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Found another old pic of my Dad's '66 Diamond T. This was taken when he was leased to Moore Transportation near 28th St in Ft Worth. It had a 671 238 Detroit with oversize injectors and was turned up to 2500 rpm. She was a screaming beast.

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Here's an older side view taken in '73. When Dad got it it was a daycab. He stretched the frame and added the sleeper. When the fuel crisis came along he added 2 black 250 gallon fuel tanks so he could sneak across the border in El Paso and buy cheap Mexican diesel, hence the dark smoke ring on the stacks. If you understand 671 Detroits, that is highly unusual. Look close and you can see the resonator muffler between the fuel tanks. Those did absolutely no noise reduction at all. I blame my tinnitus on them. Also check out the improvements between the pics. Front and rear hubs were switched from Erie to Budd wheels and brakes were upgraded from wedge to shoe.

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flying into nevada today for a week.   buddy of mine found out and has a couple rigs to get back to Texas.   ms muthafucka thought it would be a fun time to help him out.   if your driving east bound i10 out of cali stay out of the fast lane.   we will be east bound and down! 

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Just a heads up. I’ve switched companies and am back to running mostly in Texas.
I’ll be hauling precast concrete for the most part with some oil fuel thrown in for good measure. Last week I pulled 4 loads up to the new Samsung plant being built in Taylor that had me grossed over 100k lbs. so if you see ole Sparkle Cake in your mirror on 35 please kindly get the fuck out of the way. Lol

We are also building the new basketball arena for Baylor but our part of that project will probably be done this week.

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A few less wiggle wagons to dodge out there.

Cash-strapped U.S. trucking company Yellow Corp (YELL.O) has ceased operations and is filing for bankruptcy after failing to reorganize and refinance over a billion dollars in debt, the Teamsters Union said on Sunday.

Yellow, formerly called YRC Worldwide, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Earlier this month Yellow averted a threatened strike by 22,000 Teamsters-represented workers and last week it said it was exploring opportunities to divest its third-party logistics company.

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This dude had a major hard on for the Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking

 

A Detroit-area man was found guilty of maliciously setting fires to six semi-trailers belonging to a major commercial trucking company in the Inland Empire and High Desert during a 10-month span, the United States Department of Justice announced.

Viorel Pricop, 66, of Allen Park, Michigan, was found guilty of six counts of arson of vehicle or property in interstate commerce. Pricop has been in federal custody since October 2022.

 

According to evidence presented at a 16-day trial, from December 2021 to September 2022, Pricop maliciously set fire to six semi-trailers belonging to Swift Transportation, a Phoenix-based commercial trucking company.

Four of the arsons occurred in San Bernardino County (Newberry Springs, Ludlow, Barstow, and Hesperia) and two occurred in Riverside County (Coachella).

Pricop is scheduled to be sentenced on June 7, he faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison and a statutory maximum of 20 years in federal prison for each count.

ATF and the New Mexico State Fire Marshal’s Office investigated this matter. Assistant United States Attorneys Cory L. Burleson, Sean D. Peterson and Mitchell M. Suliman of the Riverside Branch Office are prosecuting this case.

According to the DOJ, in each of the incidents, the Swift-owned trailer was parked at or near a truck stop when a fire occurred on the trailer portion of the vehicle, mainly on or near the trailer tires.

Pricop set on fire at least 18 additional Swift Transportation semi-trailers in other states from June 2020 to March 2022, according to an affidavit previously filed in this case.

The incidents occurred at locations spanning from Barstow, California to McCalla, Alabama, with most incidents occurring along Interstate 10 and Interstate 40, the affidavit states.

Federal criminal charges associated with some of these fires were filed against Pricop in the District of New Mexico and the District of Arizona.

According to the DOJ, Swift Transportation hired a fire investigation consultant to assist with fire scene examinations. A pattern began to develop when multiple reports noted substantially similar methods of lighting the trailers on fire, including where on the vehicles the fires began, and the fact the fires occurred during the middle of the night.

A review of cell tower data near some of the fires showed that a specific device – later found to be a navigation device installed in a commercial tractor-style truck – connected to cell towers near many of the fires at or around the times of the fires.

Law enforcement determined that this device was installed on a vehicle operated by Pricop. Law enforcement also identified the cellphone subscribed to Pricop and, after obtaining court authorization, obtained historical cellular data and real-time location information for Pricop’s cellphone. Analysis of this data showed that Pricop’s cellphone was present in the general area of all California fires, as well as the 18 additional fires across the country.

In September 2022, search warrants were executed on Pricop’s tractor-trailer, personal vehicle and residence, yielding additional evidence corroborating his involvement in this series of arsons. This evidence included a gas torch, torch-style lighters, and record-keeping documents containing location information, such as cargo pickup and delivery dates which coincided with the time and location of several fires in the series of 24 fires across the country.

Pricop has a history of trouble with Swift Transportation. The company was among other trucking companies that were victims of thefts between 2010 and 2014. Swift initiated its own investigation into those thefts and utilized bait trailers to catch thieves.

In 2015, someone broke into one of the bait trailers and took boxes of electronic goods containing tracking devices. Swift investigators tracked those boxes to a storage facility in Michigan, and local law enforcement in Michigan arrested Pricop in possession of the boxes of electronic goods from the bait trailer.

Pricop was convicted in 2018 in the Eastern District of Michigan for a tax offense and for transportation of stolen goods, charges stemming from the investigation conducted by Swift. Pricop was sentenced to time served in that case, amounting to approximately 26 months’ imprisonment. His term of supervised release ended in June 2019, approximately one year before the arsons in this case began.

“This defendant went on a rampage of retaliation against a victim of his last crime,” said United States Attorney Martin Estrada. “Rather than take advantage of the second chance offered to him, he chose an incredibly reckless and dangerous path. We will not accept arson and other violent crime on our streets, and I am grateful that this defendant will now be held to account."

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