WARNING!!!! USE Caution with this Shipper

pa is NOTORIOUS for this....

they put the signs WAY PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN....I simply ignore pa signs, most roads are off limits to 102" trailers anyway......PA SUCKS.


K

 

Even worse, that's Pittsburgh. I grew up there, and it is NO place to be wandering around. At least TJ, you made it out safe and sound.
Good old rt 837 (Carson Street), and that whole mess on the river...

 

Why would you not follow the same directions out of a place you don't know? If you don't know the local area then you are crazy to go any other then what the directions say. Remember you are not car but 80K truck, you are a pro driver.

Mark

 

I think all of us have been in this situation at one time or another, But, WHATS this gotta do with a shipper?

 

Funny,
Same type thing happened to me on thursday morning, I put up at a small kwick stop truck stop right on lake erie, I was on my way to our Aliquippa terminal - Plant USG, I have never been there before let alone driven in this part of the country, Yeah I have 16 years exp but It didnt feel like it, So I was travelling and missed my exit, and for some reason decided to follow my gps to the plant instead, Now I know way better than this but I figured it would be ok. No frekin way, thank god it was 1 in the morning because the sweet lady on my dash had me on this mountain road with all little houses along it, it was so narrow that I barely fit on the whole thing, I was loosing it, this went on for like 13 miles, I was so lucky never once did a car come the oher way, if it did that would have been it, I was almost in teaRS too, how was I going to explain with all my years of "PRO" driving and here I am in a stand off where I have to back 5 miles to let a car by,, finally I landed on a road called 51 and could see the plant across the river and of course went over the wrong bridge, except I got busted, I will say this he was a real nice guy, older man and could see that i was frayed and said no problem specially since it was my first time here,, so I get through that, pick up my load it was heavy 50,015, and got directions back to 79 from a driver,, oh yeah what a beauty that 79 is, it is under construction and the lane is so narrow I think you might have an inch to play with, of course it was 4 am by this time and I had a line behind me for about 5 miles, most of whom have probably been on this road before, and yeah it was raining,,,, Man needless to say when I reached a rest area I took an hour nap, I was toasted.,,,
As i always have said it is part of the reason I love the job so much, You will be humbled every so often to the point You feel like a rookie again.
Dave
Safety First!

 

I don't go to PA anymore. I had the worste week of my career in PA, and won't go back. I don't care if the load pays a million dollars.. well, maybe i'd go back for that.. but other than that, screw pa.. they suck!!!!!

 

If you think Pa is bad you should drive in new jersey or connecticut or michigan, I drive about half the states in the mid and east and sometimes things go a little bad but not by a longshot the crap you eat in a lot of other states. I agree to disagree about signs here, Pa does a lot better job than a lot of states, at least they give the semblance of trying to care. drive55cat

 

Michigan is just fine -- i live here in Michigan, NJ And Conn do suck, i avoid them.. But mainly because of the shortage of flatbed freight that comes back out.