Overload of the Day

[stinky64]

Listing like it has a full crapper.

Fat lady sitting on the full crapper.

 

[stinky64]

Something tells me the truck was also empty, because 40,000 lbs. of freight would probably have pushed him through the RSH, or come through the front of the trailer. Or he was hauling a load of sponges.

 

[Truck Shop]

but to stop in the
distance he did it was not fully loaded either.

Something tells me the truck was also empty, because 40,000 lbs. of freight would probably have pushed him through the RSH, or come through the front of the trailer. Or he was hauling a load of sponges.

 

[skyking1]

you don't get that camera perspective very often. It is impressive how well it stopped.
I had it from the mirrors last time I saw a panic stop, and he was not going to make it so he let off and took the shoulder past me. My bonehead was probably heavy. Certainly #$%!#$ around with his ##%^@@ phone.

 

[kshansen]

What scares me is to the best of my knowledge in most states you can get behind the wheel of one of those RSH's towing a car and are free to drive on the open road. Before driving that RSH the biggest car that person had driven was probably a minivan or Ford Escort!

And being I'm just a few months shy of 74 feel I have the right to say there should be an age limit or special road test before someone is allowed to pilot one of those plus maybe an annual retest!

 

[Pops52]

The driver of that RSH is lucky to be alive AND lucky the truckdriver didn't get out and give him/her/they a good country arse whippin right there in the road.......

 

[Truck Shop]

The abbreviation/term Truck Shop coined RSH. Soon grandmas will be calling a RV a Rolling Sh!t House.
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The driver of that RSH is lucky to be alive AND lucky the truckdriver didn't get out and give him/her/they a good country arse whippin right there in the road.......

These days it would probably be a inner city a$$ whippin.
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Fact is right after that incident there were two more in progress somewhere across the U.S.
Can't stop progress--good or bad.

 

[hosspuller]

I'll wager that truck driver had to pull off the highway to change into his brown corduroy trousers.

Reminds me of a naval story...

In 1807, Captain Hornblower on the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia, sailing the Caribbean seas when they spotted a lone French ship. Before the battle began, the captain shouted, "Bring me my red shirt!" It was a long fight but the captain and his men were victorious. The next day three more French ships appeared. The captain cried, "Bring me my red shirt!" and they proceeded to defeat the three French ships. Later on, as the crew was resting and tending to their wounds, an Ensign asked the captain why he always wore that red shirt. The captain replied "I wear the red shirt so that if I'm wounded, no one will see the blood. That way everyone will continue to fight on unafraid." The Ensign was greatly moved by this display of courage.

The next day, a fleet of ten French ships were spotted. The men looked to their captain, waiting for his command. Calm as ever, the captain cried out, "Bring me my brown pants."

 

[Truck Shop]

Here are some fine Woodstock LT Hippie Chick RSH's-a slight turn from overload's.
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[Spud_Monkey]

People are too much in a hurry.

My favorite thing to do in the winter time to slow folks down is find a road killed deer that's pretty solid and stand them up as if they are about to cross the road. Snow tends to hold them up long enough till someone catches on.

 

[Old Doug]

There was a deer killed close to the turn off into town. I bet it was the amish kids but someone put a pillow under its head and some helium balloons with get well soon on them. I dont remember were i saw this but a big dog was found dead along the highway . It was winter frozen stiff . A guy propped it up close or on the road and watched people slow down when they saw it but one guy speed up and plowed it . The frozen dog didnt do his vehical any good.

 

[stinky64]

Here are some fine Woodstock LT Hippie Chick RSH's-a slight turn from overload's.
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Really impressed with the window work in that third pic.

 

[Truck Shop]

Really impressed with the window work in that third pic.

How much safety glass in the front of those. Stained glass in the third photo.

 

[Joe H]

 

[Truck Shop]

Carrier of leprosy.

 

[ianjoub]

 

[cfherrman]

Nice, 240 hours of schooling to be a trucker and downing a beer at a truck stop

 

[Truck Shop]

Nice, 240 hours of schooling to be a trucker and downing a beer at a truck stop

Photo was circa 1980. It was a setup photo shoot/story about the rough hero life of the
over the road trucker and owner operators. It told heroic stories of driving through
canyons dodging bus size boulders falling from the cliffs caused by earthquakes and
lightening, dodging tumbleweeds the size of a house in 100 mile per-hour winds.
driving long hours seeing purple 8' bunny rabbits being chased by elvis in a ufo.

 

[skyking1]

bennies and dexies Oh My!

 

[Pops52]

Weren’t those little white pills with a cross on them? From what I heard back then…..