Where is everyone #5

Gonna need more ammo

 

Yup. And all of us will pay the price for this guy. Spiral race to the bottom.
I know I found Jesus 20 years ago in the cab of a freightliner...
Can't remember the model. But was old enough it still had the round windshields. 350 Cummins. 9 speed with no Jake.
The boss had bought a old mail trailer in Baltimore. Short walled 42 footer with a side door for job sites.
I got nominated to go get it. It was in pretty rough shape. Rotten tires and paper thin brakes.
I told him I was gonna loose at least a couple tires if we loaded it on the way home...
Nope. Run it. Stuffed 47,000# of bagged something or another in the wagon and I'm headed home.
I'd run the west plenty and kinda laughed wondering where the "mountains" was everybody talked about out here. Sure the signs alongside the highway said x% for so and so miles. But it sure seamed a lot more gentle than what the signs was telling me.
Then I get to the brake check east of Morgantown. I put a wrench on my p.o.s trailer slacks for the second time and took off down the hill. They was working on the road and had it down to one lane. The left lane. Soon as I got merged 2 empty flatbeds that blew by the brake check rode up on my ###. They was #####ing to one another how some idiot was always holding up the show.
I made a mistake. I grabbed another gear. That old truck with no Jake you learned real quick how she wanted to come down a grade. Big difference one gear makes between brake snubs. I was on em more than I wanted but thinking the end was in sight just stayed with it. I come around a curve and seen the end was NOT in sight. I give her a harder and longer jab wanting to grind it into low.
Dropped one gear. Still to much so I hit them harder yet.
Trouble was that was just enough to cam over a couple trailer brakes...
Now I really got problems.
I'm on them for all I'm worth and picking up speed. One lane road with nowhere to go but down the hill. Funny thing was they didn't even start smoking for quite a while. But when they did I ain't never seen anything like it!
Towards the bottom when I figured I was gonna make it, I sheet you not this rv camper starts coming up the ramp in front of me on our one lane bobsled track. I'm on the horn, trailing smoke like you never seen before. It was close, but he sped up and out of the way.
I got to the bottom and just limped along for several miles trying not to catch the trailer tires on fire. First shop I come across I called the boss and said either it gets new brakes and drums or it's staying there.
After I got a truck with a Jake I was amazed how you can come off the same hill and never even touch em, going the same speed as that old p.o.s freightliner ran away with me...
One thing I've never done to this day is speed up for someone else.
Young and dumb. But they say good decisions come from experience, and that you only get from making bad one's.
One thing I do know. If there was a runaway ramp I woulda #### sure took it!!

 

hahahahaha and agreed. She would have to get me good and liquored up for that to happen again.

Im only talking about a beer tonight.

 

Yep. Good story and why I’m hesitant to hang this guy for manslaughter right off the bat. If you killed the people in the RV, should you have been charged with manslaughter?

 

Stupidity yes. Manslaughter? That be a stretch I think. It was darn sure was accidental and mostly equipment related. But I shouldn't a tried it regardless.

 

We usually wait till first week of May but with this weather coming and next week is looking cold and wet we thought of getting some seed in the ground.

By the way Tug, great job on that polishing!

 

On Pennsylvania RT 100 there is a town called Boyertown or Pottstown or something like that. Anyway the town is built on a stupid mountain and Rt 100 runs right through it as the main st with a stoplight about every 500 ft on the downgrade. And of course they don’t want any jake brake noise. Every one of those stupid lights turned red for me and about 4 lights in I almost didn’t get stopped. Sure enough my trailer brakes are smoking, the deck of the trailer is hot to the touch and I’ve got a 25 tons of hay on. It took about 10 lights and my water jug on the hay for me to feel comfortable leaving that intersection and I haven’t taken that road since.

 

Those No Jake idiots should get shot first before we run out of ammo. I simply cannot believe that rule hasn't been outlawed for all these years. I'm not kidding or exaggerating when I say that I would bust the morons who passed those laws right in the face with a baseball bat. Safety first. Right ? What a joke.

 

I agree because you were young and dumb and thought you had to do what the boss told you. I’d argue your boss maybe could’ve been charged with manslaughter in that case.

If you had 20 yrs experience and you knew the consequences and you didn’t call your boss then I’d say you’d be in a tougher spot. That is criminal negligence/manslaughter

 

They're politicians. It's like Tourette's they can't open their mouths without lying.

Scratch keeping 5 %. That's just enough to teach the replacements how to cheat the game. Let's just round it up to a nice, even 100 %.
A fresh start eh ?