carlotpilot Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 sad to hear of loss of a friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 1958 F.W.D. Posted March 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2015 Otherdog, try to keep any names ( trooper, guy in suburban) and keep some notes about weather, time of day, everything you can remember. Wise information. Many of you know that after my father drove for 17 years, he went into the office and helped to form the beginnings of the original "old school" JEVIC. He was the first Safety Man they had. Old man is also very wise with legal issues. One thing he taught me that sticks out to this day- anytime you get caught in an accident whether it is minor or major, your fault or not.....As soon as you possibly can, you sit down in a quiet place, and you write down each and every damn thing you can possibly remember about the wreck. You sign it with the date and the time. Doing this, as well as a partial video from an ATM saved my ass when I got involved in a wreck driving a fire truck. 3 Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Wooly reminds me of my uncle Phil, he was hauling produce on the left coast, any how he knew something was really wrong with him when he got to Yakama to unload so he drove his truck to the E.R., walked threw the door and fell to the floor, he died right there from massive heart failure. Amazingly he too did no damage to anything while driving to the e.r. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 Wooly reminds me of my uncle Phil, he was hauling produce on the left coast, any how he knew something was really wrong with him when he got to Yakama to unload so he drove his truck to the E.R., walked threw the door and fell to the floor, he died right there from massive heart failure. Amazingly he too did no damage to anything while driving to the e.r. I unloaded at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg Friday, and they said Johnny had been there earlier in the week. He was complaining then of shortness of breath, and told the guys there that he was going to the hospital to have stress tests done. His appointment for the tests was for March 16th...if only he had gone to the E.R. then... 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGiant2 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Too bad and sorry. Hind sight is great. To bad he didn't go to er.sooner Quote We the unwilling, Lead by the unqualified, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 Too bad and sorry. Hind sight is great. To bad he didn't go to er.soonerYou're right about that. My best friend at H.H.Moore Trucking had the same thing happen to him on rt.58 near Suffolk, Va. Had a heart attack at the wheel and died just past the west bound scale house, truck ran off the road on the right into a ditch or canal or something there. That was in the early 2000's I think, and he was just a couple years older than me. Small fellow too, I don't remember him ever even being sick before. I think when it's your time you're going away from here. Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slpwlker Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 when I had my little scare at the house. I had just eaten and didn't feel right. Took my Bp and told my dad take me to the er. No heart attack or anything but it sucked and scared me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 A friend told me "we are given a finite number of heartbeats. Problem is we don't know how many." My brother (just shy of 63) was walking along the road by our farm and fell over dead - massive heart attack. Sad news to hear of anyone but we can't get out of this world alive. Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 death is just moving forward,,,, say good bye to obambi,,,,and hello to the real master,,,,4??? bob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 True that! Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vision386 Posted March 8, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 8, 2015 It sucks! my Dad was just shy of 64,he was home over the weekend,got up in the middle of the night for a snack,when he came back to bed,he told my Mom he didn't feel good. My Mom rushed him to the hospital,she said he took a deep breath on the way,and that was it.Doctors said his heart just exploded. I was in Florida on a load,my then boss flew me home,but was too late, I still remember there was a peanut butter and jelly sammich and a glass of milk still on the table when we got home.............life is short,do the best you can with the time you have! There isn't a day goes by that I don't wish I could sit down over coffee and shoot the shit with him!.................................Mark 8 Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gmerrill0516 Posted March 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2015 Sorry to hear of all the troubles and especially the death of your friend and co-worker. My condolences to you and his family. It is too bad he didn't get to the ER sooner. If you are feeling poorly don't mess around. Time is critical. Call an ambulance or have someone haul your but there if you are in the boonies. They can run a simple test to check for a heart attack and it's quick. It can save your life and/or rule out a potentially fatal problem. Play it safe and you may save your own life.Let's all say a prayer for the departed and put it in our minds to take fast action when we are not feeling just right. It can make his loss a blessing to us all.Greg 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bullhusk Posted March 9, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 9, 2015 It sucks! my Dad was just shy of 64,he was home over the weekend,got up in the middle of the night for a snack,when he came back to bed,he told my Mom he didn't feel good. My Mom rushed him to the hospital,she said he took a deep breath on the way,and that was it.Doctors said his heart just exploded. I was in Florida on a load,my then boss flew me home,but was too late, I still remember there was a peanut butter and jelly sammich and a glass of milk still on the table when we got home.............life is short,do the best you can with the time you have! There isn't a day goes by that I don't wish I could sit down over coffee and shoot the shit with him!.................................MarkLife is like a roll of toilet paper... when you get near the end it goes faster! Yes Mark, I lost my Dad my best friend in 2004, I would call him just about every night to shoot the shit about how the kids and the trucks was doin!! When he died I had this empty feeling inside just knowing that the person that I would go to when I was in trouble or could not find any answer to the many questions that life would throw at you, he would always have an answer or a way around or he would say 'in the end Ernie it will all work itself out and if it hasn't ?? well it ain't the end yet' I still just want to go an give him a phone call!! I know it sounds crazy but but I guess it's just part of missing someone closeBULLHUSK 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGiant2 Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 It's not crazy at all. We saved all the messages on the answering machine twords the end of my fathernlaws.life. he loved to call and talk to the kid at nite when we sit down to say the family rosary. It's good to listen to it time to time. 2 Quote We the unwilling, Lead by the unqualified, are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 My mom passed away when I was 2 and I have no memory of her. Fortunately there were plenty of pictures taken and I also have a cassette ( and now a cd) of her voice. The tape was one of a handful that my family made and sent to my Aunt and Uncle when my Uncle was stationed in Japan. I didn't know these tapes existed until I visited my Aunt in CA when I was around 25. She played it for me and had no idea I was listening to my own Mothers voice. I flat out lost it when she told me. The point I'm trying to make here is you do whatever ya gotta do to keep the memories alive. 1 Quote Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Sorry to hear about your fellow wheelman,O.D. Glad the 4 wheeler wasn't in front of you when it pulled a"stupid car trick". Al 1 Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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