why do YOU hate CA?

Getting up at 5:45am to tow a boat up 80, gotta be there by 9:00 but I'm planning on getting in around 8:30am to unload the boat and reload my "backhaul", you guessed it, another boat! Actually the one I'm bringing back is too small for the trailer and will probably not fit on the bunks correctly, gotta tie it all down to make sure it doesn't slide. I'm only driving a 1-ton Dually and towing a boat trailer...but I can still outrun all the little rice rocket Civics even when towing 8000lbs behind me =)

 

Lately I've been running out here a lot (I'm taking a break at Flag City truck stop right now) I never have any trouble out here...The roads suck but I run about 57/62 MPH and they never give me a second look. I run legal, My equipment is clean, Well maintained, Lights work, Logs always up to the last stop. I've been getting some really decent freight into and out of California the last few months! I'd rather run somewhere else but I'll follow the money wherever it takes me. I stay out of Oregon though...Road tax is too high and the freight is all garbage rates.

 

Oh, your truck is one of those new-fangled two-speed jobs...Fast and Plaid.

 

Hey madbunny, you can go 60 in oregon but dont push your luck there, i do know where most all the hiding spots are for the hp there, and i know above 60 and your nailed, plus they will check you out every which way they can, Ive seen many a truck get nailed in oregon for speeding, wouldnt want you to be one of them.

 

Watch your axle weight at Ashland too....
Do not get heavier than 200 lbs over on any axle....Otherwise you just made Salem a little richer....

 

yeah .... now lets get to OREGON...... I WILL NEVER RUN THAT STATE AGAIN...PARTIALLY BECAUSE I AM BANNED FROM LIFE....... HAHAHAHAHA....J/K ...... GOT CAUGHT DOING 15 OVER BACK IN 96 AND THEY REAMED ME A GOOD ONE . BUT I DID NOT GET ANY LOG OR EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS AND YES THEY DID GO OVER THEM WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB. LIKE KALI.... I HAVE NOT LOST ANYTHING THERE SO WHY WOULD I GO BACK .... OREGON DOES TIME YOU FROM ONE SCALE TO THE NEXT... OR USED TO ... I WOULD BET THEY STILL DO... SO WATCH YOUR ###!!!!

 

Nice bull Do-Do! I mean Dolphinfish. I mean Mahi Mahi. Either way, good eating.

Drive safe

 

As I said Oregon is avoided like they have a plague....oh wait they do. Our speedometer says she'll do 150....and I've told my partner repeatedly "No you can't see if it's just a number on the dial". Leadfoot that she is best stay in the states that aren't sure what the black streak was. Not sure what this says about me since I'm the one that taught her.

 

i have heard good and bad about CA ,some drivers who get nailed hard for anything and others that dont even get bothered.I have heard in some cases they go through the truck,check the trailer,truck and load and find any excuse they can get you on..Now for those who have been there is this true or just hogwash?We havent booked a load that way yet but we were thinking bout it and want to know everything we should before we head that way,any input on this would be appriciated..

 

My husband got pulled over in california, the cop told him he was going to slow cop took down name of company and who to speak to. cop told him that he was going to call and complain about there trucks going to slow out there.