Some of the places i have been will test your metal . While onl hauling coal the only hard backing was to old schools that were still heating with coal and you had to control flow into man holes over there coal bunkers , next up was road salt some salt sheds were not layed out well , they were fine for a tandem axle 14 footer but not for a tractor and a 30 foot dump. Then once out on the road doing long hal bucket work you found out that all the rough spots you hauled to before were a cake walk and now your dealing with a long wheel base tractor with a bunk house on the back and the days of cheating by looking thru the back window were gone and you found your self doing more blind side backing off city streets down narrow alleys . Your driving skills improved . Then you step up to the heavy haul and the big fat girl loads . Like putting a 11 foot 11 and 3/4 inch wide load thru a 12 foot door then back a half mile down thru a working plant with only a couple zig zags , that was the first 40 loads , the last 12 were more interesting as those went in a different door still 12 wide but only 14 high and the load was 14 .4 tall on the deck , with the air dumped on tractor and trailer made the load 14 and they had to remove two hyd. lines off the top to gain a 1/2 inch . You had to stay on your toes every min. Even before you kicked the brakes off and stuffed into gear you had to check everything and set and go over your permits and routing . W.Va. rerouted me off I 77 onto old U S 50 and straight into a 14 foot under pass with one of them 14.4 loads and no way around , N. C sent me in to a 12 foot lane restriction on a bridge over the Newfound gap . Pa set me over a ten ton road with 10 ton bridges when i was over a 160000 , N C sent me down a two lane road with 10 foot wide lanes while 12 foot wide .THEN Ark and Texas this is where it becomes a true adventure . Ark. gives you a 24 hour permit , and a bizarre routing , First they hold you up at the scales for a couple hours then turn you loose just knowing you will be forced to shut down once again for curfew for three hours then they know that you more then likely not have enough time to clear the state line before dark due to the routing and have to hole up and your permit expires and you will be forced to BUY another one to get out of the state when you just a couple miles from the line . Texas wants you to enjoy there state and see every inch and t do this and follow the route they give you yopu need to BUY the Texas road atlas and it is as thick as the reg one for the rest of the states and you get to drive on the F M's and F S's all the while you high wide and heavy and your lucky if you can get this all done in two days .
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