Driver's Retirement Thread

[Electric Chicken]

Too late. I've already hacked into a government server to access the background scenery recognition app they used to try to find Bin Laden.

According to the results, the photos were taken on: "Earth".

That really narrows it down. Earth is one of the smaller planets.

I thought you were going to say Abbottabad.

 

[Duck]

I thought you were going to say Abbottabad.

It could be. Abbottabad is on Earth.

But I'm pretty sure his actual location is in Pencilveinya.

 

[Rigjockey]

You can get bored if you want too. You can stay busy if you want too. I can understand if you live in an apartment. There is only so much you are allowed to do, even if you could

I am "allowed" to do just about anything I want except for have a fire. We are only allowed one fire and then you are out on your ass.

 

[389 Hood]

I am "allowed" to do just about anything I want except for have a fire. We are only allowed one fire and then you are out on your ass.

So, outdoor grilling is out of the question. I'd starve to death!

 

[Shreck]

@389 Hood Well this should be interesting we are going back home next week. The guy that I hauled the carnival equipment for last spring had a ride built in Italy and it is on a ship coming into the Port of Baltimore.He wants me to take one of his day cabs and go down and pick it up and bring it down here to the Carnival trade show in Gib town for the second week in February. Then after the show haul it back to Pennsylvania.

 

[Rigjockey]

@389 Hood Well this should be interesting we are going back home next week. The guy that I hauled the carnival equipment for last spring had a ride built in Italy and it is on a ship coming into the Port of Baltimore.He wants me to take one of his day cabs and go down and pick it up and bring it down here to the Carnival trade show in Gib town for the second week in February. Then after the show haul it back to Pennsylvania.

Does he have a sleeper unit you can use? The port of Baltimore is notoriously slow, and they kick you off the property at midnight.
The T/A in Baltimore is gated but it is paid parking.

 

[389 Hood]

@389 Hood Well this should be interesting we are going back home next week. The guy that I hauled the carnival equipment for last spring had a ride built in Italy and it is on a ship coming into the Port of Baltimore.He wants me to take one of his day cabs and go down and pick it up and bring it down here to the Carnival trade show in Gib town for the second week in February. Then after the show haul it back to Pennsylvania.

I sure hope he is paying you well to do that, especially at this time of year.

 

[389 Hood]

Does he have a sleeper unit you can use? The port of Baltimore is notoriously slow, and they kick you off the property at midnight.
The T/A in Baltimore is gated but it is paid parking.

I haven't been to the Port of Baltimore since I was part timing in the mid 80's. We picked up chemicals down off of the end of Patapsco Ave., right in the middle of the 'hood.

 

[Rigjockey]

I haven't been to the Port of Baltimore since I was part timing in the mid 80's. We picked up chemicals down off of the end of Patapsco Ave., right in the middle of the 'hood.

I used to go there in the mid 2000's after they decided to move the paper loads from Philly to Baltimore. Philly was awesome, always pre-loaded, park overnight if you want. Gated yard with security.
Then they switched to the port of Baltimore. Pre-loads not being pre-loaded. Four trailer tires flat spotted by a yard jockey.
I spent 12 hours there only to be kicked off the property at night with no load and then came back to spend another four hours to get loaded.

Ghetto as fuck! You know it when they have a notice that says have your trailOR number before you come to the window.

 

[Rigjockey]

Pretty cool at the port in Philly to see these massive ships that the port shunt trucks would drive onto to be loaded to be warehoused.
I think that would be awesome shunter job to drive up a ramp onto a ship for the first month.

 

[Shreck]

Rarely do they eat people. Dogs, cats, deer and anything else that happens into their path is fair game. Your best defense from them if you are in proximity is a good hard punch in the nose. They turn around and back off when that happens to them. I've lived here 66 years and never had a problem with them. Most of my younger life was right on the edge of The Everglades. Then people moved in. People suck.

Does he have a sleeper unit you can use? The port of Baltimore is notoriously slow, and they kick you off the property at midnight.
The T/A in Baltimore is gated but it is paid parking.

I don’t have any of the details yet but I think he may have someone brokering the deal that will actually go into the port and bring it out. And no he does not have a sleeper.

 

[389 Hood]

Pretty cool at the port in Philly to see these massive ships that the port shunt trucks would drive onto to be loaded to be warehoused.
I think that would be awesome shunter job to drive up a ramp onto a ship for the first month.

Until you get a ship sitting at high tide and you're trying to back an 80,000 lb can up onto the deck with a peg-leg shunt truck. Many times they would have to wait for the next shift to load the sea going tanks we loaded. When the ship lowered itself in the tide, the ramp became more level.

 

[Shreck]

Well I guess I’m not hauling carnival rides till summer. We were just about back home here to Pennsylvania and he calls to tell me he is going to contract the move instead of us hauling it ourselves. He just now realized it’s going to gross over 81500 and he doesn’t want to deal with all the oversized permits and red tape. Sounds good to me. Although I was looking forward to it.

 

[389 Hood]

If it's just overweight, the permits are a lot easier to get than if it were over dimensional. One noob DOT bear with a tape measure can ruin your whole day.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Well I guess I’m not hauling carnival rides till summer. We were just about back home here to Pennsylvania and he calls to tell me he is going to contract the move instead of us hauling it ourselves. He just now realized it’s going to gross over 81500 and he doesn’t want to deal with all the oversized permits and red tape. Sounds good to me. Although I was looking forward to it.

We have a permanent 90k permit in PA because of a customer who likes to load heavy. I think it's glass but don't remember for sure.

It's a live load so I haven't had the pleasure of pulling any.

 

[Shreck]

If it's just overweight, the permits are a lot easier to get than if it were over dimensional. One noob DOT bear with a tape measure can ruin your whole day.

Not to mention I would have to of run a paper log and I’m pretty sure that when I got pulled around back to see the overweight permit they would want to see my logbook. And I’m pretty certain paper logs for 14 days isn’t legit?

 

[Shreck]

We have a permanent 90k permit in PA because of a customer who likes to load heavy. I think it's glass but don't remember for sure.

It's a live load so I haven't had the pleasure of pulling any.

That’s probably what he will have to get for us to be able to move it to the fairs locally next summer.

 

[Electric Chicken]

That’s probably what he will have to get for us to be able to move it to the fairs locally next summer.

Most likely. Unless there's some kind of amusement industry exemption.

Way above my pay grade.

 

[389 Hood]

Not above our pay grade, just above our knowledge. Rules, law changes are constant. If it isn't a daily load to haul, we tend to side-skirt the regs, simply because we just don't encounter that every day.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Not above our pay grade, just above our knowledge. Rules, law changes are constant. If it isn't a daily load to haul, we tend to side-skirt the regs, simply because we just don't encounter that every day.

You wouldn't say that if you saw what I pay myself.