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Post by mike0157 on Apr 11, 2014 7:23:16 GMT -7
First up is my Tuesday through Saturday ride.  next is my 1987 f150 just an old reliable work truck.  |
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Post by mike0157 on Apr 11, 2014 7:33:09 GMT -7
Sorry 1988 not 87 f150
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Post by Skip-O-Matic on Apr 11, 2014 17:21:26 GMT -7
Cool. What do you haul with the tank?
My now ex father-inlaw and brother-inlaw pulled tanks similar to that one hauling cement and fly ash.
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Post by mike0157 on Apr 12, 2014 3:24:15 GMT -7
I pull lime I go to a lot of water plants and steel mills. And like right now I'm at a power plant in western pa.
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Post by mike0157 on Apr 12, 2014 4:36:38 GMT -7
Not western sorry eastern pa.
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Post by Doc O on Apr 16, 2014 8:32:22 GMT -7
Cool rides !! ever light up the tires in the rig!!
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Post by mike0157 on Apr 17, 2014 17:53:51 GMT -7
Cool rides !! ever light up the tires in the rig!! no lol I don't think my boss would like that to well. But it would be fun. |
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Post by mike0157 on Jun 15, 2014 17:41:16 GMT -7
My new toy  |
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Post by mike0157 on Sept 8, 2014 19:17:49 GMT -7
My new ride just got it today.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 20:12:12 GMT -7
nice! that got the v8?
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Post by mike0157 on Sept 13, 2014 1:11:41 GMT -7
Yes sir the smaller 318 in it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2014 4:48:43 GMT -7
the 318 is no slouch...i had one in a 93 dakota and it was a ripper  |
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Post by mike0157 on Sept 13, 2014 5:21:27 GMT -7
Oh trust me so dose this one lol it's got a lot of power. Honestly it surprised me how good of gas mileage it gets. I drove it to work Tuesday and barely used a 1/4 tank of gas. With my older ford that's a half tank each way and it's got a 300 straight 6 cylinder in it.
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Post by mike0157 on Sept 30, 2015 5:27:47 GMT -7
So I was able to get my late grandfather's old fishing boat last week. Straight out of the 50's it's a Cadillac boat I honestly had no clue that there was a Cadillac boat company.  |
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Post by CoyoteCrunch on Sept 30, 2015 8:47:19 GMT -7
Nice rides here Mike - and too cool, small world!!! You pulling a pneumatic!! I myself pulled a skateboard for about 9 years and then I pulled a bulk tank for about 6 years with the company I am still with today. I primarily hauled gypsum from Southard, OK out to places like Latrobe, PA - Port Reading, NJ - anywhere really - back then we used to go to Chamblee, GA a lot. But we also haul a bunch of oil field sand to locations, sand to roofing plants, lime to water plants and roofing plants, yada-yada-yada. I had major neck surgery back in 2002, tried to go back to hauling bulk tank, but it just didn't help my neck, (had a total collapse, got a big ole plate in there and everything). I always remember the doc telling me, literally, my screws were coming loose! LOL - Funny now, not so much then - sooooo, the company I am with moved me to the other side of the fence into dispatch. I have since been able to move up and away from dispatch, not totally, but somewhat. Anyways - that sure is an old lime tank you got there - we have a few of those older 4 pods still...  |
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Post by mike0157 on Sept 30, 2015 15:31:22 GMT -7
That's awesome CC lime is the only thing I ever pull now I go in to water plants wast water plants and steel mills I've been with this company a little over 4 years now. Before I was running doubles back and forth between Cincinnati and LA. The year Joplin got nailed with that f5 tornado that pretty much leveled them I was 15 minutes behind that storm running I44 now I manly stay around the state of Ohio.
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Post by mike0157 on Sept 30, 2015 15:34:03 GMT -7
That's my old truck I used to drive miss that old girl and that cat engine.  |
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Post by CoyoteCrunch on Oct 1, 2015 5:33:13 GMT -7
That's awesome - again, small world!! I as well, for about a year, just before I got into the flatbed world, ran doubles and triples in Colorado. Used to live in Colorado Springs, and would run those triples from Denver to Pueblo. Then when that company went away, ran the doubles to California from Denver and back. Then that company decided to start forgetting to give paychecks! That was when I made the leap to flatbeds, man that was a while back, I would say early 90's or so. The last truck I had here was a Pete - but like yours, had one of those nice big cat motors, she would pull a hill better than most could cruise on a flat stretch in the hammer lane! Now-a-days, the trucks with these regen engines, and def fuel, well, lets just say they flat out SUCK! The guys have had more problems the last 5 years with the newer motors than ever before. But I do miss the road, don't miss being gone all the time, but I do miss it still. I do remember that Joplin tornado, that was a serious one, that town is finally back together, but it took years to re-build it. Kind of like Moore, just south of where we live, they are still rebuilding from that bad one we had a few years back. hate freakin tornadoes, I tell my wife every year, I think we should move back to where I am from, PA. Screw these dam tornadoes!! LOL
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Post by mike0157 on Oct 2, 2015 16:57:24 GMT -7
Your more of a man then I will ever be CC. Lol living in tornado alley running through it twice a week was bad enough I couldn't imagine living out there. Definitely a small world though both of us pulling doubles and tankers. Lol oh my 1st truck diving jobs was with a flat bed lol they gave me crappy tarps when they gave me my truck one with holes all through it. Needless to say I didn't last long with them lol. Just say I didn't last long one of my 1st loads got wet lol. Don't really know what they thought was going to happen with holly tarps lol but they just done me a favor I figured out pretty quickly flat bedding wasn't for me I will just stick with my tank for now. Wouldn't mind trying a dump bucket at some point
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Post by CoyoteCrunch on Oct 2, 2015 17:05:30 GMT -7
End dumps are pretty easy. We have a few here, pulled them quite a bit back around 2004. Now a days we only have one or two anymore, don't do much of it. But back then, it seemed every time I would get in for a day or two off, when I came back, I had to run and get a quick load of sand for JohnsManville or something. The one winter we had a wicked ice storm, we ran end dumps for about 2 weeks, all around the city loading up trees and branches and stuff. That was a tad exciting, you learn real quick to make sure you are on solid, as level as possible ground, before flipping the pto. But we were dumping on tip of the landfill, other than that, WATCH OUT FOR FREAKIN POWER LINES, LOL. I know this because we had a driver lay one over, taking the lines with him, and about a mile's worth of poles!! Ha!
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Post by mike0157 on Oct 3, 2015 5:11:09 GMT -7
That isn't good at all lol. My dad runs a rock truck at a landfill here in Ohio he's always talking about dump trucks laying over. They get hit with just enough wind when there dumping and knock them on over.
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Post by mike0157 on Nov 4, 2015 15:30:29 GMT -7
My newest addition just got it Monday it's an 05 f150 with the 4.9 triton v8 with under 74000 miles.  |
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Post by CoyoteCrunch on Nov 4, 2015 15:31:53 GMT -7
SWEET!!! Nice looking ride bud!!
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Post by mike0157 on Nov 4, 2015 15:34:29 GMT -7
Thank you CC pretty proud of that one lol that's the newest vehicle I've ever owned and definitely the deepest in debt I've went so far Lol
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Post by mike0157 on Nov 4, 2015 15:35:34 GMT -7
I can't complain I got a killer deal on it I paid 10,5 for it but it books for over 20
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Post by CoyoteCrunch on Nov 4, 2015 15:36:09 GMT -7
Ha! Debt! Oh yes, do I know that word!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2015 16:21:01 GMT -7
That's going to look great hauling your grandpa's Caddy boat.
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Post by mike0157 on Nov 4, 2015 17:06:05 GMT -7
Thanks cc and iceman honestly it was an older gentleman who owned it so honestly it looks like a brand new vehicle in side and up here in Ohio they use salt on the roads in the winter time and honest the way it looks on the bottom side I don't think it's ever seen snow
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next is my 1987 f150 just an old reliable work truck. 
