200 miles on a 4 hr clock?!

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  1. Tb0n3

    Tb0n3 Road Train Member

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    Have you taken 95 by DC? Even Sunday can be standstill it's terrible. People take 60+ mile detours to avoid that crap.
     
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  3. BigBob410

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    Yep! For 30 years! I live there. I guess it helps to know my way around...
     
  4. Bean Jr.

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    This is a true story. Back in the 10/8/15 days, I was leased to a carrier that had Qualcomms in the truck, no elogs of course. They pinged once an hour randomly. I had 4 hours available, the gained more than 11 the next day. I had a doctor's appointment back in L.A., so I had to roll Wednesday. Before the 14 hour rule, going in the sleeper stopped the clock, but no amount of driving 2 hours and showing 1 would have worked, had the Qualcomm pinged me.

    That one day, and only that one day, with no help from me, that Qualcomm had no signal!
     
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  5. Hoofbeats

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    Back in the day you used the see trucks driving down the highway with steel buckets on their Qualcomm doom.
     
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  6. Bean Jr.

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    Honest, I had nothing to do with it! It might have had to do with the fact I was in the mountains in Idaho. I put no bucket, unplugged no cord, no nothing! The screen just said "No signal", so I rolled!
     
  7. Hoofbeats

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    You used to see Qualcomm keyboards hanging out the windows of trucks at truck stops. Because they wouldn't stop beeping. You could always tell the drivers that didn't know that you could unplug the chord from the back of the keyboard.
     
  8. ladr

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    There is parking outside the gate. I've delivered there many times. You turn on the road beside the Pilot on Bouldercrest . The road deadends in the DC. Hang a left go to the cul de sac and turn around. Park and walk up to the guard shack. As long as you are going to the one off exit 51 285
     
  9. ladr

    ladr Road Train Member

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    Dang I forgot about that one,
     
  10. skellr

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    ;) Seems to be.
     
  11. pattyj

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    I wouldn't chance it because he needs to find a place to park once he drops trailer.
     
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