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  1. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    It is not a well traveled Highway for trucks. The GPS is never going to route you that way because it is way longer... so a lot of drivers don't know about it, which is fine with me.. the only trucks u going to see on that road is local guys , like loggers and fuel haulers... not much car traffic either.. The road is maintained ok. But you gonna have to be careful regardless because it will be snow covered and it's a secondary Highway so they don't focus a lot of maintenance on it.. But I've never been on it where it was not passable... I think the speed limit is 65 but don't expect to drive fast even if it's dry. Lots of wildlife on that road as well as a couple small towns to go thru... u will lose cell service outside of the town's but it's not that bad... I used to run out of the stuzke stone quarry in Clark fork id and had some work over in plains MT and Thompson falls MT. So was on that Highway a couple times a week..there's a hole in the wall truckstop in plains MT right next to the DOT pullout... it don't look like a truckstop from the road but there's a huge dirt lot in the back that's nice and quiet... it's listed on truckerpath I think ..
     
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  3. MaineRoad96

    MaineRoad96 Light Load Member

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    This is good info, thanks!

    I saw the weigh station but on Google satellite view I don't see a truck stop? I see the "Lewis and Clark Whitewater" place and then I see the Expresso Coffee Shack and they both have dirt lots but neither one looks like a truck stop?

    On TruckersPath App the only one listed is "Conoco Town Pump" right after the weight station but on satellite view there's a Sinclair but there's no place for trucks there, doesn't even look like they have diesel pumps there? On TruckersPath App that truck stop "Conoco Town Pump" only has 3 reviews and 1 says that it's "a few streets down the road" but that doesn't really help because I don't see anything.........

    What truck stop are you talking about could you give me a name to put into Google Maps so I can save it for future reference? And have you ever seen it full at nighttime (Can't really get a good feel for whether it fills up or not on TruckersPath App because it's such an out of the way place that nobody hardly ever updates the status)?
     
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  4. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    It's never updated because there's no trucks on that road.. It doesn't look like much on Google satellite because it's an old picture, they have since expanded that property a lot since that picture was taken... there's room for Probably 10+ trucks in the back lot and there is about 3 or 4 diesel pumps... I've only ever seen at most 2 trucks over night parked there.. U will always find a spot there don't worry... here's the address

    325 Railroad Ave, Plains, MT 59859
     
  5. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Made it to the Arlington yard, finally. One downside of working here is where they're located...to get to the home office you have to deal with Seattle traffic. Beautiful scenery up in this area, but unless you come in and out overnight, Seattle almost always has excessive traffic issues that rival Atlanta, NYC or LA. Coming thru there just after 14:00 yesterday added almost an hour to my travel time. Then I almost get stuck in their drop area. Some sort of local ordinance required them to have a certain percentage of their property to have some place the water could soak into the ground, they couldn't just pave the whole lot. So, they have this non-compacting gravel where we drop trailers(with concrete pads for the landing gear). And it's like driving on beach sand. I almost got stuck climbing up and over the concrete pad. (Florida has the same kind of regulations, which is why you always see those little ponds around big D/Cs). And there seems to be a fair number of trucks here again, so I suspect I will be getting another reset up here...good thing I am on the guaranteed daily pay program. But at least I am not in the Dakotas or Minnesota where there might be the seasons 1st blizzard taking place. I looked at my radar app yesterday, it was in the 60's in the twin cities and in the 20's in Fargo. Big temp change means wild weather...
     
  6. kylefitzy

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    Did they explain that the concrete pads are for your drive axles when dropping empties around the outside, and the legs go in the gravel? When dropping loaded trailers in the middle or by the dock the legs go on the edge of the pad and your drives go on the main part of the pad.

    Guys get stuck all the time, I lock my power divider by default and try to not stop until I get to my parking spot.
     
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  7. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    They didn't explain it that way, but that's the way it ended up so I could pull out from under the load without getting stuck bobtail. I was affraid to run too hard at the concrete for fear of damaging the aero plastic under these KW front bumpers. I bogged down mostly because the elevator load was tail heavy, but before I broke traction, I locked in and backed up some, then took a 2nd run at it. You can see right next to where I parked was a dug out section where someone was stuck and there weren't too many other places to park a loaded trailer...Surprisingly, most of the trucks have left. Dispatch called me to see if I could handle my next load before they booked it...but I won't say what it is until I have it and I am loaded...but it's a much better load than what I just pulled in.
     
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  8. IH9300SBA

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    Ask @stwik about, he got hung up for a couple days one weekend I believe in the yard.
     
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  9. supersnackbar

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    We ended up not getting the load. They were pretty sure we had it before they called me, but just found out we were underbid by some download.jpeg-12.jpg company.

    They had me lined up for a 9' wide 11' tall OD hazmat load out of Washington going to Michigan, but didn't get it. I was cautiously optimistic when he called, and somewhat disappointed when it fell thru, but it is now in the system that I am willing to pull OD loads...maybe one day I can eventually be like @kylefitzy pulling the big boy loads.
     
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  10. IH9300SBA

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    They'll find something for ya. My post was talking about getting stuck in the gravel on the yard there. He had to wait a couple days I believe for someone to pull him out. He mentioned it was quite the deal.
     
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