Re: Trailer backing nightmere

Posted by The tractor vet on January 17, 2019 at 07:23:43 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Trailer backing nightmere posted by 37chief on January 16, 2019 at 18:39:00:

You want a trailer backing NIGHTMARE , heres one for ya . Back in early Nov of 1978 i was hauling a load of road salt to a township east of Washington Pa. a place i had never made a deliver to before . Nasty night with rain one of those nights that it seamed extra dark . I had direction given to me by Pete the head shipping dept manage at the salt mine as how i was SUPPOSE to get there and what i was SUPPOSE to do when i did get there . The township house was 9 miles North of interstate 70 up a Township road thru the foot hills of the Allaganey mountains , a little two lane road with lots of hills and curves with the mountain side to the right and a drop to the river below on the left , with high beams on and my two super bright air craft landing lights cutting thru the night i wind my way up this road at between 30-40 MPH . As i am coming down a grade i can see the township house and salt shed on the far side of the OTHER HILL on the OTHER side of the valley and at the bottom of the hill is a wooden 3 ton bridge . well this ain't good , Now what. well on the bills it said that when i arrive to go into the office as the door was unlocked and call Clearance at 412 -what ever the Number was and he would come down and push the load into the salt shed with the loader when ever i got there . So i got out of the nice DRY WARM cab and WALKED across that bridge and went in and called Clarence . His response was SHE DID IT AGAIN she gave the wrong directions again you were suppose to come in off I 79 NOT 70 . You are going to have to back all the way back to 70 then go west on 70 to 79 then north to this exit and come EAST 17 miles and this will put you on the other side of that bride , she can't understand that ya can't take a truck over that bridge , we don't ever take anything bigger over it then the one ton and that really is tomuch weight. So at 9:30 at night in the rain darker then a coal mine with no lights i had to back the 9 miles back out that road the built into the side of a mountain following a side winder . The only thing i had going for me was the two 4509 G E air craft landing lights i had installed in the back of that dump trailer earlier that year after a simaler experience also in Pa delivering ag lime of getting in and fginding noplace to turn around and had to back out only a half mile in a down pour , Two of us were on that one and to get out and BACK in to dump one at a time a person can only get so wet and it took two weeks for the drivers seats to dry out . Yep it was lots of fun backing 80000lbs up and down those humps and bumps.

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