Discussion about weight and # of miles driven in a year

Love the comment "poop/blade interface"!!!

For those that don't get it this is what happens when the fecal matter comes into contact with the rapidly revolving blades of an air current machine!

 

Pulled into a card lock alongside a big ol' shiny KW. Out jumps three guys. They fule up one side then feed the fuel hose THROUGH THE CAB OF THE TRUCK to get the other tank.

And truckerdave1970, your signature about foreigners is hilarious. Your family must have come to turtle island via the ice bridge 10,000 years ago. Oh, I guess that still makes you a foreigner.

 

When you haul heavy, your bound to get caught! You just have to know when to get yourself caught....

 

Still does not justify it. Makes it an unsafe vehicle and a risk to all on the road.

However, you did it and it is over with, but under new recording rules coming into effect, would you consider it if you were driving for a living?

 

Man, i get nervous when the thred on my trailer tires is worn.

 

Gezz Give it a rest. I bet you didn't cry this much when the weight limit was 73280 and drivers were hauling 80k, but now that 80000 is legal its now safe to haul. Were I live at coal trucks can haul up to 65 tons with 6 axles and you wanna bust some driver for running 90000 pounds for 4 miles? I guess you think because a coal truck has a over weight permit to haul up to 130000 pounds is going to make it safer than a driver with out a permit? Did you cry this much to the Land of stinkin Lincoln officials when they jacked up there base plates cost? Did you cry this much when you heard of a driver getting a speeding ticket for doing 65 in Ill when it was a 55mph state and tell them how unsafe that was? Now that its a 65mph state is it still unsafe to fly at that brake neck speed? I have never paid to have a Federal Annual Inspection done on my truck or trailer nor had one of them stupid looking stickers, but I do seek out once a year in the spring a DOT level 1 inspection and never have failed one yet, but does the idea of me running up and down the highways without one of them bought and paid for truck stop stickers make me or my truck any less safe? Nope

If PAT and CRASH got there way on changing the log book rules to 8 hours driving/40 max per week what would you pay by the milers do then? I bet you'll skirt the law then to make a living. I bet that you would have hung my father and put me in a foster home if you knew that I once drove his truck from Meridian Miss to Slidale La.when I was 15 years old, yes it was illegal but he got ill and I got the load there before it rotted in the trailer, tatters don't like setting in a hot trailer. If I have the chance to double load for double pay and I think I can get by with it I'll man up every time, and if I get caught I'll also man up to the price I'll have to pay for it, but if they want to put on 2 or 3 thousands more on for the same money forget it they can come get with there pickup truck. There are at time in truckin you have to do what every it takes to get the job done, and I don't mean driving 100 mph and staying awake for 30 hours at a time either.


Sorry DB for hijacking your post but the 100%ers got to me.

 

Don't like it, don't read it. I am entitled to an opinion as you are.

Simply put, running overweight is dangerous and if you do not like what I say I do not care.

Your opinion and driving actions do not concern me. Nor do I care. I was only dealing with the issue with this one driver. I probably drive more miles in a year than you so I am sure you have no idea on how I run.

 

If you drive over 110000 miles a year you got me beat, I got a life and its not spent staying in the seat of a truck or a truck stop, but when my wheels are moving its money in the bank.

 

Got you beat by many more.

I am concerned about actions such as his for the simple reason I have family that live in the area and do not see it as something to be bragged about nor proud about.

I have also had to deal with accidents with such vehicles.

I do not state that I operate 100 % within the law.

 

According to whom? Some DOT reg. written by a person that has never shifted a gear in a rig in their life?