Scariest Moment

I've spent half the day dodging tornados. Fun, fun.

 

A codriver and I would have been scared had we known what was happening. Back in about '86 or so there was a hurricane around missisippi. We were in an IH cabover pulling a load of lumber, tarped. We were going into the wind and losing ground, dropping gears, and finally stopped next to a barn near the road due to the high wind. We stayed the night and the next morning the barn was gone, the front of the truck and windshield was sandblasted and the only thing remaining of the tarps was where the straps went over the load. We probably lost those before we stopped.

 

hpoe you dont get use to sleeplng in the drivers seat

 

Not in a truck, but in my cage. I was driving an '87 Dodge Daytona Shelby. it was winter time, and about 2am. I was driving the 40 miles back home from my wife's house, when we were just dating. I hadn't slept in nearly 2 days. By the time I was getting on the on-ramp, it was sunny, 80 degrees, and I was cruising with the t-tops off.

I woke up in my driveway almost 2 hours later, the engine idling away and the heat cranked. I had driven the whole way home while dreaming. that was the last time I drove that tired. I've had a couple times I drove and caught myself since then, and pulled right off on the next ramp, but never again that tired.

 

I once woke up going down the grass median at 70mph in a FL60 flatbed tow truck. I was so tired that it didn't phase me at all. I even remembered to put on my turn signal as I merged back into the fast lane, never let off the throttle.

 

Meanwhile, you taught 2 Swifties and a Weiner driver how to pass.

 

If they could do 70.

 

Someone earlier mentioned Black Mtn in NC...I about screwed myself there too about ten years ago.

Had about 35K on, no jake. For some reason (and I had driven this hill at least a dozen times before), I started down in too high a gear and didn't have enough braking left to get slowed down enough to drop any more. Halfway to the bottom, my brakes are smokin' a bunch. Drivers are telling me over the CB to "let it go!" "No, I'm fine!", I replied, trying really hard to believe what I just said.

I got down OK, but those brakes smelled for about three days...literally.

 

Scariest Moment ? I would have to say every friday morning around 8am when i would go to the ATM with say between 2000/3000 miles being owed to me by a certain company from huntington indiana and there would be $300 in my account,still gives me chills to this day i dont like to talk about it much.

 

I recently went truck spotting when I nearly had a head on. I turned to go north on Murrell when a lady appeared in front of me. Well she nearly clipped me and I called the cops. Well they did nothing as I could not prove the head on nearly happened. Scared me as I was less than three miles away from my house and in front of a fire station. My parents told me I did the right thing by calling the cops.

KH