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Malaki86 · #1 03-31-2009, 01:05 AM

Route 50 Shuts Down After Tractor Trailer Accident - WBOY-TV - WBOY.com

The wreck was bad and all, but read the comments... Oh my God, what morons...

mike3fan · #2 03-31-2009, 01:48 AM

Don't you know you are fighting a losing battle arguing with those idiots. It is amazing the reputation that we do have out there though isn't it?

Malaki86 · #3 03-31-2009, 01:50 AM

Especially the 90mph fully loaded trucks going across there. Not on about 75% of that stretch of the road, even without the hills...

Mackman · #4 03-31-2009, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Malaki86

what morons...

Them people are stright up

heads. I like the comment about putting everything back on the railroad lol. Dumb SOBs

Biscuit Lips · #5 03-31-2009, 02:09 AM

Some of those comments were just rediculous. I would love to see this highway in WV where truck drivers fly up and down the road, all the time, at 90 MPH.:roll: Still laughing at that one guy who said his caddy could do 160 MPH, but he couldn't keep up with a big truck. Huh?

Malaki86 · #6 03-31-2009, 02:33 AM

I drive (well, up until last week I did) that section of road on a daily basis almost. It's a 4 lane highway that runs between Clarksburg and Parkersburg. A couple of the hills would drop my truck to about 30mph when fully loaded. Quite a few of the turns I wouldn't take at 65mph in my car, let alone the truck.

And, ya, the railroad one was the best.

Windwalker · #7 03-31-2009, 05:13 AM

You know.... I would not mind having one of those trucks that is able to pull that road at over 100 mph. Not sure I want to pay for the fuel, but think what I could do with a load through the Rockys out west.

What I'm reading is a few people that really have a chip on their shoulders about trucks. For what reason, I don't know... But it's obvious that they are making up much of what they are saying. I have owned my own truck that had a 500 hp Cummins. It would pull hills really well. Much better than the company trucks I'm driving now. But, it would not maintain 100 mph up any hill, and going down the next one, there was no way I would just let it run.

Yes, we do have idiots in trucks that go for the speed, but eventually, they weed themselves out. And, a few of them may also have access to a truck that is not governed. But even with a triple digit truck, going up a hill, loaded, it's not going to happen. That tells me that many of them have been making up what they have been saying.

The biggest problem I have with it... There will always be someone that actually beliieves them.:moon:

Fredog · #8 03-31-2009, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Windwalker

You know.... I would not mind having one of those trucks that is able to pull that road at over 100 mph. Not sure I want to pay for the fuel, but think what I could do with a load through the Rockys out west.

What I'm reading is a few people that really have a chip on their shoulders about trucks. For what reason, I don't know... But it's obvious that they are making up much of what they are saying. I have owned my own truck that had a 500 hp Cummins. It would pull hills really well. Much better than the company trucks I'm driving now. But, it would not maintain 100 mph up any hill, and going down the next one, there was no way I would just let it run.

Yes, we do have idiots in trucks that go for the speed, but eventually, they weed themselves out. And, a few of them may also have access to a truck that is not governed. But even with a triple digit truck, going up a hill, loaded, it's not going to happen. That tells me that many of them have been making up what they have been saying.

The biggest problem I have with it... There will always be someone that actually beliieves them.:moon:

I read in the Chattanooga paper a while back where a lady wrote in and said she observed a truck going really fast down monteagle, she said she got beside it and it was going 110 mph, the paper just printed it as fact. that was a hell of a driver to take those curves at that speed

AC120 · #9 03-31-2009, 02:28 PM

You want morons? Read the comments.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_177655.html

steelhauler · #10 04-04-2009, 12:42 AM

LOL That one guy thinks your automatically overloaded because the load is higher than the cab. BTW, it freight was hauled on trains those people in WV would starve. Not too many freight lines run through the Hillbilly, unless you can eat some coal. Its just like an airplane. Just because we make a bigger splatter than a car, we are more dangerous, not that we areck more often though.

Its just that "i hate following slow trucks" Thats where the grudge starts. How many times do you get 4 wheelers waiting behind you while you pass, just to cut you off with no signal afterwards...and we have a problem.