Rookie Making Rookie Mistakes.

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Chris the stick slinger's Comment
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I would have risked it because no one will know when that light went bad. Yea the last driver might have reported it but who is to say its not just a short that blew the bulb. Note it on the pretrip and roll out.

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Keep in mind that if someone wants to write you a ticket for having a light out it doesn't matter when it happens. The driver who is driving it at the time gets the ticket.

Thats the risks associated with living on the edge like I do...

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Brett Aquila's Comment
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Thats the risks associated with living on the edge like I do...

rofl-3.gif Yeah I know exactly what you mean. If you want to turn big miles every week you have to live in the gray areas.

Trucker Kearsey 's Comment
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If it makes u feel better I screwed up yesterday. .. missed turn on PA turnpike. Got off the next exit... no turn around anywhere not even in businesses. Wound up on narrow curvy road up steep hill. Found a gravel lot that was so slanted I thought I was going to flip... but there were tons of truck track marks... so I'm not the first to do it there. Back down the steep steep hill. With a jerk sooooo close I could not see him. The truck did not want to climb...and I stalled in 3rd. I stopped afraid I was goi ng to roll backwards and hit the guy I couldn't see...I had to climb the rest of the hill in one. And yes... this was a truck route.

By the end of the day if you didn't hit anything and didn't hurt anyone.. u did good. Hahah that is my philosophy now.

Farmerbob1's Comment
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If it makes u feel better I screwed up yesterday. .. missed turn on PA turnpike. Got off the next exit... no turn around anywhere not even in businesses. Wound up on narrow curvy road up steep hill. Found a gravel lot that was so slanted I thought I was going to flip... but there were tons of truck track marks... so I'm not the first to do it there. Back down the steep steep hill. With a jerk sooooo close I could not see him. The truck did not want to climb...and I stalled in 3rd. I stopped afraid I was goi ng to roll backwards and hit the guy I couldn't see...I had to climb the rest of the hill in one. And yes... this was a truck route.

By the end of the day if you didn't hit anything and didn't hurt anyone.. u did good. Hahah that is my philosophy now.

Before I actually drove in PA, if someone has told my how terrible the state highways in that state were for trucks, I would not have believed them. I do everything possible to stay on interstates in PA. Glad you made it out OK!

Interstate:

Commercial trade, business, movement of goods or money, or transportation from one state to another, regulated by the Federal Department Of Transportation (DOT).

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