Illinois Chapter October BS Thread 2016
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Good morning everyone from or trespassing in Illinois.
Hi Rick.
Hi Don.
Don its maybe the most fake show on tv.
The ice roads are also the easiest things to drive ever.
Flat and slow.
Not allowed to go fast.
I have driven them myself.
Andni know guys that do many times each winter.
The hardest part is staying awake.
Cruise control to not speed.
And just dronenin slow gentle S turns down a frozen lake.
The drama and near misses are all tv show added bull****.
The most dangerous thing about driving an ice road is the driver getting carpal tunnel in his wrist ffom jerking off the whole way up and back just so he has something to do.
I watched the show twice and it is pure fake.
Its like trying to say that csi is like real forensics.
Or arctic air is really about flying.
Or blue bloods is like real police.
The only show i have seen that is largely true in my opinion is highway thru hell whi h is made nearby to me.
That is some wild hwy in the winter.
I've been on it way too many times.
4x4 trucks are the worst thing on the coquihalla as they are too lazy to stop and chain up.
They think oh i have a 4x4.
Tires on a sheet of ice in snow and rain to on steep hills at high speeds have almost zero traction.
The only safe thing on that hwy is a chained up car or truck. ..and doing half the speed limit or less.
Last winter i got passed by seven 4x4 pickups the first 15 mins i left Merritt.
Before the bottom of the big hill i saw 6 of the 7 upside down or on their sides or had hit another vehicle etc.
I was in a 2 wheel drive car and did just fine.
If i need to use 4x4 on that hwy i am doing less than half the posted speed.
I'm sure that the best thing to happen on that would be to ban all 4x4 pickups in winter unless they stop and chain all 4 tires at both ends before they start onto it.
Then those morons may get a clue how to drive.
This year my personal pickup is a 2 wheel drive.
I threw 6 chains in the box 2 weeks ago already just in case.
Funny part is i can usually make the hwy thru hell aka the coquihalla just fine if i left my 4x4 in 2 wheel drive.
But just slow way way way down.
Then its no issue.
Add slow moving semi trucks to the mix that cannot pull the steep hills faster than maybe at best 15 to 20 mph even right to the floor because they are all so severely underpowered.
Add in 1 loser in a pickup truck doing 70 mph becauseafter all he has a 4x4 so what could possibly go wrong.
Lots of cars doing an average say 40 mph.
And well you can guess the outcome very easily.
My semi trucks stay hd throttle to the floor for 45 minutes and never does the dri er lift his right foot at all in summer and they are going so slowly that this summer my truck got passed easily by a bear running up the hwy.
I love people who think a gas pickup truck towing a measly 10k pound travel trailer is under powered.
Any trucker in BC would cut off his left nut to have even half the speed that pickup truck will climb a hill at....yet diesels are in the semi trucks.
Too bad its not more than people saying gas or diesel.
But instead here is the hp rating you're required to have per pound you are allowed to tow.
The semi trucks should get about a 15 times bump up in the hp they make.
Yes i got off topic sorry.
But its annoying to read the diesel guys just trash gas engines when my gas pickup truck towing my 13000 pound trailer it pulls frequently flies past diesel after diesel going up hills.
The diesel guys all to often don't look at it in anyway exceptdiesel is somehow better to them.
Yet the slowest things on oursteep mountain hwys in BC are always seemingly powered by a diesel in my experience.
Back on topic.
Ice road truckers show is pure and total television bull.
Hi Rick.
Hi Don.
Don its maybe the most fake show on tv.
The ice roads are also the easiest things to drive ever.
Flat and slow.
Not allowed to go fast.
I have driven them myself.
Andni know guys that do many times each winter.
The hardest part is staying awake.
Cruise control to not speed.
And just dronenin slow gentle S turns down a frozen lake.
The drama and near misses are all tv show added bull****.
The most dangerous thing about driving an ice road is the driver getting carpal tunnel in his wrist ffom jerking off the whole way up and back just so he has something to do.
I watched the show twice and it is pure fake.
Its like trying to say that csi is like real forensics.
Or arctic air is really about flying.
Or blue bloods is like real police.
The only show i have seen that is largely true in my opinion is highway thru hell whi h is made nearby to me.
That is some wild hwy in the winter.
I've been on it way too many times.
4x4 trucks are the worst thing on the coquihalla as they are too lazy to stop and chain up.
They think oh i have a 4x4.
Tires on a sheet of ice in snow and rain to on steep hills at high speeds have almost zero traction.
The only safe thing on that hwy is a chained up car or truck. ..and doing half the speed limit or less.
Last winter i got passed by seven 4x4 pickups the first 15 mins i left Merritt.
Before the bottom of the big hill i saw 6 of the 7 upside down or on their sides or had hit another vehicle etc.
I was in a 2 wheel drive car and did just fine.
If i need to use 4x4 on that hwy i am doing less than half the posted speed.
I'm sure that the best thing to happen on that would be to ban all 4x4 pickups in winter unless they stop and chain all 4 tires at both ends before they start onto it.
Then those morons may get a clue how to drive.
This year my personal pickup is a 2 wheel drive.
I threw 6 chains in the box 2 weeks ago already just in case.
Funny part is i can usually make the hwy thru hell aka the coquihalla just fine if i left my 4x4 in 2 wheel drive.
But just slow way way way down.
Then its no issue.
Add slow moving semi trucks to the mix that cannot pull the steep hills faster than maybe at best 15 to 20 mph even right to the floor because they are all so severely underpowered.
Add in 1 loser in a pickup truck doing 70 mph becauseafter all he has a 4x4 so what could possibly go wrong.
Lots of cars doing an average say 40 mph.
And well you can guess the outcome very easily.
My semi trucks stay hd throttle to the floor for 45 minutes and never does the dri er lift his right foot at all in summer and they are going so slowly that this summer my truck got passed easily by a bear running up the hwy.
I love people who think a gas pickup truck towing a measly 10k pound travel trailer is under powered.
Any trucker in BC would cut off his left nut to have even half the speed that pickup truck will climb a hill at....yet diesels are in the semi trucks.
Too bad its not more than people saying gas or diesel.
But instead here is the hp rating you're required to have per pound you are allowed to tow.
The semi trucks should get about a 15 times bump up in the hp they make.
Yes i got off topic sorry.
But its annoying to read the diesel guys just trash gas engines when my gas pickup truck towing my 13000 pound trailer it pulls frequently flies past diesel after diesel going up hills.
The diesel guys all to often don't look at it in anyway exceptdiesel is somehow better to them.
Yet the slowest things on oursteep mountain hwys in BC are always seemingly powered by a diesel in my experience.
Back on topic.
Ice road truckers show is pure and total television bull.
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Good evening Illinois and peep's! 
Ian, I will agree that 18 wheelers are absolutely helpless on ice and white crap. I know this from driving a tractor trailer for over 20 years.
I don't watch TV because it is so fake and I can't stand the commercials that the try to jam down my throat.
Ian, I will agree that 18 wheelers are absolutely helpless on ice and white crap. I know this from driving a tractor trailer for over 20 years.
I don't watch TV because it is so fake and I can't stand the commercials that the try to jam down my throat.
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Good morning everyone from or trespassing in Illinois.
Hi Rick.
Hi Don.
Don its maybe the most fake show on tv.
The ice roads are also the easiest things to drive ever.
Flat and slow.
Not allowed to go fast.
I have driven them myself.
Andni know guys that do many times each winter.
The hardest part is staying awake.
Cruise control to not speed.
And just dronenin slow gentle S turns down a frozen lake.
The drama and near misses are all tv show added bull****.
The most dangerous thing about driving an ice road is the driver getting carpal tunnel in his wrist ffom jerking off the whole way up and back just so he has something to do.
I watched the show twice and it is pure fake.
Its like trying to say that csi is like real forensics.
Or arctic air is really about flying.
Or blue bloods is like real police.
The only show i have seen that is largely true in my opinion is highway thru hell whi h is made nearby to me.
That is some wild hwy in the winter.
I've been on it way too many times.
4x4 trucks are the worst thing on the coquihalla as they are too lazy to stop and chain up.
They think oh i have a 4x4.
Tires on a sheet of ice in snow and rain to on steep hills at high speeds have almost zero traction.
The only safe thing on that hwy is a chained up car or truck. ..and doing half the speed limit or less.
Last winter i got passed by seven 4x4 pickups the first 15 mins i left Merritt.
Before the bottom of the big hill i saw 6 of the 7 upside down or on their sides or had hit another vehicle etc.
I was in a 2 wheel drive car and did just fine.
If i need to use 4x4 on that hwy i am doing less than half the posted speed.
I'm sure that the best thing to happen on that would be to ban all 4x4 pickups in winter unless they stop and chain all 4 tires at both ends before they start onto it.
Then those morons may get a clue how to drive.
This year my personal pickup is a 2 wheel drive.
I threw 6 chains in the box 2 weeks ago already just in case.
Funny part is i can usually make the hwy thru hell aka the coquihalla just fine if i left my 4x4 in 2 wheel drive.
But just slow way way way down.
Then its no issue.
Add slow moving semi trucks to the mix that cannot pull the steep hills faster than maybe at best 15 to 20 mph even right to the floor because they are all so severely underpowered.
Add in 1 loser in a pickup truck doing 70 mph becauseafter all he has a 4x4 so what could possibly go wrong.
Lots of cars doing an average say 40 mph.
And well you can guess the outcome very easily.
My semi trucks stay hd throttle to the floor for 45 minutes and never does the dri er lift his right foot at all in summer and they are going so slowly that this summer my truck got passed easily by a bear running up the hwy.
I love people who think a gas pickup truck towing a measly 10k pound travel trailer is under powered.
Any trucker in BC would cut off his left nut to have even half the speed that pickup truck will climb a hill at....yet diesels are in the semi trucks.
Too bad its not more than people saying gas or diesel.
But instead here is the hp rating you're required to have per pound you are allowed to tow.
The semi trucks should get about a 15 times bump up in the hp they make.
Yes i got off topic sorry.
But its annoying to read the diesel guys just trash gas engines when my gas pickup truck towing my 13000 pound trailer it pulls frequently flies past diesel after diesel going up hills.
The diesel guys all to often don't look at it in anyway exceptdiesel is somehow better to them.
Yet the slowest things on oursteep mountain hwys in BC are always seemingly powered by a diesel in my experience.
Back on topic.
Ice road truckers show is pure and total television bull.
Hi Rick.
Hi Don.
Don its maybe the most fake show on tv.
The ice roads are also the easiest things to drive ever.
Flat and slow.
Not allowed to go fast.
I have driven them myself.
Andni know guys that do many times each winter.
The hardest part is staying awake.
Cruise control to not speed.
And just dronenin slow gentle S turns down a frozen lake.
The drama and near misses are all tv show added bull****.
The most dangerous thing about driving an ice road is the driver getting carpal tunnel in his wrist ffom jerking off the whole way up and back just so he has something to do.
I watched the show twice and it is pure fake.
Its like trying to say that csi is like real forensics.
Or arctic air is really about flying.
Or blue bloods is like real police.
The only show i have seen that is largely true in my opinion is highway thru hell whi h is made nearby to me.
That is some wild hwy in the winter.
I've been on it way too many times.
4x4 trucks are the worst thing on the coquihalla as they are too lazy to stop and chain up.
They think oh i have a 4x4.
Tires on a sheet of ice in snow and rain to on steep hills at high speeds have almost zero traction.
The only safe thing on that hwy is a chained up car or truck. ..and doing half the speed limit or less.
Last winter i got passed by seven 4x4 pickups the first 15 mins i left Merritt.
Before the bottom of the big hill i saw 6 of the 7 upside down or on their sides or had hit another vehicle etc.
I was in a 2 wheel drive car and did just fine.
If i need to use 4x4 on that hwy i am doing less than half the posted speed.
I'm sure that the best thing to happen on that would be to ban all 4x4 pickups in winter unless they stop and chain all 4 tires at both ends before they start onto it.
Then those morons may get a clue how to drive.
This year my personal pickup is a 2 wheel drive.
I threw 6 chains in the box 2 weeks ago already just in case.
Funny part is i can usually make the hwy thru hell aka the coquihalla just fine if i left my 4x4 in 2 wheel drive.
But just slow way way way down.
Then its no issue.
Add slow moving semi trucks to the mix that cannot pull the steep hills faster than maybe at best 15 to 20 mph even right to the floor because they are all so severely underpowered.
Add in 1 loser in a pickup truck doing 70 mph becauseafter all he has a 4x4 so what could possibly go wrong.
Lots of cars doing an average say 40 mph.
And well you can guess the outcome very easily.
My semi trucks stay hd throttle to the floor for 45 minutes and never does the dri er lift his right foot at all in summer and they are going so slowly that this summer my truck got passed easily by a bear running up the hwy.
I love people who think a gas pickup truck towing a measly 10k pound travel trailer is under powered.
Any trucker in BC would cut off his left nut to have even half the speed that pickup truck will climb a hill at....yet diesels are in the semi trucks.
Too bad its not more than people saying gas or diesel.
But instead here is the hp rating you're required to have per pound you are allowed to tow.
The semi trucks should get about a 15 times bump up in the hp they make.
Yes i got off topic sorry.
But its annoying to read the diesel guys just trash gas engines when my gas pickup truck towing my 13000 pound trailer it pulls frequently flies past diesel after diesel going up hills.
The diesel guys all to often don't look at it in anyway exceptdiesel is somehow better to them.
Yet the slowest things on oursteep mountain hwys in BC are always seemingly powered by a diesel in my experience.
Back on topic.
Ice road truckers show is pure and total television bull.
Gee! Ian, tell us how you really feel.....
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Good evening again Don and John!
Ian just needed to rant about the **** poor moron Winter drivers, It doesn't have to be Winter for **** poor drivers.
Ian just needed to rant about the **** poor moron Winter drivers, It doesn't have to be Winter for **** poor drivers.
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They're all non drivers. Its up to us to be driving something bigger than they are.