All rednecks are from the south. So it sounds redundant. But I am originally from WVA and a known hillbilly. It pains me to see the harsh words about myself and my peeps. LOL
Rock on HAULIN HILLBILLY

Tell him not to knock the mistress. He learned to drive in her. lol.

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I Can't Help it... The little voices make me drive ALL NIGHT! TRUCK IT UP!!!

Driver on the scales, park your paperwork and bring your truck in.

Is it just me or am I being followed by the DOT?

CLUCK,CLUCK HERE COMES JJ IN HIS CHICKEN TRUCK!!!!!!

Well i am a Bama boy myself and i can't wait to get moved back there.

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I Can't Help it... The little voices make me drive ALL NIGHT! TRUCK IT UP!!!

Driver on the scales, park your paperwork and bring your truck in.

Is it just me or am I being followed by the DOT?

CLUCK,CLUCK HERE COMES JJ IN HIS CHICKEN TRUCK!!!!!!

Bama is humid, I lived in TN since 93 after getting out of the army. And only moved to NJ 1 and 1/2 years ago. But I understand wanting to go back. I love the mid-south region.

JJRANCH: "Pete or Kw Perfer the cummins ISX since cat quit making motors. The 13 speed baby!"

Thank You for taking the time to answer JJ. Too bad about Caterpillar leaving the truck engine market. From what I found online, only 10% of their business was on-highway focused. Most of their market was off-highway construction, mining, marine and power generators where they don't have to deal with all the EPA restrictions. Good news for Cummins though, maybe even Detroit.
It must be hard to have a nice truck like your 387 and have a new trainee grind the gears trying to get the hang of using the splitter and Hi-Lo lever. Have to admit, one of my worries is screwing-up my trainer's tranny while trying to get the 13 speed down.

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What part of TN did you live in?
Rhino (hubby) was in the Army and USMC.

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Did they?...

Not true, I'm from Cali. & I know plenty of people that fit the hillbilly mold very nicely.

I consider myself a redneck.

I love Alabama, but I just can't get my GF to consider it.

Nothing beats big yellow, I was raised on it & its by far the best equipment you can buy.

Cat did stop building truck engines, however they are not gone. Cat sold its blueprints on the D15 to Navistar, the company that builds Internatinal. However the story doesn't stop there, Cat annonced a few months back that they are entering into a deal to have Navistar build class 6 & 7 trucks under the Caterpillar name with the Navistar version of the D15 as the power plant.

That means that Cat is getting into the "Street" truck market. Now how long until they start building a class 8 truck is anybodys guess, but its only a matter of time before we see the big CAT symble on the side of a Cat built longhaul OTR truck.

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Well when i got out I lived in the Dickson/Hickman area. I lived in Centerville before I moved to NJ.

Would you believe that they found me a load that picks up on the 4th of July?

Don't know how they got it right, but I'm headed out to Garden City, KS with it so looks like I will be getting another meat load after that... Great.

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I have to disagree. When I moved back to Ohio in 06 I had to retake the written CDL test and lost every last one of my special endorsements until I take each written test again. As to why, I have no idea, when I moved to VA I didnt have to take any test and the only thing I lost was my Haz-Mat.

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