Super Singles and Heavy Haul

Been stuck on a few over the years, as is the norm for mines in my experience, so could well be!
That or we both see the light, and get more and more tired every day of folks with little to no experience spouting about stuff they know nothing about. Could be either or in my book.
Either the older I get, my tolerance for BS gets lower, or there is plainly just more BS around these days than 20yrs ago. Not figured that one out yet.

Martin

 

and then go back and pick up the aforementioned plastic out of a field, and so on....

Lol

Martin[/QUOTE]

 

And just to clarify, I am far from heavy haul these days. Up to @120k is all I can do anymore, which suits me just fine. Dont think my old Star can take too much more on 6 axles!

Martin

 

I was ready to follow him into battle! "SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

Agreed, my BSometer goes off the charts regularly.
I think it is today's society, I'm not that old, but as stupid as I was in the past, and I WAS stupid, I don't recall trying to slide a load of the stinky BS past the guys who had as much experience as I had been alive...
I have the good fortune of looking younger than I am, so I seem to get a lot of guys trying to dump their big stinky piles at my feet attempting to impression me, hence I've become rather intolerant of it.

 

...wishing you glorious battle fellow Spartan!

 

(sigh)

This happens all the time. I looked around at what everyone else was running. I looked at what the companies run. Did my research. I ask a question and listened. Pulled the trigger and bought the truck. She has the powertrain I want right down to the engine serial number. She has the transmission, clutch, and gears I want. She has the wheels I want.

When I pull into a truckstop, I always get some driver that comes up and asks about the business and the money. Try to help another driver out, but within 5 minutes, the freakin doorslammer thinks that he knows better than me, and he wants to argue. I dont argue. I just say, "Good luck with that", and attempt to walk away. Why should I argue? The idiot isnt satisfied, because he will follow me into the truckstop to continue the conversation. But its over. I walk into the restaurant, sit at the counter and allow a waitress to distract me. Doorslammer walks in to continue, and some other driver who wants to pull the bigger loads will take my place and argue with the doorslammer. "Thanks friend for running interference."

You didnt mention mud. You didnt mention narrow roads. Who did? The guys who have been where you want to be mentioned them. Why did they mention mud and narrow roads? Because if you plan to heavyhaul, youre going to see lots of mud and lots of narrow roads. DUH!!!!!!!!!! Have you noticed that after your securement thread, that Hammer is the only one that tries to help you? Nice fellow, that Hammer. But you didnt hear what you wanted to hear and so now you gave your lecture on the joys of running super singles.

Heard that supersingles argument before. Heard it about the tri drives. Heard it about securement a thousand times. Heard it about buying old Schneider and Swift trucks and trying to convert them to heavy haulers. Seen drivers do all of the above. Guess where WE see them dead and broke down waiting for a tow? In the mud and on those narrow roads. DUHHHHHHHHH! And there will be another that comes around after a 5 minute conversation that will think that his vast experience as a doorslammer qualifies him to rub elbows with us.

"Good luck with that, driver."