Oh yea them pesty air bags do make a really loud KEEERRRRR BOOM . Just ask the WEIGH MASTER that pulled ME over for and over load many years back . Back in the seventy's and into the early eighty's i ran a Coal bucket . When you drove one of them you had a huge target on your back for the Portable scales . Now according to there standards we were OUTLAW, Criminals what have ya . They thought we always overloaded , We just FILLED the wagon and went hated having empty space in the trailer . The day in question the one concrete plant i hauled to needed 57 Lime stone for the first pour the next morning to start the day off and two more truck were going to also be hauling Lime stone to keep up , they wanted a BIG load . Ok fine it's AFTER 3 PM so i should be good as the Portables ALWAYS went home around 3 ish . So i run over to Carbon Lime stone just across the state line and we LOAD the wagon and make it look like a Dairy QUEEN the trailer i am pulling is one of the larger ones at 32 foot box with 72 inch side. I come out of Carbon lime stone and cross the state line and there is this HILL that will plum suck the life out of any truck and i am down in third gear and the next thing i know i have a buckeye bear on my back door with the lights on , Crap , so the only place to pull over is at the junk yard so i pull over and the scale wagon is waiting . Now in the trailer i have a tri axle set up but the lead axle is on air and is a lift axle . back then we had ways of beating the portables by usen a 15x22.5 floater tire and a dummy rim they could not get the old gooseneck scales under that so they had to BLOCK that tire and we would throw all the air we could to that axle . As the air pressure was building they could not get the other scales to read as it kept changing . i could then HIDE 23000lbs off the drives and 41500 off the trailer with a 125 psi in the air bags . The trailer is creeking and popping as the air pressure builds and the CHICKEN INSPECTOR sticks his head under the bed over top the tires between the lead axle and middle axle when the air bag BLOWS with lots of dirt and dust flyen everywhere and him reacting to it hitting his head on the bottom of the trailer knocking himself out cold along with a nasty gash in his head . They lost interest in me and told me to get out of there . That was the last time R J ( his C B handle ) ever stuck his head under a dump trailer again and the last time he ever wanted to stop me . As many times i would here him talking with the bears and the bear might say hey there is this two tone Yellowish internation six axle coming that looks hevy and R J would say Nah leave him alone i don't want to weigh him on the scanner . And if you really want to hear a BOOM that is more BOMB like let one of them 15x22.5 radials BLOW that happened on vary warm summer day on the east side of Youngstown heading for the steel mill , there were a lot of people of color out setting on there ft. porches and when it blew people were RUNNING for all they were worth . Back then it was NOT uncommon for a BOMB to go off on the south and east side of Youngstown .
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