Heavy Haul Miscellaneous Thoughts, Ideas and Questions

True. I guess I would like to think the police would have been a little more proactive.

 

I drop the trailer if I can and bobtail for fuel and usually park at the truck stop too since I don't really like taking anything wide or long into them depending on which one it is. Sometimes if I need fuel in the middle of the day because of the the distance I'm covering I pull up to the fuel pumps and get backed out by my pilots. Although I've squeezed threw some fuel lanes with inches to spare lol

 

I've set a big trailer on the shoulder before with my rear car protecting it and bob tailed into a small place for fuel. This is really a last resort and I usually drop in the back of the lot of I can get in.

 

The Scooter cops in Houston are awesome, they'll do whats needed. I've had good cops in Louisiana also.
But you gotta remember their escorting on there off time. (Most of them I believe).
They don't want to be Liable for anything.

BIG Pennsylvania super load, Bad route survey, Bad permit routing and I'm heading into a national park.
The XXX's getting real deep real quick. Cop's just shrug their shoulders.
Got myself out but they were no help what so ever!!
Another lesson learned.

 

What @haulhand said regarding fuel/parking. Parking's always my first priority.

 

Time off, yes. But not for free. Most are on time and a half or double time. I guess I just wish they were more about guidance and assistance rather than enforcement. Some guys need the book thrown at them. Other guys get routed into a #### storm and get the book thrown at them anyway. Every cop that I have ever dealt with in the northeast were angry and down right belligerent. I guess they have sort of jaded me

 

Oh no doubt. Your not wrong PA cops are the worst I've dealt with, I've had several bad dealings with them, and for what they charge... LOL, don't get me started.

 

Another reason we fill em to the top before even getting the load.

OH and traffic cones are sacrificial lambs. I went through one construction zone last year and I was brushing the cones on both sides with the excavator tracks. The construction guys just stared. Did not knock a one over.

Now when we took the bridge beams into Yellowstone Park last year it probably took them half a day to set all the candle sticks back up. They had them down the middle of the road and we had warned them about removing them weeks before we came in.

 

Thanks everyone!

Cnsper, the pic had wooden guardrail on the LH and jersey barrier on the right. But I get the point you're making.

It sounds like hh/osow isn't for dummy's. And that common sense goes a long ways.

"But it looks so easy!!" Not by a long shot.