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we run super singles on our trucks and trailers because they are lighter and we need to be able to scale 50k...

i run them with liquid loads and have no trouble with them, they do break traction easier empty, but seem nearly the same as duals with a load on...

 

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Hey TB,

Well no loads going up toward your area. Hauled a couple of CKD (kiln dust) loads to Wichita, actually 3, and about as many salt loads to Louisburg. It seems that these KDOT facilities are ordering more so they can fill up those salt domes and lock 'em up until winter.

Pretty boring week, except for yesterday morning. Left Lyons with salt headed for Louisburg at about 5:45am. It was foggy, and almost any other time I would be cussing it big time. However when the sun came up, it made for some real pretty scenery. I wished I had and could have stopped many times to take some pics. The fog was laying low, and you would have the tops of trees, or a lonely old windmill peaking over the fog, along with the blues and pinks of a sunrise. Some places there was no fog on the roadway, but laying in the ditches on one side or the other. It seemed that the fog and the colors of the sky connected. However the further east I came, the fog became more dense. It was different, I had to wear my sunglasses since I was driving straight into the sun, yet the fog was there. At one point it was very difficult to see at all with that combination.

I did have a 4 wheeler in front of me for a while. My guessing at what his reaction would be was right on the money. We would be going along in a clear area, then drive into a wall of dense fog. When we were approaching this wall of fog, I slowed and geared down, anticipating what he was going to do, and I was right. He would drive into the fog and slam on his brakes. What an idiot. All he had to do was slow down a little.

Finally, after finishing up for the week, I was heading home in my pickup. I travel along what we call Old highway 50, a narrow 2-lane, no shoulder concrete road. It was made back in the 50's or 60s, maybe earlier. I learned that the messing with something like a cellphone has now affected the farmers. Here comes a sprayer, you know one of those real high setting, flotation tires, machines? He comes across the center line right at me, then cuts it back at the last minute. I can see that he's got a phone to his ear, and appears to drop it trying to avoid me. I was heading for the ditch. Boy was I cussing him. I mean come on now, I drive over 2k miles a week, and now on my way home, after surviving all the idiots on the highways, am on a lightly traveled old road, and now I must contend with farmers that have been infected with this gadget disease? Boy would I have been angry (and dead) if he would have ran over me. I was thinking about turning around, going after him, dragging him out of that thing and whooping his arse. But I didn't, was too tired. I would have to climb up on the thing, and he could have just kicked me off it, kinda like king of the mountain. He was sure lucky I was too tired though... For those of you wondering what one of these sprayers are, here's a pic of one..

It was like this one, except had the big flotation tires on it.

Well first thing Monday morning, headed back to Louisburg..

 

If it had the big tires, why didn't you just drive under it?

 

At home at the moment, about to head out, load the truck and go across country.

 

I got home about 20:30 last night with all my get up and go GONE!
The sheets beckoned and by 21:15 I was doing the snooze.

Got some chores to do today.

 

I feel for ya Eaton. Out here where I live you have those big mutant bug looking things to contend with several times a day. They take up well more than their half the road and don't like to get over for anything. Between them and the combines, I hate spring, summer and fall driving on my roads. There are a lot of hills, curves and side roads just on the other side of hills and you can't see what's over there. I go about 25 or 30 coming home in these seasons because I have no intention of being run over by one of these things, or have the tines of a combine come through my windshield. More times than I care to remember I've had to pull off in the grass on the side of the road because they can't move over without taking out a mailbox.

 

Yep, theory always looks good on paper, but in reality suck!! These things with the floatation tires don't just roll down the road, they bounce. Also my pickup is a full size 4wd, it was just too big to fit under it. I know, I've thought about driving under one to pass it. It would have probably scared the snot out of the driver, to see a vehicle emerge from under it.

During the planting and harvesting seasons, is not the times for wanting to get places quick. Around here the farmers will pull out in front of you on state highways. Then putt down the road, oblivious to anything or anyone else, like they're the only one in the world on the road at that time. Then when you do manage to get around them, they give you a look like where did you come from? If not a combine, it's a tractor with the huge spring-tooth cultivators, discs, or some other implement being pulled. Try passing a pickup pulling 2 anhydrous tanks, that are wiggling from roadway edge to over the center line.

 

TB you and Eaton could live in the city and have that to complain about

 

Oh bother! We took a riding mower back where it came from.
Pulled the Jeep left front apart and pieces of pad are stuck to the rotor. The backing plate fell off a pad and things just don't look right. We are gonna go to Livingston to get rotor and pads and dog food and whatever else.

It feels like 90+ with 125% humidity out there. "We" are not happy about this!