Well today we have people driving big trucks that should not be driving them . They do not pay attention to signs , they have no idea of how big they are , They depend on there GPS that is not designed to point out that hey your a big truck and can't go that way because you will not fit. Some times they get bad directions either from there dispatcher or someone that hqas no idea that a big truck can't go that way but they drive a car that way everyday and don't think about if a big truck can't go that way because of a low bridge or a bridge has a low weight limit and they tell the driver WELL THIS IS HOW I COME TO THE PLANT . Back in my early days of beating the pavement i ran into things that a big truck could not go . (now i did not mean i hit things) . One time that sticks in my mind was one load of road salt going to a township over in the hills of Pa. Nobody had ever been there before and my dispatcher gave me this load with a when every ya get there they will come and unload ya . Bev , my dispatcher had directions given to her by the township clerk . Seemed like and easy run . It was a nasty night in Nov. temps in the mid fortys with rain so that meant load had to be traped not a big deal there . Load went out east of Washington Pa. and north of I 70 up some back road in the hills . I get off I 70 and head north about seven miles of hills and curves . Hill on one side and a drop off down to a river/ creek on the other . Dark heavy rain plum nasty . On my bills it said once at the township house to go into the office and call this phone number and CHUCK will come down and unload you when ever you get there . I topped this one hill and went around a curve to the right then backmleft and down the hill and at the bottom was and old WOODEN BRIDGE with a three ton load limit and on the other side of the bridge was the township house . Now what i sur as all get out not taking 78000 lbs across that . No place to turn around . So set the brakes walk across the bridge and call CHUCK . Chuck goes into ORBIT as this is the forth or fifth time the Clerk has had trucks come in this way . No place to turn around and that means a vary long and hard backing job is at hand on a dark night in the rain. , i was NOT suppose to come in off I 70 but in off I 79 . If i had not installed back up lights in my dump trailer i would have had to set there till day light . I backed all the way to the interstate back west bound for 28 miles then north like 20 miles and back thirty miles on more nasty back roads and across many 15 ton bridges . Next one was back to Pa once again the next year. Directions were enter Pa on I 70 and get off the first exit and when you come to the stop sign turn left Follow that road south till you come to the big tree at the end of the fence and turn left , township hall is up on the left. Well the road was not bad for the first five miles then it went to dirt and gravel and i still have not found the big tree on the left at the end of the fence , Saw several fences on the left but no big tree and no township house . I get to a Y and the road really is not one for big trucks and it is like Nah i ain.t going down that one , This is back before the days of cell phones and i am way out of range with the one company radio i had for another trucking company . When a local pulls up and says YOU LOST , well yea i am looking for this township house and it was suppose to be off to the left by this big tree and i have not seen a BIG tree . He say no they cut thqat tree down this summer after the big storm took the top out it and you can't see the NEW township house from the road coming south as it is up behind the hill and there is no drive up to it yet just two tracks up thru the field , did you see them , yea i did . Well that is where your going , SOOOOoooo your going to have to BACK all the way back up there as there is no place to turn around . Life was shell we say interesting pulling a bucket . The plus side was that i could fit under a 10.6 underpass with the tarp on . I could fit under a 10.6 with 35 ton of coal on but not 38 ton as if ya left the mine with 38 on when ya got to where it was going you now had 35 .
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