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Saw a SCARY load yesterday

Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by grumpygrizzly, Jul 10, 2013.

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  1. Jul 10, 2013 #1
    grumpygrizzly

    grumpygrizzly Bobtail Member

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    I go through Portland, OR on my way to and from my desk job every day. Hopefully that'll soon change to where I can get on the road but, I digress..

    I was driving down Columbia Blvd just South of the river, lot's of trucking companies, dealers, etc. down there. I see a white Suburban PULLING a 48 passenger School bus hooked to it with nothing but a tow bar. He came bouncing out of a vacant lot, bus looked like it had been in the bottom of a river somewhere..

    There's no way he could see anything coming up beside or behind him as he only had standard passenger car mirrors.. No DOT or MC number on the Suburban, no oversize load or anything. No extended mirrors.. Headin for I-5..

    Glad I was headin the opposite direction.
     
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  3. Jul 10, 2013 #2
    coastie

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    That can be scary and unsafe but travel the world and you will see much more. OX being hauled on a Motorcycle side car, or a Hog tied to a back of a Bicycle or entire family of 6 on one seat Motorcycle. Yes I seen these.
     
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  4. Jul 10, 2013 #3
    379exhd

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    You will see worse when you are on the road.

    All I can say is Ron white said it best. You can't fix stupid.
     
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  5. Jul 10, 2013 #4
    snowwy

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    i done the friends thing. on a 73 yama 125 enduro. around the school parking lot.

    but who isn't dumb, wild, and crazy at the young ripe age of 16. :biggrin_255:
     
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  7. Jul 10, 2013 #5
    reefer75

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    I think he means that's the way the get any were as a family seen it to when I was overseas.Seen some camel jockeys to strange (yes,they were camel jockeys no racist there ) didn't know camels could move that fast not bad to eat though
     
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  8. Jul 10, 2013 #6
    PackRatTDI

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    I hate being around those guys hauling junk cars to Mexico, especially with three in tandem. The brakes are overworked with just one car in tow but add two?
     
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  9. Jul 10, 2013 #7
    SHO-TYME

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    I'd like to know how it's legal to pull two? I thought you could only pull one, but then again, you look who's driving those, and they don't pay much attention to laws.
     
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  10. Jul 10, 2013 #8
    truckon

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    so a truck pulled over in OH, had a jeep on a dolly with another dolly behind the jeep....
     
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  11. Jul 11, 2013 #9
    Brandonpdx

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    Huh...I used to run Columbia Blvd. (And Lombard and Marine) all the time. Never saw anything quite that exciting.
     
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  12. Jul 16, 2013 #10
    Charli Girl

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    Have you noticed they are getting creative lately? They're gutting the interior of school buses and small Isuzu trucks and shoving several,cars n there,with the arses hanging out. Ugh :biggrin_25510:
     
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