Re: pulling a trailer with a one ton pickup

Posted by Mark - IN. on March 04, 2005 at 21:55:40 from (64.12.117.7):

In Reply to: pulling a trailer with a one ton pickup posted by DaveH IA on March 04, 2005 at 21:27:03:

Best thing you can do Dave is call the highway patrol. No guessing that way.

I was doing a phone repair in a State Police Barracks one time when got a frantic call from a trucker that was hauling something big from Iowa to Indiana, and got pulled over. His problem, whatever it was, was so big that needed an escort, and called ahead. He arranged an escort by calling the nearest SOI Police Barracks to Iowa, and arranged it. But what they didn't bother telling him, and he certainly didn't know was that "HE" needed to call and arrange escorts in all in each District that he passed through. Sure enough, got to the Illinois line from Iowa on I80, and got his escort as planned. They escorted him to the end of their District and dropped off, and he kept going until got pulled over for not having an escort, and they stopped him dead in his tracks until arranged one. Was a frantic call to where I was working. All I could think at the time was, poor guy tried to do the right thing and no one bothered to even offer a helpful hint or tip. It wasn't as though they didn't know what he was doing when he arranged it, right? Holy cow.

Mark

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