Tx #8 June Meet
Thread Starter
Chapter President
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 4,983
Likes: 1
From: Sedalia, Texas
Thread Starter
Chapter President
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 4,983
Likes: 1
From: Sedalia, Texas
That's insane! I hauled a 21' deckboat from Sherman to Texoma with a Chevy Luv one time........I pulled it up the hills and it pushed me down the other side. 
Almost forgot to mention....I saw something on the road here the other day that shows we've been going about this all wrong.
We buy big trucks to pull big trailers...but we've got it backwards. I saw this little truck that looked about the size of the Chevy Luv from back in the day (who knows, they might still make it down here). They pulled the bed off and put a gooseneck hitch on it. Then they had about a 24' tandem axle gooseneck behind it that was converted to an enclosed box from over the neck to the tail. About the height of a tall 5th wheel. If I had seen it sooner, I would have pulled out the phone and snapped a pic. The truck looked tiny under the trailer...but I guess he didn't have any trouble with being too tall and needing to flip the axles on the trailer.
We buy big trucks to pull big trailers...but we've got it backwards. I saw this little truck that looked about the size of the Chevy Luv from back in the day (who knows, they might still make it down here). They pulled the bed off and put a gooseneck hitch on it. Then they had about a 24' tandem axle gooseneck behind it that was converted to an enclosed box from over the neck to the tail. About the height of a tall 5th wheel. If I had seen it sooner, I would have pulled out the phone and snapped a pic. The truck looked tiny under the trailer...but I guess he didn't have any trouble with being too tall and needing to flip the axles on the trailer.
Registered User
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 8,234
Likes: 1
From: Texas/Oklahoma Border
Banned
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 192
Likes: 0
From: Sacramento CA
Thanks RJ and Robert! Ya in school I never had the money to do anything to the truck and now as soon as I get out I will be having a kid so I sure hope I get a good enough job to do both lol but what I want and what I will get are totally different things I guess
Thread Starter
Chapter President
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 4,983
Likes: 1
From: Sedalia, Texas
Registered User
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,680
Likes: 2
From: McKinney, TX
You love the heat so much Charlie, im surprized you didn't go up to your Attic to go to sleep....
Im dreading going to work today!!!
103+Ironically, our call load has diminished lately....I guess it's to hot even for the thugs.....at least until after around midnight.
..
Registered User
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,680
Likes: 2
From: McKinney, TX
Seriously, our crime and call load is down. I don't know exactly what it is except that we just have more boots on the ground from the hiring in the last couple of years.
Some of it I know is playing with the crime numbers (administration) but crime actually is down. I can feel it on the street.
..
Some of it I know is playing with the crime numbers (administration) but crime actually is down. I can feel it on the street.
..
Chapter President
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,741
Likes: 0
From: Big Spring (now Stephenville), Tx
Rob I guess so much for the theory that crime goes up when the heat goes up.
It could be because the economy being as bad as it is nobody has anything left to steal.
Registered User
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,680
Likes: 2
From: McKinney, TX
Well crime is down all year. Not just because it got hot. We had about 2800 sworn officers 3 or so years ago and now we are up to like 3200. Now understand that that is everybody sworn...., detectives, supervisors, administration, dispatch, traffic, etc. etc.....
But we still have about 300 extra boots on the ground (my guess about 1500-1700 total actually on the streets). So I think it makes an impact. Some of it may be better intelligence and intelligence sharing with our "Fusion" center and then some pretty big busts that eradicated some large swaths of crime. Things kind of have an ebb and flow to them though..........I just hope the very liberal Dallas County DA don't hand slap the ones we do arrest......and that the TX state prison system doesn't push more out the back door when they are going in the front due to budgetary reasons.
Crime is down. And crime and call load seeeeeem to be down even more due to (my guess) the heat so far this summer. The economy doesn't seem to be effecting us that much, thus far. Maybe a few more shoplifts etc.
I'd be happy to work myself out of a job...
..