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  1. Panhandle flash

    Panhandle flash Road Train Member

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    I've got 2 things for today. Item 1 is....... never, ever, EVER fill out a job app with IN Hunt......ever!!!!!! 20 years later and I still get the occasional call from them.

    Item 2..... pallets. At $6.10 a piece, this place is more than doubling what they paid for them!!!! Still. ... if my company went back to the pallet exchange program, I'd have to quit. To much of a pain in the nether regions!!
     
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  3. scottlav46

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    FINALLY got a dang load headed west...goin to heyward ca for Monday the 6th. Wish me luck!
     
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  4. HometimeQueen

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    After an influx of complaints from motorists about unsafe driving by truckers, Indiana police will be targeting truck drivers in Porter, LaPorte and St. Joseph Counties on U.S. 20 and State Road 2 with a campaign called “Operation Truck Stop”.

    Police say that accidents involving trucks on these roads has risen from 19% of crashes to 24% this year. They suspect that this is because truckers are using these roads to avoid construction and the Indiana Toll Road.

    Police also say that local motorists have complained about speeding and reckless driving by trucks, along with increased truck traffic.

    La Porte, St. Joseph, Porter Counties, along with Indiana State Police and Michigan City Police will be working overtime with funds from the Governor’s Council to patrol commercial vehicles. Indiana police say that they will be heavily enforcing the following intersections this week:

    US 20 & US Hwy 35

    US 20 & SR 39

    US 20 & Fail Rd.

    US 20 & SR 2

    Sources:
    WSBT
     
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  5. HometimeQueen

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    Safe travels and good luck, scott!
     
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    Crash reveals as many as 6000 tractor-trailer hitches could be faulty
    Published July 01, 2015
    Associated Press
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    BATAVIA, Ohio – On a twisty, snow-lined hill that the locals call "Devil's Backbone," a 12-ton semi-trailer came loose from its tractor and plowed into an oncoming line of pre-dawn commuters.

    At 40 miles per hour, the trailer struck the side of one pickup truck and careened head-on into another, killing the drivers of both vehicles.

    At first the Jan. 24, 2014, crash on U.S. 50 in Cincinnati's eastern suburbs drew only the attention of Ohio authorities, who faulted the semi driver for not properly inspecting the hitch that holds the trailer to the tractor. But 17 months later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has raised the possibility that the hitch was defective.

    On June 9, the agency began investigating a potentially high rate of trailer separations for the hitch involved in the crash -- the "Ultra LT" made by Fontaine Fifth Wheel of Trussville, Alabama. Fontaine says it is cooperating with the probe.

    The Ultra LT could be in use on as many as 6,000 semis across the nation.

    Given the nearly 1 1/2-year gap between the crash and the investigation, the safety agency could face renewed criticism for failing to analyze its own data to uncover a safety problem -- the same failure that delayed recalls of defective General Motors ignition switches and faulty Takata air bags.

    Although the agency's new administrator says reforms are underway, one frequent critic of NHTSA sees remnants of an old problem. "(The Fontaine case) sounds like an artifact of what we used to see from the agency over time, an inability to connect the dots," says Sean Kane, president of Safety Research and Strategies.

    Kane says the agency needs to move quickly given the number of semis using the Ultra LT hitches.

    The agency says it acted properly, opening the investigation after Fontaine said it wanted to replace all 6,000 hitches for unspecified "non-safety" reasons.

    The agency investigated the hitches once before, in 2011, after Fontaine issued a service bulletin. NHTSA found 12 complaints about the hitches, plus one crash with no injuries. Truck companies Freightliner, Kenworth, Volvo and Mack recalled 2,400 tractors to replace a bar that locks a pin from the trailers to the hitch.

    NHTSA said Fontaine made a design change at that time to prevent the problem from occurring in future products.

    In 2012, Fontaine revealed another problem with the Ultra LTs in a second service bulletin, but the agency decided the issue didn't warrant an investigation.
     
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  7. gntorres61

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    Hitting the road for a pickup at QVC, Rocky Mount NC, headed to Maumee OH near Toledo. 10 days out this trip. By choice. I ride the highway....I'm going my way-Roy Orbison.
     
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  11. passport220

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    In Omaha, just got back from a trip to Massachusetts, waiting for my next load going back out to Massachusetts. It should be nice having empty truck stops this weekend, however, worried about extra 4-wheeler traffic out on the roads.

    Turn arounds in Omaha have been working out okay for stopping at the house in Des Moines, was able to sleep in my bed last night, could have a chance to stay at the house again tonight, but I may just stop in and then keep going, just to make my drive days easer later.

    Happy 4th to all!
     
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