where was your most terrifying drive

[Rev.Vassago]

I read on this board that driving into the lake was the best way to neutralize super secret haz mat. Last load of the stuff I ran started overheating, so I too hit the nearest lake. Turns out the stuff reacts with water. I think it's still emitting toxic gasses. Turns out all super secret haz mat is not the same.

Yes, always make sure you read the side of the bottle for instructions on how to neutralize your Super Secret Hazmat™. The shipper will usually tell you when driving into a lake is the best solution, but it is always best to check for yourself.

Remember, though. NEVER mix Super Secret Hazmat™ with ping pong balls. Deadly combination.

[RottsATruckin]

The one that left my truck looking like this




Columbia Falls MT to Helena MT at night in a storm, no place to stop.

[marylandkw]

The one that left my truck looking like this




Columbia Falls MT to Helena MT at night in a storm, no place to stop.

Is that the rear view of a bobtail?

[moose81]

It looks like the back of a flatbed.

[RottsATruckin]

Moose is correct, I was loaded with about 45K of lumber, there was about 4 feet of space on the rear, all covered with packed snow, the underside looked just the same, I bet I knocked off 1000 lbs of snow at the terminal.

[belpre122]

The skills obtained from hauling "super secret hazmat" loads can also be helpful when dealing with a coolie carrier;

Taylor drove to the lake and waited at the boat ramp for a fisherman to take his boat out of the lake, then drove his truck - which had no trailer attached - into the water, almost completely submerging it, Sills said.

Taylor then swam out of the lake and surrendered to deputies, Sills said.

"He made a conscientious effort not to damage the patrol cars or the guy with the fishing boat," Sills said.

A representative for USA Trucks said the company is declining to comment on the situation.

Full Story at:
http://www.macon.com/149/story/342604.html

[Rev.Vassago]

The skills obtained from hauling "super secret hazmat" loads can also be helpful when dealing with a coolie carrier;

Taylor drove to the lake and waited at the boat ramp for a fisherman to take his boat out of the lake, then drove his truck - which had no trailer attached - into the water, almost completely submerging it, Sills said.

Taylor then swam out of the lake and surrendered to deputies, Sills said.

"He made a conscientious effort not to damage the patrol cars or the guy with the fishing boat," Sills said.

A representative for USA Trucks said the company is declining to comment on the situation.

Full Story at:
http://www.macon.com/149/story/342604.html

He was practicing for hauling Super Secret Hazmat™. Gotta keep your certification up to be able to haul it. :wink: USA Truck declined to comment because of the Super Secret© nature of Super Secret Hazmat™.

[convoykris]

my most terrifying drive was being stuck on a 45 degree snowy mountain road in Utah for hours with an acid tanker in front of me that was stuck, slowly sliding back towards me and losing pressure in the brakes, and part of it was hanging off a cliff, and the other part of it was about to take me right off the cliff with her.

scary stuff coming upon this and realizing if that acid tanker didnt somehow make it up the cliff, I was gonna die.

that was one of the many scary expriences ive dealt with.

[matcat]

The skills obtained from hauling "super secret hazmat" loads can also be helpful when dealing with a coolie carrier;

Taylor drove to the lake and waited at the boat ramp for a fisherman to take his boat out of the lake, then drove his truck - which had no trailer attached - into the water, almost completely submerging it, Sills said.

Taylor then swam out of the lake and surrendered to deputies, Sills said.

"He made a conscientious effort not to damage the patrol cars or the guy with the fishing boat," Sills said.

A representative for USA Trucks said the company is declining to comment on the situation.

Full Story at:
http://www.macon.com/149/story/342604.html

He was practicing for hauling Super Secret Hazmat™. Gotta keep your certification up to be able to haul it. :wink: USA Truck declined to comment because of the Super Secret© nature of Super Secret Hazmat™.

So your saying it's so super secret, they had to make a conspiracy to cover up the super secret hazmat recert test... Damn I want my super secret hazmat just so I can have an excuse to go swimming more often!

[belpre122]

So your saying it's so super secret, they had to make a conspiracy to cover up the super secret hazmat recert test... Damn I want my super secret hazmat just so I can have an excuse to go swimming more often!

Just be careful around foggy swimming areas youngblood. :wink:

[Jimbpard]

Driving from Altoona to Murrysville, PA on Rt. 22 with an empty flatbed. Normally is a 2 hour trip. That day, it took me nearly 4 hours.

[Chasing Daylight]

Remember, though. NEVER mix Super Secret Hazmat™ with ping pong balls. Deadly combination.

That was never a problem for me, I don't have a ping pong ball endorsement on my CDL

[matcat]

So your saying it's so super secret, they had to make a conspiracy to cover up the super secret hazmat recert test... Damn I want my super secret hazmat just so I can have an excuse to go swimming more often!

Just be careful around foggy swimming areas youngblood. :wink:

I should of seen that coming!

[BigWheels]

I'm used to snow and ice being based in the midwest.

What gives me the willies is driving down south in an ice storm.

Back in '04 there was a winter storm going north from Dallas. I was traveling on I-35 into Oklahoma and the storm left between an 1/8 and a 1/4 inch of ice on the pavement. I've never seen so many vehicles of all types in the ditch--vehicles that I could see going into the ditch--or just bouncing off each other, restraining walls, going down steep inclines, etc. It was rather unbelievable.

After deciding to call it a day by mid-afternoon, I was plumb tuckered-out (I was haulin' an empty van trailer). Slept really good during that 10-hour break!

Just recalled another time years ago traveling south on I-94 just past the Flyin' J truckstop near Milwaukee, WI. It was March or so and things were starting to warm up. However some morning fog froze on a bridge and left some ice on a 100-yard stretch. At the time I was driving a 2-axle delivery truck. I was in the right lane (3-lane interstate) and a semi was in the middle lane right beside me. We all saw the glare of the ice on the road as we approached the bridge. Well the 4-wheelers just kept going and one of them decided it was a smart (!) thing to hit the brakes. He (or she) proceeded to do a 360 about 50-yards in front of us. That caused another 4-wheeler to jam on the brakes (!) as well. They both ended up in the left lane and the semi and I just glided right by them--still neck-and-neck.

I remember looking at the driver next to me and he looked at me. I think we both were "asking" one-another: "Did you wet your pants too?!"