My 3 day vacation

[Big Muddy rancher]

The weather was pretty good, my daughter was home to chore and my son needed a driver for a gravel haul. It was about an hour a round . We started at the pit and followed a prairie trail out to a gravel road a hard right turn onto a couple miles of curves around sloughs and yards A stop sign at the bottom of a steep icy hill. Onto the hiway for half a mile then onto a pretty decent gravel road leading to the stock pile. That is real rolling country and bigger hills and harder climbs then I expected.After dumping the load we completed the circle going north and west before hitting the hiway again for about 4 miles before hitting some gravel back roads again. The only place we met the other trucks on the haul was the last mile and a half into the pit. The was nice but the pit road was narrow.The worst part of the haul was the 4 miles of hiway. :x
The red Petes are my son's. I drove the front truck.

The stock pile should have between 13 and 14 thousand yards in it.My neighbor on the ranch to the east of us is running the loader for the stock pile end.

 

[Haytrucker]

Are all of those Pete's mid 90's vintage? I sure like that middle one for looks, we had an '84 359 that color with a deep flat-top, almost identical to that truck. The 378 sure turns shorter, with a decent ride. I hope you had all the fun possible, before it turned into work.
Listen to me, I must be almost healed up from hauling sugar beets, and corn. Some days I love to watch them roll by, other days, are better to be the pilot...
Your crew could have done that work "cheaper", but I tip my hat to some class, while you were at it.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

The Blue Pete is a 98/379 The red in the middle is a 07/379 and the one on the end that I drove is a 2000/378. They were all running C15 and the red ones have 46 rears. Good pulling trucks. the other trucks on the haul were a 2013 Western Star a T600 KW and three Freightliners of various vintages.
Most of the gravel got hauled in end dumps but some of the dryer stuff we could haul in the two belly dumps. They should be pretty close to finished today.

 

[3 M L & C]

I guess a c15 made right before the emissions got real bad is worth twice as much as the truck that it is in. Dad has one. Awesome pullers. Not so awesome on fuel mileage though. Lol

 

[burnt]

Driving your son's truck - 20 years ago, who'da thought? :tiphat: