Re: Could this tale be true?

Posted by Dodgeit on January 24, 2013 at 07:03:32 from (65.199.61.227):

In Reply to: Could this tale be true? posted by The tractor vet on January 23, 2013 at 18:00:50:

The tractor vet said: (quoted from post at 21:00:50 01/23/13) Well as far as the flames i don't think so as the old sayen goes when the go they go BUT WHEN THEY GLOW THEY BLOW. Now as to speed yep there are large cars out there that can do the triple digits and have seen it . I was not one of the ones that cared to get a loaded semi up much over 90-95 . As i never geared my trucks for high speed . I wanted a truck that would PULL the hills . A little story here , one late night on I 55 in Ill. i was south bound and running around 75 maybe 80 heading to Bloomington with a load of CFC salt on there was nobody that i could see either coming at me or up behind me then out of nowhere i see head lights in my mirror and they were way off but you could tell that they were really moving . At first i thought that it was a bear and i started to slow down just knwing that i got vascared . Then i could make out his cab lites , Oh heck it is just another truck mash the gas and we will run with him i had mine flat out and this guy came up on me and was around me like i was on jacks . Flat out the old 4300 would do 88 and he passed me like a Hemi Road Runner passen a V W bug . We talked for a few min. before he was out of range . He tolde me that he was running around 120 -125 and as soon as he cleared the land of Lincoln he was going to stuff it in the big hole and set sail as he had two more gears to go . I learned one thing that night my 4.44 gears were NOT the gears for the west . BUT when them big trucks got over my way i could eat them alive in the hills with twice the weight on . Back in the good OLD days of trucking a company out of COL. by the name of Monfort use to run from Col. to N y across Ohio and Pa . Across the ohio pike they could cross the 247 miles in a little over two hours If it was not for the tow little hills on the pike they could have done it in under two hours . After they clocked one of there trucks doing a 137 MHP on the pike and this was back when the speed limit was 55 . They caught that truck and driver and he went to gray bar motel and the truck was towed and impounded Back then the left lane was called the Monfort lane and only big trucks would get out there .

Was it a White Cabover Pete? I just mentioned Monfort in the other post.

If it was a White Cabover Pete, it may have been me. Used to run alot of Charleston SC, to Chicago and points west.

Handle was "Red Pepper"

This post was edited by Dodgeit at 07:04:23 01/24/13.

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