Wednesday July 2, 2008

 

 

Big, Beautiful Rigs

Arriving at the Rally

 

 

 Upon arrival, every truck traveled under the “Welcome Banner.”

I am having to make difficult choices as I put Truck Rally photos on my blog.  How do I choose from 723 photos?  If you came to my site hoping to see your rig, and do not, let me know what it looks like.  I probably have a picture of it.    I would love to post it.

 

 

After finding a place for my lawn chair, I crossed the road to take the earliest pictures of arriving trucks – due to the position of the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every truck turned toward me when making the wide turn into the fairground driveway.

 

 

Oh, yes!  There’s one of my favorite truck drivers – Glenn Myer, and his wife Betty, from Ontario, Canada.

 

 

Now I’m comfortably seated in my lawn chair as rig after rig slows down to enter the driveway.

 

 

A truck in this position was coming from the west.

 

 

Rigidply trucks came from the east…

 

 

…as did Dutch Valley rigs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love those old trucks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On occasion I turned my eyes to the north, looking for the first Lanita truck to make its appearance on Cornwall Road – then they came.  One beautiful red truck after another.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 About 10:30 I picked up my lawn chair and moved to the driveway – in front of the rigs – as I worked my way to the building where I would place my chair in North Hall and pick up a new camera card and battery.

 

 

I knew I could stand right in the middle of the driveway, and my favorite driver, John Rissler, would not drive over me!  Also in the rig is his wife Karen and their four boys – one of them only two weeks old – from California, Missouri.

 

 

They have one beautiful Kenworth!

   

 

Jim Frankenfield (yes, he is one of my favorite drivers) touches up his truck after a short, light rain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of these rigs may be driven by one of my favorite drivers – but I may not be familiar with their rig.

 

 

 If you are one of my favorite drivers (you are if you were at the rally!), and I don’t place your name with a truck, let me know.    My email address is under my profile photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jeff Brown will always be one of my favorite drivers.  He’s been to almost every Rally – and has many trophies to prove it.

 

 

 

 

 Bethel Truck Service has beautiful tow trucks.

 

 

 

 

 Mark Zimmerman (Paul B. Zimmerman’s, Ephrata) will always be one of our favorite drivers.

 

 

I’m not sure I can classify Vince Weaver as one of my favorite drivers, because he is usually in the office of Weaver Nut Company, Inc…

 

 

…but he is definitely a favorite driver of the day – partly because he is dating my niece Kate.

 

 

 

 

After 10:00, the driveway is often full of trucks, as they wait their turn to be placed in the parking lot.

 

 

 As 11:00 a.m. approached, people moved toward the road to find a place to watch the parade.

 

 

Drivers were in their rigs – waiting for the word to move.

 

 

 

 Waiting for 11:00 a.m. and the blaring of air horns. 

Notice Cerwin checking his watch as truck parker, Mark Leatherman (one of my favorite truck drivers) and he wait for the right time to begin.  You can also see granddaughters Diana and Jana on the passenger side.  Jana also had a friend with her.