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Discussion in 'Heavy Haul Trucking Forum' started by soloflyr, Nov 21, 2018.

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  1. Nov 22, 2018 #31
    MartinFromBC

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    Just like playing a video game, the more you get the higher your score. Isn't that what lane barrels are for is to gather points?
    Pylons are worth 5 points.
    Barrels 15.
    Abandoned shopping carts 25.
     
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  3. Nov 22, 2018 #32
    SteerTire

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    Wish I had known that. We passed in front of a Walmart. I could have racked up the points ;)
     
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  4. Nov 22, 2018 #33
    MartinFromBC

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    Well you know for the next time.
     
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  5. Nov 22, 2018 #34
    laaylor

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    Oh crap! Ugh
     
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  7. Nov 22, 2018 #35
    TripleSix

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    Rookie mistake. Anyone that has pulled a big trailer for any amount of time would have wrong way that. In the flatbed forum, someone posted a pic of a Swift truck with a trailer fire that spread to the cab. Rookie mistake. Anyone with any time behind the wheel would have instantly dropped the trailer. But a rookie wont. He wont think of it.

    You get to the point to where you look for the easiest turn, the easiest path. Big trailer, sign sticking up anywhere away from the edge of the road? An island in the middle of the road? Check for a possible wrong way. We do it on the fly. Some times, it's the easiest way to get a big trailer around a roundabout.
     
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  8. Nov 22, 2018 #36
    beastr123

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    shopping carts on the store lot are -5 points only off lot are 25 and 35 if they still have store-bagged items in them
     
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  9. Nov 27, 2018 #37
    soloflyr

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    My take on this situation is this, spatial awareness.

    Every good truck driver has it. Those that don’t generally make a career being hood reapers. Those that do move on to bigger & better things.

    Not saying it can’t happen to anyone, it can. I was recently talked into something my inner self told me not to do. Fortunately my inner self kicked my outer self in the tail & I stopped before I got too deep into it, but not before I managed to tick off a few other drivers.

    Ticked off drivers aren’t that big a thing, torn up equipment, mine or the customers, is.

    When it was all said & done, I kicked myself & nobody else involved, I’m the captain. That night I gave my inner self a nice chicken-fried steak dinner & a couple of stiff drinks as a reward for saving my outer self from self-destruction.
     
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  10. Nov 27, 2018 #38
    tommymonza

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    Since I have been driving I look at any soil as quicksand.
     
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  11. Nov 27, 2018 #39
    m16ty

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    Reminds me of one time delivering one of those big tree cutters. It was so far out in the boonies that all I had was GPS coordinates. I get down this snake path and unload in the middle of the road. After taking a look at the map on my phone, I realize the road gets really bad up ahead, so I really need to turn around. Only place to turn around is to back into a harvested corn field. I mad it out, but if I had gotten stuck in that corn field it would have been bad. It was just the best of two bad options.
     
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  12. Nov 29, 2018 #40
    heavyhaulershotcaller

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    Looks like it. Owner is Finn J (last name not spelled right). He has a few truck/trailer setups, so it could have been his driver. He has a yard in TX and hauls lots of those reels. The trailer is a 75ton Trail King that is originally an extendable, but was also modular and put in that perimeter deck for those reels. I think the reels get up to around 145,000#...somewhere in that neighborhood.

    I know the trailer well as I knew the guy who spec'ed that trailer new, Mike Moore, from here in OK. It is a 75ton stretch 102" wide with 9' wide axles on 17.5" tires. West coast 13 axle of course
     
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