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roogie said:
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I have also received confirmation that this was big Dave , and that he was first trying to get down the hill by holding his hat out the window using it as a jake brake hoping it would slow him down by catching enough wind.. CHP later reported his hat was not approved for highway use unless it was chained up, so he could open the door and drag it to aid in slowing down....
 
BIG R GUY said:
I have also received confirmation that this was big Dave , and that he was first trying to get down the hill by holding his hat out the window using it as a jake brake hoping it would slow him down by catching enough wind.. CHP later reported his hat was not approved for highway use unless it was chained up, so he could open the door and drag it to aid in slowing down....
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Just curious, why didn't Big Dave just throw open both doors and stick his spurs in the pavement while holding up his hat?? Wouldn't his spurs act like chains??
 
So we're still lost on this one. Short of the CHP releasing a full report, we'll never know anything beyond claims by the driver and his friends that he's a hero. His mom says he is, so that's that.
 
silent trucker said:
So we're still lost on this one. Short of the CHP releasing a full report, we'll never know anything beyond claims by the driver and his friends that he's a hero. His mom says he is, so that's that.
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Think his mom was also quoted as saying,"his pants were full",too.....
 
Big Dave said:
Really???! Let's put that position in perspective..........picture Big Dave at the OB-GYN office......:9529:
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Well, I pictured Big Dave on the back of Kabayo, legs extended, spurs in the ground, pulling back on the reins, while saying "whoa horsey"...but since you went and painted "that" picture....:9529::9529::9529:
 
roogie said:
I've only been through the Eisenhower Tunnel once and the chain law was pulled before I got to it. I had HazMat too so I was supposed to go over Loveland but it was closed so the tunnel it was for me. Since AF/FXF is the only place I've driven I'll probably not make it out there again due to the linehaul structure, and yes I am a Dock to Driver graduate (who's never chained). I did have them on the Fat Tire Volvo, but only a yearly check was the only time I pulled them off.

Nothing but mad respect for those that do this day in/day out, definitely lots of skill and toughness to do it. I'm on a turn that meets Fargo in N. Sioux City, SD right now. I bring the 3rd box up for each of the 2 Fargo drivers to build their triples from their official meet drivers. I would not do so well with mountains, it's been bad enough with the icy flat roads here!

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I hope you realize how fortunate you are since you didn't have to go over Loveland. When the road is covered in snow, in those hairpin turns, you can't tell where the edge of the road is. Very scary. Stay out of the way of those suicidal tanker drivers up there. They'll run you off the road.

In all fairness, your run sounds like quite a challenge.
 
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shins said:
I hope you realize how fortunate you are since you didn't have to go over Loveland. When the road is covered in snow, in those hairpin turns, you can't tell where the edge of the road is. Very scary. Stay out of the way of those suicidal tanker drivers up there. They'll run you off the road.

In all fairness, your run sounds like quite a challenge.
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And car haulers!!! I hate going over that pass.
 
silent trucker said:
if only he'd avoided that original single vehicle accident...
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Judge not, lest ye be judged. You have said yourself that much of the details remain less than clear. Making a judgement call up on a mountain pass is to each driver's discretion, and is based on the information they have available to them at the time. You can suggest you'd have done it differently, but you don't have all the details required to have made the call in the first place. And I have little doubt that he wished he'd had more information when the jacknife occurred. Hindsight is 20/20.

Richard Cranium said:
Yep. Definitely should have called in sick.
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It would've just been another driver's call to make if he had. No easy task.
 
Richard Cranium said:
Yep. Definitely should have called in sick.
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This references an "accident" that RC had 30 plus years ago. I was backed into a loading dock, in the trailer counting product being loaded, when another truck hit mine. I had to go before a board of review to discuss the "accident". They asked me how I could have prevented the "accident". After a few moments of careful consideration, RC said he probably should have called in sick that day.
 
Richard Cranium said:
This references an "accident" that RC had 30 plus years ago. I was backed into a loading dock, in the trailer counting product being loaded, when another truck hit mine. I had to go before a board of review to discuss the "accident". They asked me how I could have prevented the "accident". After a few moments of careful consideration, RC said he probably should have called in sick that day.
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Did you refer to yourself in the third person in front of board of review or do you just save that for us?
 
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