Subsim Truckers

[Onkel Neal]

Oh, I love seatbelts, been wearing them religiously since '76 and my first car.

KEEP THE JAKE BRAKE SHUT OFF ESPECIALLY ON SNOW AND ICE.

Do you mean to say, do not use the jakes at all in these conditions? Just the wheel brakes?

I have a sense of what to do in a skid, plenty of practice with cars (I was drifting long before it was called that, see Starsky & Hutch). However, I'm not at all confident that I can be super cool in a skid in the truck. I hope I don't have to find out, or if I do, my first skid is a baby skid I can get out of and then quit and turn in the truck

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Oh, I love seatbelts, been wearing them religiously since '76 and my first car.



Do you mean to say, do not use the jakes at all in these conditions? Just the wheel brakes?

I have a sense of what to do in a skid, plenty of practice with cars (I was drifting long before it was called that, see Starsky & Hutch). However, I'm not at all confident that I can be super cool in a skid in the truck. I hope I don't have to find out, or if I do, my first skid is a baby skid I can get out of and then quit and turn in the truck

Do you mean to say, do not use the jakes at all in these conditions? Just the wheel brakes?
That is exactly what I am saying. The Jake in slippery conditions will lock up your drives and then around you go.

I managed to get out of a tractor skid at 60mph (waaaaay too fast for the conditions) on the 403 headed for Oakville, ON.....Once....That was the second time I had been in a skid like that. The first time was turning a corner in a Northern Ontario town with a single axle tractor. I got out of them both the same way, turn into the skid. The one on the 403 took a lot more work. That God and International for fast power steering.

[Wolferz]

Jake brakes are not safe on wet roads either. I hope this was covered somewhere in your training.

The best way to prevent the current topic of discussion is to not be out there in those conditions.
During my orientation with CRST they showed us a video recorded by a husband and wife team who were bobtailing north on I-81 in this neighborhood. It was snowing pretty heavy and the pair were laughing at all the four wheelers skating on the road, until they went skating themselves. Right into the median.
CRST had a standing regulation to not be out there rolling in inclement winter weather. The pair got fired and tried in vain to sue for their jobs back and they tried using that video as evidence. I hope they found another job. Preferably not moving freight.

[swamprat69er]

One other tid bit of info, IF you see an animal on the road and can't stop....DO NOT SWERVE. Hit the thing and be done with it. Tankers are not forgiving when you swerve.

[Aktungbby]

That actually was the company rule; hit the thing no going off the road and claiming you were being 'kind' to animals. Bobtailing, unless specifically authorized, was expressly verboten; too dangerous because of braking traction...unless absolutely necessary to get to a repair facility-otherwise a termination offense. The stop I made on I-80 was mind boggling at the top of Parley's Pass east of Salt lake; actually had to make repeat trips to a parallel river 50-yards hike- to get water to sooth an overheating radiator and couldn't touch the ground in any direction from years of accumulated antelopes, deer, and elk- all clobbered on the freeway-that had staggered onto the shoulder before collapsing. So at 60 mph it's a big problem much less the moose or black bears I've seen in Minnesota on I-35. How's that hamstring?

[swamprat69er]

Getting better slowly. I'm only using the crutches for the walks/hobbles to the kitchen (45'). I'm not going outside at all, until I can get to the kitchen and around the rest of the house without the crutches. The toilet is the next room to me so I am doing that with out aid other than the knee brace. No more goobers, at all.

Update; So far today 07:30hrs and have been up since 05:30, no knee brace, no goobers yesterday nor yet today, the pain is a dull ache and the limp is still fairly pronounced but that is to be expected. I think I will go to town this afternoon and get me an ice pick for the cane/walking stick.

[swamprat69er]

It kinda looks like SWIFT will be looking for another driver and maybe a truck to go along with it. They wiped one out somewhere near London, ON today. Trailer in ditch and tractor still on the road. Driver okay as far as I could see.

[Mr Quatro]

What if you had to get this rig to market?

[swamprat69er]

I would have to say that is an O V E R S I Z E D load.

The Pete on the far side either has a big fat driver in it or a weak front spring.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by swamprat69er

I would have to say that is an O V E R S I Z E D load.

No problem we've got two Volvos so we could do it with
him on board also.

[Onkel Neal]

Well, last week I was rolling up I49 in LA, steady 60mph in clear weather, when without warning I felt the truck surge forward a little... I thought, so when do I get surge after miles on the interstate at a steady speed ... ?

Looked in the mirror and saw a Dodge Ram 1500 break dancing on his front bumper behind me His back wheels were 4 feet off the road. He spun a few times, twirled off the shoulder down a wide embankment. The short of it, he fell asleep and hit me. Thankfully this was one of the few honest people who don't try to find some reason to blame the driver. And thankfully, he was not hurt, although his truck was a mess. My trailer suffered a slight bent bumper, was able to straighten it out with a chain and the wrecker.

PS: This latest govt spending bill will change the 34 restart rules for drivers, no more 1am-5am requirement and we will be able to take a 34 restart anytime during the week. Hurrah for common sense.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Well, last week I was rolling up I49 in LA, steady 60mph in clear weather, when without warning I felt the truck surge forward a little... I thought, so when do I get surge after miles on the interstate at a steady speed ... ?

Looked in the mirror and saw a Dodge Ram 1500 break dancing on his front bumper behind me His back wheels were 4 feet off the road. He spun a few times, twirled off the shoulder down a wide embankment. The short of it, he fell asleep and hit me. Thankfully this was one of the few honest people who don't try to find some reason to blame the driver. And thankfully, he was not hurt, although his truck was a mess. My trailer suffered a slight bent bumper, was able to straighten it out with a chain and the wrecker.

PS: This latest govt spending bill will change the 34 restart rules for drivers, no more 1am-5am requirement and we will be able to take a 34 restart anytime during the week. Hurrah for common sense.

It is good to see that the guy that hit you wasn't hurt, just wide awake......Now....
It is about time the goobermint quashed that phoney 1-5 AM crap. I guess that means the one reset every 168 hours thing is out, too?
Example; I can start to work after a reset, work 10 hours and then take another 36 hour reset and then go for the maximum daily amount and take yet another reset. Basically, I can take however many resets in my week as I want to with no repercussions from the D.O.T.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Well, last week I was rolling up I49 in LA, steady 60mph in clear weather, when without warning I felt the truck surge forward a little... I thought, so when do I get surge after miles on the interstate at a steady speed ... ?

Glad that your ok; I got creamed by a Pinto drunk in '82 in the the truck descent lane on I-5's Tejon Pass in my GMC Detroit beer-hauler with McKinney trailer. He didn't realize I was at 25 mph. descending on the jake. He was totaled but too drunk (and his lady) to be hurt. The second was a sheriff's LT, in his Crown Victoria cruiser, looking at his computer, instead of the road, who creamed my new Corolla in '05 stopped at the light!; he was mortified as I was in full kit-armed myself- and some professional courtesy including the CHP's independant report taker was thus unavoidable;(ie: no lies in the police report!) his county paid the $7-K tab-my camera work was unarguable!- and it's still my work car at 212,000-plus miles on the odometer-with three deer to it's credit this year alone?!! Both my wife in her '99 Forester, AND the daughter just got rear-ended her first week on her own in her '07 Forester- $1200- no deductible to me- to AAA insurance! and now the young lady, who also took great pics, gets why she's (an only child) NOT in some cute little Cooper or Fiat 500! DADDY'S DEFENSE! The poor young man's new month-old BMW appears totaled-no one was injured. Between you, my wife and lass and the rear-enders all unhurt...Merry Christmas where it counts! and put your loved ones in Forester wagons-they win!

[em2nought]

So is there anything out there that can help with properly being able to fudge on log books here and there to make things come out correctly? My buddy seems to have a hard time with the concept. Maybe an app? He's more of a phone guy than a paper guy.

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by em2nought

So is there anything out there that can help with properly being able to fudge on log books here and there to make things come out correctly? My buddy seems to have a hard time with the concept. Maybe an app? He's more of a phone guy than a paper guy.

Sorry bud, I do NOT teach how to make fudge. Nor how to fudge logs. A public forum is hardly the place to be asking that, anyway. (Something about promoting illegal activity.)