Re: Heavy Haul!

Posted by The tractor vet on November 28, 2018 at 23:37:17 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Re: Heavy Haul! posted by Tim S on November 28, 2018 at 17:17:00:

We won't go into how i use to haul when i was running a bucket , Came out of Bicknel (sp) In. one night with 96 and change in the wagon and had a state cop follow me almost to I 70 . Never once dropped below 50 Mph going up the hills and never once went over 55 even on the down hills . We will not go into how many pony's were under the hood of my truck. . took a Buckeye coal hauler special load of coal from below Terre Haute on up to Chicago and right past the state cop watching all the coal buckets pulling the hill going out of town . When i pulled away from the light there was a local coal hauler next to me in the right lane and i left him like a hemi Road Runner leaving a V W and owned the left lane passen them all . At the top of the hill they had them all lined up for the portables and the cop standing on the center line waved me on by as i LOOKED LIGHT , little truck just one five inch stack WITH MUFFLER and all cops know that little trucks can't go fast with big loads . Did i ever get caught with my hands in the cooky jar , Yes i did got nailed in Va. with 129and change on , and paid a huge fine of 56. dollars and 65 cents for a gross overload and they could not get me out of the scales fast enough . PLUS the good old boy Va state cop told me he NEVER wanted to see my face onhis scales ever again and took me for a ride and showed me how to go around the scales If i was ever over again . Got caught back here while hauling shale and was placed under arrest and ordered to drive the tuck to the sate scales since i refused to pull on the portables and BROKE the state scales , best he tried to get me for was a gross over load and that one was for 300 and some bucks and i did not have to show up in court and gave me three months to pay it off . The other truck that he got the same time as me had a full bucket more on then i had and he weighed out the same on the broken scales . He paid the fine and i went to court with a certified notary stamped scale ticket for that load and when the judge asked i i plead i said not guilty and handed him my scale ticket and told him that since the state could not weigh me correctly i was not guilty , he agreed and tossed it out of court . Got stopped once on the south side of Ft. Wayne by the portables with a full and i do mean full wagon of aluim. turnings stacked up like loose hay whith the rag covering them and he made me pull up on his scales and he fussed and fidited around and could not figure out why he was not getting a good heavy reading as he asked me what i had on over the C B and to mess with him i said STOKER COAL . After about a half hour of himfussen with his scles i told him that he was NOT going to find what he wanted to find due to the fact that all them cross member under the trailer were air tanks fill with Helium as this was a new thing us Buckeye Coal haulers came up with and once we get loaded we fill them and run , once we gt to where we are going we dump the tanks and then weigh in . It was so funny watchen him looking at all the cross members . He turned me loose and i was on my way . I would see him several times a week and he would always howler at me on the C B asking where i was headed for and never stopped me again. and i was NOT hauling aluim. turnings. But yes we did haul heavy and when ya did get a load that filled the trailer and you were extremely and by that i mean under 70000 gross ya did not know how to act . I hauled a lot of bulk mixing salt out of Cleveland O to points west and here a normal load was 23 ton and at that at the time i was legal as the old gross weight was 73280 and i could scale 46000 . BUT well when they needed two loads going to the same place and needed it NOW i would load the one and weight then light weigh and load the second one ontop , it all fit . and west bound hammer down . I had to run the back roads out to the old exit 5 on the Ohio pike and get on there because the scales were messed up and i coulld get on with a double load in class 8 and not class 9 , In. did not weigh ya they just counted axles and 10.25 would get you across the Hoosier . Then it was out 80 and then a jump south around the scales and back on the big road to either 55 or 57 then south . Never travel the same way twice in a month alway use different routes . Keep the truck clean with good tires make sure all lights work and be quiet and never do tow wrongs at the same time , in other words if your heavy then don't speed do not give them a reason to stop you . And have the pony power to make you look light and have and engine that does NOT ROLL COAL while running down the road . I ran a built Cummins that would flat out and eat any 3408 Cat and Detroits were not even in the running and the new just out KTA 600's could not even stay up hauling the same weight . As i had four close friends that just had to have them and had bought new K W 900 laid out decked out . there was one other truck that ran like mine and that was owned by my close friend and for years he and i ran everywhere together , he and i bought the new truck the same night and other then a color difference and S/N difference everything else was the same . Those days were fun days .

Replies:

• Re: Heavy Haul! farmer656 01:31:20 11/29/18 (1)
  • Re: Heavy Haul! The tractor vet 08:19:35 11/30/18 (0)

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