RHYMES WITH TRUCK

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Manitoba-Oklahoma-Alberta-Manitoba.

Niverville - Deliver: Clinton,Ok - Reload: Ponca City,Ok.
Deliver: Calgary,Ab. - Reload: Lethbridge,Ab.
Deliver: Winnipeg,Mb - Niverville.
6413 km.- 7 days.
Nights-out @ :
 Vermillion, SD.-Clinton, Ok.-Seibert,Co.-Billings, Mt.-Calgary, Ab.-Moosomin, Mb.

Old School Look : Bumper-lights-visor-stacks-flat top and spread-axle fridge.

Old Cabover : Left to rot on a hillside by Interstate 70, Colorado.

Ex-Army 6x6 working as cross-country pole-truck in Colorado.

Eight-Axle Kenworth rig at the Montana/Wyoming Port of Entry.

TMC ; Southbound on Interstate 25, Wyoming.

Farm Truck in Montana.

British Army trucks from CFB Suffield, Alberta.

Very few Cabovers are company trucks : Most are O/O.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Tonkawa, Oklahoma.

Niverville - Deliver : Irving, Texas. Reload : Tulsa, Oklahoma. - Nivervlle.
4212 km. - 6 days.
Nights out at: Fargo-McPherson-Denton-Tulsa-Vermillion.

Kenworth Aero Dyne in Red.

Kenworth Aero Dyne in Blue.

Twelve Axle Double from South Dakota.

Seventeen Axle Side Dump Gravel Train.

Thirteen Axle Grain Train.

Donkey Engines waiting for paint at Arrow in Tulsa.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, once the Oil Capital of the World.

Old Mack Water Tanker keeping the dust down.

Oklahoma International.

Natural Gas Powered Trucks at Irving, Texas.

Burnt out fridge trailer still diesel tank intact. Strange.

Toy Hauler from Tonkawa.

To much Helium in the steer tyres.

An Autocar in the line at Tonkawa.

1928 Fageol : from the same factory that made Peterbilts 11 years later.

White Super Mustang.

Flying Eagle #41 : The new addition to the fleet.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Mo-In-Ky-In-Wi

Niverville-Deliver: Springfield, Mo.+ Evansville, In.
Pick-ups: Hebron,Ky + Lafayette,In + Waupaca, Wi - Niverville.
4646 km. - 5 days.

Steel-Hauling Freightliner Cabover.

Classic Old School Stainless-Steel 48 foot Spread-Axle Fridge.

European-Look of Box-Van Pulling Freightliner Argosy.

Tennessee Kenworth Cabover in the evening sun at Demotte, Indiana.

Clean and shiny Kenworth with Spinners on the Drive-Axle Wheels.

All-Enclosed Western Star Car-Transporter looks a real handful.

3 piece Chicken Tenders + Biscuit + Coleslaw + Dipping Sauce + Iced Tea.

The "Look" : Tangerine and Burgundy Long-Hood 379 Flat-Top Peterbilt.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Iowa

Four Dodge [Mercedes-Benz] Sprinters on Argosy Transporter.

Cut-Up from both sides-Pity they just missed each other.

Followed through Customs by BJ and the Bear

Old Freightliner, on for Keystone, Ile de Chenes, Manitoba.

Load-Portage La Prairie/Deliver-Grinnell, Iowa/ Reload-Ottumwa, Iowa/Back to Niverville.
2707km-4 days.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

First Year at Flying Eagle : Monthly Stats for #31.


  • June 2011-----------------------20,984 km.
  • July 2011------------------------20,274 km.
  • August 2011---------------------23,999 km.
  • September 2011-----------------20,086 km.
  • October 2011-------------------20,579 km.
  • November 2011-----------------21,115 km.
  • December 2011-----------------21,910 km.
  • January 2012--------------------22,379 km.
  • February 2012-------------------23,504 km.
  • March 2012---------------------22,202 km.
  • April 2012-----------------------18,370 km.
  • May 2012-----------------------22,718 km.
          Total :   258,320 km.           [ 160,732 miles]    
          
          Average: 21,526 km/month. [ 13,393 miles/month]

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Gonzales and La Porte.

Niverville-Gonzales,Tx-La Porte,Tx-Niverville : 5407km.: 6 days.
Watt big tyres you have, Stewart.

Long load under cloudy South Dakota sky.

GMC Brigadier with it's own shady spot.

Autocar at rest in an Oklahoma truck graveyard.

International Transtar in front of a couple of Fords.

Lonely GMC Astro beside an Oklahoma turnpike.

No Headboard, No Headache Rack and Back Door for any incoming load. 

Crane Carrier Company designed, AM General: Probably Ex-Army