Aromas-Prundale Shuffle

This was a short run that kept Jesse and I busy for a few days in January of 2010. The more loads we took the harder it was to get turned around, dumped out and back out of that small yard.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Graniterock
• Peterbilt
• Trucking
• 18
• Wheeler
• End
• Dump
• Transportation
• Santa
• Cruz
• Watsonville
• Aromas
• Prunedale
• Monterey
• AggregateDood

[MrJevonmartin]

i like seeing them vids u have keep on with the good work

[CoastStarlight11]

I used to live in Aptos, California for almost 20 years from 1985 till 2004 and have been to Aromas many times over the years.

[FaithfulAndTrue100]

@AggregateDood I've seen one other truck with a 13 x 4...it was a Frank Smith Trucking '68 needle nose Pete 359. I'd imagine it is a bit easier because you're shifting the 13 most of the time, but for the sake of originality I see why you'd put a 5 or 6 in it. I told Lou, an SCT driver who's been driving since the 60s, they don't make 'em like they used to. He laughed and said "Yeah, they made 'em w/o air ride, w/o good insulation so the engine heat came up in the cab on the hottest days, etc"

[AggregateDood]

@FaithfulAndTrue100 Seems just about everything I like is before my time lol. It has a 335 Cummins. It used to have a 4 x 4 set of boxes, but someone swapped out the main trans for a 13 spd. So it's a 13 x 4 until I swap a 5 or 6 speed main trans back into it.

[FaithfulAndTrue100]

@AggregateDood I love those older trucks, even though they're way before my time. What does it have under the hood?

[MrJevonmartin]

that will be great i will love that

[AggregateDood]

@FaithfulAndTrue100 Yeah he did lol. I fabricated hardware for the end dump trailer on my own time and I guess it got his attention. I also made a transportation dept video for recognition day which he saw when he attended the event.

Yep , Larry, that's him...

One correction, if you get to my car domain page the Pete is on page 7, not 8.

[FaithfulAndTrue100]

@AggregateDood Bruce Woolpert called you? That's pretty cool. I met Bruce once at an after hours get branch get together at the Design Center and more recently met his wife when I delivered to their home. They're surprisingly modest and down to earth people. Larry (a.k.a. BIG FOOT) drives the transfer, but I've never met Larry in person. I hardly know any of the SCT drivers because I am always in the SF bay area and SCT drivers are scattered all over the place. I'll check out your website.

[AggregateDood]

@AggregateDood... SCT transfer, but I've forgotten his name now. His radio really got out, I could hear him and Sean Holley all over the county lol. I would post a link to my FB or Car domain page with the 62 Pete pictures, but every time I post a URL on You Tube, it won't post the comment. You can email me at thefabford@cruzio.com and I can send links through email.. I also have pics of the big rip rap on my Facebook page.

[AggregateDood]

@FaithfulAndTrue100 I have wanted a job in plant operations for some time now to use my welding fabricating skills, get payed well and earn vacation time to work in my shop, so the opportunity to get a certificate made the PG&E layoff a blessing in disguise. The owner of GRC called me and said he was sad to see me go and to call him if things don't work out, which was quite an honor, I can't say enough good things about him. Toward the end, I talked a bunch with the guy who drives the white ...