What is the highest speed you've got your rig up to?
 

I was doing 100 in my camaro yesterday and it got me thinking - what would it be like to have an 80,000 lbs rig going that fast?? :shock:

Post your stories and locations of where you hit the speed.

Re: What is the highest speed you've got your rig up to?
 

If you have a CDL, turn it in. Now.

exactly turn that CDL in

They can not do anything to me now since I no longer have my CDL so in 1997 I had my 1988 International 9300 upto around 115 across SD on I-90 late at night not a car on the road just letting her fly.

Thank goodness.

The only person I put in risk that time was ME no one else was in the area I was the kind of driver who always ran LEGAL. You do not get to be a finish trainer without being a legal driver.

Except when you didn't.

Look for some posts here by a driver named Keeso - 6 months experience, was made a driver/trainer by Swift. He loved to brag about how he bent the rules, and drove endless hours.

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The fact yes I did do in excess of 110 mph in a semi at one time was stupid. However I did it not do it again. I never claimed to be a Billy Big Rigger or Super Trucker I was out there making a living and a good one. I was a legal and safe driver at Henderson Trucking to the point I was a finsher I got the trainees that were close to flunking out of the program and was told see if I could salvage them. 80% of the trainees I got flunked out or flat out quit on me I ran them harder than they were going to ever run in real world trucking. Of the 20% that did make it out I would have put those guys against anyone of some of the so called professinals out there at the time.

How long were you a actual Driver before getting this "Finishing Trainer"?

39 months total time OTR driving I was not a 6 month wonder. Also I did not get my CDL from a driver mill I got mine the old fashion way MY FATHER sitting in the jump seat training me when I screwed up he let me know.

Sweet :D What was that like? Things starting to rattle apart? Was the trailer fishtailing? I bet you about redlined your engine. Even in top gear it's hard to imagine the engine would have enough rpm to move that fast.

The load in the back kept it pretty straight but I would not recomend EVER doing it in a truck. Things happen way to fast at that speed for you to react and the slightest mistake can have severe penalties. I was lucky you may not be if you ever do that. The only reason that truck rand that fast was do to the engine and tranny and gearing combo. She was set up with a 444 Cummions turned up by Bruce at Diesel Injection of Pittsburgh to around 700HP 13 double OD trans and 3.55 gears on 24.5 big rubber.

Something stinks here, and it ain't me.



1,000,000 miles / 39 months = 25,641 miles per month. Care to explain how you managed that? :roll:

I smell B.S.

It was39 months before I made trainer not before I hit the million mile mark Rev. Also the reason I was forced off the road was due to Epilepsy a medical condition so unless you can walk a mile in my shoes do not go there. Try having a condition where you do not know when where or if you will lose all control of your body tear your shoulder to pieces maybe put your arm threw a plate glass window and for fun bite your tounge off. You also have to remember I was running as a trainer and I recieved credit for those miles in my calculations since I got paid solo rate on those miles made my life nice on the paycheck.

So let me see if I have this correct - you didn't DRIVE 1,000,000 miles, but you were PRESENT when someone else drove for you.


Wow - I'm so impressed. :roll:

When I was little, I remember seeing this American guy going way faster than 100mph; And his rig weighed much more than 80,000lbs.
I,m not sure of his exact speed or indeed the size of his rig
But I do distinctly remember his words when he finally stopped.
He said "This is one small step for man...... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Rev I did end up with one million miles driven however you are the kind of driver that makes my blood boil you ruthlessly attack yet I imagine you are the kind of driver who one is always screaming about the lack of parking in a truckstop when there are plenty of spaces besides the front row. 2 complain when you are forced to wait in line to get loaded and 3 actually wait to recieve a dispatch I for one never compalined and was able to be rehired for all the companies that I drove for do to my customer service skills more than one time I had a customer ask for me to haul a load. In fact I had a the pleasure of more than one time hauling the first load into a new customer for the carrier I was driving for. I never was placed OOS for either a log book or equipment issue in the time I was out there I chewed out more than one shop foreman for not wanting to repair something that was saftey related. I took pride in my job and if I did not have my current condition would still be out there training a new batch of drivers the right way not the school way of how to drive.

Yeah thats right. Us Americans have all the balls :wink: :lol: :lol:

How little you know. :lol:

I still disagree - you claim 39 months driving, yet it is impossible to run the miles you claim in that period of time. You still haven't provided any reasonable explanation for this discrepency, other than you are claiming miles that you didn't drive, but rather were just PRESENT when they were driven.

I rarely park in the front row. In fact, I rarely park at truckstops.

The Rev. never waits in line for anyone. :roll:

This makes no sense. What - am I just supposed to randomly drive around looking for someone to move?

Your signature line says otherwise - something about being FORCED out. Sounds like a complaint to me. :wink:

Good for you. I do that all the time. It isn't anything special.

Teaching them how to do triple digits, no less. :roll:

Just for giggles, I'm gonna break down your sig line:

Complaint.

Disputable.

Household Goods
Automobiles
Boats
Corn Gluten Pellets
Cottonseed
Ammonium Sulfate
Liquid Human Waste
Solid Human Waste
Office Furniture
Fish Meal
Soybeans
Soybean Meal
Dinosaur Fossils

I trust you have hauled all these things. I know I have.

I stated it was 39 months before I was made a TRAINER not that was total time I had on the road. As for some of your other things you go into about training drivers how to run triple didgits never did that and I NEVER FREAKING WOULD. I had a trainee kick it out of gear on Parlee you know tha little mountain leading into SLC. If I was not trained properly by my father both of us would have died that day. We were past the runaway ramp when it happened and he almost lost it going right by the 215 interchange. As to your list of commidities I have some that you do not list and I can not list for simple resons of NATIONAL SECRUITY and that is all I will say. I failed 4 out of 5 trainees that climbed into my truck and flat out told them that they did not have what it took to be a Professianl Truck Driver not a Steering Wheel Holder. For me driving a Semi was a Profession not a job. The reason I am not out there is called EPILEPSY read up on it a nice little conditon. I can not drive and am forced to live off of SS for the rest of my life.

Next you'll be telling us about how the Federal Marshalls stopped DOT from making you go over the scales. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I always crossed any and all open scales. I was a safe driver you are judging me on ONE time when I decedied to let my truck stretch her legs out. In a 6 year stretch how many times total were you given either a logbook ticket or a speeding ticket or placed OOS for either equipment or HOS voilations since REV you are always screaming about saftey.

No I am not - I am judging you on the fact that you felt the need to BRAG about it by posting it here.

Man-If I had a Dollar for every time I heard that Tale :P

Maybe My memory is a bit foggy but I don't remember any runaway ramps on Parley.

Personally I'd rather be trained by somebody who's pushed the machine to its limits at triple digit speeds. It might come in handy when you're bareling down a mountain after the brakes fade.

But I guess if your let your brakes fade on a big mountain you are an unsafe driver :roll:

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Yes, and if you let your brakes face on a big mountain, you are an idiot as well.

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Well fuck it then. Lets just do away with all the runaway ramps on the steep mountains. Because if you ever loose control on a mountain you are just unsafe, and as such you should be hurled to your death. We only need safe drivers out there like Rev that never make mistakes ;)

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Hello? Still waiting for your Response on Parley's Runaway Ramps

Hey Rev, how did you do that?
I mean, put the little emoticon guy in the middle of the sofa picture.
You,re very very very clever :wink:

Uh, am i missing something here? Nice icons by the way guys

There is a runaway ramp on Parley 3 miles down goes UPHILL you hit it from the HAMMER lane. By the way how come I can remember where that one is and you can not remember and I never had to use it either.

Yup. Common sense.

Runaway truck ramps are built to save the IDIOTS who don't know how to drive a truck. Suffice to say that your chances of seeing a QUALIFIED driver sitting in a runaway truck ramp are slim to none.

Perhaps you have a good idea, though - eliminate the runaway ramps, and let the folks who can't keep control of their vehicle answer to Darwin's "natural selection".

simple-Until I got smart and decided that the wear and tear on my equipment was worth more than saving a bit of time I started going north through the valley on 84 which reconnects with 15 and runs alongside the River.

Any driver at anytime could have the need for a runaway ramp ever here of a mechincal failure. Yes they are there to catch the IDIOTS who think they can handle anything. Here is a reason that anyone could need one going down say Black Mtn on I-40 in NC all of a sudden you lose your computer there goes the Jakes sorry. You start to ride the brakes Air Compressor explodes no air pressure you are SOL on a bad mountain you have 2 choices 1 kiss you butt goodbye 2 find the next runaway ramp. Rev do not say this could not happen it did to my father who had 3.5 million miles accident free driving in 38 yrs OTR and was my trainer. The reason the Computer failed relay fell out. The air compressor was even easior to see the drive gear broke off. He buried his rig in the ramp up to the top of the drive axles so do not say it is just IDIOTS that hit those ramps.

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