Blowing Coal
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1984Sideways
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Yes there was a time that Stack and so on told you and all the world how she was running, where you were in your shifting and even at times how you were lugging. They also made very good thermometers as well. That PIE looks like she is doing roughly 65 or so in top gear. But not yet out of her top end. She has a little more hammer left if she needed it.Back when life was better understood, men were men & women knew it.
And the falling smoke back there tells me potentially there is a pretty good stiff headwinds as common in the west.The moon is bearing east by south and the sun is not too far from the west placing time of day about 4PM. That means the truck is running about Nw roughly.
I do not see the plume off the oil hose on the bottom of the pan. So shes using her horsepower without straining too much. Running really well.
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Its going to be below 10 degrees out. However I think allof those engines are above normal idle using sticks on the floor. That looks like snow on the ground there. Some of those have been there before the storm stated (Look under the first two the left end)Frozen coal
I remember one storm of 1993.. ha.. that was a rare storm. Dispatch sent me home. But I stayed in the drivers room with the truck full of fuel ready to go for a while. At two feet of snow I thought thats enough of that and drove 30 miles home.
What we got later that week when the winds came by morning was life changing. A friend of mine had parked his Pumpkin rig under a embanked hill seeking shelter from the storm wind. But now faced 60 feet of snow burying his rig tight. Took him I think 32 hours to shovel. Part of the problem was there was no place to shovel that to.
Pumpking writes him for being late to dispatch depart time, late to leaving, unreasonable idle, fuel burn, missed shipper appt in Harrisburg (Cereal Place)and late to no service failure at delivery. And on and on and on.
He actually left the tractor there in the yard and in a fit of rage was issued another. Temporary one. That tractor suffered a frame failure and managed to overturn itself under a load that springtime onto it's roof at freeway speed stewing the driver and ground the mess with the plates of that broken highway.
I give thanks to God for this man who has raised a family (And continues to do so in spite of everything) He and I are the last of our group in our age situation from growing up. The rest have died off already, some not even 50 yet.