Newbie Advice

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by farmerjohn64, Feb 13, 2020.

  1. HillbillyDeluxeTruck

    HillbillyDeluxeTruck Road Train Member

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    Thats some good training he did there sounds like.
     
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  3. farmerjohn64

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    It tacked in about another two hours onto my driving, ended up on a winding backroad towards the end where you didn’t have enough room to stay in your lane for right curves, luckily even the cows said “What the hell are we doing way out here?” and there wasn’t any traffic
     
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  4. farmerjohn64

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    Well 2 cups of coffee and 2 Red Bull’’s and I made it to Indianapolis from somewhere in northern Tennessee with a load of tires at 5 am this morning and 3 hours to spare lol thought my trailer never touched the pavement without those tires
     
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    You need to put those bulls down.

    Ive been toying with the idea of borrowing Toro as a avatar. But don't want to conflict with Warner Bros. That character is closest to me in my mind.

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  6. farmerjohn64

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    Yeah I kinda felt like Wild Coyote riding a rocket after drinking the first one
     
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    Those are good too. But once in a while they pull a sequence in physics (I don't know any other word that fits overall how they build those cartoons sometimes in Roadrunner land...) and when it's done right such as rolling a gigantic rock size of a house onto a tiny outcropping 1000 feet over a roadway far below and the cropping fails under the weight.

    That always gets me. Because just before the cropping fails, the coyote is given like yellow eyes shaky legs and showing ribcage in all out exhaustion effort to get that last little bit in...
     
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    The Toro vs bugs comes from a 1952? cartoon called "Bully for bugs" its classic bullfighting with a twist. You can get it on youtube but the people who post to that protect themselves by cutting up the sequences and changing them around. If I was to purchase the original on disk I would not mind. Its a very good sequence when you consider that they are trying to keep the human nature and typical mental processes when the opponets work on each other. Thats why I like it so much. Its been like 45 years on and every time he learns to shoot a rifle and then decides elephant bullets by the box is way better and detonates Im on the floor. It's crazy.
     
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  9. farmerjohn64

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    We’re going to Newark, New Jersey, never been that far in the Northeast yet
     
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    Start out slow and comfortable, Jakes on high all the way down, light pressure 10 or less works, so does apply slowdown 5 mph less than desired, release 5 mphs above desired reapply. Start out slow . Way less smoke.
     
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  11. farmerjohn64

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    Made it to Jersey for the first time, the roads I drove on actually weren’t that bad, the other vehicles are more of a hazard; one vehicle was in the left lane, me in the middle and it cuts across both lanes to the right, being so close to me the computer on my freightliner was screaming and saying what I assume is the human equivalent of, “HOLY****ttt!”
     
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