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14 mile long skid mark

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by VisionLogistics, Mar 20, 2012.

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  1. Mar 22, 2012 #21
    JRP

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    Bout 600 bucks worth of smoke behind him. thats some skill. thats more like being numb from the ##### up.
     
    JRP, Mar 22, 2012
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  3. Mar 22, 2012 #22
    Highway Prisoner

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    i guess he could have sent that $600 to you, to put towards a sense of humor.
     
    Highway Prisoner, Mar 22, 2012
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    southtx Thanks this.
  4. Mar 22, 2012 #23
    dave26027

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    That video's funny. Over the years I've seen a lot of toads left in gear while moving (some at 65 mph and probably in first gear) but I've never seen one locked in park.

    When I was a young Police Officer I found skidmarks that would not end. They wound through a residential area. Up into yards, through intersections and around corners... and ended behind the wrecking yards on the edge of town. In the middle of a dark street I found an old apache pickup- smoldering hot- crackling and popping, smoke and steam rising into the air.. I snuck around it with a drawn weapon.. and found one of our well known town drunks under the hood trying to clear a flooded carb with a cigarette lighter. (Drunk, of course)

    Putting handcuffs on him it turned out that he had finally saved enough money to buy a relative's old truck. He drove to a bar where the new truck started to get bigger and more powerful with every gulp of beer. So he took a bet and chained it back-to-back with the wrecking yard's custom monster truck. He got dragged all through the town backwards with his tire spinning until the clutch in his six cylinder wonder truck just gave out. Then he got unhooked, laughed at and left in the dark in the middle of the street, on the edge of town, about one O'clock on a Saturday morning.
     
    dave26027, Mar 22, 2012
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  5. Mar 23, 2012 #24
    PackRatTDI

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    That skid mark from the screeching tire at the end of the song "Leader of the Pack" is probably 14 miles long.
     
    PackRatTDI, Mar 23, 2012
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  7. Mar 23, 2012 #25
    o.m.d.

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    o.m.d., Mar 23, 2012
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  8. Mar 25, 2012 #26
    nervous

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    lol how did they miss the smoke off that tire
     
    nervous, Mar 25, 2012
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  9. Mar 25, 2012 #27
    Kansas

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    Would be an even better story if it was an actual drive tire and the guy just forgot to release the tractor valve before taking off.

    DANG! I sure am getting cruddy fuel mileage LOL.
     
    Kansas, Mar 25, 2012
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  10. Mar 25, 2012 #28
    VisionLogistics

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    Ha!

    I was in Jacks Oil and Tire last week and another driver at the counter was talking about a long black mark. I thought to myself, naw, couldn't be. So I said "the one that starts in Ashton on Hwy 20?" He smiled and nodded.

    The black skid mark disappeared at Saint Anthony, but you can see nicks and grooves in the blacktop even beyond that exit. Wonder what a new Aluminum wheel and Super Single tire costs these days. That had to have caused a vortex in someones wallet.
     
    VisionLogistics, Mar 25, 2012
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  11. Mar 27, 2012 #29
    Caterpillar Cowboy

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    Ha Ha, as my old boss would say 'typical ####### truck drivers'. You seem like you're from this neck of the woods, Do you know Frog from St. Anthony?
     
    Caterpillar Cowboy, Mar 27, 2012
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  12. Mar 28, 2012 #30
    VisionLogistics

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    Nope, don't know frog. Saw that you run dump around teton though. I've got weekly SLC to Billings, through your neck of the woods. Small world. If you go east up to ashton you'll see the infamous skid mark in the west bound lanes starting at the jct. :biggrin_2559:

    I shouldn't laugh. That might be my dumb a&@ one day.
     
    VisionLogistics, Mar 28, 2012
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