Posted by The tractor vet on February 26, 2016 at 13:48:51 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Re: BIG MUSKIE posted by Trkr on February 26, 2016 at 05:28:31:
Yea that's what i am talking about , but you had a BIG eagle , YOU HAD DUAL stacks BIG trucks had dual stacks , Mine only had one . Wish i could post pictures of mine . Mine was done in four different shades of blue with gold white and black stripping . I had polsished alum wheels on both tractor and trailer. Plum loved that truck , all but the bunk . engine was turned up by cummins as far as our one friend at Cummins would go , Myself and my buddy wanted more and back then money was not a problem . That is when he discovered Bruce Mulison (sp) over in Chesswick P a. as it was called back then Diesel Injection , now Pittsburg POWER . My buddy did his and for a week had a ball messen with me as he and i were hauling together hauling about the same weight give or take 500 lbs. and he could just flat up and leave me . Then i went over and We did more to mine , now it was my turn, the battle raged back and forth till neither one of us could get anymore out of them . till i went with a bigger turbo and a lot higher boost pressure . On a good pull i could get 68lbs of boost 18 more then my buddy . EGT was kept down to 1150 1200 on the hot side and 950 on the cold side. with the six shooter injectors the V12 pump with purple spring and a drilled throttle shaft a slight cam timing change and no aniroid it was as snappy as a 318 and pulled like a locomotive . They did what we wanted and that was to fool the portable scales into thinking we were LIGHT and that it did , each week on ususally Thursday we would see the portable scales setting at the county line in the center of I 77 just north of Ohio 212 and just north of the permits south of 212 . We were hauling Shale out of Zoar mining up to a pipe plant just east of Akron off I76 . we never had less then 45 ton on and sometimes a WEEEE bit more . Mr. Smokey E bear and the scale wagon would set there watching the truck going up the hill and if you came on 77 at 212 and driven a Coal bucket and got passed going UP the hill by a freight box by the time you topped the hill you would be making new friends and seeing if you needed to be put on a diet MONEY wise . For two years Smokey E bear watched Slow poke and myself run that hill and never batted and eye since we were the ones doing the passing going up that hill at a extream rate of speed. And since we only had LITTLE trucks we had to be legal. Since no coal bucket could pass freight boxes like that and be heavy . did i ever get caught , --------- YEA i did the Same Smoke E bear got me and he plum hated trucks and truck driver and would tell you that to your face got me , was i heavy lets just say the scales on the south side south of 212 BROKE and stayed broke for several weeks , did i get fined yep i did , what i did next made no brownee points with Mr. bear as i showed up in court and got the case throwen out of court because what Mr. Bear wote down on the ticket was a lie in the eye's of the Court and this judge as Mr. Bear wrote down that i was grossen 109000lbs and with the certified weigh ticket i got from where i delievered the load to as he let me go after he gave me the ticket plainly stated that no i did not have 109000 lbs gross i had 138900 lbs gross so there for the state was in error and the officer was wroung in issueing the two tickets to the two of us . Case dismissed. Got nailed in Ronoke Va with a 129 and change and they could not get out of there fast enough once they knew what i had on and my fine was 56 dollars and 65. cents The 56 dollars was for the gross over load and the 65 cents was for highway missuse. so i guess you can say we were outlaws , we ran fast , we ran heavy and we ran hard . Looking back there are only two things i would have changed or done over , (1) i would have made a gear change in the rears for more topend (2) i would have went a longer wheel base then the 210 inch and ihad a double eagel sleeper installed maybe like a 60 or a72 inch stand up . But when i bought it i had not intened to run the roads , but when the mines went down and the steel mills went down it was either get ride of the truck or go on the road and since there were not a lot of jobs to be had it was ON THE ROAD and find new homes to work for . I was doing all of Truck Way's CFC salt hauling to the midwest but that was only a one way deal , and yes it was paying me 2 bucks a mile on the one way dead heading home form Eatern IOWA or Mo. even Il. it was only a buck a mile and at a buck a mile i was loosen 13.9 cents a mile , Neede something to come back with . found that while at the union 76 truck stop in bloomington il. when a Coal bucket came in with a S/ C base plate and he saw me setting and he and i started talking as he was headed to pick up a load of Scrap to take to the Windy and load something out of there for home . Told him that i sure could use a load home , he told me to give this lady a call and i did . She asked if i minded hauling scrap , well what does it pay , 2.10 a mile to the truck for 40000 and if you canload more and be leagel it makes it better. Well that started my time with Chem haulers and they had no problem with my salt haulen , the only thing was with them was once a month you had to take your truck to Bamai land for truck inspection and go talk with everyone in the main office , The dump divison was all owner oerators . There was no freight rate under 2 bucks a mile and no matter where you went in the system there was a return load waitng for you . I was the only ohio based truck in the system and my home terminal was the chicago terminal and was #1 truck If Bev or Joe at truck way did not have something for me then Dee out in Chicago did or the Doves would find something . Then out of the blue i get a call from Shilley Motor line aand asked to haul sand rock from here in ohio to Lagro in. and how much a ton to do it so for a one way deal i figued 42 bucks a ton was good and payment at the end of delivery , Dang i could have married that Sherry from shilley What a FOX I would get a call from her usually around noon to one in the afternoon to get a load and take it out and dump it and call her and we would meet at the truck stop in Remington have supper together and she would pay me . stayed in it till the next down turn and sold out and went to fixen tractors and jocking equipment and tractors . stayed with that till the economy went down and farm income dropped around here with low milk prices . Like any business if people don't have money they tighten up and don't spend and start doing them selfs . and not buying so i have to eat so back on the road and back to a bucket for six months of no money then i was asked to come haul oversized stuff , ok why not Yep the money was there and it was enjoyable and a chalenge . and back in a Binder with a turned up Cat that was somewhat close to the old 4300 . You know yourself you run over the same roads enough with the same truck you know what gear and how fast you will top that hill or mountain . The 9400 with the cat and a Pittsburg power box was about five MPH slower up the same humps and bumps with clost to the same weight. Now semi retired but back to fixen tractors for a half dozen old friends and customers. Do carb rebuilding for people , the one auto parts store i deal with is always sending me someone with a carb problem with kit in hand . Hey it helps with my bad habbits gun powder Crown Royal and diesel fuel.
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