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[QRTRHRS]

I guess my mind always goes to manufacturing, where there are always scales, and the weight of the product is always known. But you’re probably thinking more of situations like logging or construction, where scales may not be available on-site.

You make good point. But I’d still argue that the weight of the equipment should be known, at least roughly. Weight of logs of haul-away debris require a little more knowledge to estimate, but should still be doable to better than +/- 300% error, I would think.

When it comes to logs, the season may make a big difference in weight. Back in the 73,280 days, I was hauling cedar logs out of Ontario. Come spring time when the sap rose, the load could easily exceed the legal weight. I loaded out of two different yards, no nearby scales. If the load felt heavy, I would scale in Watertown, NY to plan my route, lol! It was not unusual to weigh in at 80-85K. One load came in at 95K, whoops!

 

[Jstpssng]

When it comes to logs, the season may make a big difference in weight. Back in the 73,280 days, I was hauling cedar logs out of Ontario. Come spring time when the sap rose, the load could easily exceed the legal weight. I loaded out of two different yards, no nearby scales. If the load felt heavy, I would scale in Watertown, NY to plan my route, lol! It was not unusual to weigh in at 80-85K. One load came in at 95K, whoops!

That'd be a light load here. Forest products are allowed 100,000 lbs.

 

[WM75Guy]

Is it wrong or making do with what you got?

 

[Jstpssng]

Is it wrong or making do with what you got?

I would say it depends on how far he is going.

Also how hard the wind is blowing.

 

[redman135]

Cyclist with plywood: what happens when a box body truck goes past? Oops.

 

[Dftodd]

Meanwhile in Massachusetts, troopers were caught selling cdl licenses.

Snowblower, driveway, plunge pool: A closer look at the bribes in state trooper license scandal

Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers were among six people charged Tuesday in a scheme to allegedly take bribes including a new snowblower and driveway in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving tests, the U.S. attorney’s office said. The troopers are...

www.nbcboston.com

I hope they recieved enough to cover their pensions... which I doubt they will be getting.

Thats not just Massachusetts. I knew a couple people that took the easy route to a cdl through some well placed (cough... cough....) donations with a truck driving school in Florida.

They came out later and were really digging into that school and trying to figure out who was legit and went through the school, and who took the easy route.

I'm figuring this is gonna come up in more states.

 

[KennyG]

Selling licenses was a common thing in Illinois for many years. Even though it was well known, it went on because the sellers were politically connected.

 

[QRTRHRS]

When the CDL came about. I had gone back to school for electronics and was working in high tech. Though grandfathered in. I dropped it. 2003, the plant closed. I took the CDL course through a local community college paid in full because I had been laid off. Having been there, done that, the written part was easy plus I went online and found practice tests.

I took every endorsement test except school bus. LOL. the school used a school bus for both P and S. (LOL again, many years later, I got the S to drive for our school district)

Anyway, I blew through those tests on a computer so fast, they were sure that I had somehow cheated.

 

[dodge man]

A governor from Illinois went to prison for selling drivers licenses from when he was secretary of state. Of course that’s par for the course here.

 

[blacktruck]

Selling licenses was a common thing in Illinois for many years. Even though it was well known, it went on because the sellers were politically connected.

What? Are you crazy???
In Illinois???
I'm actually from there and it's been a long time issue of commercial driving schools being wholly inadequate. Friends in high places has relevance there to be sure. Now, back to people hauling things wrong....

 

[bcp]

Another bridge incident, with a difference.

Video shows ship crashing into Brooklyn Bridge

Two people have been killed and at least 19 others injured after a tall Mexican Navy training sailboat crashed into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.

www.bbc.com

Bruce

 

[blacktruck]

Another bridge incident, with a difference.

Video shows ship crashing into Brooklyn Bridge

Two people have been killed and at least 19 others injured after a tall Mexican Navy training sailboat crashed into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge.

www.bbc.com

Bruce

Pretty embarrassing I would think for the ship's master.

 

[dodge man]

The ship hitting the bridge would have been a little more humorous except a couple of people died. I read something broke or malfunctioned on the ship.

 

[WinterDeere]

I read something broke or malfunctioned on the ship.

That's almost always the case, when you see ship to shore collisions. Even on a training ship, the ranking officials on board are usually there because they have displayed a very long history of exceptional competence.

That said, in things like parades and exhibitions, rules that might normally keep a vessel and a bridge well-apart are sometimes bent a little. I know nothing about this case, but the way they have the boat lit up makes me think that it could have been part of some display that had the vessel operating closer to the land and bridge than might otherwise happen under normal operations. Mechanical failures, such as transmissions that won't come out of reverse into forward, are resolved a lot more easily when you're not operating within a ship's length or two of an obstacle.

 

[blacktruck]

The ship hitting the bridge would have been a little more humorous except a couple of people died. I read something broke or malfunctioned on the ship.

I only saw a brief mention of the ship hitting the bridge. I didn't see the news of casualties. That does make it tragic indeed.

 

[Jstpssng]

I don't know much about sailing ships. Would this have an auxiliary engine, or was it under tow?

 

[dodge man]

I don’t know for sure but I’m almost sure it woukd have engine power.

 

[WinterDeere]

I don't know much about sailing ships. Would this have an auxiliary engine, or was it under tow?

Pretty rare for any sailing vessel to not have a small diesel (often Yanmar), capable of at least 8 - 10 knots. Really necessary for navigating high-traffic inlets and harbors, not to mention powering you through select sections of long crossings when the wind forecast isn't 100% reliable.

 

[BigBlue1]

That's a weird one. It was obviously much taller than the bridge would allow passage for. Either they were badly misinformed or ???

 

[orezok]

It appears that they had some sort of propulsion failure and the river current carried them backward into the bridge.