4 wheelers

People just don't understand the dangers on the highway?????
I say they deserved it.

 

I get the shivers watching some of the cars leaving Home Depot and Lowe's. Some people have no idea of securement. Having a length of washline and the driver and the passenger each reaching one arm out the window to "hold down" something on the roof isn't gonna work...

 

Errr, I for one can say I've did that before. But it was merely 5 blocks from point A to point B. And slowly moving on the backroads.

 

At least those cargos are not inherently dangerous.

At another job, a guy from up north bought three surplus transformers and a "R3t4rd coil" (it was spelled correctly on the name plate) from us and drove his pickup and trailer to Dallas to get them. These were 1930's "open vent" types and each was about 400LBs and contained 6 gallons PCB oil.

The factory-given name for the coil, before anyone gets upset about it, means exactly that it delays the electrical current through it, the opposite of "advance" is to "r....."

He used a 2-wheel hand truck to cart them to his 12FT trailer and up some 2x6 ramps. Sloshing the PCB oil everywhere but fortunately not on the driveway. The trailer was soon covered with the stuff from him shoving the units around and it soaked into the wood planks. The hand truck was also covered and he had it all over himself. He wanted to go inside to clean up but I made him use the yard hydrant outside and let him keep the towels.

The whole reason for this rather than freight was the cost of shipping PCB containing transformers and he had assured me he had the equipment and knew how to do it and was going to pump them out into a barrel first. Showed up with nothing.

Any time I see a laden garbage scow, er, junk-filled van or pickup truck, I think of the "coil" and what toxic stuff might be in that load. Just stay away.

 

You know, I always thought 4 wheeler didn't know how to drive right even back before I had my CDL. But it really became more evident when I started hauling fuel! They haul ### around me and then break for a turn...some people are in a hurry to their own funneral. And will someone tell them idiots that the speed limit on the interstate is 70mph (my area) and not 50mph...that and the on ramp is designed for picking up speed and not tooling around at 45mph.

 

I once carried several 2x4's about 4 or 5 miles on the top of my mom's car, just by holding onto it through the open moon-roof. It worked fine, just had to turn corners really slow. I had no other way to haul it. We were in TN visiting relatives and I decided to replace a rotted piece of my aunt's deck railing before one of my cousin's hyper brats got hurt. None of my relatives (believe it or not, in TENNESSEE) had a pickup truck.