Posted by Willy-N on Friday, September 30, 2005 at 9:55AM :
In Reply to: Re: Just got home from driving a real truck! posted by Tom Petroff on Friday, September 30, 2005 at 5:01AM :
Your right about getting you in trouble fast! Realy I am a slow driver when I am driving these trucks. I have one ticket doing 5 MPH over the speed limint in 18 years and that was in a Van not a big rig. Hauling water can be tricky because it does not take much of it to change the whole way the truck acts on a road. Baffles are so important it seems you can't have enought of them to smooth out the slosh that moves you around on the road. Real hard to just swerve around someone so you better be watching the other guys real close all the time!! One thing I have found that you never drive any faster then you can see for stopping safe. Every corner you go into if you figure there may be a car stopped in the middle of the road be ready for it at all times. Try to make it the other guys fault if there is a wreck, but also remember if your killed or kill someone it did not matter whos fault it was you or them are still dead! Mark H.
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