tjc transport
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7 Killed in New Mexico Greyhound Bus/Tractor Trailer Collision
tjc transport replied to kscarbel2's topic in Odds and Ends
i too have had a few front tires blow out over the years with no real damage. the worst was around 10 years ago on the NJ turnpike. passenger front blew out after hitting a piece of I beam that fell off the truck in front of me. i had nowhere to go .there was a trooper on the shoulder, and a bus in the center lane. when the tire went, i just got out of the throttle and rode it out to the shoulder about 1/4 mile total. -
Home security cameras anyone have any recommendations?
tjc transport replied to Ezrider's topic in Odds and Ends
another con to wireless is all the crooks need is a frequency scanner to figure out what the wireless frequency is, transmit a fake signal, and the cameras are now dead. only way to kill a wired camera is to cut the wire or kill power to the property. and to do that they will most likely have to be seen on a camera. -
my bet is new trucks and the drivers wanted to keep the paint from getting tore up by debris falling on the hood as they drove under the hopper
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Home security cameras anyone have any recommendations?
tjc transport replied to Ezrider's topic in Odds and Ends
i have an 8 channel speco DVR with a 1 tetra byte hard drive with 4 speco cameras with 100ft night vision hooked to it. i can record continuous recallable video for 34 days total system cost me just about $1,100 for everything. .. i installed it myself. -
i had an old diamond reo loaner truck back in the 80's that had a broken shifter. they took a piece of black iron gas pipe and stuck it on the trans end, then jammed the shifter head into the pipe and called it good.
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pull the threads out of the selector, and weld a bolt to the shifter to accept the selector.
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look at it on the bright side. we no longer have to worry about these two mental midgets breeding!!
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the only reason i have a cell phone is because the company pays for it. and it is only on during work hours. once i clock out, it gets turned off. and the only ones that have the number are the boss and other people at work. at the other job we had two way radios in the trucks, here they use cell phones. i got along just fine for the first 55 years of my life without a phone glued to my ear, and would still be living under a rock if the boss did not give me this one.
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correct you are GreenGiant!! the id plate looks like A758 but it really is N758L
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i would love to post pics, but the kids "borrowed" my digital camera and never returned it. here is a 1977 Brockway A-758 firetruck, and a 1988 RD-690s tandem dump for auction in Montgomery NY though. Brockway: https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/14895/item/1977-brock-a758-pumper-truck-91442 Mack: https://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/14895/item/1988-mack-rd690s-tandem-dump-91443
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yup, 57 was the first year for rochester fuel injection on the corvette. very hard to set up, but once set properly it ran like nothing else. a friend had a 62 vette with 327 Fuel injection. never ran rite, but he tinkered with it for years. one day around 74-75, he ran into a retired GM mechanic who suggested he set it to 57 specs instead of 62 specs. that was the the trick to making it from a ho hum runner to a race car. !!
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every time i go to one of the local asphalt plants i drool over their water wagon. it is a 351 Brockway tandem. needs some sheet metal work as the back of the cab and bottom of the fenders are rotted, but otherwise it is one pretty old girl. even with the battleship gray house roller paint job.
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DRL's are a regional thing. Canada requires them. US does not for now. .but some states do require them.
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i probably would have agreed with you if we did not have a new T-880 in the yard. the 880 is the heavy construction big brother to the over the road tractor 680
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looks more like a Kenworth T-680
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Introducing Ford Trucks' new heavy tractor
tjc transport replied to kscarbel2's topic in Trucking News
it matches all the rest of the uggly european trucks. -
fairly easy. i got all the makes correct, and 17 of the 21 years correct.
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sure are!! even the Pierce Arrow cars are getting to be rarer than hens teeth these days.
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i agree Rowdy. my 2014 pickup has them, but they are disabled. everything else i own is old enough to not have those silly things because they are actually made of steel, not plastic like newer cars.
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try using the trolley if it has one to turn the cruise off. my old 99 R model had a bad foot switch. it would not turn the brake lights on or the cruise off until you really stepped on the pedal.
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ahhhh the toid one is a chebby chebell
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brake lights turn the cruise off.
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it would be a lot nicer of them to actually get the parts to replace the defective air bags. my 87 year old parents are in a car with no airbags because there are no replacement parts available to fix their car.
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04 Granite CV713 with a e7-427?
tjc transport replied to Shmimc1973's topic in Engine and Transmission
my 05 CV713 had the 427 with an eaton 8LL trans it was a rocket!. would out pull, and out run the 05 T800 kenworth with the 470 C13 and 8LL trans i would still have it, but someone offered 25 grand more than what we paid for it and the boss sold it. -
nothing is as uggly as a volvo!!!
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