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05-21-15, 09:00 AM
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More beautiful weather to accelerate the drying of our wild spaces and get the fire season started early. 
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05-21-15, 09:59 AM
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Need more coffee.
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05-21-15, 11:35 AM
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That would be a tank full of gasoline in a non heavy haul state, could be Cali. Tank needs polishing by the way. Hey that said the best trailers I ever pulled were a set of Beall's.
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05-21-15, 01:14 PM
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Dang, and I was hoping this was coffee strong enough to need a hazmat placard. Yes, SoCal, and yes, it needs polishing BADLY.
05-21-15, 01:25 PM
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Well if his thermos is anything like mine used to be it should have a corrosive label.........
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05-21-15, 02:18 PM
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I have hazmat material arriving today 
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05-21-15, 03:12 PM
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I used to move some trailers around with a yard tractor, we used to get these asteriskclowns in from Cali with the overseas containers on a truck chassis, they were infamous for having a 2 driver team of which neither spoke any English. So anyway one of the guys who could converse pretty decent asks ME how far back his wheels need to be from kingpin to wheels to go from Indiana to California legally. Somehow he got from Cali to Indiana without knowing that.
I told him I had absolutely NO idea hehe.
Wife is a dispatcher at a flatbed trucking co in Holiday City Ohio.
In the year I was moving trailers around I usually saw some "truck driver trick" at least once a day that had me shaking my head. One guy sat at an "in" gate for like 90 minutes waiting for it to open so he could go "out".....I was driving around on a Toyota lift truck and something kept catching my eye over that way, finally it registered, I went over and said "HEY....dude it will never open, you have to go over around the pond to the "out" gate.
Another guy had a big asterisk mold....hits first dock on the place....I tell him "that goes to tooling, you have to go all the way OUT, come baclk around front of the building..they unload them there". I go back inside building to use the restroom....the moron just backed into the NEXT dock on around the building....guys there were telling him same thing, if there had been more docks I bet he would have backed into every %^$# one on around the building :-).
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I told him I had absolutely NO idea hehe.
Wife is a dispatcher at a flatbed trucking co in Holiday City Ohio.
In the year I was moving trailers around I usually saw some "truck driver trick" at least once a day that had me shaking my head. One guy sat at an "in" gate for like 90 minutes waiting for it to open so he could go "out".....I was driving around on a Toyota lift truck and something kept catching my eye over that way, finally it registered, I went over and said "HEY....dude it will never open, you have to go over around the pond to the "out" gate.
Another guy had a big asterisk mold....hits first dock on the place....I tell him "that goes to tooling, you have to go all the way OUT, come baclk around front of the building..they unload them there". I go back inside building to use the restroom....the moron just backed into the NEXT dock on around the building....guys there were telling him same thing, if there had been more docks I bet he would have backed into every %^$# one on around the building :-).
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05-21-15, 04:29 PM
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I used to move some trailers around with a yard tractor, we used to get these asteriskclowns in from Cali with the overseas containers on a truck chassis, they were infamous for having a 2 driver team of which neither spoke any English. So anyway one of the guys who could converse pretty decent asks ME how far back his wheels need to be from kingpin to wheels to go from Indiana to California legally. Somehow he got from Cali to Indiana without knowing that.
Bill
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05-21-15, 04:31 PM
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40' however I think it only applies to 53' trailers. to wit:Truck Lengths & Routes
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05-21-15, 04:51 PM
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Yeah size, weight, and load are required knowledge for CDL drivers........... funny how many don't know what they are required by law to know. I've had more than my share of those moments that just make me say WOW, really!
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05-21-15, 06:56 PM
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I think you could stand a spoon upright in the stuff, although the spoon would dissolve if you left it there too long.
05-21-15, 07:36 PM
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well here is a classic, drivers are required to check their load to ensure it is properly strapped and secured. Yet, one can go to unload 1500 miles from home, only to discover that instead of 30,000 lbs of metal round stock, he has 40,000 lbs of brick......he hooked up to the wrong trailer. Another guy similar story but he had an empty trailer......must have thought his tractor had eaten it's wheaties :-).
05-21-15, 10:39 PM
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Yup had a driver once drive 150 miles without a container thinking he would get one at the shipper, so 300 miles for nothing plus a missed load. There are some real thinkers out there.
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05-22-15, 05:07 AM
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Loading for a 65 mile ride tomorrow with almost no coasting and some headwind:
05-22-15, 09:44 AM
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@indyfabz that looks tasty!
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05-22-15, 10:32 AM
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@indyfabz that looks tasty!
Thanks. It was.
05-26-15, 10:17 AM
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unnnn 4 weekends and no bike rides......crazy...I'm going crazy...my bikes are crazy clean
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05-26-15, 10:34 AM
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losing fitness and playing video games
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