Terry T

Yeah, all is good again over there. The forum is back, Aaron is back...

Aaron.... That danged ole Cali Greenie!!!

Still happening. I lost Eddy's email. If anyone has it and can get info please let us know.

I believe there are a few here that also visit JOT. I visited Saturday but since last evening I've been getting "This site can't be reached" when I click on my bookmark and when I try it via Google. Anyone else having issues or possibly know what's going on?

I must be very tech challenged. I keep hearing about this Tapatalk but don't have a clue what it is. I use my phone for a lot of things but I still prefer my laptop when I get home.

I looked back over a 16 hour period and saw that there had been postings to 30 different topics. That's two to three times as many postings as I see on any other forum that I follow.

I hope there wasn't a LOT of tank behind the tandems, as that thing would be interesting to steer even with the front mount pump. If the tank goes to the back of the body that would put in the neighborhood of 2500-2800# of weight behind the tandems.

Rob will go missing, sometimes for years, from time to time then will be back and can answer almost any question asked around here.

Congratulations!

Not mine, just one that I've seen on websites and the net. Very well done and "rodding" an MR... It's just not done so to me it's very cool! Thinking outside the box is something that I appreciate very much.

This is also ex-USPS

Looks to be ex-postal service unit.

There's always the "Other Truck Makes" section!

Hank retired. That has nothing to do with fire apparatus. Your photos are fantastic.

Dave, You should start a thread here like the one that was on Hank's. I know you didn't start that one but it pretty much became yours!

Looking at the guys on either side of Sniffin' Joe all I can think is that the only thing that saved Joe that day was the Secret Service.

Very nice!

Red interior, former fire truck?

That truck is beautiful and that bumper! I looked at the pic and for a few minutes was trying to figure out why the license plate was reversed until I finally realized that it was the plate off of another vehicle reflecting in it.

They are being "rewarded" for allowing ([possibly causing) a ship to sustain what is probably irreparable damage while it was in their care to the tune of 10M on top of what they have probably already been paid.... just, wow.

Wow! Very lucky. I don't have an answer for you but I once had the pitman arm fall off of my steering box on my 1977 GMC Jimmy just as I left my buddy's farm. I wasn't moving very fast so fortunately I was able to drift off the road & stop, push it back on and get back into his driveway. The inability to steer, even at a low speed, is very overwhelming when moving!

BMT members: The lively discussion is fine, everyone is entitled to an opinion and the right to share it. Recently I (and I assume other moderators) have received some emails about some of the threads, this one included, getting out of hand. As long as no one makes this personal and does not make TRULY derogatory comments about one another I feel this thread and others can continue. Perhaps at some point Barry might feel the need to pull the plug & I back anything he does 100%. So please continue with your discussions but be civil. Thank you.

As I said above there simply isn't enough drivers & equipment to pick up what would be lost if YRC closed. None of their equipment would be available for purchase right away. Much of their equipment is old and undesirable. Freight would stack up on shippers docks to the point that production would have to halt for a period. Carriers' service standards would be crushed. You would be amazed at just how much freight moves into distribution centers via LTL. Wal Mart, Kroger, Family Dollar/Dollar Tree, Dunhams & Dollar General all have distribution centers that my service center delivers to. For Kroger we sometimes take 5 or 6 sets of pups to them per day and up to 10 sets, one Wal Mart DC gets 1 to 4 sets a day & this is just one carrier. If you think it was hard finding toilet paper in March think about how hard it would be to find everything if it cannot get from the manufacture to the DC's. I said that I don't like the fact that the gov't is bailing them out again but if YRC tanks the fallout will be much worse.

The very LAST thing that the LTL portion of the trucking industry wants to see is YRC fail. I work for Old Dominion and my SCM (Terminal Manager) and I have talked about this several times over the past 5 or 6 years. If YRC closed their doors on Monday it would be so much more devastating that the 2002 closure of CF because there are far fewer carriers to pick up what is going to be left out there. All of the LTL carriers would struggle to the point that some might actually fail as well. In short the closure of YRC would create a situation of back logged shipments that would take weeks and possibly months to overcome. Friday afternoon My ex-brother-in-law stopped across the road from me at my neighbors home and I walked over and the three of us chatted about this situation. Doug is a city driver for ABF, Dan a city driver for UPS Freight and I'm a sup for ODFL. None of us like the fact that YRC has been bailed out by the gov't twice but we like the idea of them going out even less. The LTL industry would be overwhelmed for too long and would create so many more issues that our country just does not need right now.

I'm wondering if it was spec'd for low clearance issues. The stack appears to be no higher than the cab. Possibly worked in a steel mill? I've heard of municipalities spec'ing fire apparatus by weight or height for a particular part of their response area because that apparatus is 1st due and has bridge, tunnel, etc issues on the quickest route.