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 .
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