1940? International Truck

Saw this truck and thought it

 would lookgreat in my neat truck pics section.

my son while getting ready to eat

12-28-10

gonna add this to the post,

 that has the other 2 pics later

  - of Dad, Joe and me at

 Huddle House for breakfast.



12-28-10 My son snapped a pic of me passing my dad

12-28-10

My dad driving his KW ,

as my son and I are passing him. :)

My son took a good pic here.

12-28-10 Breakfast with My dad and my son.

12-28-10

 Dad on cell while at huddle house for breakfast.

My son and I sitting with my dad.

blured mirror pic of 3 generations

12-28-10

I can't get my dad to stay in one place

long enough to get a 3 generation pic -

so I took 1 with us facing a mirror.

My dad's truck and my truck parked next to each other

12-28-10

My Dad's truck (KW - on your left) and

my truck (Internation - on your right)

Load of Pipe running to Texas

12 /27 -30/ 10

Load of Pipe running to Texas.

My dad's truck is on the other side with

same load - same destination.

I do have my son riding with me. :)

Red Truck with Flames

Cast Iron Pipe

12-20-10

A load of Cast Iron Pipe

Pictures - News and Info

        I have not taking any pics on actual trailer, here lately. The weather is not that great to take my vid cam and laptop outside to get needed pics. I will be getting a new cellphone - with at least a camera, and i will be able to get more pics done easier.
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UPDATE - I am getting pics in here now - I am having to use my wife's cell phone with camera but my cell should arive at home then when I get home I can start using it. :)

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UPDATE - 1-07-11 I have my new cell in my hand now :)

20ft pipes

12-16-10

20ft pipes that this lift is fixing to load onto my trailer.

I took 4 of them to Taccoa, Ga.

 Hard to see from this pic but

 they are made from steel coils (like the ones that I haul).

The Circus 500 (at rush hr) {Atlanta I-285}

little accident ( 2 cars on 2 lane)

12-17-10

On my way to deliver the pipe

 this morning in Taccoa, Ga.

I drove up to this accident site.

Army Tanks

       Army Tanks

2 oversize loads passing me.

Gadsden - Construction - sudden stop

Headin north on I-59, just north of Gadsedn, Al.

I am in the construction zone and

 all of sudden we have to stop.

There was a hole in the road that

they decided to repair at 5pm during rush hr traffic.

Tight Turns

Leaving Dallas, Tx -

 working the way back to the interstate.

tight squeeze

oversize tire load

A over size that passed me.

Dangers with night time driving!!!

18 with no trailer lights.

Big Truck cuts infront of car real close.

Night Driving

Night Driving

The reason I have not done any -

Night time driving vids (yet anyways).

3 old camera phone pics from 2008 - 2 layovers and 1 house being moved on a 2 lane road

4-18-08

 18 wheeler layover on ramp.

4-25-08

18 wheeler - layover in the median.

8-07-10

House being moved on a 2-lane road.

This house was actual being moved at 5 mph.

 I had to go around it on a very small 2 lane road.

Traffic - How things can change real quick.

As I was traveling east in Texas on I-20. I came upon a small accident being cleaned up.

12-09-10 Leaving reciever of Treated Railroad Ties

I unloaded the treated Railroad Ties to my right and as leaving had to drive this dirt road in a loop to get back out to the highway.

12-8-10 Treated Railroad ties

This is actually a load on another co-workers trailer

12-07-10 Load of untreated railroad ties

First pic is at the shipper.

Second pic is after it was loaded onto my trailer.

Reworking My Blog

     I am in the process of reworking my blog - I hope it will be easier to check out and more enjoyable. I hope to have it fully Organized by the beginning of the new year.

Loading Plastic Siding

Here is 2 videos of me pulling into area to load - then after loading pulling to the tarp area. I edited out the 18 mins in the middle of loading.

Working on my blog

I am going thru my pc and makin sure of whats been posting and putting those pics and vids in organized photos. I realized I have a few things that I need to try to get on the blog. :)

a load of siding in special built wood crates

This load has to be very careful on the securment with straps and also tarped. If straps placed and tightened in the wrong spots - it can damage the product.

11-28-10 stuck in Thanksgiving weekend traffic - With everyone goin back home

This was actually a 15 mile backup due to a very bad wreck during the holiday traffic heading back home. I had left with a load going to Ohio.

Blind Backing (passengerside angle) into a customer in Louisana

This is where some of the angles that we have to drive and park to get unloaded. Its a load of rebar - that is at a job site in a small town.

A painting I did in 9th grade (spring 1987)

Rainbow - I saw a snapped a pic- while on the way home

My personal pickup pics

My personal pickup. Still as is from purchase (on the outside) from an auction. My joke is i am still REHABING it from all of its problems. It was in jail (impound) for over 2 years from someone using it to as a get away vehicle in some type of crime. It was bought from someone that  controls those type of items sent to auctions after not needing to be held anymore or however that works, but i got it at a good deal. :)

11-07-08 old pics from incident - i entered a customer on wrong road

      I entered into customer and made a mistake on my entrance. They called company and said that I had killed their shrubs. Its a very good thing that I took pics. I admit I ran over these curbs. I admit i am at fault. I do not except the responsibility of killing these shrubs/plants. Pics was takin less than 30 mins after running over these curbs.

1-08-09 flood on Coosa River (Ohatchee hwy 77) vs 2-03-09 no flood

 

steel beams

Another load of conduit - at delivery point

My "new " work truck (in body shop right now)

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Plastic barrel in my lane - no way to miss it ( passenger car was in other lane)

Crazy Chicago driver

More the speed and closeness to the truck with the forklift and my hood of my truck.

Jojo (my son) and I playing Guitar hero

pallets of seeds - b4 tarped and after tarped

First time out of 12 years of truckdriving - that I ever saw this stupid move

Cast Iron Pipe and fittings

 A load of Cast Iron Pipe and fittings

Flat Metal slabs after being tarped.

Flat Metal slabs after being tarped.

Flat Metal Slabs

Slabs of flat metal - this will have to be tarped to protect from the weather.

09-20-10 mine stuff 2 Leaving reciever

( Please watch part 1 first ) Part 2 of Video - This is from the end of the residential street  to the 4 lane highway. This is a very tight and curvey 2 lane road - luckly i was empty on the way out - not quite the same as going in loaded but u can see some tight moves - that truckdrivers have to deal with alot.

09-19-10 mine stuff prt1 leaving reciever

I unloadded to the right side of my truck - I have to go up and turn around (on this lil deer trail of a road in a housing area to get back to the highway - that will carry me to the main 4 lane highway. I never get above 20 mph on this vid but looks so much faster with the tight areas. Once I do get turned around  you can see where I unloadded at.

9-1-10 dot scale and passing officer on shoulder

As truckers, we have to go into DOT (department of transportation) - They check to see if we are running legal and safe. After I actually leave the scale, there is a police officer with someone that they pulled over on the shoulder. It is the law that with emergency vehicles on the shoulder , that you move over  (if possible) or slow down, as you pass them for their safety.

8-28-10 Super size load

Any time you see these trucks with the escort vehicles (the cars with flashn yellow lights and oversize signs) please give these guys room because  they need all the room they can get. They have to make wide turns to clear things without running something over.

8-27-10 Even I goof up!!!!!! hahahahaha

Just to prove that I don't think that I am a perfect driver. This video shows how quick a driver can make a mistake. I made this one - even know I have 12 years of driving an 18-wheeler.

 But no harm = no foul. Nothing  hit or damaged. Which is a great thing, but I put myself in what could have been a too tight of an area. I would have had to back out of this entry spot, if it was way crowded or tighter turns...

8-26-10 Big Diamondback Rattlesnake in Oklahoma

Captured this in video but it goes by to quick - so I took a snapshot from video.

8-25-10 Cutt Closely

On I-40 in Ok. suv nearly clips me. Cutting this close in front of a big truck is a very dangerous move. Patience for one minute to move over whould have put them far enough to have passed safely.

8-19-10 someone always in a hurry

 This video is really nothing special, but it shows how some people will be in a hurry just to get infront of someone. this move is particuly dangerous passing on the right side as he is comming onto the interstate in Atlanta.

8-11-10 - To Close for comfort - Barelly Missed

 In this 2 min. video (Cam clipped to visor - better quality - might wanna lower volume - Radio playn a story about fire safety). Watch the Ryder truck - as soon as it jumps in left turn lane - look to the right......... I am hualing a 45,000 lbs Steel Coil loaded Suicide (pics of one will come at a later date and time). Loaded Sucide is when the "eye" (hole) is from left to right on trailer.  Meaning if not secured properly and the chains break in a hard stopping incident - the coil will roll off of flatbed -straight thru my truck like a steam roller -killing the driver and any body in front of the big truck hauling it.

8-10-10 got unloaded and sent to Columbus, Mississippi to wait For a load

       After unloading the load of Rebar. I was sent down to Columbus, Mississippi to wait for a load. I got dispatched on a load to pick up on 8-11-10 at 7a.m. the  Delivery in Lake City, Fla on 8-12-10. So I am stuck in a lil fuel stop till the am but at least I have a good wifi signal. No pic's today but I have a lil video that I will post.  ---- Video is not as great on viewing angle but it gives a good ideal of what I deal with and if you watch the mirror you can see some of whats goin on behind me. Remember it is my first video posting :).

     It is a 15 minute video.