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Anybody want anything from Ontario?

historicalarms said:
Nope, don't want to be anywhere's close to that move anymore LOL.
I think the heaviest load I ever hauled was just over 100,000 lbs.
I have a buddy that did participate in some moves like that with 3 tractors required for pushing up river banks and breaking coming down, one steering & pulling & 2 behind. He claimed it was very hard to be one of the back drivers as the steering is locked & you cant see shit in front of you, you just hit the required pedals & shift gears when told to by the lead driver. He said it was very unnerving to be at the complete discretion of what happened in the front with not much warning.
The heaviest load I know of back in my days of oil rig moving was Billy R ( of the "hot coffee" story) was tasked with hauling a sub/derrick combo at the same time. We often did this in the winter on frozen roads, easy to get a permit on them, altho expensive . this particular time Bill was permitted to 165,000 as per the rig owners specs. We found out later that this was a fudged figure (plus it had a fair amount of frozen drilling mud inside the sub-frame that we couldn't see) that some paper-pusher did on purpose to cheapen the permit cost.
so off we happily went ,from Central Ab. area(Camrose) headed for Mayerthorpe region. We all thought we were legal as hell so didn't avoid the scales at Achesson All the lighter loaded winch tractors ,bed trucks & picker trucks when across first with no problem...Then it was Bills turn...and those DOT scale operators took an instant interest in him & his load, one of them was standing on his fuel tank in about 10 seconds asking Bill if he knew how heavy he was...Bills reply, "ya about 165,000, heres the permit"...would you believe your just under 240,000 was the Dot's Reply...oh oh this wasn't going to be good.
They immediately seized Bill's steering papers, the truck & trailer & the rig components. The rig was released about a week after seizure. The rig owners had to rent two 150 tonner cranes and swing the load directly to two other trailers in the parking lot. first the derrick A-leg pins had to be pulled to separate the derrick from the sub-frame so it was now two different loads.
Bills licence remained seized for over a month (at one time in all the proceedings he thought it was gone for good) along with the truck & trailer. It being winter , the truck remained running the whole time & we delivered fuel 3 times a week until it was released. The DOT's investigation, after a month or so determined that it was a drilling company employee that had falsified info and the trucking company wasn't at fault so once the drillers paid the fine (rumored at $100,000 but don't know for sure) everything was released.
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There are some days it’s unavoidable to hit scales, or they catch me napping. Generally, I find it’s better to avoid them, if possible.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/corman-park-charges-semi-trailer-no-wheels-1.5373455

Did you hear about this guy? Don’t get me wrong the DOT has a job to do, I just think sometimes they write a ticket when a verbal kick in the behind would be enough.

They probably write tickets to make up for the number of times they haven’t caught us :D
 
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The driver got a bath, it only seemed fair the truck got one too. Still in Midland, if they don’t find anything tomorrow I’m gonna bounce near Abilene.
There’s a rattlesnake roundup starting on Friday. I have no idea what that is but if I’m in town I want to find out :D
 
Chicken lights said:
There are some days it’s unavoidable to hit scales, or they catch me napping. Generally, I find it’s better to avoid them, if possible.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/corman-park-charges-semi-trailer-no-wheels-1.5373455

Did you hear about this guy? Don’t get me wrong the DOT has a job to do, I just think sometimes they write a ticket when a verbal kick in the behind would be enough.

They probably write tickets to make up for the number of times they haven’t caught us :D
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Oh yes don't get me wrong, nobody should be driving with vise grips snapped onto a steering spline...but The way CVI inspections are enforced and regulated is very subjective.
Here in Ab. when I was still in the trucking industry, they had kids just out of high school rolling on a creepers under our trucks and telling judges that something was unsafe when they had no mechanical training at all. They didn't have to be licensed mechanics to write a ticket or put you on a hook. A good example was the truck I mentioned earlier that had the pipe come through the cab, When that truck was 1 days off the dealers yard it made a trip from Red Deer to Calgary and back, just before R.D. he was pulled into a roadside inspection. Dudes jacked up the front axle and did a king-pin check and proclaimed they were "out of spec" and ordered the truck put on a hook and towed to Kenworth... this truck had 320 KM. on it!!!
Your 'loss of wheels" article brings up another pet peeve of mine over CVI's. You can do a completely satisfactory "before use" inspection in the parking lot and hit a deep pot hole, break a bearing cone or race & loose a wheel anywhere in the trip and your liable even tho the outfit was perfectly good when you started and the highway caused the wheel to break loose...they sure aren't going to admit that their roads would cause the problem. When I was employed in the paving industry (Ab. in the 90's) there is a machine (Profilogragh machine it was called) we had to use to prove the quality of surface we layed. This machine measured deviations of less than 1.5 cm in 60 ft of travel and every foot of highway we paved had to meet that requirement...That is the standard of smoothness we must meet, a highway that smooth will never injure a truck running gear and if they kept their roads to that standard I would have no problem with being charged for a loose running gear...but they don't... potholes 10 cm deep abound everywhere that would break a bearing in an instant and we are the ones held responsible...not the highway branch....rant over...
 
historicalarms said:
Oh yes don't get me wrong, nobody should be driving with vise grips snapped onto a steering spline...but The way CVI inspections are enforced and regulated is very subjective.
Here in Ab. when I was still in the trucking industry, they had kids just out of high school rolling on a creepers under our trucks and telling judges that something was unsafe when they had no mechanical training at all. They didn't have to be licensed mechanics to write a ticket or put you on a hook. A good example was the truck I mentioned earlier that had the pipe come through the cab, When that truck was 1 days off the dealers yard it made a trip from Red Deer to Calgary and back, just before R.D. he was pulled into a roadside inspection. Dudes jacked up the front axle and did a king-pin check and proclaimed they were "out of spec" and ordered the truck put on a hook and towed to Kenworth... this truck had 320 KM. on it!!!
Your 'loss of wheels" article brings up another pet peeve of mine over CVI's. You can do a completely satisfactory "before use" inspection in the parking lot and hit a deep pot hole, break a bearing cone or race & loose a wheel anywhere in the trip and your liable even tho the outfit was perfectly good when you started and the highway caused the wheel to break loose...they sure aren't going to admit that their roads would cause the problem. When I was employed in the paving industry (Ab. in the 90's) there is a machine (Profilogragh machine it was called) we had to use to prove the quality of surface we layed. This machine measured deviations of less than 1.5 cm in 60 ft of travel and every foot of highway we paved had to meet that requirement...That is the standard of smoothness we must meet, a highway that smooth will never injure a truck running gear and if they kept their roads to that standard I would have no problem with being charged for a loose running gear...but they don't... potholes 10 cm deep abound everywhere that would break a bearing in an instant and we are the ones held responsible...not the highway branch....rant over...
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I remember this because the wheels on the trailer were either new or had just been blasted n painted, they were a nice fresh white, I remember when I did my pretrip thinking how rare that was to have such clean rims. 5-6 hours later rolled across a scale and got put OOS for a wheel seal leaking. Sure enough those nice clean white rims had oil streaks on them.

Rolling across I-90 in NY a deer ran into the side of me. There was blood, deer hair and poop all over the truck. Pulled over to check things out. Walked around it with a flashlight. Didn’t see any major damage, called dispatch, I was just gonna limp it to the next rest area to assess things better rather than the shoulder. Got back on the highway just in time to get pulled over by a trooper. He agreed to head to the rest area where he spent two hours going over my log book, truck book, truck and trailer. He pulled me over for a tail light out on the trailer. Which, 5-6 hours had been working fine. He threatened to put my whole log book in violation for not drawing one line long enough.

Another time, different company, got pulled into a roadside inspection, the NY highway use sticker was out of date, even though I did find the right one in the truck binder (I’d been in that truck for only a couple weeks). I also had forgotten to scribble in a 30 minute break the day before.

So I get it, they probably have every driver every driver tell them it was working earlier. I just don’t feel it’s neccessary to fine the driver and company for little things. I see both sides of it, it IS public safety on the line
 
She got a bit suspicious when my son and I started working on installing a heater........"its for you car so it is all cozy for you in the morning......" hahahahahahahaha!
 
YYCHobbyMachinist said:
Soooo..... where are we? What are the loads and where are they headed?

Craig
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North of Lubbock. First load is a couple steel tanks, heading near Brantford. Second load is apparently lumber but I haven’t seen it yet. Going near Strathroy.

Dispatch must have miles and kilometres confused again. Roughly 180 miles to get to Coleman, then 280 up to Plainsview. “You can grab the second one after lunch”

Really? So you think I can cover 460 miles AND load and strap half a load in under four hours??

I just shake my head and ignore stuff like that. Left at 8 am, got to the first one 11:30, loaded by 12:45, and it’s still 280 miles to the next pick and they close at 5:00.

What’d I say earlier about dispatchers brains....
 
When my old boss would come to me with another goofy request I'd hold out my hand and ask him to share his drugs,,,,,, I held my hand out a lot and thankfully he never shared.
I'm enjoying the travel log, my thanks to you and YYC.
Safe travel.
 
YotaBota said:
When my old boss would come to me with another goofy request I'd hold out my hand and ask him to share his drugs,,,,,, I held my hand out a lot and thankfully he never shared.
I'm enjoying the travel log, my thanks to you and YYC.
Safe travel.
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It’s been a fun trip! Glad you and others are having fun following along
 
Ok... you must have those wheel rolling east by now. Where are we and what was that second load and where did you pick it up at?

Craig
 
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YYCHobbyMachinist said:
Ok... you must have those wheel rolling east by now. Where are we and what was that second load and where did you pick it up at?

Craig
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Bunch of fibreglass junk that was supposed to be “lumber”. I was really hesitant to take this stuff but here we are. Picked up outta Plainview TX. Not happy with anything that’s on my deck currently

OKC for the night, theres no real panic to make the miles the next couple days.
 
YYCHobbyMachinist said:
New leg, new map, we are on map 5 now.

https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Plai...a21274d14f3a9d!2m2!1d-97.5164276!2d35.4675602

That load doesn't look bad to me? What's the problem? Gotta be way lighter than a load of pipe?

What are those tanks about?

Craig
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The front half is all fibreglass, so you can’t tighten the straps too tight or you’ll break it. It’s just barely legal width the way it’s loaded. The top stacks are uneven heights so the lower side isn’t secured well. I stopped three times yesterday to check the straps already. It’s one of those loads I’ll have to babysit

The tanks are a PITA too, I’ve stopped 2-3 times to try taping up the plastic wrap or to cut off what was flapping in the breeze. That plastic wrap doesn’t survive well on the highway

Truckers are never happy :D
 
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