the unnecessary usage of j-brakes, why????

That's right!
This ol' house I'm callin' home is located quite a ways from a major highway, and a north-south Interstate with a slight downhill grade. From here, I can't hear any of the motorcycles OR Big truck Jake Brakes, --- and that right thar really sizzles my bacon.

I want to hear the Big trucks runnin' their Jakes. I really miss that sound. Where do I register a complaint? Is there a suggestion box somewhere? I'm gonna demand that signs be erected that read:

ALL Big Truck Truck Drivers
Switch Engine Brakes ON
Next 3 Miles For AfterShock

Thank yew very much.

~~~ Can y'all hear me now?!

 

if it bothers you so much than move

 

Ahhh - this is just like folks who build or buy a home near an airport, or an industrial area. They get a fairly cheap place to live, then after they have been there for a bit find out WHY the property was a bit less expensive than the same place would be in a QUIET neighborhood.

So of course, instead of saying "I screwed up," and moving on with their lives, they demand that the airport, or the industrial area move. Remember, it is all about THEM.

If they are dumb enough to buy or build in such an area, then it should be no one's problem but theirs. But of course no one can be held responsibile for their own stupidity any more...

 

We have people like that in our neighborhood Don! We are right across the lake from a NAS/JRB and people complain like crazy about the jets/bombers flying over. To make matters worse for them, we also live right near a major highway with a hill and stop light. I love hearing the jets and jakes! I say if they don't like it, MOVE! What's stopping them?

 

Ain't there some kinda disclosure law? SOMEthing to protect those who will not see? I mean, a house situated down an embankment from a heavy traffic highway, with an address on the town's busy Main street down below, -- barbed wire and a high chain link fence encircle the house, garage, and small yards, now concrete, -- right next door, on the corner of Busy street and Busier Blvd., is an all-night, strip joint,....and y'all don't think a prospective buyer wouldn't realize those conditions would de-val.......
Hmmmmmmmmmm

Then again, to some folks, that might entice 'em to pay more. With a strip joint on the corner, next door, it probably wouldn't be hard for friends to locate. And if friends were directionally challenged, they could ask just about ANYone on the street for directions to where the all night strip club is.

No lawn to mow either.

After me ---
Y'all come first?
I know the type very well.
I owned horses for 20 -- 25 years back in the day. Lived in the city and boarded the horses on the outskirts of town. Then, progress arrived and the stables, egg ranches, dairies and animal kennels had to vacate farther into the outskirts. Again. To wait. Again. 'Cause we knew it'd happen again, and again.

Housing tracts bring the people and people bring their personalities and attitudes, good and not so. Dust, flies, smell, and even fleas blamed on the horses (that don't ever get fleas), as the complaints begin.
Then a group of neighborly neighbors get together with a common goal, -- to be as mean as they can be,... so they all gang up with a frenzy.
And the fight begins.

In the end, we know we'll lose. Can't impede progress, doncha know.

It took me a long time to become as stupid as I am. And now it's not easy maintaining my stupidity. It's a daily struggle with reason and logic for me.
Imagine that.

Now imagine this, ----------------------

While drivin' your life away, you've noticed a particular piece of property out in a wooded area with a creek runnin' through it into a pond. A spectacular view, quiet and secluded. Dreams of owning and building a house that's a home on it, --- right about over there ---->

And one day you do it. Buy and build and enjoy paradise on earth, ---
for awhile. Until progress arrives. And the traffic, noise, with new neighbors everywhere, ---- it's a culture shock of sorts. As the lifestyle you left behind when y'all moved to where you are, catches up and finds you.

Then a city animal control officer knocks on the door to inform you that according to the ordinances the new city adopted, you have too many pets, sumthin's gotta give, .....or be in violation of the new law.

Have a nice day.
(Something you used to be able to have)

Do you think that, under similar, but less dramatic circumstances, someone in that kind of situation might have good reason to complain? They wouldn't have known about the future, so they didn't move in knowing what would eventually happen there.

If I recall, the original poster in this thread related a similar story. When he first moved there, there wasn't a highway yet, just a road. The highway moved in on him, he didn't move there knowing about a highway bein' built, ..... someday.

I think that of all who complain not all are whiners.

OH, on the same subject, have y'all heard of drag racing's WinterNationaLS? How 'bout the World Finals of drag racin'?
Held in Pomona, California --- but it's really in the smaller town of LaVern --- Parker Ave. becomes a drag strip for 300 mph in a quarter mile machines. Eight thousand horsepower is noisy.
Neighbors complained.
Noise
Traffic
Cracked walls
Insanity.

They wanted to put a red light on drags.

The city suits and ties said fine.
But with the loss of revenue twice a year worth millions of dollars, that drag racin' brings into the city --- money that the city depends on to remain a city that pays it's bills, --- those complaining were informed that their property taxes would need to be raised --- considerably --- to balance the city's budget.
Their choice.

That was 20 some-odd years ago.
And the NHRA still runs two events there a year.
Seems the neighbors weren't for new taxes.
Ya reckon.

 

The bikes get away with the noise so you will see them, kind of a safety factor. But there's no reason for all the bikes to open it full throttle through every gear at 2 am. They just like to make noise and say hey look at me!

 

Get the same attitude in the country from city people who buy acreage and then complain about farm equipment and animals.

 

Straight pipes and engine retarders are for those that watched one to many episodes of BJ and the Bear

I could ride my engine break all day long(I do not I use it for it's intended purpose which by the way is not in the ##***ing parking lot pinheads) and would never even have a head turned as I went by.


But to answer the posters question they do it to look coolSame as the people who think the $200 muffler on their jap #### car makes it a street rod,or the Vtwin guy that has no comprehension of decorum.Or the ghetto wannabe that feels his speakers must be capable of setting off car alarms or his ##### will rot off


In short they do it so they can be a "stand out" or "rebel".What they are is annoying,ill informed blights on my industry.And are to blame for a significant portion of the anti-truck regulation handed down over the last couple of decades.

 

a properly fitting full face helmet reduces noise significantly. i had a 3 wheeler, dirtbike, and a snowmobile that i used my snowmobile helmet on, and, i couldnt even ride any of them without the helmet without feeling like "im gonna go deaf"....plus on the snowmobile my nose sure would get cold without it LOL

 

Poor drivers is everybody picking on trucks that are infringing on other peoples rights... Just like you have rights so do everybody else. Noise laws are enforced on everybody from trucks to punks with loud music. I have received noise tickets on my Harleys, but that does no it mean there picking on me, it just means it was too loud, no big deal, repacked the mufflers and had it signed off.

No one has problems with trucks using jakes, just with the jerks the want to have problems, thats why they take the muffler off the jakes to start with. I leave my jake turned most of the time and you can not hear it at all. No one notices.

There is no where that gives you the right to infringe on others just because you choose to drive a truck. Grow up, these jerks with straight pipes make it difficult on every other driver going down the road. There jerks not heros.