Handicapped parking

I share your pain brother. I'm more fortunate than you in the respect that I'm semi retired and only haul 1-2 loads a month. I'm looking to have surgery before the end of the year.
I was at the fuel desk paying for fuel one day and there was a driver, for no known reason complaining about the existence of their handicapped parking spots and that they should not exist. Well I figured it was the perfect time to straighten him out and I was the perfect example of why they should exist. I told him of my medical issue and that when I was having a bad day I would use a spot if available. If I didn't need it I didn't use it, leave it for some one in more need. The only comment he had then was Oh, now I understand.

 

If he was running a stinger setup, you all but need a pit to get under them to adjust the brakes, so getting it done at a shop is the best way. Just throwing that out there. Besides, when we were still running the manual slack adjusters, I don't remember there being handicap parking.

 

It was a stinger, and I didn't need a handicapped spot back then. I have never seen anyone that could adjust tractor bakes on a stinger outfit without the use of a pit. Another example being to fast to judge people before the facts are known.

 

Well, there was no way I could ever slide between the duals on mine, when I owned one. The only way you might be able to get it done without a pit is if you didn't have a car behind the cab and didn't have drip pans. Even then, there's nothing easy about it. You certainly weren't going to do it at the top of Cabbage.

 

That's the way lazy drivers think, & it seems your one of them.

 

NO, you don't need a pit to adjust your brakes, that is if your not lazy. Of course I am not speaking about today's trucks, for I know nothing about them. In yesterday years there was many a trucks that stopped at the top of the mountains, & the truck driver got out & adjusted their brakes.

 

You know nothing of my work habits or my driving career. I can see that it is a wasted effort so I will just write you off.

 

I had asked myself the same question as the OP, and have some excellent insight thanks to the posting in this thread. I had guessed that as there are plenty of laws mandating a certain amount of handicapped spaces for normal cars in any given parking lot, that maybe they were mandated for semis as well.

My hat is off to those of you working around an amputated limb or chronic condition to continue bringing home the paycheck.