Why you don't swerve:

woods beef.........It's what's for dinner!

 

I once hit a skunk just before I was going to stop for the night. I went to the fuel island to fuel, the skunk stunk, a driver 4 lanes over smelt it. I grabbed the water hose & sprayed under the truck, I couldnt see any remains of the stinky skunky. I parked for the night but couldnt sleep the skunk still stunk. Drove 48 miles to a Streakin Beacon, the washers werent happy to do the job but eventually the stinky skunky was gone. True story.

 

Can anyone guess the animal of my choice?

 

If your gonna hit a skunk do it with the trailer. Helps with getting unloaded faster and u don't smell it as much.

 

I'm one of those weird people who thinks skunk spray smells like a freshly opened can of coffee... as long as it's far away and not really strong.

 

I've lost count of the deer I've smashed. I think I'm up to like 13 now. I'm usually on a two lane in the dark in central PA. So there's lots of opportunity to hit deer. After a few, your heart rate don't even change. If they're laying on the road and I can pull over, I'll stop and drag them off the road. Otherwise, I will pull over at the next safe place and check for damages. Usually just a bumper. One thing I've learned is Western Star trucks are pretty resilient to deer. I dunno if it's because it has lots of ground clearance, or just a tough truck, but I've only ever had bent bumpers from deer.

Whatever you do, don't swerve! I will hit the brakes if I'm not in a turn, but most times that doesn't help anyway.

 

This will be put on my new truck before I take delivery of it. I run tankers here in the northwest. Cows, deer, elk, moose. You name it.

 

Its abit like the "Titanic " if the crew had of hit the ice berg head on it would never of sunk, the automatic reaction is to swerve i see cars and trucks do it all the time and then they cause a bigger incident then if they'd just hit the first one.

 

I smoked a big doe in Wisconsin a couple weeks ago ...damage and tow bill was 8600.00 and no swerving involved .