else do a better job than you did.

every single congressman and assemblyman should be fired next voting session and replaced. and term limits of 2 terms should be enacted at the same time, just like is on the president.

they do look purrty behind a B or other old truck. i actually started out with one like that. 16 foot deck single axle behind the 49 L-190 international. then moved "up" to a dual axle 21 foot deck behind a 64(i think) B-815. but that was back in the mid 70's. by 78 we retired the beaver tail and moved up to a detachable goose neck, and i never looked back. i don't even like using a tilt deck tag along trailer.

yup. and i am not a fan of beavertail loaders either. way to easy to slide off loading. i will take a detaching gooseneck over one of them any day.

that was the "MS " series Midliner.

it is had enough trying to find drivers these days that can drive a manual trans. and you want them to run a twin stick??

i put the plows on 6 of the 7 trucks with full fuel tanks, and battery maintainers plugged in start of december. only thing that does not get a plow on it is the daily driver. but that only takes 2 minutes to hook up. so far being ready has worked out this year, everyone else gets snow but we don't. but if nothing is hooked up and ready, we get blasted.

you forgot this: and dim to half power when another car is coming the other way or is in front of them, because the drivers are too freaking stupid to turn the high beams off and not blind everyone else on the road.

i think the paint scheme and door emblem are what is drawing you into thinking you saw it before Vlad. it looks very familiar to me too, but i was not in massachoosits back then there was a company here in New Jersey that had similar color and door emblem. but at the present time i can not remember who it was.

that chain looks stretched to me. probably needs a link or two removed, it looks very close to the ground.

or both ends facing the same direction........

under body hoist was the standard for trucks here before around late 70's. allowed for more capacity in body because of no "doghouse "for the piston to sit in.

would not doubt that in the least.

we have problems with those idiots here in town too. town ordinance is no commercial vehicles registered over 10,000 lbs parked on street between 9 pm and 7 am. so htey started parking in parking lots. owners of the lots. had to post for customer use only, and no overnight parking to get rid of all the trucks. then they started parking in the pubic lot for the waterfront park. so the county had to post no vehicles over 10,000 lb parking. then they started parking on the empty building lots on the highway. so we started dumping dirt along the rite of way to block the lots. and put no trespassing signs up. well, one idiot with a car carrier parked there anyway, and ended up damaging the cars on the trailer after he twisted the trailer backing over the dirt pile. he knocked down what signs he could, and pulled out the rest. he then had the balls to file suite in court for the damage to the cars, claiming we illegally blocked access to the property and also claimed he was grandfathered parking there because he had been doing it before the signs were put up. .. needless to say, he lost. the police now just automatically tow anything with commercial plates that is parked anywhere in town. the idiots are finally starting to get the hint not to park here in town, unless it is on their own property.

i would have left the sleeper off so the bed would be usable. 10.5 plus 3 foot beaver tail is only good for minicars and motorcycles.

^^^ yup^^^ it is everyones fault except for the poor innocent dirtbag that pulled the trigger.

funny thing is, if you show that picture to people they think it is my nephew. we bust his chops that all he has to look forward to when getting older is looking like me.

ain't that the truth!!! i went from this: to this!!:

it is not on the truck, he said he has one on the side he would add for extra money.

put 25 ton in the box and try keeping up with highway speeds in mountains and you will understand why 370HP and an 8ll in not a good combo. you will be doing 20mph on the shoulder while everyone is winging past you at 55-60 mph.

pretty much the same here, almost all fuel oil trucks these days are f-liners or international. a lit of the single axle dump truck contractors are going back to ford 650-750 trucks with the 6.7 and 5 speed auto trans. J.F.Keily just ordered a whole fleet of them, switching back from internationals. they just had too many problems with the cornbinders.

sure does....... a little tidbit of trivia. Bristol Donald no longer makes dump bodies. a friend got the last one two years ago. they now install prefabricated bodies, mostly Bibeau, Beauroc, and Ox.

i don't care about Europe, or their magazines, or what they do or write. i am an American truck driver in America.