Overload of the Day

[BC Placer gold]

You guys must have never slapped mirrors with one of those on a 2 lane road, it happens all the time around here.

We have a lot of really narrow twisty forest service roads here. VHF radio is essential and often “empty” must find a pull out; no width for passing.

 

[skyking1]

We rented a car in the UK to drive up to Scotland and around. The Motorways are huge and much like any interstate at home. We went to Balloch for the night, and the next day started up along Loch Lomond. Pretty quick stuff got real.
We would be cruising right along and then the traffic would brake on down to ~10 MPH.
It was two trucks, or Lorries as they say meeting on a narrow bridge. At each one of those bridges there was a scattering of mirror pieces along the road. The guardrails were high enough to get car mirrors and it was that narrow.
It was not technically a single lane bridge, but rather a talented two lane bridge.

 

[skyking1]

Here are the eggs from yesterday.

They dang near killed each other, but the trucks escaped a bunch of it and the trailers clearly did not.
That container sliced the entire side off the reefer.

 

[Truck Shop]

Nice!-- Nice wreck great driving skill!

 

[skyking1]

they are tearing it up there to fix that issue.

 

[Acoals]

You guys must have never slapped mirrors with one of those on a 2 lane road, it happens all the time around here.

Most of the rest of the country used dozers to build their roads, Some parts of MO seems to have just paved over the deer trails . . .

 

[Truck Shop]

You guys must have never slapped mirrors with one of those on a 2 lane road, it happens all the time around here.

This bridge built in 1927-Vantage Wa. Wanapum dam went in bridge was torn down and moved
to Lyons Ferry on the Snake River in 1962. Only one truck at a time across, Pickups with trailers
or RV's normally leave parts and pieces on roadway.
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[56wrench]

I liked the one-way bridges in NZ that were also used by the train( maybe on the Coromandel?). The one-way tunnels were fun too, especially seeing a livestock hauler squeeze through. No point in trying to be in a hurry on those roads. Lots of scenery to enjoy while driving the Forgotten Highway if you ever get the chance

 

[Spud_Monkey]

 

[Jumbo]

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That posting should be "banned" wayyyyy too much information.... I want to see the photo of him hanging chains dressed like that.

 

[Acoals]

So I guess that is a whole new spin on "Overload of the Day" . . .

 

[Birken Vogt]

That posting should be "banned" wayyyyy too much information.... I want to see the photo of him hanging chains dressed like that.

There was a local tow man around here like that, about the same build but he did always wear the same filthy flannel shirt.

But shorts and untied hiking boots summer or winter, so you could easily see the fluid leaking from his ankles, dragging chains and cables down in the mud to yank some truck out with his old Holmes.

Otherwise you would find him slumped in his computer chair with his arms down the sides and knuckles practically dragging on the floor.

The thing was, whatever was stuck when he showed up, came out.

 

[Truck Shop]

Nothing odd about that--Walmart shopper.

 

[Former Wrench]

Not pretty.

 

[Truck Shop]

 

[Truck Shop]

Tell me all about it.

 

[skyking1]

looks like it keeps the cab corner out of the bight when jack knifing.

 

[Acoals]

The truck even has the ghetto wheels . . .

I'm guessing that's about 45k on the trailer deck . . .

 

[cfherrman]

It's so low the dovetail is nearly in the ground

 

[Joe H]

Did that 3rd wheel on the traailer give up, or is it a mud flap ?

Joe H