Don’t be this guy!!!

@soloflyr i mean no disrespect because you probably have many many more years experience then I do.

There’s not a chance in hell o would be running on 19 with my pilots at 16’6” wide. I’m not taking the chance of missing a call and having to explain to my customer why their 5 million dollar wing was damaged.

That’s why all of my regular pilots run vhf radios and cb’s. In my group of 9 drivers and 12 pilots only one driver doesn't have a vhf and thats because he runs with his wife and daughters as escorts.

A good vhf radio and antenna is around 200.




On a structure like that the front car should have ran across and shut the bridge down before I would have ever tried to cross. Trying to cross with other traffic leaves you no where to go when some idiot get distracted by all the pretty lights and crosses the center line.

Just my opinion.

 

I’m not telling you anything that you don’t know, BTW.

The front door is the first person to meet oncoming traffic. If you’re 19 wide and I’m 16 wide, and we’re on the 2 lane, our front cars will meet BEFORE you and I will even see each other. The sooner we know about each other, the better. The two fronts chat, notify their perspective drivers and we will figure it out on the fly. Do it every day. Now, I do agree with you...I don’t run 19 with my cars. I run a different channel. Good pilot cars will run the radios to do the job, be itfront door or back door. Thing is, if we are sharing the road, we need to communicate. As long as your front door can talk to my front door, we will get through this. And so far, we always get through. Makes me enjoy the work.

Was running big loads through Kansas. Had some bullhaulers runup on me on the two lane. I told my rear car to raise the cowpimps and tell them that we would be letting the, by. They thanked me. Front door gave me the all clear, and the rear car told them to come around. I dropped my speed and 4 of them came around me.

“Thank you, oversized!”

10-4 hand...have a good day.

 

It’s all about leaving yourself an out. If some one crosses or crowds the center line on a two lane you can take some evasive action. On that bridge you have very little room to move right before you’re into the wall.

Now my opinion may be swayed because my typical loads are very low and fragile to the right.

 

The amazing thing about it is is some states tell you on the permit that you have to have radio contact with your escorts. I guess that means that some driver somewhere didn’t think it was a necessity. On a superload, I wouldn’t move until I got a radio check from the crew.

 

Does the VHF radio require Ham licensing?

 

I noticed the person I quoted hasn’t came back to elaborate.

 

I brought up the parking situation for a reason. To the outside, it seems as if we do certain things just to be A Holes. Simple physics, right? The parking spaces are only so big, so are the roads and bridges and trees and traffic lights and road signs.

Same rules to play by as everyone else. Same roads. If the bridge is 24ft wide, and your truck is 16 ft wide and multi axle, YOU CANT BACK UP. And no truck can get around you. What should we do?

Heavyhaul is to regular trucks as regular trucks are to passenger cars.

 

What's traditional truck stop etiquette for entering an exiting? Truck coming in or truck leaving has the right of way?
(Not necessarily OSOW related, if I saw an OSOW attempting to exit or enter it's a no brainer to key up on 19 to ask what he wants, but I'd think it's common sense the OSOW has right of way. Oh and not because they're "privileged".)