Police seek to reduce noise from trucks

I think some of the biggest culprits of the jake use (in cities) are dump trucks. Around here, they are using them even on almost completely flat roads, coming up to stop lights, empty or loaded, on the main strips through town. I hear them very often, as I am close to a US highway in the city. There is a line of retail businesses between our place and the highway. This stretch of road (and others where the jakes are used) are areas where it is completely unneccessary, as you're lucky to get near the posted speed limit before you hit the next red light, especially if it's a big truck.

I've never been through Mount Airy, so I don't know what that area is like. There are places I have seen where they have signs posted "No Engine Braking", and I'm thinking "Are you serial?"

 

The signs I mentioned earlier are outside of town on the grade. The rich folks pushed to have them put up because of the noise that reached their houses on the hillsides.

 

I might be old fashioned but a truck with dual stacks and the jake rumbling is the coolest thing to see as a child and on up. After I get enough otr exp I want a 379 long nose pete with dual exhaust, no mufflers, jake break that shatters glass, and just belows thick black clouds of smoke out the pipes. That there is a mans truck

 

Uh-huh, it is, and Kalifornia will remind you just how manly it is every chance they get.