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Originally Posted by Skywalker
Drivers, NEVER BYPASS A MANDATORY PULL-OFF!!
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Got a funny story about this one, now that you mention it!
They have one of those pull-off deals on US 322 up in PA, either going into or coming out of Lewistown, around the Seven Mountains nature trail at the top of a big hill. (It's been years since I ran up there, and I'm a little spotty on what's where.)
I was running this route every week, and I knew about the pulloff. I saw the DOT was in there this time, working hard. Oh goody. I always stopped at the pulloff anyway, but this time it was really clogged up with trucks to where I could barely get in there. I had to pull around this one truck, then weave in between two more, and a DOT cop or three until I finally threaded my way through that mess to get to the stop sign and the sign about where the suicide ramps are.
Except there was no stop sign. No sign about the suicide ramps. I was on the wrong hill, a couple miles before the big one. This wasn't the pulloff, but a DOT random roadside thing,
that I just went to extraordinary lengths to waltz right into the middle of, making a HUGE spectacle of myself in the process!!
:lol: :shock: :lol: :shock: :lol: :shock:
To top it all off, I had something wrong with the trailer. I think it was a wheel seal cap that wouldn't quit dribbling, and was making a big mess, but not taking an excessive amount of oil to stay topped up, which I was nursing home at the boss's behest. Something like that. Messy, smelly, big red flag, and I just drove it way out of my way into the middle of a DOT check that I didn't even have to stop for, because they had already pulled in all the trucks they were looking to flag over with that.
He checked my logbook, my triangles and fire extinguisher, and my trailer lights, but he never walked around to the side of the trailer that was oozing grease. Told me to get the hell out of there, and be sure to stop at the stop thing a couple miles down the road, and have a nice day.
WHEW!!!