Why? Because of a little healthy skepticism? It doesn't matter anyway, since I don't reckon the O.P. cares to discuss it.
You know as well as I do that (especially tugging skateboards) that no road is impassable...especially stringing pipe.....
Oh, I know that. I was just saying that I got a sense of "Methinks thou doth protest too much" from the O.P. The roads in question must not have too awful bad if they were highlighted in the Truckers' Atlas.
Fight the "failure to report" ticket only. Get a lawyer, if possible, and say you didn't really think you hit the pole so you kept going. It happens all the time. Look at the guard rails and poles all over the place that have been hit multiple times. You know not all those are reported. Sure, you got caught, but if you get a lawyer it's not too late to change your story. I hate to advocate this approach. But you must have not thought it was too bad or else you would have stopped. Right?
The loaded spread is exactly what I am talking about... Trying to negotiate some of the turns in town on some of them so called truck routes... not to mention cutting through the woods....
You should see some of the routes I have to take in little towns in OR, WA, UT, and CO. All I can say is, thank God there are 4 wheelers out there who "make a hole" for me on some of those right turns.....
Us Washingtonians are a pretty courteous bunch.. Once you get out into the rural areas most of the people are used to loggers and dump trucks.. I always have people making room for me.. Now Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane... Not so much..
Apparently someone else took offense to my reply to your post( which is typical as he sees nothing but bad in all my posts)... It was not meant to be at all... I was just pointing out that as a truck driver, I have no doubt that you know that there are plenty of roads marked legal when a truck clearly has no business being on them! I apologize if you took my post as being of a negative nature towards you... It truly wasn't meant to be!
