I am.

Toby Keith is hot. Just thought I'd add.

 

I'd love to see that but i only have basic basic cable here now.

That's all I can think of to say.....

 

I flipped to it for a second and they were showing Toby Keith. The first thing that crossed my mind was "I bet Lisa would like this."

Now I know I was right.

 

Yea. Dad is a creature of habit. Very very bad habit.

Before I was old enough to realize that stuff needed chaining down properly dad would put 2 chains on everything and they'd be loose enough that you could take the binders off without undoing them.

Now that I've become informed he hates it, but he does make a better attempt at securing his loads. I make him chain everything down properly when I'm there. We didn't even own 5 chains and binders before. It was pretty pathetic.

2 years ago when we brought the skid home from Ohio to CT he tried telling me that the chains on it were "Good enough" when I only had them half tightened. I informed him that if we were making an 8 hour ride with it we could spare the 10 minutes it would take me to get everything secured down right. I got no argument.

We got a new stake pocket for the trailer, but I need the time to drag out the trailer and welder and grinder and torch to get it done.

 

I thought it was pretty hilarious. It figures that you would make that comment Lisa.

 

I'm glad that you want to and do things the right way. One of the excavators here just works locally and used to put a couple of show chains on the backhoe. The DOT pulled him over and he got fined pretty good.

 

Yea. Dad once tried to tell me that we didn't need to chain the skid down since it was the middle of a snowstorm and DOT wouldn't be out checking trucks.

We have a guy with us part-time who drives for FedEx. He pulls doubles for them. He has endorsements for doubles, tankers, and HazMat. So I've got another voice of reason with me now that is there when I am not.

DOT will pull you out of service if more than 25% of your required chains are loose or missing. I was riding with my brother a while ago and we saw a local guy's truck going the other way and he had no chains at all on the excavator he was hauling.

Oh and another time I was sitting at the intersection of E. Main and S. Airline (you'll go through that intersection when you come down here) and I saw a truck with a gooseneck coming around the corner from the highway. I didn't even notice what the truck was. I was too worried the dozer they were hauling might fall off. It looked to be the size of a TD7 Dresser dozer. The scary part was that they had 2 chains on the machine with no binders. They didn't even take the slack in the chain up at all. They slowed to make the corner and the dozer rolled forward and smashed against the chain. He accelerated and it rolled back and smashed against the chain on the front. THAT was scary.

Guys like that are the reasons DOT inspectors exist.

 

talking about doors opening on equipment on the road...

Back about 20 years ago a 16 yo girl was making her first ( and probably only ) drive on the highway...an unsecured access door on a piece of heavy equipment came off in front of her and came through her windshield and killed her best friend riding with her.

ok...on a less gruesome note...think I picked up a stomach flu...cant keep anything down, even a single cracker is enough to cause me to run for the bathroom...

 

Evening Bb!

Did you go out for your birthday this weekend?

 

I have gotten pulled over for routine checks with my 14K cabover a few times. Luckily I ahd everything that they required though.
I hope that you feel better Mark.

 

Dont let Trace find out about Toby now, Lisa!

 

999/1000 times if you aren't a total jerk to the inspector the inspector will not be a jerk to you as long as you can provide what he is asking for and your registrations/insurances are current.

Mark: You always hate to hear about stuff like that happening. The issue then is if she was behind him was she maintaining proper following distance? I can't see how a piece could come off a machine and the girl 3 seconds behind wasn't able to avoid it. I suppose I could see how it could happen if she was in the next lane over. Not trying to sound like a jerk, but a lot of incidents involving trucks and fatalities are not the fault of the truck driver.

Either way I'm off to bed. I'll be back tomorrow afternoon after school. Then my second to last on-road for drivers ed at 6.

 

Hey Tristan, any more pic that you want to share????

G night Pete

 

Of last night?!

 

Yup just wondering after seeing that video!