tjc transport

looks good!!

my new T880 can in yesterday.

because the sand will get in places it will be almost impossible to get out of, just like blasting a car. and than 6 months later you will be cooking something and still have sand grains showing up in the food. walnut shells, baking soda, or even dry ice as 70mackmb said will not have any effect of food days, or even months later.

outside you can use almost anything. it is inside that counts.

baking soda is use by itself. "soda blasting" uses baking soda. very fine and does not cause warping due to heat. plus it will wash off and not leave residue like sand will.

no, i meant blast then with baking soda or walnut shells.

Joey, use something non aggressive like baking soda, or walnut shells.

here in Jersey they send a letter the state is not in receipt of a current med certificate about two weeks after it expires. you then have 6 months to produce a new card to the state, if you do not produce a new one after 6 months, they demote you to a class "D" which is passenger vehicle only.

under 26,000 registered gross weight can be driver without a Commercial Drivers License

i never go more than 100 miles from home base so do not need to run a log. the new truck came with an elog built into it. i told them to disable it as i do not need it. dealer refused. so i deleted it from the computer when i got it home.

i am not quite as old as a few of you, but close at 67. i was fine until i had my left knee replaced 8 years ago. it was after that i realized i can not get up from the ground without some type of assistance...like a truck bumper to pull myself up with. than after having the right shoulder rebuilt 6 years ago after snapping the tendon that runs across the top of it i am extremely limited as to what i can do. my hips and right knee are shot too, but i am afraid to get them replaced as each surgery causes more limitations on movement. so limited in fact i now need handicap plates on the car as i can only walk around 150 feet or stand around 15-25 minutes before having to sit down for 10-15 minutes or so. plus the arthritis in all joints makes pulling wrenches hard any more. i have the willingness to get out there and do things, but once i try my body says no you dont!!!

same here Larry. by the time i get the old body ready to go out and do anything, i have to sit down. than once down find it very hard to get back up.

the new driver got spot checked at the southern inspection station this morning. the only thing the found was a slight flat spot on 2 of the 4 trailer lift axle tires, and his medical card expired last week. when he pulled onto the job with the written report and no tickets, i called and ordered 4 tires to be delivered to the job and installed.

here in jersey the scale on 287 north in piscataway is usually open during the day. A LOT of trucks go around it. especially the ones that should not be on the road. so the troopers took over a closed down business along the road the trucks were using to avoid the scale when the sign said scale open. and besides getting a full white glove inspection, they also got tickets for avoiding the scale. i got off the exit before the scale once around 10-11 years ago with sign lit up and turned left instead right like most did. a trooper saw me and flipped around and came after me. just as he caught up to me i pulled into a company. he followed me and demanded i go to the scale and said i was getting a ticket for bypassing the scale. i told him to go inside the company and tell the owner i would not be getting loaded as he was forcing me to leave and go to the scale. that did not make him happy, but he realized i had him. 15 minutes later i was pulling over the scale loaded. he say me and came out apologizing, and also to tell me i was 0nly 71,000 lbs when i was registered for80. i than explained to him i was paid by the hour and not by the ton or load, and i kept my truck clean and maintained and NEVER went around scales or inspection stations. i have full maintenance records in the trucks, and also the inspection records from the few times i was inspected by troopers where nothing was found wrong. most of the troopers know our trucks and company, and just wave up past now.

yup, nu yawk bridge nazis make their own rules too. just because truck manufacturer says it is good for 81,000 dont mean squat. the bridge nazis say you are only allowed 53,000 because if the pusher axle in not at least 10 foot from steering axle it is not considered as a legal axle.

a very good friend was complaining of constant "heartburn" for three weeks. i kept telling him to go to a doctor NOW! he finally made an appointment two weeks later. and had a massive heart attack walking into the doctors office. they said he was dead before he hit the ground. if he had listened to me 5 weeks earlier he would still be here.

same here. been about 13 years since i was out in the woods, after my knee went fubar. and we have not opened the butcher shop on the farm since my friends dad passed away 9 years ago. we used to do 5-6 pigs and a cow every year plus the 10 or so deer. now Billly only does 1 or 2 deer a year, so he does them in the barn instead of the butcher shop

But it will take you all day to get enough meat to make a sammich!

Paul, that is a ground hop. Moles are more like mice.

Back when I pulled wrenches a woman brought her full size jeep grand Cherokee in because the brakes "did not feel rite". It had no rotors left wore the face of so there was just the nubs sttuck to the hub showing pads were missing, and caliper pistons were missing. She was driving on the rear brake only, which were also metal on metal with the shoes almost wore completely through. All 4 ball joints, 6 universals, and steering linkage was wasted too. While going through the truck, I went to do an oil change. Nothing came out of the pan. She drove 60,000 miles and only put gas in it. While tearing the engine down because the lifters were dished, the cam came out in two pieces. At that we just put a new crate 360 in the 3 year old jeep. Cost to fix it was almost as much as it cost new. She bought a new one and had us fix the old one up for her son who just got his license. And he is still driving it to this day.

make friends with a grain farmer, than offer to keep the deer destruction of crops down. the farmer will thank you, and you will get a freezer full of venison, which is much better than beef.

i ran one of them as a loaner when my freightliner was in the shop back in 79-80. had a 8V71 with 13 speed. shifter was broken about two inches off the floor. so they used a piece of black iron gas pipe to bring the shift head high enough to use. great truck, but it was a bear to run into the city without power steering

that be the one Paul!!!!

maybe cause you are getting old and senile???