Lee, my experience w/OTR is/was a bit eclectic. Bill O ran an [by that time] old Mack H model pulling a 26ft coal trailer. Jim O (his Bother) ran a 'Binder COE with a 250 Cummins pulling a coal trailer. I rode with Jim one night taking coal to Niagara Mohawk. As was common in The Day we had to change-out a flat. Many years later my friend Jim leased as an Owner-Operator to Ranger. I rode with him into Bronx? with a load of coil stainless. Next morning we drove up Manhattan until I said "Jim, that's the Empire State Building!" He stopped and flipped on the four ways and we climbed down and went up the elevator to the top. Wow. If you did that now it would be a big problem.
Several years later Jim called and said he had a problem: antifreeze in the oil, so I jumped a Hound to Huntsville and we did a head gasket job on a 430 Detroit in the parking lot of an abandoned gas station. Good times.
Lew
