And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I lived on a dead end. At the end of 3/4 mile narrow road. All along the way there were multiple signs advising dead end, no turn around, this is not the way into town.
About twice per month we'd get a truck looking for the 'short cut' into town. They had to back out which also involved two tight corners.
Before that, I lived near a low clearance RR bridge. Two miles of caution signs of low bridge ahead 9'8" clearance. About four trucks per month took it as a challenge. More than a handful of truckers even tried to use their vast mental powers to will their rigs under the bridge. That involved at least two hours befor a weecker showed up to unplug the roadbed.
comes fm being dependant on the gps & not verifying w\ maps (that no one knows how to read anymore) i had a gps take me down a sketchy dirt\sand road in central florida that it had marked as a regular thoroughfare. if i didnt have a 4wd i wouldve got stuck & i got bush scratches to boot. it was fun but i was surprised that it took us that way.
Most truckers have a GPS that plans routs that are truck friendly. It routes around bridges that are 13.5' or shorter, bridge weight restrictions, have tight corners, avoid toll roads, Hazmat restrictions, or roads that are dead ends. Also many bills of laden paperwork will have directions from pickup location to drop-off.
Really, if you're aggravated enough at the trucks coming down your dirt lane, and they keep doing it because of some company directive, then the best thing to do is to put in an obstacle that a semi-tractor can't get around, but shorter vehicles can.
The family ranch has been in the family for 170 years, so I know the territory pretty good. The road going into the ranch is 10 miles of bad gravel road from two directions, with a 120 year old bridge thrown into the mix. The bridge has a 14 ton load limit and less than 13' of vertical clearance. More than once I've met a big truck stopped along the road trying to figure out how to get out of the mess they've gotten themselves into with the help of their GPS unit. When I offered to help them, I've been told no thanks, they and their gizmo will figure it out.
Short story long, I've given up stopping to help by giving friendly, knowledgeable advice. If they don't want it, I'm not giving it. I just drive on by and shake my head.
I also live at the end of such a road - finally convinced Google to disconnect it from the other road that everyone wants to get to that it does not connect with, but others still show it as a through-way. Going around the long way means a narrow bridge over a creek that sometimes gets very deep (a foot or more) dips in it. It will dump you in the creek if you are not careful. One day a gal comes roaring down my road in a Jeep Cherokee apologizing that she realizes the road does not go through but how do I get there. I calm her down a bit (scared of me, I think) and give directions the other way around over the bridge, forgetting to warn her of the bridge. She tears out and heads off the correct direction, but I keep thinking, man, if she hits that bridge like that she will wind up upside down in the creek. After a few minutes pass, the idea of that upside down Jeep keeps bothering me, so I head over that way and find out that she didn't even make it to the bridge, and her Jeep is indeed upside down (too fast around a 90-degree curve). She is on the side of the road, crying, but uninjured. Her father showed up in another Jeep Cherokee. We flipped it back over, got it running again!, and they limped it home. I think maybe I need a sign or two, but I don't want anything too entertaining, or somebody will post it on internet and make it an attraction...
Brunswick, MD had a recent spate of 48 foot trailers that don't make it under the utility wires at the corner of Florida and Brunswick Street. Same issue?
Swift driver so that pretty much explains it…
ReplyDeleteLooks like Swift has taken the place of J.B. Hunt!
DeleteYou wouldn't believe some of the places Werner put trailers.
DeleteDon't forget Schneider!
DeleteWell, if you hire drivers who can't speak english.........
ReplyDelete"No leer ingles"
DeleteWe used to have a pool for VT route 108 through Smuggler's Notch...
ReplyDeleteAn acronym for "sure wish I'da finished training"
ReplyDeleteSame people who watch television news and got vaccinated.
ReplyDeleteI lived on a dead end. At the end of 3/4 mile narrow road. All along the way there were multiple signs advising dead end, no turn around, this is not the way into town.
ReplyDeleteAbout twice per month we'd get a truck looking for the 'short cut' into town. They had to back out which also involved two tight corners.
Before that, I lived near a low clearance RR bridge. Two miles of caution signs of low bridge ahead 9'8" clearance. About four trucks per month took it as a challenge.
More than a handful of truckers even tried to use their vast mental powers to will their rigs under the bridge. That involved at least two hours befor a weecker showed up to unplug the roadbed.
“It is impossible to speak in a way that cannot be misunderstood.” Wittgenstein, I think.
ReplyDeleteKarl Popper I believe, probably right after Wittgenstein threatened him with a fire poker...
DeleteStupid is what stupid does.
ReplyDeleteJohn Kerry at the wheel.
ReplyDeleteAs the old saw goes..."He's not that swift."
ReplyDeletecomes fm being dependant on the gps & not verifying w\ maps (that no one knows how to read anymore) i had a gps take me down a sketchy dirt\sand road in central florida that it had marked as a regular thoroughfare. if i didnt have a 4wd i wouldve got stuck & i got bush scratches to boot. it was fun but i was surprised that it took us that way.
ReplyDeleteMost truckers have a GPS that plans routs that are truck friendly. It routes around bridges that are 13.5' or shorter, bridge weight restrictions, have tight corners, avoid toll roads, Hazmat restrictions, or roads that are dead ends. Also many bills of laden paperwork will have directions from pickup location to drop-off.
DeleteReally, if you're aggravated enough at the trucks coming down your dirt lane, and they keep doing it because of some company directive, then the best thing to do is to put in an obstacle that a semi-tractor can't get around, but shorter vehicles can.
ReplyDeleteThe family ranch has been in the family for 170 years, so I know the territory pretty good. The road going into the ranch is 10 miles of bad gravel road from two directions, with a 120 year old bridge thrown into the mix. The bridge has a 14 ton load limit and less than 13' of vertical clearance. More than once I've met a big truck stopped along the road trying to figure out how to get out of the mess they've gotten themselves into with the help of their GPS unit. When I offered to help them, I've been told no thanks, they and their gizmo will figure it out.
ReplyDeleteShort story long, I've given up stopping to help by giving friendly, knowledgeable advice. If they don't want it, I'm not giving it. I just drive on by and shake my head.
Ive went down worse looking roads in a rock truck with a 30 ft trailer ,LOL
ReplyDeleteI also live at the end of such a road - finally convinced Google to disconnect it from the other road that everyone wants to get to that it does not connect with, but others still show it as a through-way. Going around the long way means a narrow bridge over a creek that sometimes gets very deep (a foot or more) dips in it. It will dump you in the creek if you are not careful.
ReplyDeleteOne day a gal comes roaring down my road in a Jeep Cherokee apologizing that she realizes the road does not go through but how do I get there. I calm her down a bit (scared of me, I think) and give directions the other way around over the bridge, forgetting to warn her of the bridge. She tears out and heads off the correct direction, but I keep thinking, man, if she hits that bridge like that she will wind up upside down in the creek. After a few minutes pass, the idea of that upside down Jeep keeps bothering me, so I head over that way and find out that she didn't even make it to the bridge, and her Jeep is indeed upside down (too fast around a 90-degree curve). She is on the side of the road, crying, but uninjured. Her father showed up in another Jeep Cherokee. We flipped it back over, got it running again!, and they limped it home. I think maybe I need a sign or two, but I don't want anything too entertaining, or somebody will post it on internet and make it an attraction...
Brunswick, MD had a recent spate of 48 foot trailers that don't make it under the utility wires at the corner of Florida and Brunswick Street. Same issue?
ReplyDelete