[color=#810541:post_uid0]Yes Doc the stories are great and I'm sure others have some to tell as well. They just haven't been as brave as you. I do have a problem with the wife story...."YOU SHY" No way!!!!!

The owl thing....it happened around here with a wild turkey. NO NOT THE LIQUID KIND.

I wish I new a publsiher. I can't wait for this book.[/color:post_uid0]

[quote:post_uid0="Big Momma CAD"][color=#000000:post_uid0] I do have a problem with the wife story...."YOU SHY" No way!!!!!

The owl thing....it happened around here with a wild turkey. NO NOT THE LIQUID KIND.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#8D38C9:post_uid0]Yes I am shy, hard to believe, but true!!!!

The Wild turkey did it involve a Central Transport Lease Operator??

I'm trying to finish the Kentucky saga, but am now suffering from severe writers block...I know there is a "Super" scale on I-24 in KY, but don't remember where or where we went with the load...Hopefully it is a temporary thing...

The negotiations with the publisher in Chapel Hill fell through, which is a blessing of sorts. I may enter some of these in the Truckers writing contest if I can find out when it is!!!![/color:post_uid0]

[color=#810541:post_uid0]I can't remember what carrier it was. I know I was with Landstar at the time. It must have been about 5 or 6 years ago.

There is a big scale on I-24 right around the Land Between the Lakes area. Between the Western KY Parkway and the River. Could that be the one?[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#810541:post_uid0]Oh yeah, as far as the contest. I think Randall Publishing does something like that. They are the Publishers of Overdrive Magazine and Truckers News. The number for them is 800-633-5953. They do several other publications as well. Who knows, they may even be interested in your book!!!
CAD and I are friends with the Publisher of Truckers Connection. I will check with her on the Publishing thing as well. She may know someone.
Never hurts to ask.[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#8D38C9:post_uid0]<span style='font-family:courier'>Yeah that's the one....
Yes that was a Central Transport Lease Operator..He did have a tale to tell after that experience, the best part was when the Turkey was not dead and #### near beat the driver to death!!!!!

The scale incident starts below</span>[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#810541:post_uid0]Yep that's it!!!! It was all the talk at the local truck stop and the Landstar Office. Poor Guy. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#8D38C9:post_uid0]<span style='font-family:courier'>After the scanner episode, we proceeded on down the highway, made the turn onto I-24 and all was right with the universe. Well almost!!
We came upon a sign that had the dreaded phrase "SCALE OPEN"
We pulled onto the scale and again waited for the liquid to quit rocking, it seemed like it took forever for the green light to come on, I started getting a tad impatient, when a voice in my left ear made me jump.."I noticed your tank does not have a CVSA sticker!!"
I looked at the inspector and told him the tank was new and it was on it's maiden voyage. He insisted. My brother and I both told him to check the placard, again he insisted. We both gave up, but before I moved the truck I went into the scale house and objected to the supervisor, he wouldn't listen. My brother kept trying to explain to the gentleman that we were carrying Jet fuel Additive and it was highly KABOOOMABLE, he stole my term for it! They still insisted. After ten minutes of the Spanish Inquisition I found a blank sheet of paper and wrote the following...." WE the drivers of this ******* Transport truck will not be held responsible for any outcome resulting from the inspectors negligance!!" We made the supervisor and the inspector sign it
I pulled the truck under the shed and the inspector went to work, my brother hauled ass back to the scale house "Chicken Sh*t!!!!" I yelled to him as he cut a trail across the lot.
Everything was going all right, but I left the drivers side door open. The inspector told me to step on the brakes. I did and then he started whacking on something underneath the trailer with a STEEL hammer. Upon the second whack I set the brakes and jumped out of the truck and yelled to him "YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN, DUDE!!!"
I guess a strong wave of concern swooped over him cause he was two steps behind me.
We reached the scale house, he told me he stuck the sticker on the tank and we could go and leave in a hurry!!! He didn't have to tell us twice!!
Before we left the inspector did ask what the additive would have done. I told him probably would level this scale and more than likely level the little town the scale was near!!!
He shook his head and told me and the brother that we were both insane for pulling dangerous loads!!! My brother told him that's why Mom chased us away from home!!!
I put the truck in gear and stalled it just to watch the reaction of the inspector, he was not amuzed!!!!</span>[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#8D38C9:post_uid0]<span style='font-family:courier'>Hey look another LIGHTNING tale!!!!!

I met up with an old friend who drives for a gas hauling company, the same one I drove for before I went with the company I am entangled with now. I commented to him about using my old tractor and tankwagon. He made a few rude remarks about the truck and I told him that the truck was famous. He didn't understand until I told him about....

Lightning and the Gas Wagon

Dateline October 1998. Location Durham NC...
I pulled into a gas station and got set up to unload, I noticed there was quite a light show going on as I hooked everything up. I didn't pay that much attention to the weather, I wanted the trailer to unload fast so I could get back and get another load. Half way through the unloading process I heard a lot of shouts and noise coming from behind me, I turned around and saw about 8 people standing in front of the store pointing to the trailer. I figured they never saw a gas wagon before. One of the spectators came up to me and told me to look at the top of the trailer, so I stepped back to where the crowd was standing and was amazed, there was a blue corona around the top of the trailer, all I could say was "COOOL!!!"
I walked back to the trailer and waited for everything to calm down, the store clerk came out and asked me if the truck was going to explode. I told him no and asked him why. He had called the fire department. I explained to the clerk that if I didn't try to move the hoses nothing will happen. The fire fighters did show up and I had explained to the captain what was going on and it wasn't really necessary for them to stay. He said they would wait until I left. I waited fifteen minutes after the blue glow had died away, I kicked the 4" gas hose, I didn't hear KABOOM, so all was well. I packed everything up, walked into the store got the papers signed. As I was going back to the truck one the guys outside told me I was Muy Loco, I just laughed and said Si Gracias and left!!!

The other Lightning and the Gas Wagon tale

Dateline: August 1999. Location: Somewhere east of Selma NC

Had just finished loading at the BP terminal and pulled out the gate when A wicked summertime thunderstorm rumbled into town. The Skywarn folks were real concerned about this storm and the potential tornadoes. The Skywarn control operator asked me where I was going and I told her Beaufort (pronounced Bofort) she told me the storm was going to intensify the further east it went. Just what I wanted to hear. Beaufort is near the coast. I asked the NWS radar operator how fast the storm was travelling, it was estimated at 30 miles an hour. I figured I could out run it. I made it to Beaufort and had the wagon unloaded and on my way back when I saw the flashes of lighting on the horizon.
What I hadn't realized, the storm had sped up and I was going to run headlong into it before I got to Havelock NC!
Sure enough I hit a torrential rain as I approached the intersection of NC 101 and US 70. The rain came down so hard the road just about disappeared, I knew there was a car behind me so I put on my fourway flashers to let the guy know I was slowing down. Just as we got to the intersection there was a real bright flash and the sound of a cannon going off. The flash had knocked all the street lights out. Well, the truck didn't shut off and I checked to see if I still had a trailer. Then I heard a weak voice come over my CB..."Eagle?"
"Yeah"
"You OK?" I told him I was and asked him why he was asking. This guy thought my tank had blown up when in fact the bolt had shot across the back of the wagon and hit a tree next to the road! It shook that guy real bad. Not to mention it rattled me too!!!!
After I got through Havelock the ride back was uneventful!</span>[/color:post_uid0]



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[color=#000080:post_uid0]Once again, Doc, the stories are great. I really can't wait until the book comes out. It'll definitely make for some great reading. You might even think about doing the whole book on tape thing. Be a great ride for those on the road. Again, well done. :D[/color:post_uid0]

[color=#8D38C9:post_uid0]<span style='font-family:courier'>I meandered into Amazon.com and was shocked to find a gentleman named Don McTavish has written a book based on the humourous side of trucking, I'm guessing it's from his own experiences. Now, I'm upset and a sudden pang of doubt has befallen me...Is there room for another book written by a slightly demented, aging trucker telling stories from the Not So Golden Age of Trucking??????

I think I'll go watch Dr. Phil!!!!!</span>[/color:post_uid0]