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    Ksb of all the carriers mentioned, Knight drivers seemed most satisfied with their job in the middle 2000s I'm sorry to hear their profits are down.Not surprising however,as exploiters tend to be profitable!
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    MRS M P, if you act like a Polly over here you might be elected president!😁 So China is a market for Aussie beef! That would make sense,they don't have enough energy to do all the world's jobs on rice alone! For awhile there they took all the scrap metal we could supply!
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    A two dollar flashlight will enable a driver to confirm that the fifth wheel crossbar is in place!
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    It would be nice if Ford would build a reliable medium duty Cabover and sell it to China! I'm dreaming of course!
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    Wow! What a beautiful bulldog! I like the rural scene on the side are those decals or hand painted? Is there much diesel fuel theft down under? When the price of diesel fuel almost doubled in America guys used to park in a truck stop next to a sleeping driver and used an electric pump to pump his fuel into their tanks!locking fuel caps became popular! Also company drivers were selling their employers fuel to owner operators!
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    I always carried a couple of quarts of cheap atf to prime the filters,but this was for routine fuel filter changes on a running engine.
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    Also the make and tread design of the tires,Dave can make a difference.If you have a friend who will let you borrow a pair of tires that could let you make a comparison! But 20 lbs! Yep,that would do it! Works both ways.I once had to bobtail from Pittsburgh to Buffalo in a springride R model,dropped the drive tires to 50 lbs,made a big difference!
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    Nice model,Did you "scratch build" the tool box, or is it included in the kit? I once built a model of a Peterbilt conventional,w 900 I think.I put the cab on top of the fenders and glued the Pete grille she'll onto the firewall. Looked like a H model mack with a 300" wheelbase!
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    IHurst scrambler, that truck pictured,was very similar to the one my boss had,but his truck had very few deluxe accessories(horns mirrors bumper chrome luberfiner etc) was brutal "all business" was that color though! The 534 powered f750 car hauler I drove had the first "steering assist" When it sensed a gas station it " steered" right into it!😁 just realized that Smith H model is pulling a horse van, Reminded me of the horse trailer my buddy used to pull,was a 60s era Diamond T Cabover with a Cummins and a 12 speed spicer,the rectangular Cabover like UPS had. Very rare combo I think! Chester Sayre was the company out of western PA.Hauled thoroughbred horses.
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    Damn Other dog, you've picked up and delivered at almost all the same places I have in the 70s Armco, walker,Did you ever pick up firebrick at S.Webster and Pedro in Southern Ohio? I drove for JV Mcnicholas out of Youngstown oh. We've probably loaded next to each other!

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      How about Empire Detroit in Portsmouth Ohio? Cleanest steel mill I've ever seen! The dock floors were painted I'd almost swear they mopped them! So many proud American workplaces and workers,all gone!

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    T,Grrrl, no completely honest person would ever be in a position to run for any major political office period! It's been the lesser of two evils as long as I can remember! Interesting that "working" people for many years were traditionally democrats, at some point that changed,never saw it coming! On the more pleasant(mostly) subject of false hooks I suspect most of us have had them,not everyone will admit it! I had a driver come up to me once and ask directions as I was under a trailer,but before I heard the "snap" and rocked the trailer! I finished the hookup and pulled right out from under the trailer! Fortunately it was empty so I could easily crank down the dollies an d get back under! After that I developed the habit of crawling  under and making sure the bar was across behind the kingpin! Both candidates are equally dishonest, and self serving but trump is impulsive like a three year old, and could press that " red button" without thinking thru the consequences! Clinton is cunning and would realize that her and her family could die along the rest of us in a nuclear explosion,and is self serving enough to only press the button as a last resort!  on the subject of the pipeline, we were screwing the native people long before slavery,and they have a long memory! I had a load of sheepskins that took me across Pine Ridge reservation and it is one of the most desolate places I've ever seen!

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    Small world carlotpilot! I had some relatives in West Covina back in the50s thanx all you guys for the info! A 501 6banger must have had enough torque to pull stumps! When I first started hauling cars and they were gradually switching to diesel,we had a couple f750 Ford gas jobs,one was a 477, the other a 534 they were senior driver trucks, as they would out perform the 238 Detroit's we were switching to! I drove them both,ran like raped apes,but averaged 4 mpg! Speaking of big gas jobs there was a steel hauler running out of Braddock pa with one of those long nose "Jimmys" with a v12 gas burner and a compound (probably 5and4) in the early 70s!
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    Have a question for you "cornbinder" experts...A contractor I worked for had an international tandem dump late 50s, long hood like a Hendrickson, checker plate fenders big gas v8 5 and 4 tranny I'm thinking it was a 549 cu in is that the biggest gas engine International made,? Just curious,didn't think they'd let Ford outdo them with the 534!!
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    There are as many ways to paint a truck as there are truck owners,but I'm particularly fond of the old " east coast" style of panel striping especially on older trucks! Would have to see it on a late model aerodyne tractor,but I don't think it would look as good! The Sheehan truck looks good!
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    66DC.thanks for the info! Now I recognize the cab! The visor and front sheet metal tend to hide the cab! The red flatbed has the same front sheet metal as my dad's 52 L160 "binder" crane truck but the cab,under closer inspection appears to be a Dodge of the same era! As I recall the hood would tilt from either side (like the old Buicks) or remove if you unlatched both sides. At first I thought the beautiful green truck was an international,but it's a Dodge! Confusing,but cool,this site is a veritable storehouse of info! The red and white boom truck was a very popular design in America in the late 50s and 60s. Is the steering wheel on "Rustys" International a factory item? Has swirls in the plastic like the old gearshift knobs on cars and trucks (Hudson in particular used this a lot) Also the old children's glass marbles!😁 Rusty didn't plan on EVER running out of gas did he? Of course I expect they don't have Pilots or TAs on every corner in nsw!
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    Well sorted "binder",is it built in Australia,doesn't resemble any medium duty internationals I've seen in America?
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    A perfectly accessorized cherrypicker!
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    I was listening to the tail end of a pbs program on unemployed men,and one of the "experts" commented that trucking might not be a good career choice owing to the spectre of "self driving trucks" proving that his field of expertise had little to do with the trucking industry! In my opinion the negative aspects of a trucking "career" have more to do with the almost universal level of workforce exploitation by the major carriers! The mostly young trucking aspirants and their wives only see the "potential earnings" and refuse to accept the fact that the pay is by mileage not hourly,and often "book miles" not actual miles.The pay,which is often less than promised doesn't look so good when mom is raising the kids alone and the toilet overflows and a ten minute repair by dad becomes a 150$ repair bill by a plumber😁 On a more pleasant note the inspiring story about the young deaf mechanic reminded me that there is an almost universal need globally for skilled tradesman in all fields,including plumbers lol but high schoolers are pushed into college even when they have no interest or aptitude for academics! There appears to be a stigma involved in "working with your hands" or is it just working period? Several people called into that radio show with proven work experience who said they weren't considered for jobs (or promotions) without a degree! I'm 110 percent in favor of formal education and know several skilled tradesman whose jobs were eliminated or outsourced that worked for and earned degrees! A good friend of mine,a welder became a degreed ER nurse.
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    Makes a cool one of a kind camper,I remember those cabs, don't think many were built.So that's an actual factory camper? Amazing I figured someone put the camper body on a truck chassis they restored! Thanks 41, for the response! I can actually visualize a camper with those outriggers like on a pickup camper, fitted with a kingpin toward the back that you could back a road tractor under with two tie downs to the tractor frame in the front!
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    Makes a cool one of a kind camper,I remember those cabs, don't think many were built.
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    GH 204,All these "world leaders" are exponentially smarter than this welder/trucker/gearhead too! I can't speak intelligently on the world situation, it makes my head explode! But from my many deliveries around metro Detroit in the 90s and early 2000s I feel a fabricator making/ installing, burglar bars could have made a killing there ( if he lived) of course!😁...or a truck tire repairman!
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    MRS,Mack, Paul,This is the 1st post I saw and I am inspired almost beyond words! This young man could have used his deafness as an excuse to not achieve to his fullest ability,But it seems he almost ignores it! Also it has been said that when one of a person's senses is less than what it would normally be they compensate by sharpening another(his ability to tune a bike by vibration and feel an approaching truck!) I suspect that in Chris's case personal imitative had a hand! Kudos to everyone involved! An interesting paradox is involved as well! Modern technology helped Chris communicate(The I phone app) but long before any technology existed native people could track an animal where the average person today would see no trail at all because our senses have been dulled(We don't need to track an animal to eat today!) We just get in our car and go to the market!😁
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    What a concept teamster Grrrl,! Get ALL the low skill drug besotted workers off the streets,give them all shovels! (Low maintenance aggregate removal devices) Build a shovel factory and train the more motivated among them to create this complicated tool American jobs!! Using American wood and steel! Ship those complicated noisy polluting tandem dumps to China where they are building new factories and could utilize them! Give our unemployed veterans jobs guarding the aforementioned shovelers issue them 12Gauge.tactical shotguns for this task(American made if possible) pay them union scale with benefits! I really should have been a politician!😁
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    By the same token the average econobox or lower end soccer mom car is quickly totalled as the cost of parts and labor eclipses the value of the car!
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    Saw on the news last night the family of the wrecker driver killed by a drunk driver in Tampa bay got permission to erect a memorial at the wreck site.They had his actual hat and safety vest on a cross and someone stole them! Define poverty of thought!

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