OT pic from cab of tractor/trailer

Took these tonight in Pa. Don't see to many like this.

Thems purty---

Great shots Jon!

Really cool pics Jon.
Kow Farmer

very nice thanks jon cnt

Very nice!

Lots of dust in the air. Most likely caused by the lack of rain and wind blow dust.
You see this often on the west coast from the salt particals in the air.

Shame Shame on handleing that cell phone while driving a CMV. If we catch you a second time in the next 3 years we will be forced to suspend your CDL for 60 days.

277 more mile to Ohio How rough is 80 from there?
I used to run an old R model short wheelbase Mack pulling fuel tanker out to the 120 Mile marker. and east bound felt like you was on a bucking bull the whole way from Clarion . Nice pics !!

I80 is a little better now. PA was beholden to the cement industry and the unions and the result was that, while Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, etc. were breaking up highways with modern machinery, Pennsylvania was using men with jack hammers. Then, when they'd get a section of highway laid some years later, you couldn't hold a cup of coffee while riding on it. Just like the bucking bronco you mentioned. PA is usually at or near the bottom of the list of which state has the worst highways. Some great stories about PENNDOT with pictures to back them up like painting a line stripe over the carcass of a deer or patching potholes in a blizzard with not a snow plow in sight or people stuck on I78 for 2 days and Gov Rendell said: "I didn"t know a thing about it." There's nothing you can do in such a situation because it's all due to 300+ years of inbreeding. The only thing they seem to be good at in Pennsylvania.

I have seen way to many sun sets and sun rises with a lot of back to backs when i was being a Commercial Tourist , covered almost all the highways and goat paths from the north to south east to the big pond and west to about US 83 to the point that i really don't need and Atlas or GPS to find my way anymore. Best trucking i ever did was the oversized . Ya got to get sleep when the sun went down till the sun came back up. No more of this that load has to be there.

The roads are actually pretty good now. They still have a few bad ereas, but over all they are much better than say Ny and Nj and a few others. The tolls are getting bad tho, but that is all over. Just spent $289.50 in tolls in the last few days. Hope they don't get to toll I80.

Most major companies are using electronic logs now so there is no more of that driving all night because it has to be there. I don't miss it a bit either.

I was and owner Operator back in the good days of trucking , back when there was lots of freight that paid good money and fuel was just starting to go up . This is back when truckers were real truck drivers and ya made good friends , friends that would help when needed . Yea maybe we were outlaws , yea we hauled heavy ran fast and long . We took pride in our work our trucks . Now today find me 100 GOOD drivers that can do what ever it takes to get the job done . They are few and far between . Show me today a good truck stop with a good menu show me a driver that will stop and help ya out . How times have changed and not for the better . I live in and area that was known for the most owner operators anywhere and now just a hand full with the numbers dropping each month . I pulled a Coal bucket was one of the first to go with a sleeper and set up a new dump trailer to haul what ever would fit in the box . The first to put back up lites in a trailer . That idea came to me after my buddy and i hauled two loads of AG lime over into the bushes of Pa one night in a down pour from the time we loade out in western ohio till we got to where we were going to dump. We made the mistake of driving way back this long drive to this guys stock yard only to find out that there was NO PLACE to turn around and we had to back out 3/4 's of a mile on this narrow drive on one side it was a drop off down to the river about a 150 feet straight down and the other side was the side of a mountain . Trying to cheat with the hand vale and brake lites did not work . SOOOOO it was some one had to get out and use two 6 volt lanterns to guide the other out then get the second truck out then doo it all over again to get back in . Ya know you can only get so wet and that it took five days for the seats to dry out . That is when i put two 4509 aircraft landing lights in the back of my dump trailer and my buddy's as he and i ran everywhere together . I had to take my trailer back to East for some work and being one of the first totally custom built dumps that East built Mark Tate took real good care of me He saw me come in and came down out of his office to see what was wrong and he spied the two landing lights in the back of my trailer and complemented me on my idea and they started making it and Option on all trailers after that. That 30 footer of mine was built to handle 100000 lbs but only weighed 9720 tractor and trailer weighed in at 27200 on the salt mine scales full of fuel and all my junk and could haul 46000 legal when i wanted to .

Jon, are you an owner/operator or company driver for Dart? 27 years on the road and farm too. Had to take care of folks 3 years ago and quit. But still have my tractor and may have to go back for some income as crop is very sparse! How's Dart to work for?

Hope ya mean the politicians are the inbred ones.LOL They are far too educated to conceive an idea for an easy fix for a lower educated problem...too much paperwork involved .

If it only involves planting Barrels And growing a big crop of Jersey barriers so they can dig out the low spots and flip em over into humps just to keep work in the area then that will be done to support certain areas.. But I live on a state road also they come every year and grade along the front of my house. I am in an argument now with them, because I put in gravel for my drive way and every year they take it out and replace it with a coarser gravel, that washes the first rain and I have a rut deep enough to hide an Escort. I had 5 men out here one day fixing the neighbors driveway, two dump trucks,one flagman..who brought a pickup (with an air compressor in the back)a supervisor in another pickup...That I talked to.....Get this !!! he told me the reason I couldn't have mine fixed was because they "were short in funds" And he didn't have the authority to fix mine without consent, or the nessary work order.
My house sets on the water inlet for this drainage ..I'm the last house before the creek it runs into..All my calls get ignored as I get put on some yahoos voice mail and no returns.

Now to top off all this the dirt that they do take is given to anyone that wants it..(( except me)) big Get This!!!! Because the dirt in the run off area cannot be dumped within 50 feet of any creek ????????????????

Put a headache rack on it and riser ramps on the end of the frame rails and pull a RGN a lot better paychecks.

Yes, I was referring to highway maintenance and construction. I-80 is somewhat smoother now out on the western end. They're using more asphalt now and I don't run into so many of those little short segments of concrete that didn't get leveled. They used to lay those little things down and in a year or two tear them up and start all over. I wasn't kidding about not being able to hang onto a cup of coffee! NY, NJ, OH, IN, IL, WI, Canada, no problem. Only in Pennsylvania!

Got that right !!
I mostly run from Clarion and two exits west going to Mercer. I ran East maybe once a month. The tractor was a little R model Mack (Maxidine) 5 speed (not enough power to pull a sick lady off a pot). engine brake just made the exhaust sound different but no help in stopping power. In its former life was a peddle truck for home delivery. that constant--
clump-clump... clump-clump
(and about that speed you read it at)at 50 mph put your head to the roof if ya didn't slump down in the seat. Rode too hard if you left too much air out of the seat it would bottom out.
Wasn't until I got the IH 4300 that ride was a little better --Longer wheel base.

Or better yet get a T endorsment and go pull wiggle wagons. With christmas coming up UPS is going to be begging for trucks.

Been with dart as an owner operator almost 7 years now. Great company and one of the few that will still accept older tractors. They just have to pass a dot and have all darts required mirrors and such.

How did you know I drive for Dart? Just currious.