Posted by The tractor vet on August 12, 2012 at 09:00:29 from (76.212.225.255):
In Reply to: OT Hwy Laws posted by IndianaRed on August 12, 2012 at 05:03:17:
spent a lot of years on the road and just when you think you have seen it all someone will show you something new. Now this may sound odd to most but when i could i took the old back roads . as i could sorta set back and enjoy the drive . Yea it may take a couple hours longer then again it may be faster . Case in point here , many years back i loaded out of the Windy headed for Pittsburg i was not heavy or anything and when i got down to Lake Station i got off the big road and took the OLD roads across In. and Oh. and every goat path thru the woods . There were four trucks ahead of me when i was loading and they all were going to the same place as i was . They were to unload ahead of me and i was to unload at 12:30 Am. I left after them and run the back roads staying off the turn pikes , i got to Pittsburg and weighed in and the guy asked me where the other trucks were , I have no idea as they all left before me and i came across the back roads . Well he unloaded me and as i was leaving the plant the truck that loaded in the morning way before i ever got loaded and had left way before me . He wanted to know how i beat him as he had run the pikes and interstates but got hung up in construction and a bunch of wrecks. Earlier this year i went out to Mo. and i took every goat path out there 623. 4 miles from my drive to hers 12 hours on the dot with one stop on the way only 4 lanes i was on was US 30 and a little of US24 . Nice relaxing ride had only one idiot pulling a camper in In. that should not have been on the road. Map quest told me that by there way it was 784 miles and 12.5 and a half hours , liked my way better. But baack to people and there driving , ya spend enough time behind the wheel of a big truck setting up where you can see and see people driving you get to learn what they are about to do by the way the set behind the wheel the way they hold the wheel and by what they drive. My biggest pet pev were the ones that jump out of a side road or parking lot in front of you and go a 1/4 to half mile down the road and make a left turn when they could have waited three seconds and pull out behind you where there was nothing behind you . When i was on the road i was pretty much condemned to the right lanes because of being oversized and had to watch my speed closely . What use to get me were the freight haulers as they just had to be in ft. of you and they would do anything to get inft. of you . They would pass ya and just as soon as there trailer was past the flags whip back in and slow down and all i could see was the back of there trailers not the road ahead as that i needed to see so i could make changes as fast as i could as to get wooooed or move over for something setting along side the road. Then whe ya got into the hills they did not have the power to maintain speed and where as i had twice to three times the pony power i would not loose speed on the humps and bumps and have to go around them . That would tick them off when in the mountains as at most i would have to just split a gear and maintain 65 or 70 and they were down to 50 55 . Then they would drive like wild men for the next five or ten miles just to catch up and pass ya till the next hill or the next cop. I moved some Mil. eqip. from Ft Dix to Nevel Island one time and had to Pike it with Pa state cop escort , now that was fun let me tell you. I meet the state bear at the line and we have a little Pow ow about the move and set up our talk channel on the C B and the game plan . I asked the bear how fast do you want me to run , the bear says to me HOW FAST can you run . Being the smart Arrs that i am i say a whole bunch faster then you want me to , he says can you RUN 75 AND HOLD IT , yes i can ok then that is the speed i want you to run we do not want to hold up the IDIOTS his words. What about the construction zones as we will have three to go thru , He says drop back to 65 and TAKE BOTH LANES and the same for the tunnels TAKE BOTH LANES . I will be behind you till we get to mile marker such and such and there i will hand you over to the next bear and you two can work out what ever he wants. So off we go he is behind me with his lights ah going me with all my lights on signs flags and two strobes going on the back to the trailer . We come to the first tunnel and he moves over and blocks off the left lane and i move over into the center and take both lanes thru the tunnel once clear of the tunnel i move back over and what gets me is that we are running 75 in a 65 speed limit with a BEAR dead on my donkey with is lites going the people that still came flyen around us and i do mean flyen as on guy came around us i saw his digital dash say 90 . as we come up on the next tunnel i see a freight box tryen to get around me and the cop and he goes clean off the road onto the left berm to do so and made me dive for the ditch so he could beat me thru the tunnel . Now this made the BEAR really mad as we came into the tunnel the bear asked me if i would be ok if he left me as he really needed to talk with this professional driver and as soon as we cleared the tunnel he was going to RUN him down his words. Well as soon as we cleared the end of the tunnel the bear mashed the gas and was gone as i kept up the pace till i got to the next hand off point. Well about ten miles up the road in a wide spot there was my bear with Mr. Professional driver having a little talk and my pull off was a few miles past . I found my meeting place and pulled off and waited for the next bear . He and i go over the rules and head out , about 25 miles into this bear here comes that Freight hauler just running his mouth on the radio about the 1500 dollar fine he got for no reason , let see here passen a cop escorting and oversized load going off the pavement to get around going over the posted speed limit doing so and running the left lane thru a tunnel BUT HE did not do anything wrong and it was all this oversized loads fault. Then he looks up and oh guess who is inft. of him again and he starts bad mouthen me and the Pa bears , now wait a min here i am doing what MR. BEAR tells me to do and we are running above the posted speed limit as to not hold anybody up tomuch and your bad mouthen me and the bear, I about fell of the cab when this bear comes on the radio and asked him if he would like to go for round two or just set back there and be quiet.
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