Truck Driving Jobs

Windwalker · #**101** 02-02-2008, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ironeagle2006

Wind walker I was 18 when I got my CDL hauling grain for a LARGE Farming family near were I live combined they have 25000 acres and 15 trucks in their fleet hauling grain fertilzer and seed for their family farm. For 3 years I ran for them running about 420K miles plus worked in the shop when we were slow and YES REV I DID STAY IN ILLINOIS. Then as soon as I turned 21 I turned 21 and over the next 4 years ran 580K miles all of them accident free. Labor day in 2000 I was rear ended in my personal car and 3 weeks later had my first seizure while coming down a mountain in NV was airlifted from Winemucca to Reno and spent a week there and then returned home to IL.

I lost MY CDL that second I had my first seizure I had NEVER Had one prior to then at all. When you have a life changing event like that you never forget what you loose. Now I stay at home and raise my kids but I wish I could get back out there. It took me 2 years to get my class D license back.

And, it would seem that you sustained a head injury when you got rear-ended. Sorry to hear that.

#**102** 02-02-2008, 10:25 PM

Correct wind walker between that one and the rollover I had when my POS Mitsubishi blew a wheel bearing in 1994 I was a timebomb. I will give the Japanese credit though that car did take a buttkicking and still looked like a car. Left rear wheel bearing failed and locked up at 55MPH on a wet road and slammed me into the ditch I went for a 630 degree roll and walked away from it.

Wild Bill Pete · #**103** 02-21-2008, 06:57 AM

How fast? About 78 I think.. I used to race cars some, in the 60s, so maybe then I was more stupid - got to 130 once, and didn't wreck so I gave up racing.

I've ridden motorcycles for years, and nope, haven't done the ton on one of those either. I suppose I am just an old phart that don't account to much.

Fredog · #**104** 02-21-2008, 06:35 PM

my gps lost the signal for a few seconds last week, when it got it back, it said I was going 284 mph for about 10 seconds. didnt feel like a bit over 200 :lol: :lol:

chubyboy · #**105** 07-12-2008, 05:10 AM

ive done about 75...if i recall correctly, then again ive only bbeen driving cdl since dec. i know my 78 pickup will do at least 100, i didnt bother going any higher as thats all the speedo shows...my first ford escort did 107 when it hit governer, havent topped out my 5 spd scort yet, my moms car(1994 mercury cougar) tops out at about 118...

EDIT: in my defense, while a 19 year old with a need for speed, i shouid mention i dont f around in a truck...76-85k lbs of grain or dry fertillizer is not something i wanna wreck...yes 85k lbs...im not mr perfect and i have little problem taking such risks as i dont cross borders and i found out my company pays overweights...

YerDaddy · #**106** 01-09-2009, 06:31 AM

Passed the triple dig a few times. Gotta do it at least once. Things do come up very fast.

Did an extended 100+ jaunt one time in the wee hours of the morning up in WY. Had a hopper bottom blow by me and I was bored as heck so I kept him in view to use as my bear bait. We ran that fast for at least an hour. Needless to say MPG was in the toilet on that trip.

But nowadays I lug along at 60 mph. Even if the limit is 70. Why pay good $$ to push more air?

matcat · #**107** 06-05-2009, 03:23 AM

I've gotten the rig over 100 on a hill out west. Couldn't tell you exact speed, speedo didn't go that high

. I've done 130 in a minivan, 160 in a car. Had GPS showing me doing 720mph in an airplane before

.

Now a few posts back I read the post about weight distribution and how wheelies work, and it was all wrong. It is about torque mainly. When you put huge amounts of torque to your rear wheel drives, it will literally lift the entire vehicle as a pivot on the axle. Technically a semi could do it, but only assuming the drive shaft and chassy where designed to handle it, either one is going to go well before enough torque is applied. Now in high speed vehicles, there is another principle creating lift, air flow. Once you are talking about 250+ mph, airflow under the vehicle is going to start creating major lift, this is why jet cars have wings to supply downward force to counteract wind lift. People have flipped cars over before front end first do to air lift, and it happens with high speed boats all the time.

Windwalker · #**108** 06-25-2009, 03:56 AM

Some years ago, I was talking to another driver that was buying a rig just like mine. 3406 CAT, 3;36 rears... He said that in TX, he tried to see just what it would do. Had one more gear to go when he blew the doors off a bear. Since you can't outrun Motorola, he backed it down and pulled over. First thing out of the bear's mouth... "Glad you pulled over, I blew a fuse in my radio". Cost him something like $9K, and two months later, he was going legal across MT and blew a steer. That's when it hit him that it could have blown when he was going over 100 and he might not have had much of a chance.

The truck I was buying was supposed to have been governed at 97. Guess I'll never know for sure about that.