What if it Snows?

i had it a little loose. it fits perfectly. the weight and feel of it is great. definatly never owned a belt like this before. i can see this thing lasting forever for sure

 

Even I was pretty impressed with how heavy amd supportive the belt felt... And I have seen similar belts before. I'm sure it will serve you well for many years, just remember that it will need periodic care.

 

Hell yeah, Wish I had full lockers!!!

 

66 YEARS AGO 2/1/1956
STRANDED ON ROUTE 66

Here is an amazing aerial photo after the record-breaking blizzard along Route 66 Vehicles stranded along Route 66 between Glenrio, New Mexico, and Amarillo, Texas. The snow started falling over the Texas Panhandle on 1st February 1956. Along that part of Rt. 66 there was nothing to stop the blizzard's winds from pushing snow drifts across the road. Within hours it would herald one of the worst blizzards in American history as snow fell for four straight days over Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico; by the time it began to thaw, at least eighteen people and hundreds of cattle were dead. The little town of Vega bore the brunt of the storm, recording a staggering 61 inches of snow, but everywhere was affected.
Here is the story of the bravery of the bus driver who walked through the blizzard to Glenrio from his Continental Bus to get help for his freezing passengers:

*The photo is courtesy of Linda Moseley Dowlen.*


THE MAN WHO WALKED TO GLENRIO

 

Kinds mimics a tank retriever, the squared off fenders.

 

I'm alive. I decided to stay home and drink and play civil war general. I shoveled a little bit. Glad I didn't have a grabber. So after it snows the cold will come in.

 

Thanks for posting that. Went out to Arizona on vacation back in 2008 and seeing all those old motels and gas stations and diners along Route 66 is haunting.

 

No, but the first load of eggs I carried in to the old egg market in NYC they had to use the old chain drive Macks to negotiate the delivery from my trailer to the dealers. Tight quarters. Had a 32 ' Fruehauf insulated, trailer, bunker and blower reefing. Union man took me from Tooley's in Jersey City over, we shared the lumping, I paid the mobs man $10.00 to "get in the book", came back over to Tooleys and paid him $9.00; He wrote me a receipt for $10.00. Graft and corruption was born in NYC and has been raised all over where ever trucks run. Was then (1956) driving for J.T. Garrad $.05 a loaded mile, keep the gas discount, don't bump the ticket. L190 IH, gas, 5 speed direct, 20 " rubber. When in shop or yard, governed ar 2750. Got 5 MPG, uphill or down, level or steep. Old # 12, hired in and drove it. A year later rode to Ft Wayne and got the V8 in the old avatar. Drove it till I quit and went to Beneke. Mack in the present avatar.

That trip was Starkville office to Clarksdale, MS, load cottonseed meal to Tampa, DH over to Haines City to Cross Country Truck Brokers. Park and go in, tell the man I was there in Jimmy Garrards truck. He would grumble about what did Jimmy expect, send a truck in without calling, and all the while handing me paper work of where to go load. I would tell him, take it up with Jimmy, I would go elsewhere. Calmly and quietly walk out and go to the packing shed and load fruit and head to Starkville. Get to Starkville, any service to tractor done, put in a heater and LP tank and head to Red Owl in Minneapolis. Unload there and DH down to Osage, IA to load the eggs. Eggs to NYC. After unload there, go out to Riverhead on Long Island and load Long Island Potatoes for Atlanta. Get unloaded in Atlanta and make a phone call. (FL was in a building boom and could not get enough appliances down there.) So "arrange for after hours loading" of washers/dryers/stoves/reefers and misc. Man sealed the trailer, copied your name from your DL, tag # on trailer and handed you $150.00. Run down to Orlando and get unloaded next morning. If all they put on was there to take off, man handed you another $150..00 and thanked you. DH down to Haines City, walk in Cross Country and start over.


In 1954 I was flatbedding bale cotton for Riddell Truck Line, Canton, MS. We ran a lot of it into NOL for export. There were still lots of chain drive Macks in use
to shuttle odd lots from one wharf to another. Best I remember the actual ones I saw up close had a flatbed about 5 feet wide and say 6 to 8 feet long. We would stack crates of eggs about 3 high and 5 long. He would fire up, trundle off, come back with a signed receipt and repeat. In NOL they could haul 2 or 3 bales of cotton around, depending on whether it was compress or Hi Dee.