From My Dash Cam

Texas side is not all that bad and Oklahoma‘s four Lane I’m talking about the Kansas part !
Definitely Dalhart to Tucumcari no Bueno !

 

I haven't been real far down 54 in Texas I'll admit, what I've seen of it is the flat part of Texas you read about in the westerns. What I've seen and looked at on maps there's no real sharp curves or curves hidden by trees, you can literally see for miles and there's no reason for this sort of stupidity to be happening.

 

Yes where Fishonron met that truck is pretty flat right there I just can’t believe anybody would be stupid enough to keep passing when they saw headlights coming totally unbelievable !!!

 

And the Save of the Day goes to...

 

That's not what I saw. They come down a chute, a worker lines up a tube to the head that fires a .22 cal. slug in the head, and then a blast of air drops them quick. Something about, if the cow senses pain it freaks and the meat gets tainted, or something like that, another worker puts a chain around the back legs, it gets hoisted up side down, then butchering begins. As far as the video, @1:09 there are lights at the bottom, it could be skirts, but I've never seen lights on them. Regardless, I'm not condoning this clowns actions, bulling their way in a form chicken, and it seems to work for them. He obviously was loaded, committed to the pass, and figured another truck would understand and move over. This is exactly why one should have a dash cam, I wouldn't drive a truck without one.
As for milk, it's not what's in the milk, that has to be pretty clean and checked pretty well, it's what goes on behind the scenes at a dairy farm that most people are blissfully unaware of. For all they know, it comes in a plastic jug from the back of the store, somehow.

 

I have understood your post very well. Another version of the kill floor would refer to muslim type butchering. Slice the main artery to the brain at the neck and wait. The slice is big enough for the animal to have no choice but to spill it's entire volume or nearly so in a very short time before dropping.

But that is strictly a story from the arab world. I have yet to witness such culturing inside our American Meat Plants.

Regarding the type of vehicle on the camera, I am not decided if it is a reefer with a lot of gingerbread on it or a bullhauler. What I do see is a one hell of a blatant disregard of that driver making the pass knowing someone is coming at him. We would be reading about three trucks smashed up and for what?

That road is not very good down there in Texas and it's unfortunate.

My short time running dairy farm pickups were relatively easy. The people were good and the one exception would be a very tiny farm in Baltimore County that did not run a very good operation. There were times I rejected his small tank of milk, call it 2000 pounds of really bad product that would ruin the rest of the tank. His farm was essentially bottom land full of boulders. I have to rock crawl that walking beam mack before the sport of rock crawling was invented. It also struck me that the few cows he had did not have much grass to munch on all day, it's either stones or mud this deep in the fields.

I would be coming and going from 6 farms to his one every other day and the sunshine of a pretty day and a successful round of filling that tanker of milk of good quality will cloud over when I enter his property. The one thing I wont do and did follow through is take bad milk from the poor guy. He tried so hard to produce around 2000 pounds daily and even then he could not do it with good quality. If I were him I would just stop it and sell the place and get out. And I think that was the other problem with him. No money to maintain a proper farm and not worth much to be able to do anything with any proceeds to boot. Essentially trapped. That was what I saw of him then and I was only 21 or so. I had eyes and ears and could see that the poor cows aint doing too good there.

Cloverland Baltimore had a man working there and to him was the ultimate Boss Nose, he says yes we take the load or he says NO you dump that ... out now. He usually said yes. I think I ran into him at some point later in life which was good for him to be doing so well. And that one farm was always a bad risk to the entire load which was pristine in comparison.

 

Amen to that. That bozo doing the passing is going to get someone killed.

 

You just can't fathom stupidity. It would be nice to force that driver to lick the floor under a urinal at the Petro in West Memphis.

 

Wow great save, glad you’re ok!

 

Yup i know i seem to point the finger at whoever, or what they haul at times when they pull a stupid move on the road. Human nature i guess. Non of us are perfect. Around our area we have a lot of dump straight trucks, and semi dumps. Seem to run in packs, hammer down, and just have to be right behind their friends. Believe me, about 4 years ago one was passing a 4-wheeler on a curve, and hit another truck head on. The crazy thing is..both trucks were the same company owned trucks. My friend saw the aftermath of it. One truck had its engine laying on the road. Think there were no fatalities, but one had his legs all messed up, trapped in the dash.