having a diesel and having been beside one i understand...here is the rub we were at the local dlrshp waiting on license plates and had been there for at least 10 minutes and there was a flatbed ctd straight pipe no silencer ring, my guess,and the jockey left it running needless to say the conversation was a lil bit on the loud side we were getting hoarse so out comes the jockey and what does he do??he shuts it off just to turn it on imediately guess he was going to smoke us out.

 

I love the sound of the diesel engine the way it rattles and resonates off of everything, love going through underground parkings and set off everybodys car alarms.
Now when I go through the drive throughs I am respectful and shut down as soon as possible because I know it is really loud inside especially the places that have the radios you can hear on the inside speaker. Actually I guess it is kinda sad but when I drive up to the speaker at Carls Jr. and Del Taco, the girl already has my order just from the sound she hears. Sometimes I take food I did not want because I wanted something else and don't want to make her feel bad.
Incase you didn't know, I work mostly at night and other than the too many ocasional gun shots at night it is generally quiet here. When I come home all the neighbors say "it's safe now, Jim's is home"..
Jim {in the Republic of Kalifornia}

 

Like Foxworthy says

U mix stagnant water with raw sewage and u aint gettin evian!

I cant leave my truck on anywhere. I turn in on at school and alarms blair off.... banks, drive thrus, it takes all kinds.. Will i trade the sound? heck no!

Had some kid tell me once that i needed to have my carb rejetted.. it was missing too bad to be driving around....

Tx

 

If it makes you feel better, I have heard the same thing when I had my hot rod...

Best thing to do is fill the drive thru with tire smoke.

 

Worst thing to do, is get poop-faced with your buddies and drive through a McDonald's drive-thru with a 24ft. Sooner Horse trailer ...oops..they weren't too happy. Or this one young hispanic girl at another Mcdonald's asked if I could turn my truck "down"..i said HANG ON, i'll adjust it, so i brought it up to 2,000rpm..she was not happy !

 

Last time i went to a bank drive thru, the sound wasnt the problem, i had to get out, walk around the truck and pull the mirrors in because the exit side wasn't wide enough..... I also had 2 tires up on the side of the bumpers...... I guess the drive thru bank was a bad idea......

architect must drive a rice burner.......

 

I wish I had a camera tonight... I was running late and riding shotgun in a buddy's duramax crew cab dually with 18' bumper pull car hauler. I decided that we had enough time to stop at TacoBell. Well, it was 9:48 and I didn't realize that only the drivethru was open until AFTER running up to the door and trying to force it open. Hmmmmm..... what to do? My CC short bed bearly fits in the drivethru lane, there's grass on both sides of the 6" curbs with 2 sharp corners. I know from past experiences they don't serve pedestrians in the drivethru lane.

So we get this bright idea that he'll pull up to the speaker and order, then I can just walk around the first corner and get my food. Well, he gets up to the speaker, shuts the truck off and orders. Turns the truck on and proceeds to hop the outside curb so he can make the turn, all without letting me get out and walk up to the window. So now the trailer is in the drivethru lane, the truck is about 3' over the curbs into the Taco Bell lawn and he's calmly pulling forward to the first window. I'm just dying in the passenger's seat laughing. We bounce back across the curb and the trailer is still perfectly in the drivethru lane. The 40-something man in the drivethru window has this confused/horrified/shear terror look when he sees the 4 door dually with a medium sized trailer at his window. As he's giving us the food, I notice a younger male still starring at the closed circuit drivethru tv with the same type of "I-can't-believe-they-did-that" look on his face.

After the food is in our hands, my buddy is faced with another sharp 90* turn to get back into the parking lot. The difference is that this turn has a trashcan on the inside and a light pole on the outside. Well, that's no problem since the trailer only had a 4-wheeler and a 750lb lawn roller on it. The trailer just rode the sides of the curb and we were back in the parking lot. The best part? There were 2 cars that watched the whole thing from the parking lot, laughing at us.

Crew Cab Dually: 1
Taco Bell: 0

brandon.

 

all dually drivers have a bit of "showmanship" in them. haha I surely didn't get mine to pull a trailer with. more haha

I had my buddy go in to the bank one day while I went thru the drive thru. He said it was awsome. He said it was like being in the truck without the smell. LOL He said the whole place vibrated.

It's fun to drop my wife off at the tennis club. all the white short skirts running away from the stinking, black smoking monster in the parking lot.

today I got the wrong order for the 3dr time at Burger King. Guess its time for a reminder......

 

Speaking of Sonic.. You dually guys try backing in. great. I backed up over the curb and ordered then drove forward a bit. you have to order out the opp side. Pretty obvious your yanking their leg when you do this.

I liked the one guy that has stacks with out turns. they are just the right height of the open window at Mac's.

 

Jack in the Box and McDonalds have got to be the worse to try to drive through with a dually. After you leave the menu board there is a very abrupt 90* left hand turn you have to make to get to the window. I can usually hit it the first time or I will on purpose jump the curb but the thing that ticks me off the most is the yuppie in the escalade with their yap on the cell phone that pulls up right onto your bumper when you are trying to manuver the turn. I put it in reverse and just start backing up. After a bit they get the idea but by then there is a line behind them.

 

Speaking of dumb as a rock:

At work, we were talking about these people that had found some dinosaur bones close by in Chester. Pretty cool it was close to home. A co-worker was listening to the whole conversation and says with a dumb founded look scratching his head " Geez, man. I didnt know dinosaurs came in so close to the city................................"

Nother:

We are having a problem running brush through a forming mach. without scraping the paint off of the metal bottom section of the brush.

The "college educated VP" was down there with us trying to help solve the problem.
And he's sitting the thinking and thinking and thinking. Then says "I wonder how they stamp car doors without the paint chipping off???"............................

 

[ this one young hispanic girl at another Mcdonald's asked if I could turn my truck "down"..i said HANG ON, i'll adjust it, so i brought it up to 2,000rpm..she was not happy ! [/B][/QUOTE]

 

Park it so they get the belt chirp in the speaker, of course then they complain cause you sound so far away.

 

Those are great!

 

One day i decided to take all my pipin off my 1 ton...and just run down pipe...I know its not as loud as Cummins with just down pipe but everybody was lookin at me...Drove it like that for couple weeks...continuesly being told to shut it down....Best one yet... I was helpin a friend move and her mom was following behind me...Well i stomped it to get around someone and the propane kicked in and just shot soot everywhere....We get to teh house and she gets out of the car and i get out of the truck and she says "Your truck is smoking....My husband knows a guy that can fix up your motor really good for cheap too" I told her no thanks its cause its a diesel and diesel smoke when modded....she looked at me like and the girl says "nevermind mom"