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Old 06-10-2011 | 04:47 AM
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Originally Posted by BearKiller
Had the driver maintained speed, it probably would have gone on for miles, all the time "driving like a Cadillac."
One thing they preached in CDL school. If you hear a tire blow, lay the pedal into the floorboard. Then get a good grip on the wheel and slow down gradually.

My first summer on the road I was running across Ohio and Indiana on 6. A guy lost a set of duals, and they came to a stop on some kid's bed. Mid-day, luckily, and he was in school. The home-owner was in her car using her CB to tell people that the truck was sitting in front of her house, and why. The driver didn't even have a radio in his truck.

My dad drove milk truck from 89-92. When the guy he drove for died, his grandson inherited the trucks. Old John was pushing 80, and he was mad when they put a pace-maker in him, because he couldn't do his own welding anymore. Anyhow, his grandson would help him service the trucks and change tires. But what he never saw was John going out and re-torquing the wheels the next three days. A few months after John died, Eric put new tires on the lift axle of the one truck. Went around a turn the next day, set it down, and had 4 tires pass him up.
Old 06-10-2011 | 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by DJ Turbo.
Is the wheel and lug nuts loosening off more common with a 4X4 than a 2 wheeler?


Yes and No.

Yes, on account of 4x4s being much more likely to get all blinged-up with wider after-market wheels --- often aluminum, and much taller/wider tires than standard.

No, because with standard sized tires/wheels the likelihood of nuts backing off is equal and 4x4 has no bearing on the issue one way or other.
Old 06-10-2011 | 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by scot pa
My dad drove milk truck from 89-92.

Several years ago, I, too, drove a tri-axle milk-truck for farm pick-up, many times stopping at ten or more farms before finally getting loaded; now, it is more common to fully load a semi-tanker at one stop and often not be able to get all they have in the truck.

Back then, most little family dairies didn't have more than ten or twelve cows getting milked.

To give a comparison as to how much harder it is to make ends meet now than then, those old pokey slow-moving loafer-farmers could milk ten poor-milking cows that barely gave thirty pounds a day and keep an almost-new pick-up, an almost-new Sunday car, nice stuff around the house and farm, their children didn't lack for anything, and they had plenty of free time to sit around the country store and loaf.

These days, they milk 200 cows or more that put out at least a hundred pounds of milk apiece, never have free time for anything, never have money for anything, and their wife must work to keep groceries on the table, clothes on the kids, and the light-bill paid.


A gallon of milk in the grocery-store costs much less today than when I was a kid.



One more thing, if anyone ever drives a milk-truck, they will never have a craving for a glass of milk again.
Old 06-10-2011 | 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by scot pa
The driver didn't even have a radio in his truck.

I can't believe the people --- I won't call them drivers --- that, when asked why they don't have or use a CB in their truck, answer that they just use their cell-phone instead.


When I am meeting an oncoming truck and I need to warn him of a dump-truck laying on it's side just around the hill ahead of him, or a herd of Poland-China hogs loose in the road, #1 I have no idea what his cell-phone number is; #2 I don't have time to set the phone up to call, push in the phone-number, hit SEND, and then leave him a voice-message; #3 when I tell the first truck I see about the forthcoming danger, every other CB listener within a couple miles or so will also hear the warning.
Old 06-10-2011 | 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by BearKiller
These days, they milk 200 cows or more that put out at least a hundred pounds of milk apiece,
Them are some dam good cows.

You have a odd outlook on farmers.
Old 06-10-2011 | 03:56 PM
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I've had a couple run in with loose wheels myself. One I was cruising down the Hwy when I saw a wheel off a loaded car trailer come off...ran across the 2-300 foot median and then plowed into the drivers front of a car just ahead of me. Another one I was just coming around a bend in the road approaching a bridge when a tire came rocketing towards me, lucky it swerved and hit the big "No posts" and bounced up over my vehicle. Scary stuff.
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