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[dstig1]

Coworker was on a sub in the navy. He said they called any surface "ship or boat" one thing: Targets

 

[steve tym]

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This looks like a shipping ship shipping shipping ships.

 

[groundcover]

Easy to get it out of there. Pop the linkage off the leveling valve on the tractor rear suspension, hold the lever up so the suspension inflates raising the front of the trailer. drive it back to level ground and reinstall the leveling valve linkage. Even if you had to break the linkage, it would be cheaper to repair than the cost of a tow truck bill. Way back in my driving days, I helped a few guys out that way, two of them that were stuck in RR crossings. If the truck has spring suspension, you'll need a pull.

"Driver" didn't know anything about the air bags on the trailer or diff lock on tractor !

 

[Dftodd]

One of my customers that has a farm found a horse in their cattle pasture. Figured had to be abandoned there after being unable to find an owner.

The guy who has the cattle across the street from us had a buddy play a joke on him. The buddy turned a black sheep loose in his cattle pasture during calving season.

Took him a week to realize one of the calves he was counting was a sheep

To be fair, we were living on our property for 6 months before we realized there was a black sheep out there with the cattle

 

[Dftodd]

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So called "truck driver " was fully equipped with flip flops too !

Flip flops are mandatory attire for OTR drivers these days

I've lost count of how many drivers I've had through my yard where I've had to stop them and inform them that boots were mandatory in my yard.

 

[QRTRHRS]

From what I know, there are no DOT regs on footwear? It's up to an employer or in this case the receiving company.

 

[Dftodd]

From what I know, there are no DOT regs on footwear? It's up to an employer or in this case the receiving company.

Yeah, they dont care since its just the driving that they care about.

What gets me is freight haulers thinking its appropriate to drag around chains and binders wearing flip flops.

One dropped binder in the right spot, and they would be howling for a while

 

[LouNY]

Yeah, they dont care since its just the driving that they care about.

What gets me is freight haulers thinking its appropriate to drag around chains and binders wearing flip flops.

One dropped binder in the right spot, and they would be howling for a while

No loose, wearing flip flops I just as soon them limping as continuing to drive.

 

[Dftodd]

No loose, wearing flip flops I just as soon them limping as continuing to drive.

I had a driver yesterday that I hoped would get the dot English test

I finally loaded the equipment on his trailer where he wanted instead of where I was suggesting to put it. I passed him going down the road a while later and the trailer was so tongue heavy and the truck was just a bouncing. I figured he would have some busted springs by the time he reached Minnesota.

He moved the two PVC septic tanks (500lbs total weight) to the back of his 40ft goose neck trailer, and had my 8,000lb pump put all the way to the front

I wanted to do a 60/40 split over his axles with it

 

[BravoXray]

I had a driver yesterday that I hoped would get the dot English test

I finally loaded the equipment on his trailer where he wanted instead of where I was suggesting to put it. I passed him going down the road a while later and the trailer was so tongue heavy and the truck was just a bouncing. I figured he would have some busted springs by the time he reached Minnesota.

He moved the two PVC septic tanks (500lbs total weight) to the back of his 40ft goose neck trailer, and had my 8,000lb pump put all the way to the front

I wanted to do a 60/40 split over his axles with it

Yeah, some truckers, and I use the term loosely, think they know how to load material better than someone who loads it every day.
I had a customer years ago the loaded big stamping press dies that weighed 10K to 30K apiece. If the driver wouldn't let him load them where they should go on a trailer, he refused to load him and sent them away. A few years prior to that he let a driver go out loaded too heavy on the trailer axles, against his advice. The driver got pulled over at a weigh station, and detained for a few days until he could get the load moved and pay the overweight fine.
After that it was his way or the highway.