Tip for new drivers.

How true it is!

The same could be said for the short stretch of I20 that runs through Shreveport La.

Or the road that goes to the Conway terminal in W Memphis Ar. I have lost a TV, two sodas, a cat, and a #### co driver on that 1 mile stretch of road at less than 20 mph lol.

 

Sorry about the cat, man. Makes a great area rug in front of the bunk, though.

 

Hahahaahhahaha, it was my daughters cat, they were moving back to Tx from NC, needed to get the cat home without adding to the wifes cramped car so I just threw him in the truck and was going to drop him off when I made a run through Tx on 20. He was hangin out on the dash watching traffic like he always did, freaked out when the bouncing started, jumped off, hit the window switch (Volvo windows are FAST) and out he went. I did get him back and get him home or my daughter would have never forgiven me BUT, I bounced my sleeping Co driver out of his bunk in the process trying to stop on that god forsaken road.

 

lol - poor cat. probably good for him, though.

Sounds like a bit of road in Bordentown, NJ. On 130, I think - heading up from the turnpike to the Pilot near 295, if memory serves. Road was no bumpier than usual for a 400 year old concrete highway.. until we passed under a bridge. Railroad, I think. Nothing in the road said "Warning! Warning dumb trucker!" No oil smear, no gouges..
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ok - it's on 206, just north of this Fuster Cluck of a Pilot: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...9254,-74.70701&spn=0.007351,0.013132&t=h&z=16

The Pilot is at the intersection of Old York and Rising Sun. The Petro is just to the north. I think the bump was under Farnsworth Ave - but I could be wrong

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I hit that section of road at about 45mph...darn near yanked the seat off the floorboards. DID get a bruise from the seatbelt across my lap - stopping 325 pounds of me is not easy - even when it's going up.

Trainer did lose the contents of his coffee cup, and all the logs ended up everywhere.

I *know*, as certainly as if I'd seen it with my own two eyes, that seen from the side, tractor and trailer came completely apart in mid-air. I'm just plain lucky we came down together.

When we went up, my bunk was a mess - when we came down, it was neatly made and my bags lined up neatly against the passenger wall.

If we'd not been wearing our seatbelts, there would have been head-sized holes in the roof of that Pete.

Trainer is convinced that we popped the bead on one of the drive tires there - discovered it flat at the petro a few minutes later. Nothing wrong with it - just no air.

"Bump" signs all over New Jersey - except the one place they really need it.

 

Glad to hear you are alright Lurchgs-wanna see some bad roads, try not to stray off the majors in PA-those local road are in some of the worst **** shape, keep raising taxes and roads get worse-

Downtown Lancaster is awful-potholes and awful patch jobs galore, stay away from any little town in PA-

 

Actually, the streets themselves in Rochester/Beaver Falls were very nicely maintained. The problem was, the truck was wider than the streets.

OK.. not THAT bad, you know what I mean. Maneuvering was a nightmare, and I had a dozen turns I had to make to stay on the "Truck Route".
Now that I've been there, though, I know a much better way to get to the shipper. 2 turns - and those are on WIDE streets.

 

I just went thru there bob tailing, holy crap. I picked up a tanker and came back thru I stopped at a love truck stop and a young driver stopped me and asked me to look at his truck. He was hauling a coil of steel and sure enough the trailer was broke in the middle.

 

lol - my first time through, you could follow my by the trail of frozen french fries

 

Holy crap man, seriously?