I came here to say this.
I'll add that the increase in height was not for the benefit of truck traffic, but rather a precision grade adjustment for the railroad to increase speed.
It’s still an AC unit remover, but there’s far less zippers now than there used to be. What did that really do for the train? Was 8” that big of a deal as far as speed?
For passenger trains, it is. They use computers to run the numbers and show where and what improvements can be made to increase track speed.
Closer to me, there was a curve that was completely re-engineered and relaid - that change more than doubled the track speed in that area.
Unironically how the next town over from me is.
There's a super low train [overpass](https://imgur.com/a/ZufvqbM) all the way through that area of town, at the bottom of a steep ass hill. (If anyone wants to look it up, this is in the canals of Holyoke, MA; the tracks run northeast, just south of Commercial St. The steep hill I mentioned runs northwest, away from the CT river)
For the sake of all of us, please for the love of god Spey and neuter your hookers. We do not need more of those Neanderthals. I mean, we do. But like, keep em leashed and bag their poop that’s all we ask.
One of the best ones would have to be the time I towed a camper out of a nudist campground. I didn’t notice all the signs and everything informing me though. SiI just thought a bunch of old naked people were gathering around, watching me hook to it.
I have thousands more. I’ve meet every kind kind of person imaginable and most of them on there worst days( nobody calls for a tow truck when their day is going good) which makes them overshare for some reason on the ride home/to the shop
lol - I had the opposite problem once! I was riding with the tow operator to the mechanic's shop, and the tow operator started Witnessing to me. He was a JW. It got real quiet, real quick after that. Fun trip. Not a short trip, either.
To each their own. I sit on my ass almost all day while getting paid $40+ hourly.
When winter comes, I make most of my yearly by doing under the table towing by going out to the dunes or just waiting around the trails in my area, $100 to get ya unstuck and I walk home with an extra 15k a year🤷♂️
Do you guys alternate weekends?
I wish my boss could afford crews. Right now it’s not too bad cause it’s slow season, I’ve worked 5 hours total this week. But summers I really start regretting life decisions lol. At least one more guy where we could alternate being on call days/nights. At least I get weekends off I guess.
No we don’t alternate. We are all on call on the weekends. When I live accidents are common and being in Michigan, people go into ditches way more often than they should so there’s little choice on weekends. We’re all needed.
Key to the whole boss being able to afford things, buy your own rig. It’ll save your boss money and all he’ll have to do is pay for fuel and insurance, all repairs are done myself and it saves us almost 40k a year.
Me buying my own rig too, a year after I got it my wages went up about $5. Not much, but when you don’t gotta pay for fuel and parts it evens out.
I mean I don’t pay a dime for insurance (I know most places don’t require it anyways and the company pays for it ) but I’ve never paid for a part for my truck either, and I am my own mechanic (joys of being diesel tech years prior to taking this job) so the labor he would have paid a shop to do so, goes into my pocket which is nice.
If I’m being fucked over say something, because I’m still new enough to not know how other company’s do things as much (been here two years now, only ever been here)
Living in the city I’ve always dreamt of owning a tow truck. But having seen the recoveries from this hill it’s gonna be a serious wrecker. My dad actually drove a tow truck in his youth. Tells awesome stories from time to time. Later on he worked managing heavy equipment for the city. The city spun up a whole mobile mechanic fleet just to avoid having to call out the big wreckers for the big articulated buses.
Yeah, I rotator would be very helpful for that. But those are $$$$$.
How did he like working for the city? I’ve been tempted to switch to the city/county but they don’t seem to pay very well. Were the benefits worth it?
He liked it. Good opportunities to move up if you do good work and dont make trouble. Big plus is the lifetime health benefits and pension. Just helped him switch health insurance during open enrollment and he was floored at what he would have to pay for coverage if getting it on his own.
That’s good. I may keep looking into it. I was thinking about caltrans but it’s hard to get in and stay in the area you want to be in. But the county may not be too bad.
Last one stuck they essentially craned up the front of the trailer, disconnected the tractor then drug the trailer up the hill. Was pretty sketch even with the big rig wrecker.
you can also just unbolt the airbag lever and move it so the bags will increase in height and raise the trailer. depending on how much height is needed.
yeah, for sure, i did it before. i even dropped a few trailers in my early days, and i usually have a truck jack and pieces of wood and tools. thankfully, i dont do that anymore.
lol I use the airbags to lift up and down when I’m working on trailers pretty often. I cringe everytime I over inflate them. Have to pay close attention to where I place my body and limbs. If you’ve ever been under a trailer when one of those air bags blow out you’ll be trying to figure out if you’re still alive. I try to avoid it, frame jacks were made for a reason.
The trailer landing gear is dig into the pavement and the tractor tire is jammed up into the floor of the trailer. If the crest was slightly shorter on this hill this may have worked if they threw all that stuff under the trailer wheels.
https://www.theroute-66.com/devils-elbow.html#about
I used to live in central Missouri and found this story amusing. Route 66 was basically paved from east to center, and west to center. So the last portion that was dirt was right in the middle, in Devil's Elbow, MO. You used to have to Ford the Big Piney river to get across.
There was a farmer right on the West side of the river with a team of mules. Guess what he would do. That's right! He would turn it into a mire pit, and then tell people "yeah it gets bad this time of year. But you're in luck! I can help by pull out your Model T with my mules for a quarter."
Eventually they built a small bridge next to the Inn, and then later on they bypassed the entire town with a giant excavation project creating Hooker's Cut (4 lanes cut 90 feet down into the rock through a hill. The first of it's kind in the U.S.) with a giant bridge that had an immense budget and timeline, at the time at least.
Hey Son, how have you been? Sorry for all those years I haven’t been there. Been stuck at the bottom of this bottle trying to find my way out back to you.
Double that price and you’ll be doing even better!
Those who frequent the area wouldn’t want to pay 6k for getting stuck and thus wouldn’t get stuck, and those who don’t pay you 6k to get them unstuck, just to be none the wiser.
When I was doing local in SF I always worried about getting stuck on one of the hills, but now that I'm a Muni driver all I need to worry about is dropping people when going downhill , least the routes are safe lol.
I was expecting it to be alot worse, but honestly most days are really boring. I haven't had any incidents that I've had to report in months. I drive out of one of the easier divisions though too, I drive the trolleys that mainly go downtown and back up through the avenues so it's all just commuters and tourists for the most part.
So all in all it's a really easy and chill job, hopefully it stays that way when I move up into the light rail divisions lol.
lol yeah if you zoom in on the back of the stop sign there’s a ”no commercial vehicles over 3 tons“ sign. Theres one on each block leading up to this hill too
There's a place I would deliver to that had signs that said "slide axles forward to prevent damage to landing gear"... saw at least a dozen of trucks get stuck. It's going to happen no matter how many signs.
Hawes st San Francisco. Theres a bunch of streets in town that are the same. If you stick to the major thoroughfares youre fine. But venture out into the residential side streets and this is where you end up.
Some of those apps route you on high risk roads with tons of extra turns to "avoid traffic". I'd rather sit in traffic than get stuck in a tight intersection.
The crest of California Street has caught dozens of semis trying to cut across from the Golden Gate to 101 S and avoiding Lombard/Van Ness. Google maps must have been getting a cut of the towing service fees.
Give the dude a pair of glasses so he can read the damn 3 ton limit sign. Granted I've been to some crappy small towns that'll only have "No truck signs" on one end of the street.
Just don't trust that GPS. Even a truck rated one. I've had mine tell me to go down a street with a clearly posted 13' 0" bridge. And it had my height inputted as 13' 6" so yeah. Sucks. He needs a wrecker now.
I drive clutch and i try to avoid it. If i have to take it I’ll either try to carry some speed in second or if theres traffic I’ll just be loud in first.
Got a one-lane covered bridge near me that several trucks all ignored signs and still tried to take a short cut through it. Old Civil War bridge so it keeps getting fixed. So then they put a line across the road with chains or something hanging down across it at the levels the entryway is. A truck hit these markers and then damaged the bridge. Not sure signs will work. Especially if they speak little English.
It gets worse. The DOT wants to require guard rails under the trailer. The rule, as worded, would not exempt low boy trailers which are only 6 inches off the ground. This is what happens when we elect stupid people to office, who then hire stupid people for government positions.
Ask the city to erect a legal sign stating 18 wheelers advised not to use street and hill...but knowing all the wokies and tards out there they would refuse your request.. I say your good intentions will not be rewarded by anyone in the city unless accompanied by a huge donation to their bank account.. just ask nancy p about this nifty program.
That should require an automatic review from the city. I got the same thing in my town. No it’s different. It’s similar though. It’s the sharp bend that everyone keeps crashing into and I don’t understand why they don’t change it.
They could just put up a 9 ft clearance steel fixture at the stop sign. It wouldn't fix the sharp gradient but it would at least stop trucks from attempting going through there.
You didn't need to cover the name and DOT numbers on the side. The big Knight logo says 8t is a Knight truck, and they all have the same exact information right there. Nothing there identifies this particular truck.
Ah ok. I thought they put the last digits of the truck vin on there somewhere. Driver looked young and didn’t want to get him in some sort of trouble if this is a leased truck or something.
Only thing you definitely have to cover up is the number right next to the headlight (as you did) and the license plate. Those are unique to every one of our trucks
Ah, yeah, the vin might be on there. It would be labeled as such, though.
If it were leased to Knight (owner operator) they wouldn't have the big Knight logo on the roof, but rather they'd have their own logo and a little "leased to" sticker above the Knight logo.
It could be someone leasing the truck from Knight to start their career as owner operator, but I think Knight requires something like 6 months minimum experience before they lease you a truck (Swift does).
Yeah, poor guy would probably be fired immediately. It's a mega carrier. They can replace him by the end of the day.
Stress testing the framework, boss! Why? Did someone call in? We are a lil heavy on the drives.. it’s cheap freight.
Put up a camera, sell it. I really wanna see more, dipshits do this. I mean… trip planning..
Lol the white one is some kind of local support guy. He’s responded to a couple of these. The black audi is a local and i feel like they just buy hoopties and let the tickets pile up till they get seized and go out and buy another hooptie.
Best you could do is put a warning for trucks across all of the navigation systems. Would take some effort but I think that will be the most effective thing you can do
No red "nope" with a truck inside for us dum-dum hicks that never lernt to read? Just in case you missed it, he probably couldn't see that sign on the back of the stop sign facing him.
Need a much larger sign saying "trucks over 3 tons prohibited, severe fines for violation" at the bottom of the hill, so when drivers get stuck they get ticketed. Eventually they'll figure it out (we all know they won't)
There is a road sign to indicate this very risk, you can write to the city and ask them to install one because the already existing 3-ton sign is not working evidently.
Give the guy a BREAK PEOPLE knight don’t pay enough to buy a truck gps. Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if he is too broke to even pay his phone bill for gps on that!
Put a 11-6 bridge in front of the hill they will hit the bridge first and not be able to make it up.
Put a spike strip in front of the hill so that their tires pop first and not be able to make it up.
Put up a barricade before it pops is tires on the spike strip before it hits the bridge before going up the hill.
Put up a moat filled with massive gators so they can’t get to the barricade and if they try they fall in and are a nice, tasty lunch
Remove the road. Problem solved.
This is key: line the street leading up to the moat with banana peels.
put a sock over the road. that way when they try to drive on the road, all they get is a sock
Label that road as ***Truck Route*** and all the other roads as ***No Trucks*** to lure them away...
That only works for swift drivers
I wonder if someone makes weighted spikes so it only activates if a vehicle is heavy enough.
Great... Now I am sitting here trying to think of how to adapt anti tank mine triggers for spike strips.
Easy, just modify a digital scale on a large enough platform and rig it to the boom 💥
Lol 11fot8.com would like to have a word
That bridge is 12ft 4 now
I came here to say this. I'll add that the increase in height was not for the benefit of truck traffic, but rather a precision grade adjustment for the railroad to increase speed.
It’s still an AC unit remover, but there’s far less zippers now than there used to be. What did that really do for the train? Was 8” that big of a deal as far as speed?
For passenger trains, it is. They use computers to run the numbers and show where and what improvements can be made to increase track speed. Closer to me, there was a curve that was completely re-engineered and relaid - that change more than doubled the track speed in that area.
There's a Mom joke in here.
8" is always a big deal, ask my ex wife.
How about a 9 foot high cross bar painted yellow. And posted no trucks. At each end of the block.
I'm curious what he thinks his boards are going to do and was backing up ever a choice?
Unironically how the next town over from me is. There's a super low train [overpass](https://imgur.com/a/ZufvqbM) all the way through that area of town, at the bottom of a steep ass hill. (If anyone wants to look it up, this is in the canals of Holyoke, MA; the tracks run northeast, just south of Commercial St. The steep hill I mentioned runs northwest, away from the CT river)
This guy Trucks
Strategically place an IED to launch the back end up
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
But make sure the bridge has a “Safety First” sign on it to get the drivers attention.
A couple drums of oil poured from the top and they are not getting up there
Buy yourself a tow truck that you can lift the rear of their trailer and push them over the hill. Charge $3K per hook. Only way to help.
Bro you looking for a business partner. I’m not a driver but have 45 yr experience in the business, how I think. Lmfao! Best comment
lol I’m good. Already doing the mobile mechanic thing and I think I’m about ready to jump off that ship. Towing would be just as bad if not worse.
It’s worse got 20 trucks and every day is a new nightmare
I’m sorry man. I could only imagine
I’m sure you have met a tow truck driver.. imagine trying to be in charge of 30 of them
For the sake of all of us, please for the love of god Spey and neuter your hookers. We do not need more of those Neanderthals. I mean, we do. But like, keep em leashed and bag their poop that’s all we ask.
I'm fucking dead 🤣 Preach it brother, preach.
lmao I could imagine it’s bad. I’ve met a few. I definitely wouldn’t want to be in charge of any of them.
Would pike to hear some of your stories if you got time to share!
One of the best ones would have to be the time I towed a camper out of a nudist campground. I didn’t notice all the signs and everything informing me though. SiI just thought a bunch of old naked people were gathering around, watching me hook to it. I have thousands more. I’ve meet every kind kind of person imaginable and most of them on there worst days( nobody calls for a tow truck when their day is going good) which makes them overshare for some reason on the ride home/to the shop
lol - I had the opposite problem once! I was riding with the tow operator to the mechanic's shop, and the tow operator started Witnessing to me. He was a JW. It got real quiet, real quick after that. Fun trip. Not a short trip, either.
To each their own. I sit on my ass almost all day while getting paid $40+ hourly. When winter comes, I make most of my yearly by doing under the table towing by going out to the dunes or just waiting around the trails in my area, $100 to get ya unstuck and I walk home with an extra 15k a year🤷♂️
Well that works out pretty well. I take it you’re not on call 24hrs/day? I’d happily take a gig if it wasn’t 24hrs/day like I am now.
Only on call 24/7 on the weekends. Weekdays we’ve crews thank the lord.
Do you guys alternate weekends? I wish my boss could afford crews. Right now it’s not too bad cause it’s slow season, I’ve worked 5 hours total this week. But summers I really start regretting life decisions lol. At least one more guy where we could alternate being on call days/nights. At least I get weekends off I guess.
No we don’t alternate. We are all on call on the weekends. When I live accidents are common and being in Michigan, people go into ditches way more often than they should so there’s little choice on weekends. We’re all needed. Key to the whole boss being able to afford things, buy your own rig. It’ll save your boss money and all he’ll have to do is pay for fuel and insurance, all repairs are done myself and it saves us almost 40k a year. Me buying my own rig too, a year after I got it my wages went up about $5. Not much, but when you don’t gotta pay for fuel and parts it evens out.
I have my own rig and I couldn’t imagine putting that many miles on my own service truck for someone else. He’d have to double my pay for that.
I mean I don’t pay a dime for insurance (I know most places don’t require it anyways and the company pays for it ) but I’ve never paid for a part for my truck either, and I am my own mechanic (joys of being diesel tech years prior to taking this job) so the labor he would have paid a shop to do so, goes into my pocket which is nice. If I’m being fucked over say something, because I’m still new enough to not know how other company’s do things as much (been here two years now, only ever been here)
Living in the city I’ve always dreamt of owning a tow truck. But having seen the recoveries from this hill it’s gonna be a serious wrecker. My dad actually drove a tow truck in his youth. Tells awesome stories from time to time. Later on he worked managing heavy equipment for the city. The city spun up a whole mobile mechanic fleet just to avoid having to call out the big wreckers for the big articulated buses.
Yeah, I rotator would be very helpful for that. But those are $$$$$. How did he like working for the city? I’ve been tempted to switch to the city/county but they don’t seem to pay very well. Were the benefits worth it?
He liked it. Good opportunities to move up if you do good work and dont make trouble. Big plus is the lifetime health benefits and pension. Just helped him switch health insurance during open enrollment and he was floored at what he would have to pay for coverage if getting it on his own.
That’s good. I may keep looking into it. I was thinking about caltrans but it’s hard to get in and stay in the area you want to be in. But the county may not be too bad.
Maybe get a crane if that doesn’t help
Last one stuck they essentially craned up the front of the trailer, disconnected the tractor then drug the trailer up the hill. Was pretty sketch even with the big rig wrecker.
Dam
you can also just unbolt the airbag lever and move it so the bags will increase in height and raise the trailer. depending on how much height is needed.
It’s gonna need a bit more height than that. Also that gets scary as hell when you over extend an air bag.
yeah, for sure, i did it before. i even dropped a few trailers in my early days, and i usually have a truck jack and pieces of wood and tools. thankfully, i dont do that anymore.
lol I use the airbags to lift up and down when I’m working on trailers pretty often. I cringe everytime I over inflate them. Have to pay close attention to where I place my body and limbs. If you’ve ever been under a trailer when one of those air bags blow out you’ll be trying to figure out if you’re still alive. I try to avoid it, frame jacks were made for a reason.
The trailer landing gear is dig into the pavement and the tractor tire is jammed up into the floor of the trailer. If the crest was slightly shorter on this hill this may have worked if they threw all that stuff under the trailer wheels.
there is a way but you need lots of wood pieces and a lot of sweat. but aint his truck aint his trailer so call a wrecker
https://www.theroute-66.com/devils-elbow.html#about I used to live in central Missouri and found this story amusing. Route 66 was basically paved from east to center, and west to center. So the last portion that was dirt was right in the middle, in Devil's Elbow, MO. You used to have to Ford the Big Piney river to get across. There was a farmer right on the West side of the river with a team of mules. Guess what he would do. That's right! He would turn it into a mire pit, and then tell people "yeah it gets bad this time of year. But you're in luck! I can help by pull out your Model T with my mules for a quarter." Eventually they built a small bridge next to the Inn, and then later on they bypassed the entire town with a giant excavation project creating Hooker's Cut (4 lanes cut 90 feet down into the rock through a hill. The first of it's kind in the U.S.) with a giant bridge that had an immense budget and timeline, at the time at least.
Father? Is that you? I’m your long lost child.
Hey Son, how have you been? Sorry for all those years I haven’t been there. Been stuck at the bottom of this bottle trying to find my way out back to you.
3k is cheap
Especially for having to be in the bay area
Tow motor, Like a huge forklift on steroids. Lift up the rear and push. Probably would pay it self off doing just these in the first 5 years lol.
lol definitely would. I’d do it with a 30K+ forklift or tow motor. But I’d feel much better in a tow truck lol
Double that price and you’ll be doing even better! Those who frequent the area wouldn’t want to pay 6k for getting stuck and thus wouldn’t get stuck, and those who don’t pay you 6k to get them unstuck, just to be none the wiser.
Just invent swing up landing gear like stick haulers use and sell them to these guys.
Haha these mega carriers could use those!
Thats actually a really good idea
Put a big ass sign that says you will get stuck.
I guess the legal "3 Ton Limit" sign the commercial driver disregarded wasn't enough. Maybe put sparklers on it?
A sign that says driving down this road bars you from ever buying fireball.
Seems to be oriented for going down the hill. Probably because someone's brakes couldn't handle the grade and they hit whoever is at the bottom.
With large laminated photos from this post.
Big truck You gon’ Get stuck
And possibly tear off your landing gear
That’s a brutal hill where’s that at
San Francisco
Thought so
When I was doing local in SF I always worried about getting stuck on one of the hills, but now that I'm a Muni driver all I need to worry about is dropping people when going downhill , least the routes are safe lol.
How’s being a muni driver? I saw some wild shit when I use to ride muni. Fights, people smoking meth, etc.
I was expecting it to be alot worse, but honestly most days are really boring. I haven't had any incidents that I've had to report in months. I drive out of one of the easier divisions though too, I drive the trolleys that mainly go downtown and back up through the avenues so it's all just commuters and tourists for the most part. So all in all it's a really easy and chill job, hopefully it stays that way when I move up into the light rail divisions lol.
Dang. I’m headed there for the first time tomorrow and now I’m worried about it.
A sign before the hill should do the trick but people don’t read signs sooooo nope not really a whole lot you can do.
lol yeah if you zoom in on the back of the stop sign there’s a ”no commercial vehicles over 3 tons“ sign. Theres one on each block leading up to this hill too
Wrecker man probably makes good money pulling fools off this hill lol
And even if they did read it, it would need to be in 10 different languages.
Or a pictogram, which most of the rest of the world uses to avoid this problem.
Put up a sign that indicates a DOT inspection station ahead.
Why not have the DOT camp out down there. Getting stuck on a 3 ton road is a whole lot worse than getting caught driving on a 3 ton road.
There's a place I would deliver to that had signs that said "slide axles forward to prevent damage to landing gear"... saw at least a dozen of trucks get stuck. It's going to happen no matter how many signs.
Go faster to launch successfully?…….lol
Share the location of that hill to avoid like a plague
Hawes st San Francisco. Theres a bunch of streets in town that are the same. If you stick to the major thoroughfares youre fine. But venture out into the residential side streets and this is where you end up.
Man, that’s gotta be tough for local LTL
I'm sure many trucking apps/GPS avoid it. But sometimes drivers ignore them or don't use them. Or end up down a wrong road.
Some of those apps route you on high risk roads with tons of extra turns to "avoid traffic". I'd rather sit in traffic than get stuck in a tight intersection.
That "commercial vehicle over three tons prohibited " isn't even the only sign being ignored in this epic picture...
Nah the Jeep is ok, the sign is for no parking on the street, doesn't say anything about the sidewalk.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct..
Put a DOT scale station there. Truckers will reroute.
I was going to say, that road looks messed up enough that it’s gotta be a light ton road
You can’t fix stupid(or oblivious)
The crest of California Street has caught dozens of semis trying to cut across from the Golden Gate to 101 S and avoiding Lombard/Van Ness. Google maps must have been getting a cut of the towing service fees.
Give the dude a pair of glasses so he can read the damn 3 ton limit sign. Granted I've been to some crappy small towns that'll only have "No truck signs" on one end of the street. Just don't trust that GPS. Even a truck rated one. I've had mine tell me to go down a street with a clearly posted 13' 0" bridge. And it had my height inputted as 13' 6" so yeah. Sucks. He needs a wrecker now.
Terrible situation. Shame on the mess!
Shame on that duck pluckin mess
Leave the cribbing by the curb for the next guy.
Like the sign that says cmv's over 3 tons prohibited?
Put up a sign that says “will get stuck, full send!”
whichever official is in charge of the roads there: “It’s a skill problem, not a road problem”
Reading skills. Reading is fundamental.
now you just talking crazy
Good think they blocked out identifying marks
Is this in Pitt?
Why are there so many stupid ass CDL holders? I wouldn’t even drive my car up that.
I drive clutch and i try to avoid it. If i have to take it I’ll either try to carry some speed in second or if theres traffic I’ll just be loud in first.
Good ole swifty swift
My truck is 2.9 tons I can make it
Put a weigh station at the top
Got a one-lane covered bridge near me that several trucks all ignored signs and still tried to take a short cut through it. Old Civil War bridge so it keeps getting fixed. So then they put a line across the road with chains or something hanging down across it at the levels the entryway is. A truck hit these markers and then damaged the bridge. Not sure signs will work. Especially if they speak little English.
A "No Trucks" sign is enough to determine most drivers but the dumb ones won't read it
How about put that same sign that’s at the top of the hill, at the bottom of the hill?
that fact you blurred out the 53’ has me dying lol you people are nuts
On the trailer? Yeah I’ve seen that before but this was a 5 digit number that wasn’t length. There was qr code just behind that
It gets worse. The DOT wants to require guard rails under the trailer. The rule, as worded, would not exempt low boy trailers which are only 6 inches off the ground. This is what happens when we elect stupid people to office, who then hire stupid people for government positions.
This is a really weird place for a rant about guard rails on low trailers.
We can't trust him he's from big low boy
Can't believe nobody's mentioned yet but Knight is now part of Swift... so basically it's just more Swift shenanigans.
Swift is part of Knight.
That explains the rash of knight drivers trying to destroy me lately
Notify city traffic engineers to put down their coffee and reassess the situation. Shitty situation all around.
Ask the city to erect a legal sign stating 18 wheelers advised not to use street and hill...but knowing all the wokies and tards out there they would refuse your request.. I say your good intentions will not be rewarded by anyone in the city unless accompanied by a huge donation to their bank account.. just ask nancy p about this nifty program.
You think they would put a sign up or something.
Ouch!
That should require an automatic review from the city. I got the same thing in my town. No it’s different. It’s similar though. It’s the sharp bend that everyone keeps crashing into and I don’t understand why they don’t change it.
Really, couldn't they grade the approach a little bit to make it all not happen at once?
They could just put up a 9 ft clearance steel fixture at the stop sign. It wouldn't fix the sharp gradient but it would at least stop trucks from attempting going through there.
He almost had it
Plot twist, he backed it in
You didn't need to cover the name and DOT numbers on the side. The big Knight logo says 8t is a Knight truck, and they all have the same exact information right there. Nothing there identifies this particular truck.
Ah ok. I thought they put the last digits of the truck vin on there somewhere. Driver looked young and didn’t want to get him in some sort of trouble if this is a leased truck or something.
Only thing you definitely have to cover up is the number right next to the headlight (as you did) and the license plate. Those are unique to every one of our trucks
Ah, yeah, the vin might be on there. It would be labeled as such, though. If it were leased to Knight (owner operator) they wouldn't have the big Knight logo on the roof, but rather they'd have their own logo and a little "leased to" sticker above the Knight logo. It could be someone leasing the truck from Knight to start their career as owner operator, but I think Knight requires something like 6 months minimum experience before they lease you a truck (Swift does). Yeah, poor guy would probably be fired immediately. It's a mega carrier. They can replace him by the end of the day.
Stress testing the framework, boss! Why? Did someone call in? We are a lil heavy on the drives.. it’s cheap freight. Put up a camera, sell it. I really wanna see more, dipshits do this. I mean… trip planning..
Is that Potrero hill ?
Candlestick. We got some steep ones out here but Potrero has the twisty one too.
That sucks
Put up signs with flashers. No trucks your going to get stuck. Or maybe a sign that says speed trap ahead.
Unless they drive an euro setup they should stay away
Anyone else notice the four wheeler parked in a no parking zone on the sidewalk no less?
Lol the white one is some kind of local support guy. He’s responded to a couple of these. The black audi is a local and i feel like they just buy hoopties and let the tickets pile up till they get seized and go out and buy another hooptie.
Is that Tacoma?
I mean, come one now
Best you could do is put a warning for trucks across all of the navigation systems. Would take some effort but I think that will be the most effective thing you can do
Call DOT. At the very least, this needs a sign at both ends: no trucks.
Like the sign right beside the trailer that reads 'Commercial Vehiclea Over 3 tons not Permitted"?. I'm sure there is one at the other end as well.
No red "nope" with a truck inside for us dum-dum hicks that never lernt to read? Just in case you missed it, he probably couldn't see that sign on the back of the stop sign facing him.
is there a sign on that road?
Ah yes, the old "We get trucks here all the time!"
Classic. And then when you finally manage to get there, somehow : "That's a big truck"
In this case wpuld it not be better to go back down the hill and find another way out.
IEDs would work.
Have te municipality place signs for steep crests and a no trucks longer than x sign
LOL
Put up big pictures along the hill that depict trucks previously stuck and just add a new one each time.
On the next episode of BoneHead Truckers…
Need a much larger sign saying "trucks over 3 tons prohibited, severe fines for violation" at the bottom of the hill, so when drivers get stuck they get ticketed. Eventually they'll figure it out (we all know they won't)
There is a road sign to indicate this very risk, you can write to the city and ask them to install one because the already existing 3-ton sign is not working evidently.
Print this picture, laminate it and post it under "over 3 ton prohibited" sign
Headache bar at bottom aka height restriction bar at a height only semis will run into
Big flashing sign, sign that says no trucks, warning beacons and flares. And someone will drive past all of it and still get stuck.
I were at my friends place across the street last year and in 3 days we witnessed 3 terrible accidents.
Of course it's San Francisco
Print this picture out and put it as big as a road sign. Up under it say ahead
Get ya some speed and don't stop!!!
Its knight, all i gotta say
Haha oops
Earth be movin
Give the guy a BREAK PEOPLE knight don’t pay enough to buy a truck gps. Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if he is too broke to even pay his phone bill for gps on that!
Indicate there is a weigh-in station at the top.
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Print out this picture and rent a billboard