Tennessee to ban big trucks on the Dragon

[ski]

Impassable my *ss.

 

[Jag]

Please don't make those kinds of general bashing statements. Most long haul OTR company drivers such as Swift are paid by the mile now days. Overloading the long haul trucks is not as common as it is with the short haul regional loads moved in the Northeast. I know from 36 years in trucking.

Sorry their Idaho red, should not have generalized. A few bad apples always ruin it for the guys that are professionals in their industry.

 

[Wannbe]

With the new csa scoring and lots of companies requiring e-logs it is virtually impossible to be lacking. If you are, you will soon be unemployable. Even if you are an independant.

 

[Boog]

Wow! Just WOW!

 

[cusso ken]

Please don't make those kinds of general bashing statements. Most long haul OTR company drivers such as Swift are paid by the mile now days. Overloading the long haul trucks is not as common as it is with the short haul regional loads moved in the Northeast. I know from 36 years in trucking.

The Australian Trucking industry is full of exploitation of Drivers and small independent Companies ,impossible deadlines and minimal wage for long hours ,owner drivers over their head in debt and driving excessive hours to make ends meet resulting in some horrific fatigue related accidents and I wont even go into the alleged drug abuse, or alleged speed limiter tampering!
I gave away short haulage 30 years ago and started heavy haulage delivering 30 tonne excavators, D8 & D9 Cat Dozers ,mining equipment ,electricity power station equipment,often dagging a quad axel low loader (8 tyres per axle) plus bogie drive and steer wheels a total of 42 wheels plus 4 spares (Slim Dusty sang about 18 wheelers never 42 wheelers )a total length with prime mover of19 metres, try that down the Dragon! ,most of our work was quoted for pick up and delivery at realistic rates and schedules, almost unheard of today. retired bent but not broken after 47 years of good and bad memories.

 

[peter k]

I agree with you as for last twenty three years as an owner operator .previous to that fire trucks ,car carriers up here and general freight out of fyshwick down south as an employee ,very long hours to make a reasonable income .But having hundreds of thousands invested in the business up here I really had no choice .I've been retired five months now and what a relief that was selling up. I thought I would miss it but I dont.

 

[cusso ken]

Good on you Peter, I do miss being on the road even if it was because getting back home was always a pleasure as they say absence makes the heart grow fonder, before the days of Emails,skype or what ever even mobile phones where in the Maxwell Smart category , if the area didn't have a public phone you called from a truck stop to say goodnight to the wife and kids , but it beat the hell out of sitting in an office all day or a counter jumping /salesman neither of which I would be any good at,

 

[1olbull]

The trucking lobby here is powerful and have gotten the NHTSA to allow bigger and yet bigger tractors and trailers so that now they are simply too darn large to negotiate ALL the roadways.
Many of these are ***in' over 70 feet (21.5 meters) long!
I feel for the poor drivers and detest the company owners making money off their stress.

 

[cusso ken]

In Aussie our B doubles are allowed on certain roads outside the city centres, they are up to 27.5 Metres ( over 90 feet) long our B triples are permit only on major Roads with escorts are 36.5 meters almost 120 foot long with permit and escorts our Road Trains on outback Public Hwys are up to 53.5 metres long nearly 176 foot long, on private mining roads some combinations have 8 or more 8 axle trailers the most common is the 4 x 8 axle combinations ,

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Impassable my *ss.

Why did they bother making it if it's impassible