Impure Thoughts #17: You're an Oversized Load Escort - Allow Me to Help.

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Impure Thoughts # 17. So You’re an Oversized Load Escort – allow me to help.

As an oversized load driver, I’m fortunate enough to work for a company that has our own company escorts. Sometimes though, I have to work with outside pilot car drivers, and for as many good ones as I’ve had they are totally overshadowed by the bad ones who stand out. And I’m sure you know what I mean by “stand out”. So here’s some ideas to help us like each other a little more. Because we might just have to...

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Yup! That is the part that I could not handle. I am very congenial for about 20 mins. That is about as much of other people that I can handle.

I have seen O.D. loads with escorts and the escort is not even blocking the overhang. WTF?

I live in a Major city and the congestion is insane. I will with my truck hang back behind an oversize, Non escorted truck and block the other lane.

I was told by my co driver that started on Heavy haul, Give these guys a wide berth. Some Appreciate that, Some don't.
 
I have seen O.D. loads with escorts and the escort is not even blocking the overhang. WTF?
I wonder if escorts can get a ticket for impeding traffic or improper lane usage for doing their job, if a cop wants to be a prick.
I live in a Major city and the congestion is insane. I will with my truck hang back behind an oversize, Non escorted truck and block the other lane.
I've done that a few times. I think it hurts their ego when a "door slammer" helps them out by blocking the 4 wheelers so they can hog both lanes through a narrow spot or when there's a car or something stopped on the shoulder. Sometimes they give a wave or say thanks on the CB, other times they don't even make eye contact when I eventually pass them after they've cleared the obstacle.
 
I always try and let them know when overtaking them. Especially when there is no escort.

One thing that gets me though is when the escorts are weaving all over back and forth jamming on brakes and the like. Damn dude calm down before you cause :crash:
 
I'm not hauling wide anymore but I'll break out the shovel and dig this up.

If we are on a 2 lane and I'm 14 wide don't run 3 miles in front of me and leave me to fend for myself on skinny bridges and blind curves all day.

FIRED!
 
I'm not hauling wide anymore but I'll break out the shovel and dig this up.

If we are on a 2 lane and I'm 14 wide don't run 3 miles in front of me and leave me to fend for myself on skinny bridges and blind curves all day.

FIRED!
Hahahaha!
Same damn thing in South Carolina. Dude's on his own private self guided sight seeing tour and I'm dodging mailboxes and oncoming traffic.

And that dickhole wasn't even the worst one I ever had.
 
I was talking to a guy pulling OD at a truckstop I frequented last year across the line from Meridian MS. He'd been stuck there a couple of days rounding up a different pilot car service. The guys he started with got busted smoking weed, and had enough with them to get thrown in the slammer.

:coocoo:
 

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