Bat in the grille

a dirty truck is a productive truck, mine has not been washed since my last day off, 4 weeks ago.

Did rain pretty hard the other night that washed her up.


K

 

Or was it hunting without a license?

 

No a dirty truck is the sign of someone who does not take the time to clean it and likes to catch the eye of the DOT man... Productivity has nothing to do with it.

 

I caught me a deer a year ago. But not just your ordinary regular deer; no no, this doe was 3 feet off the ground when i caught 'er, never touched the bumper; but she cleanded off my hedlights and breather on the driver side, smashed the muffler flush with the bunk, and twisted the frame of the cab so bad I could stick my fingers out of the top corner of my door(couldnt open it though). needless to say i was TICKED! nothing left of the deer to take home.

pity.

 

I have mine washed and cleaned. It was shiny.

Received two level 1's in the same week.

 

Worst thing I ever hit had to have been that family of Skunks in 1999. I got Mom and her 5 little ones on the Interstate Nose to tail with my Steer tire. I then called for a Wash job. I felt so sorry for the guys at the Streaking Beacon Yeah Right. Needless to say the stench was enough my poor beagle was sticking her head out the window and she puked.

 

A friend of mine took out a significant portion of a flock of birds one evening. Having incurred cracks to his windshield and grill, he pulls over and calls dispatch and tells them he's had an accident:

Dispatch: Any injuries?

Driver: Yes

Dispatch: How many?

Driver: Three or four (the number of birds still flopping about on the roadside)

Dispatch: Any fatalities?

Driver: Yes

Dispatch: Oh god....how many?

Driver: About 25 or so.....

Dispatch: WHAT??? OH MY GOD!! OH ######!!!! (to fellow dispatcher) GET THE HEAD OF SAFETY ON THE PHONE **NOW**!!

Driver: Oh..wait..they're just birds man....did I forget to mention that? Maybe I should have told you that first thing huh?

He didn't dare show his face around dispatch for about 6 months.....

RT

 

now that is just awesome, roflmfao!!!!!! im sittin here visiting my dad and we were both laughin so hard we were cryin!!!!!!

 

Hahahahaha. From the size of them I would expect a broken wing or something but cool it wasnt harmed. Hopefully he got a thank you from someone?!?

 

Back in '98, heading up 385 in Ne., saw this pheasent come running down out of the field and into the bar pit. Didn't see him til he was airborne coming out of the bar pit, took him dead center on the A in MACK on the grille, thank god the company has those mesh screens behind the the grille or he would have taken out the rdiator also.

we had a customer in SW Kansas, outside Ulyses we used to do all the time, usually twice a year for two weeks straight we would pick up from here. Rolling across US 160 between Ulysses and Johnson, we'd see thousands upon thousands of starlings on the road. #### things would wait til you were a dozen feet away before the would lift off. Over the course of those two weeks, I would usually wipe out 200 to 300 of them, grille, bumper, windshield, roof fairing, mirror. If we timed the loads wrong and my truck got washed the Sunday before we started these loads, it would have to go two weeks til it's next wash, and by that time my truck would be covered with red splotches.

3am one morning, rolling across I-80 in W. Nebraska, nailed a skunk with my tandems, took him between the tires, splattered him off the underside of the trailer. Didn't realize I hit him til I pulled into the rest area just E. of exit 1 to use the facilities, as I got out of the truck I could smell him. Unfortunately, every driver in the place knew about it, as the only parking space was on the E. side of the RA and I had to go between 15 trucks to get to that spot. I ran for the building (had to go that bad), as I was walking out, I overheard "who F*** is in that white truck, he hit a #### skunk and then has the nerve to park in here rigth afterwards" I left quickly.

My Eagle story, heading up Wyo. 189/191 from Rock Springs to Hoback Jct. Come around this curve and see something dead on the NB shoulder with a lot of birds feeding on it. As I get closer, I realize it's a moose that has been killed. I drift into the SB lanes to avoid all the birds, as I'm just about to pass, I realize one of those birds is a bald eagle, and he's taking flight. As I go by, that sucker was fully airborne and accelerating and slowly gaining altitude. I realized that if he made a hard left, he was coming though that windshield, and if he did, I may be going 70 mph, but as he's coming in the windshield I'm jumping because there is no way in hell I am sharing the cab with him. Then we were side by side, I looked at him and he was looking back at me as he made a hard right. When I got to the scale in Alpine, Wyo. I told the ladies about it. They said you didn't hit him right, No, good, because if you did we would have to detain you till the Fish and Wildlife could get here. Next day when I went back through the same area, the Moose was gone.