My FL106 Freightliner service truck has the same problems. Given that I am pushing the legal 20,000 on the rear all the time, all it takes is a shower and I can get stuck on top of the mud, don't even have to sink. On the other hand I have been pulled into and/or out of job sites by dozers, on purpose, so many times I now keep a heavy cable in the back for just such occasions....it's those times when I don't plan to be stuck that really get to me...
I wish I had pics of the last time I was really stuck. I was several hundered yards back on a sewer pump station construction site that was nothing but red dirt. It had been dry for weeks so the site was nothing but powder when I got there earlier in the day. Around 4:30 a storm came in (one of those walls of water coming toward you type of things), and before I could even think about moving and I knew I was stuck. It was Friday afternoon and everyone else had left at 3 so I was the only one there. Getting to the gravel road out meant having to pull my truck up and down a hill that also had some side slope in it. Now that was an adventure in itself. Anyway, much longer story short, it took me nearly 2 hours in the rain, with a D5, all by myself, to get my truck pulled to the gravel road so I could leave. Many, what a PITA....
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