BillyT

Talked to my friend Bob last night Freightrain, he asked if I "talked" to you lately? Said I haven't been on the site recently due to holiday stuff! Where's OD? Haven't seen any "pictures of the week" lately! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all the guys and gals! Oh by the way on the subject of "questionable driving" When I drove for Nu Car Carriers they had a picture in their Ayer Mass. terminal of a car hauler where the driver drove a car off the end of the headramp! Ever see that Carlotpilot? Had another picture of a "parking lot " that got hung up on a rail crossing and got hit by a train! There were cars along the tracks for 1/8 of a mile!

Where is the picture I'd like to see it?!

41, my.grandfather born in 1889 used to say the Japanese were great "copiers" now it's the Chinese! I remember when the Japanese Datsuns had great powertrains but scrap bodies,now the whole thing is bulletproof! Cadillac huh? Predictable! And the average American could care less!

70 Mack, does limited endorsement, mean nothing bigger than a pickup? I just thought of an anecdote from when I had a 249 card! Used to work the xtra list and was mostly OK Grocery (Giant Eagle.Markets) in Crafton Pa , You couldn't buy that job (although I heard some did!) One of the annointed few pulled out of the dock and rolled the truck over before he even got out of the gate!Lol There is nothing difficult about that curve, if you don't do it at 50 mph! I'm driving in to pick up a truck and I saw the rig lying on its side! The "driver" is running toward the office! His punishment?... they gave him another load to pull! When I was working another job that used Ryder equipment I became friends with their safety man. Ok Grocery would sometimes lease Ryder tractors and one of their drivers picked up a brand new GMC General! He actually told the safety man "we'll have that torn up in a couple days!" Giant Eagle normally used 45ft trailers and R or U model daycabs. There was one older market that was so tight that you were given an Astro day cab and a 40 footer! There was a bar across from the dock and you often had to get their customers to move their cars. Then you had to go the wrong way down a one way street and blindside into the uphill dock! To get in you had to literally rub a telephone pole ( the company permitted this!) We carried an electric Jack and were required to get the pallets to the end of the dock) was lots of fun on the uphill dock! I always would take the pallets into the store which wasn't permitted! Too much work I guess with an electric Jack! Lol that "pull" was like a career! Was the perfect job for our piggly.wiggly friend!

Anything that requires mechanical skill is cool,but I am more into street rods with a theme, like no components later than a certain year! Saw one recently I'm sure you all did where the dude bolted two 8v71 Detroit's together, had all big truck drive line, wheels,axles,was a roadster very long and low think it was Jay Lenos, but don't know if his garage built it! Definitely not digging' the trend toward engine covers,automatics, and injectors except Hilborns, Rochesters, and some of the Inglese products! But as Brian Brennan correctly observed, it's all personal opinion,! I'd rather see someone in a 100000.00 street rod even if didn't build it than a showroom exotic!

And My laptop doesn't work in my PU or my wife's car!

Fxfymn for what it's worth my pet peeve bar none is the use of the cell phone while driving I'd like to see the second offense be suspending the drivers license for life! But I thought perhaps an exception should be made for first responders and police not to call home or b.s. with the old lady but for real emergencies like if the road is blocked around the bend of the fire truck or police car an he can't get thru on the official radio, but it wouldn't hurt my feelings if they made it illegal and it went back to the pre cell phone days! When cell phones first came out I was in my four wheeler going home from the terminal and some stroke in an 18 wheeler talking on the phone almost ran over me leaving the T A truck stop at exit 1 on I 75 in Georgia!

Truck shop, awesome work! They used to haul steel coils on those truck and trailer combos in pa before doubles were legal in pa!

Wow guys, don't know where to start! Reminds me of all the idiocy I've seen over the years! Guy pulls out without releasing docklok tears off ICC bumper!Who the F... road tested this stroke? Saw a guy backing in at the old Genco whse in west Mifflin Pa, there is a car next to the dock he cuts the wheel hard right and drives right over the cars hood! I couldn't believe my eyes! Maddog, I saw a complete set of trailer tandems in the right lane of I 85 once, 100 ft of tire tracks behind it and a dry van flat on the pavement in front and the tractors gone etc! The musta' towed it away! Cops and fusees everywhere! Saw a tandem dump body upside down facing backwards under a bridge on I 376 in pittsburgh! No truck! When I was in the towing business during the "tow truck wars" in 1971 in Pittsburgh, We got a call in an out of the way location and Thought it might be a setup, Competing towing companies were shooting out tires etc,long story! Anyway We took my truck and my buddies truck and came to a car over the hill in a rural park! My buddy parked out of sight a half mile away. I winched the car out and broke the first rule of towing! I unhooked before I got paid! The customer takes off! I get on the radio " Bobby block the road!" So he parked a c 50 Chevy with a Holmes 600 across the two lane road!lol I got paid! I was in the old Flying J south of Chicago and was walking to the restaurant and this guy in a Cabover was pulling as opposed to backing in to a parking space,there was a Cabover parked facing out with the driver at the wheel! The guy pulling in forgot about his reefer unit, and The driver that was parked saw It coming and started to "backpedal" into the sleeper! The reefer took out the drivers windshield and part of his door! He escaped out the passenger door! The trailer wouldn't have cleared the truck on his right either but he never got that far!

While the ten commandments are associated with Christianity, it seems that all legitimate religions accept these principles! However I believe Roy Moore was just "showboating" with his support of the tablet! The voters seem to agree!

I like the styling on that, one of the few applications where I advocate an automatic as the operator has too much on his mind to worry about shifting! Also one of the few applications where I would tolerate use of the cell phone while driving! Police use is another!

Timmy B I would recommend that if you are thirsty you regroove the tire before quenching your thirst! And use a very small chain saw! Have you watched "outback truckers?" it seemed pretty realistic to me but I've never trucked in oz! I quit watching "ice road truck truckers" when the guy used his "Jake" on ice! The list time I drove a truck with a Jake I used it while empty on a wet entrance ramp an almost lost it!

Does Ford Truck still have a truck plant in Oakville Ontario? Would be a lot closer than China! Surely Ford has engineers who could design an electric class 8 truck! I forgot, Canadians( to their credit) don't work for nothing! They rejected deregulation!

Hat it's supposed to drop to the thirties tonight, and we will be curled up like Eskimos! And I was welding on coal barges in the steel valley when it was -25! Had some snow flurries in North Florida last night!

Sounds good! I've been here 25 yrs, been fishing twice!

Seen any Buick Envisions on the road lately?!

I have little knowledge of Chinese trucks, but I like the looks of that Cabover😁 little wonder they are the "workshop of the world" With virtually no environmental regulations and an exploited workforce who live on subsistence wages they will continue to be! We can't compete with their production costs, and as long as corporate greed controls the marketplace and probably always will, why would we try!

KSB, my reference is an opinion (concerning the looks) which I am permitted to have,as are you! As far as driving I haven't driven one, but have spoken to many who have and they absolutely hated it primarily due to The configuration of the shift lever being short and not positive! The automatic staircase,while innovative was obviously the work of an engineer who had never driven in the real world of tight spaces and parking.After many had been ripped off (at a cost of thousands) they went away and were never seen again! I'm sure the chassis performed as well as as the same chassis and components would with another cab on it! It was one of the first domestic Cabovers with the ultra modern "look" as Cabovers were going away in America, due to the inability of the truckload carriers to find "drivers"of the"I ain't drivin' no cabover" set. While I still prefer "old style" cabovers,there are a plethora of ultra modern cabovers mostly European, that I think are stunning in appearance and I would be proud to own!

Having grown up in an auto salvage yard (literally) I love this post! I consider the Freightliner Argosy the truck equivalent of the Pontiac Aztec! So the quicker you strip it down and put the parts on a real truck the better!😁

FxFymn, I agree change is gonna happen! But I don't have to like it! I do think every vehicle especially big trucks should have a rear camera! They aren't all that expensive considering the "cost" of a pedestrians life, or on a car the cost of a toddlers life! Anybody ever go on the website quorum? Hope I spelled that right! A lot of people asking about trucking and automotive topics most of the questions are fairly intelligent, but some are so outrageous you gotta wonder who is around you on the road! How do you make a truck fly ?someone asked! I answered drive it thru the guardrail on Salt River Canyon Az! Lol

KSB,something occurred to me,that monster who raped and killed the infant was a military medic and he lived in Clarksville Tn, that means he is probably 101st Airborne stationed at Ft Campbell ky!,a couple miles away! So he will be court martialed and probably get the death penalty! The military doesn't screw around like civilian courts! Plus if he is 101st Airborne which is a proud unit and he has just disgraced his comrades they will go extra hard on him! Plus if for some reason he doesn't get death,insanity maybe? Won't he serve his sentence in Ft Leavenworth Kansas? I think so! If it was me I'd rather be dead!

41, I remember that Ebonics bull...t from a couple years ago! Legitimate black educators went crazy! Those kids didn't even rise to that level! Read in today's Tampa paper one young teenage girl who led the cops on a high speed five county chase in a stolen car was embarrassed (not for being caught in a stolen car, because she didn't like the way her hair looked in her mug shot!)

Are they gonna start making B model replicas in China? Lol! Phase 1,there are American "truckers" who can't drive a standard shift! Car or truck! My cousin used to haul coal in the late 70s when there were a few owner operators running B and R models with compounds and one of them told him that when the dad's were teaching their sons to split they sat in the passenger seat with their "tire thumper" and every time the kid started to use the clutch the old man would rap him on the knee! Quick way to learn! KSB is there a video of this? Are they actually driving it? Would be hilarious! ! "Like a fire in a Chinese laundry"

KSB, as you know, I'm not normally at a loss for words, but this beggars contemplation! The solutions vary, but here are a few... put him in with the"general population", they love pedophiles! When his agonized screams die out in the morning if he is not dead 1 turn him over and light a Rosebud torch to a carbonizing flame and let him feel a portion of what beautiful infant felt! If the parents that raised this pos are alive make them pay all the expenses! Or if we can force our selves to be civilized, as you suggest let him be executed within 24 hrs! In the state of Florida when a criminal(excuse me, suspect) is given the death penalty the effing appeals last an average of 15 yrs! All at taxpayer expense! When they admit to the crime without coercion, enact the penalty!