is messing with other truck drivers equipment common?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Ruckie, Mar 4, 2012.

  1. ewill71

    ewill71 Heavy Load Member

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    best advice other than pretrip check them, is when you park release the trailer brakes and pull or back into the pins then do the same to the fifth wheel. sometimes this puts them in a bind and not release.
     
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  3. samurai

    samurai Heavy Load Member

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    you should watch some videos of large men being shot with .380s and how they keep coming at you until they beat the crap out of you. hence why law enforcement doesnt use that round. but then again any gun is better than no gun. you could kill someone with a .22 if you try hard enough.
     
  4. Oor

    Oor Road Train Member

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    Actually, a .22 is pretty deadly. Cops hate them. Bullet goes in the skull, then just rattles around inside.

    Not a bad hunting round either, if you know what you're doing. It'll take a deer down.

    Besides, a 10/22 Ruger with 50 round clips jungled, well, you can pretty much start your own small war.

    It's not really the size of the bullet, it's where you put it.
     
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  5. samurai

    samurai Heavy Load Member

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    Oor that is true. But i would rather have someone stop in their tracks if rushing me instead of having a chance to get a hold of me. That is why for carry i would go .40 or .45 only. or if i had a revolver i would go with a .357 mag.
     
  6. Motownfire

    Motownfire Light Load Member

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    And that's why I carry a Glock 27 and the wife now carries a Smith and Wesson Air-Weight. The Ruger .380 is resting in the gun safe.
     
  7. 6Shooter

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    sniff...sniff...you smell that? I think I smell a hijack :biggrin_25521:
     
  8. albhb3

    albhb3 Medium Load Member

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    actually a 9mm is better than a 45 a 9 will go through both doors of a car while a45 will not:biggrin_25525:
     
  9. samurai

    samurai Heavy Load Member

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    that is true but it will also go through a person and hit an innocent if you arent careful.
     
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  10. Wiggle Wagon

    Wiggle Wagon Light Load Member

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    That much penetration isnt necessarily a good thing.
     
  11. Okieron

    Okieron Crusty Okie

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    At a Swift yard another driver switched my hoses and pulled the 5th wheel thinking it was funny. I didn't know the guy in fact I had never met him. he went in the office laughing about it and another older driver heard him came to me and let me in on the joke. no problem for me I would have seen it, but then the good guy went to the terminal manager and got the guy fired! now who is the joke on. don't mess with peoples trucks its not funny and its not cool.
     
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