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Post by truckertom on Dec 3, 2003 12:59:29 GMT -5
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Post by Pikeminnow on Dec 20, 2003 3:06:32 GMT -5
Oh, it's not that bad.....unless it's foggy, icy, or snowing. Which is most of the time. That advisory sign freaked me out the first time I saw it. I was driving along minding my own business when I saw my company name in lights on the side of the road. I was going too fast to read the whole thing (it flashed 2 different messages) and I had no idea what it was trying to tell me. I had just passed the Meacham scale with a green light on my transponder and I thought they were gonna come after me for some reason. I pulled over and called my boss, who didn't know about it either, so he called ODOT. The ODOT people said, "The state's broke, we're laying people off, but we have money for an electronic sign to tell your driver what he already knows. So tell him to ignore it." So now I ignore it. Next time you're out that way you can get a Cabbage Hill T-shirt at the Arrowhead truck stop at the bottom of the hill.
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Post by The Lone Ranger on Jul 19, 2005 12:22:26 GMT -5
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Post by truckertom on Jul 21, 2005 5:37:21 GMT -5
Just about the time you set it up, they change it.
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Post by Pcuthbert on Jul 27, 2005 17:23:11 GMT -5
I wonder how that sign would read with me going down at my Oregon registered weight of 105,500 pounds? How tight is the switchback they are talking about?
Pat
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Post by truckertom on Aug 3, 2005 18:22:26 GMT -5
I admit that I have hauled some overloads, as much as 135,000lbs back in my oilfield days.
Your brakes get hot ALOT faster! Stop at the top and set your brakes up. The switchback is fine as long as you are going slow enough. Jake brake in the right gear and let all those "fast boys" get away from you.
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Post by Pcuthbert on Aug 9, 2005 21:44:58 GMT -5
Tom;
My sentiments exactly. After running the hills of British Columbia (some of them 20 miles up and down) at 140,000 pounds, I have learned that the middle pedal is not for keeping your speed down when descending a long grade. It is for coming to a stop if you have to. Mr Jacobs sure came up with the right device when he built that "engine keeper warmer" (well, that was his intention anyways) that keeps us all at a reasonable speed going downhill.
Pat
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Post by truckertom on Aug 14, 2005 9:21:55 GMT -5
"Mr Jacobs sure came up with the right device..."
Some folks think it is an entertainment device!
I want an "I survived the Banning scale" t shirt! They should have handed that out for free back in the days when the Banning scale sounded like you and your truck were going to fall through it. Sure squeeked and creeked alot on the old one.
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Post by Pcuthbert on Aug 14, 2005 18:27:42 GMT -5
"Some folks think it is an entertainment device!" Surely you don't mean the ones who play tunes on their "Straight Pipes" in the yard, or those who use it to slow the engine to make a shift . I even remember the days when there were no brakes on the trailers " 'Cause you don't need them", and the engines were all running on gasoline. Straight cut gears and two boxes were the norm (if you had more than 5 forward gears that is). I wonder how many "students" today would have been able to do the job 30 or 40 years ago? Pat
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Post by truckertom on Aug 14, 2005 18:37:21 GMT -5
O man, next you will be telling me I shouldn't put my thumbs through the spokes of the steering wheel!
Double wiggle sticks! You could leave the keys in an old KW with a 5x4 in it today...no one knows how to drive them anymore, they couldn't steal it. That is why I get a kick out of a 30 year old transportation director telling me I don't have enough experience to drive for his company.
That just makes me laugh and leave shaking my head.
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Post by Pcuthbert on Aug 14, 2005 21:32:12 GMT -5
Tom;
"That is why I get a kick out of a 30 year old transportation director telling me I don't have enough experience to drive for his company. "
Din't nobuddy tell yah that if yah can run a keybord you is two smart ta run a truk?
How on earth can you drive a truck with a transmission with 18 forward gears with "ONLY ONE STICK". I didn't think they could put enough gates in a tranny to handle that!!!
But seriously, I think there would be a lot of new drivers who would leave a driveshaft sitting on the ground and not going anywhere if they were given a 5X4 tranny. I did it once on a 14% grade when I thought ( boy do we ever learn in a hurry) that I could get another gear. First and first are a set of gears not to be used (unless you want the rest of the day off).
Thanks for the memories! (And I wonder how many new drivers are asking temselves "Just what in heck is he talking about?"
I still think that every new driver should start out in a B-75 with a 5 speed triplex and 235 HP.
Pat
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Post by truckertom on Aug 19, 2005 4:44:17 GMT -5
I would love to train drivers on an old 4x4 knuclebuster behind a 250 Cummins. No air, no power steering. I have a student right now that has ADD and can't get an 8 speed down the road!
That is all I hear all day long is gears scraping. At one time he was telling be there was something wrong with my tranny because it didn't shift like a car! He can't opperate the power mirror either.
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Post by Charles on Aug 19, 2005 7:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by truckertom on Aug 19, 2005 18:36:57 GMT -5
Oh man would I love to tackle that truck. My father and I would make a project out of that one.
I'm just going to have to win the lottery!
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