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JnnyThndrs posted:
You have a Star Trek themed truck in your fleet.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 16:29 |
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OldSquid posted:IV8, Biggest flat-top sleeper I have ever seen, and my CB is better. Funny you should post this, TV shows with eps like this cause uncontrolled rage with truckers. For the most part we aren't mobile murder palaces (ehm Wayne Adam Ford if you want to see who I really look up too in trucking ) and we do in fact nail bad guys. A trucker caught the roadway sniper a couple of years ago, and even blocked the road out of the rest area to pin him in.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 16:38 |
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I would like to show you how not to do a roundabout : It's pretty sad that you have a sports car and I get you on I-70:  Guy had a heart attack out on the road, made it to the truck stop before getting hauled away. Lucky he didn't die while driving and cause a big ole problem.  I called this guy Gato, just was a farm/papermill dog in the middle of California. Loved jerky.  Movin' on movin' on.... 
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 17:13 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:Biggest flat-top sleeper I have ever seen, and my CB is better. I probably should have mentioned that episode isn't kind to truckers in general, it's just that outside of this thread, I don't generally have any reason to see the inside of a rig, and your pics reminded me of that episode. BTW, because of your thread (and me incessantly telling my wife about it), she is now pointing out red Volvos to me when we're out and about. And she loving hates SA. It doesn't help that Micromancer's infamous picture was on TV the other night and I had to pause the show to explain I knew who that guy was. 
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:00 |
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Bloody hell IV8 looking at your last pic of your dash, are trucks not speed limited over there?
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:02 |
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warcake posted:Bloody hell IV8 looking at your last pic of your dash, are trucks not speed limited over there?
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:07 |
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Trucks here in the UK are limited to 56mph by law, its just a shock to see one going 75mph. Can't be easy to stop that much weight going that fast!
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:11 |
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warcake posted:Can't be easy to stop that much weight going that fast!
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:16 |
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Honestly, at freeway speeds, anything in front of you that stops is hosed, 56 or 75 or whatever. Your stopping distance goes from "more space than anyone will ever give you" to "more space than anyone will ever give you". In the desert like that you're probably better off just hitting the dirt anyway. You know in Swift's training, they teach you the LEAST dangerous way to run a car off the road? You know, just in case you have to not be in whatever lane you're in, and there's cars on both sides. (It's "run them off the outside, instead of into oncoming traffic on the left")
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:26 |
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emf posted:75 probably is the speed limit for that road. 80mph infact. God bless Utah. warcake posted:Bloody hell IV8 looking at your last pic of your dash, are trucks not speed limited over there? I'm limited, but as for a blanket "trucks can not go over X" no.   But yeah, if somebody does anything stupid at any speed, they are bound to get a rear end in a top hat job like you wouldn't believe. Funny, the only wreck that I've been in happened because I was going too slow (computer gently caress-up and a top speed of like 58-60mph) lead to someone passing me on the shoulder of the road and well, yeah people ended up cutting me off, then cutting each other off, then winner a free rear end in a top hat job. US drivers are pretty bad, you get in a major city and it's loving retarded. "They have more tires and more brakes so they can stop faster" is a common loving thought in most four wheeler's heads.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:37 |
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OldSquid posted:I probably should have mentioned that episode isn't kind to truckers in general, it's just that outside of this thread, I don't generally have any reason to see the inside of a rig, and your pics reminded me of that episode. How in the hell did he make TV? Oh poo poo that's awesome lol.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:39 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:How in the hell did he make TV? Oh poo poo that's awesome lol. Season 1 (rerun) of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 20:52 |
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OldSquid posted:Season 1 (rerun) of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central. Web redemptions?
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 21:09 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:US drivers are pretty bad, you get in a major city and it's loving retarded. "They have more tires and more brakes so they can stop faster" is a common loving thought in most four wheeler's heads. Nah I'm pretty sure most people don't even have the slightest clue that different vehicles take different amounts of time and space to slow or stop. You give most people way too much credit by saying they've at least considered the notion 
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`Nemesis posted:Nah I'm pretty sure most people don't even have the slightest clue that different vehicles take different amounts of time and space to slow or stop. You give most people way too much credit by saying they've at least considered the notion Funny thing though, it is part of the written test to get your class C "how much father does a big truck need to stop over you" At least it was in California.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 23:24 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:I would like to show you how not to do a roundabout : Fernley?
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 23:26 |
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Contraband posted:Fernley? Brighton CO. It's also illegal as they have been trying to ban big trucks from going through there. It's within STAA coverage of a interstate, so more than likely, some trucker is going to get a ticket, he'll sue and win because of STAA guidelines, Brighton will have to pay the trucker, and then the feds will make them rip it out.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 23:35 |
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How'd you get through? Did you just run over the signs?
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 23:50 |
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ijustam posted:How'd you get through? Did you just run over the signs? Curbhopped the gently caress out of poo poo. Notice the inside curb and how high it is....
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| # ? Apr 12, 2010 23:59 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:
Is that 84 in Eastern Oregon? What happened here?
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| # ? Apr 13, 2010 00:00 |
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Prylex3 posted:Is that 84 in Eastern Oregon? What happened here? Yes and easiest way to put it was Oregon DOT was too busy loving the dog instead of running salt shakers to de-ice the roads from the cold snap that hit at like 10pm the night before.
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| # ? Apr 13, 2010 00:15 |
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This was posted in the traffic engineer thread: It's pretty drat self-explanatory, split speed limits suck rear end.
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| # ? Apr 13, 2010 06:22 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:Web redemptions? They track down people whose videos of failure went viral, then give them a chance to re-do whatever it was, but without the failure. The best one I've seen was the girl who fell down the stairs before her prom. Her redemption consisted of getting ready for prom and coming down the stairs again (without falling). Her date was Ron Jeremy, and it ended up in a hotel with someone pulling the fire alarm, and Ron running naked down the stairs past her, complete with a comedy-oversized blackout bar covering up his junk. Search for complete episodes online, or if you have access to Comedy Central while on the road, the show is normally on Wednesday nights (1030 eastern, I think), but it's between seasons, so http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_sch...forever=please. e: for those who haven't seen the show: the premise is Daniel Tosh finds web video clips and airs them with funny commentary. OldSquid fucked around with this message at Apr 13, 2010 around 12:52 |
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KozmoNaut posted:This was posted in the traffic engineer thread:
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| # ? Apr 13, 2010 15:58 |
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8ender posted:Are you sure you aren't a driver?
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| # ? Apr 13, 2010 16:46 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:Are you sure you aren't a driver? I commuted for three years on the 401 here in Ontario to work. I was well acquainted with the truckers. I got as angry as them if some douchewagonry messed up traffic flow. After a while I just knew when a truck was going to change lanes like a highway spidey sense.
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| # ? Apr 13, 2010 17:06 |
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8ender posted:I commuted for three years on the 401 here in Ontario to work. I was well acquainted with the truckers. I got as angry as them if some douchewagonry messed up traffic flow. After a while I just knew when a truck was going to change lanes like a highway spidey sense. ^ This every day on my 45 minute commute. Of course I am rather sick of all of the small box/short haul fuckers with log books, cell phones, and sandwiches 3x the size of their junk occupying their driving abilities all weaving about in the lane(s).
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| # ? Apr 13, 2010 21:24 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:You have a Star Trek themed truck in your fleet. drat, now I have something else to watch out for. When I see it, I'll be sure to get some pics. quote:Guy had a heart attack out on the road, made it to the truck stop before getting hauled away. Lucky he didn't die while driving and cause a big ole problem. I had to relay a load from a dead guy in Idaho - heart attack, evidently. Truck+load was towed into our dropyard in Spokane, I had to take it to final. Truck wasn't wrecked, so he musta made it to the shoulder before his heart threw a rod. If anyone needs to know, Cambells Tomato Soup is officially the Dead Man's Load. As for roundabouts, the Target DC in Lacey, Washington has three of the loving things on the way there from I5, I hate them with a burning passion.
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JnnyThndrs posted:If anyone needs to know, Cambells Tomato Soup is officially the Dead Man's Load. Gotta watch that sodium intake.
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Shitty_Wok posted:Gotta watch that sodium intake. Truthfully, I doubt 1 in fifty truckers eat anything as healthy as tomato soup. The fact that any of us live beyond 50 or so is a testament to the resilience of the human body.
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JnnyThndrs posted:Truthfully, I doubt 1 in fifty truckers eat anything as healthy as tomato soup. The fact that any of us live beyond 50 or so is a testament to the resilience of the human body. Yeah, I've started feeling better since all I eat is diet pills and flavored water. And I wish I was kidding.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Yeah, I've started feeling better since all I eat is diet pills and flavored water. And I wish I was kidding. Keep working at it and you can convert your body from running on carbohydrates to hydrocarbons!
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Sponge! posted:Keep working at it and you can convert your body from running on carbohydrates to hydrocarbons! If you want to run cool, you have to burn Heavy Heavy Fuel.
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| # ? Apr 14, 2010 05:34 |
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Did the 5 yesterday, after checking ever red Volvo I Passed I decided you must work for one of 3 companies, one starts with an H, two with K, the short K one is my best guess. Where were you yesterday?
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| # ? Apr 14, 2010 23:29 |
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D C posted:Did the 5 yesterday, after checking ever red Volvo I Passed I decided you must work for one of 3 companies, one starts with an H, two with K, the short K one is my best guess. Trying not to get Anal Probed by space Aliens. U and S and A and C and R also have them. J has been getting some as well.
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| # ? Apr 15, 2010 06:31 |
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Curious minds want your precious knowledge, truckers: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3292669
ijustam fucked around with this message at Apr 15, 2010 around 14:20 |
| # ? Apr 15, 2010 14:13 |
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I have just hauled what might be one of the oddest loads I have hauled in a long time. 1 Floor buffer 32 shopping carts That's it. 650 loving miles of hauling trash. 0_o
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InterceptorV8 posted:I have just hauled what might be one of the oddest loads I have hauled in a long time. I bet you got good fuel mileage 
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ijustam posted:I bet you got good fuel mileage Too much water on the road. Otherwise I would have been getting like 14mpg
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InterceptorV8 posted:I have just hauled what might be one of the oddest loads I have hauled in a long time. That seems like a lot of resources for something that wouldn't even fill the smallest trailers.
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