Just A Funny Trucking Picture To Brighten Your Day
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Yup. That is the Driver Services Bldg. in Phoenix. That is where they installed the Training Wheels on my Freightliner!
I love the reserved parking out front
War is a strange diversification strategy for a trucking company.
Saw this sign at the Johnson's Corner truck stop in Loveland, CO off I25. Cracked me up!
Saw this sign at the Johnson's Corner truck stop in Loveland, CO off I25. Cracked me up!
AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! I once spent an hour scaling a Walmart load at that place. The tandems wouldn't budge. Because of the gravel in the lot the tires would drag instead of the axles moving. I ended up going out into the street with bare pavement and jamming the trolley valve while backing up way too fast in order to lock things up. Borderline abuse of company equipment but it worked. Then I had to scale two more times to make it legal. On the bright side, the scales west of Denver were open so I did right by following through and being professional. Thanks, Brett! Oh, then I took a wrong turn and basically got lost leaving the place! I hate Colorado.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated
After they get a few "kinks" worked out, this might be flatbed's future:
So that is what Old School refers to as Suicide Coils. But, with it rolling itself down a highway wouldn't that make it a homicide coil?
So that is what Old School refers to as Suicide Coils. But, with it rolling itself down a highway wouldn't that make it a homicide coil?
Suicide coils are called that - because if they break loose in a hard impact - they will roll forward and CRUSH THE CAB, DRIVER and once off the truck , they then become HOMICIDE COILS.
Suicide Coil:
Homicide Coil:
So much for pictures to brighten your day...
Rick
OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.
I was trying to be entertaining. Thank you Rick for being so literal. Me thinks 1 to many years reading computer code, lol
There is a language that contains nuances. I know it doesn't translate into 0s and 1s.. teeheehee.
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