xdudebrahx Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 and from what I know at least Mack is this way but its hard as hell if not impossible to shift a Mack with the Pto engagedIt can be done. I do it all the time while plowing. I can even jake float gears. Just gotta make sure you turn the spreader off so there's no load on the PTO. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Back In Black Pulling Posted January 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2015 Lost Trailer http://bit.ly/1zgmU9c 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSD501 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Not only that xdudebrahx, the pto / pump would howl so bad when engaged, you couldn't wait to disengage it! Also, I would catch myself hitting the DOWN position on the pump lever quite frequently on the way back after dumping. Jutsta habit,I guess!I have to admit, I have driven with the pto engaged and didn't notice for about 2 miles. I thought the 8ll was shifting funny, but it was early on a cold morning. After that, and seeing some of the pictures of dump trucks stuck under bridges, i always lance in the mirror and check the box when I approach a bridge. I also always check the pto lever when starting the truck, several time somebody has started the trucks to raise the box and drain water or snow and then just shut the truck off with the pto still engaged. The when you start the truck in the morning and go drink coffee, you come back out to the pto grinding. The peterbilts you can start from stanging next to them, and there isnt any indicator light for the pto... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Lost Trailer http://bit.ly/1zgmU9c all I can think of is Goofy in the old Disney cartoons Uh Oh there goes my tyre Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Timothy Maikshilo Posted January 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2015 All of our triaxles have the PTO on the dash with a bright red or or orange light staring into your face and a blinking orange light that comes on as soon as the body rails leave the frame rails.Ours do too with a very annoying AAAAAAAAYYYYYY buzzer.....but one or two still manage to take down wires every year...not much more you can do except add a shock collar... 6 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Ours do too with a very annoying AAAAAAAAYYYYYY buzzer.....but one or two still manage to take down wires every year...not much more you can do except add a shock collar...some people are a bit slow that mighten even work Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_martell Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Lost Trailer http://bit.ly/1zgmU9cthat run-away wagon did a pretty good job holding its lane.....lol.Reminds me of last summer going to Sauble Beach and seeing a 3/4 ton van pulled over with his 20' utility trailer jammed up to the jack leg under the hitch.....and 3 dummies standing aoround scratching their heads holding prybars....just move the van ahaed and i GUARANTEE it will be easier to lift.....next time I bet someone will check the lock/pin Quote Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.... Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 The boom was up:http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/7675649-74/road-onto-bridge#axzz3QSGjW9Uq 1 Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 The boom was up:http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourallekiskivalley/yourallekiskivalleymore/7675649-74/road-onto-bridge#axzz3QSGjW9UqFUBAR Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 You got some "splainin'" to do!...........................................Mark 1 Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_martell Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Notice the first line on the safety sign on the boom.........almost as if it knew....looks like it split the frame under the deck....Must've been some hit.... Quote Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.... Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-276998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 A friend passed this picture along to me of this supertrucker award winner. I guess this guy fell asleep? and ran off I-39 justsouth of Rockford IL and hit the sign for the next exit and had it knifed into the trailer. Very custom! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brocky Posted February 21, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2015 When that sign hits some wires it should be an "electrifing experience"!!! 3 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280077 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post other dog Posted February 28, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2015 The truck over in the corner was pulled and then pushed there with the big fork lift. They had it behind the shop with the hood open when I came in yesterday and everybody was working on looking at it. Jimmy, the head mechanic, came over when I was fueling and said "that truck's gonna need an engine, it's locked up tight now- $35,000...Todd's gonna have a fit!""What happened?""driver ran it hot, only had about 2 gallons of anti-freeze in it when he got here with it"."didn't the warning lights, bells, horns, and whistles come on?""yeah, he said the light was on when he called, I don't know why it didn't shut itself off when it got that hot, unless it did and he just kept restarting it to get it to the shop".I don't know either. I met the guy that was driving it bobtailing west on 460 before I got to the shop. I always say "stuff happens,and it can happen to anybody" but all you used to have was a temperature gauge to keep an eye on, now you've got warning lights for everything, even if a headlight bulb is out it tells you on the dash so there's really no excuse to keep driving if the engine is overheating. 4 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 That's no good! I agree,with all the fancy stuff on trucks now there is no way it should have been pushed! One of your companies trucks passed me this morning on the way in,was a black IH Prostar,pulling an empty flatbed........................................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 It's nice to be able to go to places you've been before, like I do most of the time. But there was a first time I went to everywhere i've ever been too, as it is for everyone. Jobsite deliveries are the worst, some of the places we've taken the crane mats to in West Virginia and Pa. are not good places to be in a truck either, they might be off on some dirt road in the middle of nowhere, but you have to do it.About all you can do is call the job site and hope they give you good directions. I went across rt. 16 from rt. 42 back over to I-81 once, not knowing any better. It was down right scary! Now it has a 35' length restriction on it but it didn't when I went across it.Back in my former life of dump truckin', I delivered many a load of railroad track materials down deep in WV. (We delivered tie plates & spikes in bulk, track & ties came by flatbed.) Many jobsites were so far out, the foreman would tell you on the phone " just meet me at so-and-so store or gas station, because you'll never find us and your phone ain't gonna work down here"Gregg 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Know you heigth? OOH , you mean the trailer. . .THe dark blob in the middle of the first pic is a new SUV. . stuck in the bridge/cars-crushed-as-transporter-rams-bridge-photo-via-fox-16-news_100350518_m.jpgOriginal.jpgI'm so glad all these car hauler fails are not Brothers blue trucks lol. We have had our share of oops,thoughGregg Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I hauled cars for Allied Systems for a while a few years ago. You always measure the height of your load before you head out with it, and you always have to have an eye for overhead obstacles when you're driving a car carrier because you don't want to so much as put a scratch on a new car most dealers check them pretty close when you deliver them. And there's nothing on the overhead deck to keep you from driving off the end like that guy did. Looks like those guys got some explaining to do to their boss! Lol!Hitting an bridge is cardinal sin #1 at Brothers Auto Transport. Means you didn't stick your load or you're on the wrong road.Gregg Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I've seen a good number of these pictures involving dump trucks,and my question is this (and yes I HAVE driven a dump trailer) is HOW IN THE HELL CAN YOU NOT TELL/SEE THE BODY IS UP?????????????? effing ridiculous! do these guys not have mirrors on these trucks?...................................................MarkWith 2 levers and a warning lamp IDK... A good idea on auto transporters is an interlock with the PTO and parking brake. I know it wouldn't work on a dump truck though.Gregg Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-280987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Blue Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 About two weeks ago I came across this container flipped over in a parking lot. I know how it happened to. The guys arepulling 20ft cans that are loaded with corn or beans for export and usually have 46,000+ in the box. He must have decidedto dolly the trailer down for some reason. I bet he wasn't more than a foot away from it before it flopped on its side. Hmmm rout47? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-281016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Blue Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 S swingW wideI its aF f@$kingT truck!S SureW wishI IF finishedT trainingStupidWannabeIdiotFuckingTrucker 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-281019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Hmmm rout47?Yes. 47 & 52 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-281310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Saw this on the news. Probably not a supertrucker but this R model pulling a box was a bit high or the wire was too low. Pulled the front of the building off with the wire. 2 Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-282869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 MattThat Electric lead in still looks intact?? What did they have across the driveway from the other end of the building??? Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34689-super-trucker-saturday/page/18/#findComment-282870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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