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Took of Friday for my cross country trek, spent 1 whole day driving all over Texas 🤬
now sitting in Augusta Georgia waiting for people to wake the hell up so we can finish this trip! Driving a monster rig and towing a trailer, any advice on using engine brakes! Hope I don’t need them but just in case!
btw heading for Wilmington North Carolina area
This is no fun to drive , governed down to where it’s just a gutless wonder!!!
Listor safe travels. I have driven several of those box trucks helping family and friends.
My advice is eat a good breakfast and meditate for some patience. LOL
But seriously they are gutless for there size. Focus more on everybody else that doesn't care if they run you off the road. Or cut you off last second.
Defense driving in the slow poke rentals is the safest route.
As Brad said, go slow and stay in your comfort zone. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
That is only about 350 miles from the north GA GTG location. Maybe you can join us one time or we can join you if there is another GTG planned up your way.
Sorry to hear about your friends family. That is a tough go that I cannot imagine.
The "stupid" people is the reason why I have a dashcam in my truck and will soon have one in our Subaru. I also have the Ranch Hand on the front of the truck so I can drive away after providing a copy of the video to the on scene LEO if that situation ever presents itself.
Good to hear y'all made it safely and we hope your travels home are safe and uneventful too!
Thanks from Augusta to destination the dummies came out of the wood work🤦♂️ I was sure I was going to hit a couple of them, I stopped changed my drawers and finished the trip! Never hit a hill I needed the engine brake for! Yay!!
At least you had a decent truck. I once moved a friend from Tucson to Vermont with a U-haul box truck towing a car hauler with a Beetle on it. The U-haul had a diesel, probably a 7.3? Right away I noticed it clattered a LOT on the downgrades and I said "I'll be surprised if we make it". When we got to the OK Turnpike it was clattering so loud I had to shut it down to hear the person in the toll booth. After I pulled to the side I saw transmission fluid with steel colored specs in it and realized it wasn't going to make it. U-Haul came and got us and gave us another one and hired a day laborer to help transfer the load which we had had professionally packed by a mover friend, it was a disaster and took all day in hot, humid weather. The one they gave us was another diesel, didn't clatter like the first one but would run out of power steering fluid every 400 miles. If I recall both trucks were fairly low mile, like 50K. After that I always went with Penske.
