Random LTL Rants (all are welcomed)

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  1. road_runner

    road_runner Road Train Member

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    That is one place where I don't want to have mechanical/electrical issues at.
     
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    I was a little missleading but lucky, wasnt a coop it was a customers scale, guy on the speaker thought i hit one of his poles. :) it was a outside so i had them swap em round and pull off the rubber, went back to the yard hiding my busted leg the whole way
     
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    No idea where I heard this (either a coworker or even on TTR), a driver had an owl go through his windshield. It landed in his passenger seat. It was snowing too.

    He said he left it sitting right where it was in case he hit another scale (plus to have a plausible explanation to his safety person at his terminal).
     
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    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    Sounds like a "trucker's story" to me, but then what do I know. . .
     
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    You might know a lot. The Pony Express was still holding strong in your prime. This story may just be true.
     
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    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    Maybe, but I have, unfortunately, forgotten most of it. . .:biggrin_2557::biggrin_25523:
     
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    Sounds like a case of the "Old Timers"
     
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    I have heard that same story about an eagle and then one where it happened with a flamingo that went through the windshield and into the sleeper. I think they are just trucker stories.
     
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    probably are just stories. but they are perfectly plausible. i did hit an eagle once. it bounced off my wimd dam.
     
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  11. Shaggy

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    Weird crap sure does happen. Windshield damage and bring the bird along for the ride (plausible ), I'd bring it to the terminal for crap and giggles, not for proof lol


    Long story short. coworker few years back doing roll off dumpsters at the time smacked a bird. crushed the passenger side of the split windshield of the R model mack, bounced off, also took out the side mirror. Feathers still attached. Weird crap does happen.
     
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