68, 70 thru CO, 84 in OR how many more do you want me to list? Two lane roads in central ID, and the folks from Canada will tell us we don't have steep grades here.
It takes a real truck driver to be able to handle mountains.
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What bothers you the most??
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by jamwadmag, Jul 11, 2007.
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Oh, yes, you do!!! Not going to hear that from me!
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When I was hauling crude we ran a lot of two lane roads with towns every 5 miles. Crude trucks don't have that much power and way too many times you would come up on a clown going 50 or 55 in a 65. Often times oncoming traffic would prevent a pass. Thinking I could pass in town when the road became 4 lanes thru town I would just wait. OH NO, the same clown that cannot drive the speed limit on the highway is brave/stupid enough to continue his speed of 55 thru a 35 mph town, again preventing a pass.
I say we just outlaw STUPID PEOPLE, that way the rest of us have an easier time of driving.
Recently my wife was driving in IA and came up on a gravel truck spilling gravel all over. Her formerly new windshield rapidly became no longer new. She got the name from the door, called info and talked to the owner. He told her to get it replaced and have the glass shop call him for his CC number and he was paying for the whole thing. I was SHOCKED. When she called me she was hopping mad and said she was going to call the company. I told her not to waste her time because all they would have to say to get out of the whole thing is........."how can you prove that I right now was the one that broke your windshield"???????????? And the fight is over before it started. She called any way and the end story is she got a new windshield. -
You not going to hear that from me neither!
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We've had folks from BC tells us our mountains aren't that bad compared to what they have.
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No, BC has the Rocky Mountains but the REST of Canada (which is huge, as you know) doesn't have anything like that. Here in the Maritimes we have the Appalachains which are hundreds of years older than the Rockies so they're very worn down. But you guys have just as steep a grades as any we have east of the Rockies. I've never been to the Rockies so I can't speak for them.
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Goodness, they probably havent done much driving in the USA at all. There are some absolutely treacherous roads, that I LOVE on my motorcycle, but would be scared to take with my truck... try the Snake River area in NE Oregon and SE Washington for example! [From Clarkston, WA to Enterprise, OR]
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The Blue Ridge Mountains aren't fun heavily loaded, either!!
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Day cab drivers bother me the most. They just dont seem to care about the "unwritten rules of the road" compared to other drivers on the road. They are the main reason I like to run at night when ever possible. I dont mean to lump them all together, but they stand out the most to me.
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Do elaborate... what "unwritten rules of the road" dont day cab drivers care about?
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