This is why you run legal all of the time.

[mndriver]

Just got a copy of the police report.....

Listed cause:
All for the car.
"Drove Left of Center"
"Too Fast for Conditions"

 

[Mike]

You should have taken a nice vacation somewhere during this time.

 

[mndriver]

I've been to Houston for about a week. Been doing little projects and planning others.

In the process of assembling the parts for putting in central greasing plates for like the clutch and such.

 

[Getfit Tommy]

It's like trying to predict the future. Ain't gonna happen. Shit happens to the best of the best, without warning. When your time is up, it's up. This is why I can't stand talking to drivers that are full of themselves... as if ~

Nobody knows what the next day will bring, let alone the next second. NOBODY!

 

[mndriver]

No, we can't.

But at least I know I'm free and walking around and with a clear conscience.

Unlike.


Driver gets charged after killing 5 people

 

[Getfit Tommy]

Walk around with a clean logboook.... but it doesn't reflect your EVERY move like the law states that it should. Who spends that much time in their sleeper berth? Who stops the second they are "out of hours?" Who takes their fifteen and thirty minute breaks? If you had to stop where your logbook say's you have to stop, you can easily be screwed in a residential area where there is no truck parking. Logbooks have tons of "gray areas" as do your unique daily driving situations. Tell me of ONE single DOT cop in a scale that looks at your logbook and believes what he is reading..... unless, of course, you are of the "E-log" crowd.... which I am not. The day E-logs are mandated is the day the trucking industry takes its final dive. People order shit. They want it yesterday. Nobody can afford warehousing. It is what it is. I say, just like Clint Eastwood did so many years ago: " A man's got to know his limitations..." ~ this, to me, means: Dont push the envelope, but don't fall short of it either. If you are an O.O. ... you have a lot of pressure up your ying-yang to make ends meet... and that basically means that you don't stop rolling, you dont stop loading and you don't sit at home while your truck loses money. Be safe, but not broke and stressed about how you are going to make ends meet this month. ... and hope you don't break down. Bruce from Pittsburg Power can't be there for everyone.... can he?

 

[mndriver]

I wish I could really convey the conversation I had with a FMCSA guy in St Paul.

His comment was that going to ELD's will stop a company from getting form and manner violations. They generally will use those for getting most violations. Rather easy to get on paper, not likely he said that he'd find them on ELD's so they don't look.

 

[mndriver]

Got a call late on 2/5. Scheduled to pick up on 2/12 before 11 AM.

They shoot the paint on Monday and need the week to finish the rest of the stuff on the truck. I had asked them to put in a 150 gal tank up from the stock 120 gal tank. I need to follow up and find out if that's what they did.

 

[GAnthony]

Got a call late on 2/5. Scheduled to pick up on 2/12 before 11 AM.

They shoot the paint on Monday and need the week to finish the rest of the stuff on the truck. I had asked them to put in a 150 gal tank up from the stock 120 gal tank. I need to follow up and find out if that's what they did.

i wish you well with all of this horse pucky.....and happier trails...!!

 

[mndriver]

well, the repair checks are in hand. The liable party insurance company has been talking with me on the loss profit claim and sounds like that will be happening with little issues.

 

[GAnthony]

well, the repair checks are in hand. The liable party insurance company has been talking with me on the loss profit claim and sounds like that will be happening with little issues.

good for you. he was not really at fault, do you think..?? i mean what else could he have done.>??

in any event, i really am happy for you, that this is going as good as you say. God only knows the agony some go through with the entire process.

 

[GAnthony]

Nobody knows what the next day will bring, let alone the next second. NOBODY!

so very fricking true.

 

[mndriver]

good for you. he was not really at fault, do you think..?? i mean what else could he have done.>??

in any event, i really am happy for you, that this is going as good as you say. God only knows the agony some go through with the entire process.

The other party's insurance has already stated that they are taking liability. The police reports also reflect that.

 

[GAnthony]

The other party's insurance has already stated that they are taking liability. The police reports also reflect that.

yeah, i think that you were a sitting duck (no pun intended to anyone).

 

[Blood]

well, the repair checks are in hand. The liable party insurance company has been talking with me on the loss profit claim and sounds like that will be happening with little issues.

Can you front me $25k until @Skateboard comes back with my grant money?

I dunno what's taking him so long...
he should have been headed back yesterday.

 

[mndriver]

yeah right.....

the body shops already spent that for me.

 

[Blood]

yeah right.....

the body shops already spent that for me.

You mean that strip club in Pa?

I've never been in there but they were always advertising free showers, free coffee and free food...
how could possibly spend any money in such a place??

 

[mndriver]

them ladies ain't cheap ya know.

 

[Blood]

 

[AK7]

So are they making good on re-fixing the truck.?