Terry T

The Mack is the truck I use to drive. It has a Century 5030 backend that is a 25 ton unit (equal to a Holmes 750) and a 30K under-reach. Hardly overkill when you consider I could do everything that I needed to do with just that one truck. My little International S Series had a DT466 with a 5speed/2speed rearend and a Century 20 ton with a 12K under-reach and I did an empty Mack CL quad-axle dump with it one time and it was all it wanted to do. When you try to do too much without enough truck equipment gets damaged & people get hurt and sometimes die.... Note: One thing I would not do with that Mack was Volvo WG refuse trucks with the front mounted pump. It would require me to tow with my under-reach extened all the way out and that was too much weight on a fully extended stick to tow safely.

Does this make you guys feel a bit better?

As for Solo clutches. Nearly everyone in our area (N.E. Indiana, N.W. Ohio & Southern Michigan) has gone away from the solo and gone to the easy pedal. The solo's are prone to freezing up and not adjusting as they are suppose to leading to early failure. We don't even stock solo's anymore.

They didn't always leave the Bulldog. Actually the early delivery CH's had a handle on the hood instead of the bulldog and I don't believe the F's or the MH's had bulldogs.

I sent a PM to Tony via the Just Old Trucks website.

I'm guessing that you know plenty of people that USE to eat there....

Most of them Trent, most of 'em....

I don't remember for sure but I believe that a CL653 or MH653 is a CAT powered, tandem axle tractor. There are others here with a better memory and knowledge than I.

Thanks again guys!

Thank you!

Here is an authentic General Lee from the TV series. Use to pass it on our way to Bristol each year but several years ago we began taking a different route and don't go past it any more. I believe it isn't far from Kingsport, TN but I am not sure.

Dan is selling his CF ladder. Must have something else waiting in the wings....

actually Alan was killed on April 1, 1993 in a plane crash near Tri-Cities airport near Bristol, TN. Davey was killed on July 13th of '93 when he crashed his helicopter while landing at Talladega. Alan was the reigning Cup champion at the time of his death and I believe that Davey would have been a Cup champion. Sadly Davey's brother, Clifford, was killed on August 13 of '92 in a crash at MIS.

I wouldn't want to be riding shotgun on a wet road in it.....

Our early MH's had round headlights & there was an MH Magnum at South Bend last year with rounds...

VERY....

Here are a couple pic's of my, well now it's Mike H's, 1970 F795LST.

I can go with '75 on the squares. I was only 9/10 in '75 and was kinda thinking that Cadillac may have actually done it sooner but just wasn't sure....

I believe that only single round seal beam headlights were offered from the factory on the R until the hood change in 1990 for use in the U.S. The rectangular seal beam became available in 1976 I believe. 1st manufacturer I can recall was GM on 1976 Regal/Cutlass/Monte Carlo and others but may have been on others.

Mark, No one would pay to see a "realistic" movie about trucks & truck drivers, just like they wouldn't pay to see a movie about real cops, real bad guys, real anything. Even "based on a true story" is more fiction then reality.

Dan, The only explainations of this movie that I respect are yours. Thank you for your insight. T.

G is looking good Mike!

That interior pic makes me think fish have been swimming in there....

I believe it was in the spring of 1983. I switched from washing trucks for Parrish Leasing to being the billing clerk for sister company Brothers Express. A Friday was my last day on the PLI side and on Monday I started at BXI billing. BXI was a cartage agency at the time and one of our carriers was Tucker. As luck would have it this was the same weekend that Tucker closed so come Monday my expected work load was down by about 1/4th..... As I said I believe it was spring, I was about 16 at the time. Tucker was based out of South Bend, IN and there recently was a article about them in Wheels of Time, when I say recently within the past year or so....

1st time I went to Mike's place I left there with a bandage on my head.... Took a B Model wrecker (Thumper) to him and brought home some steering components, a door & some other parts for my B Model.