A turkey definitely wouldn't be considered as a small bird.

You don't want to hit an owl. I nailed one, one night. It hit my mirror, and shattered the front cover on the mirror. Cracked the mirror.
I nail cowbirds and dove all the time. They flush right when I get to them, and sometimes, they cross over. *thump* :lol: It's funny how high they soar when they hit the fairing (spelling).

The owl I hit, hit the air deflector on top. Didn't crack the fiberglass up there, but it sure did a lot of going up before it started coming back down. It wasn't flying anymore, just the inertia after being hit. Not something I wanted to hit. I like owls and birds like that. Almost hit an eagle too, one day. Sure glad I missed that one. Came out of the ditch with rabbit in his talons, and I got a really close look. Another time, one flew across the road with a live snake hanging down. But, no matter what bird I hit, I always made sure that when I stopped, I was out of the way of traffic. The turkey was the only time I stopped on the side of a ramp. The rest of the time, it waited till I got to a truck stop.

I do my share of wiping out the turkey population in the spring. Some evenings, there might be 6 or 8 of them in a flock that strut across the highway. They don't take off like a dove, so I usually knock out a couple of them. :p You don't realize how many feathers they have till you nail one. :lol: :eek2:

Wait till one day, you see one drop down into your view, right in front of the truck. Pray the impact is on the passenger's side. It would also be a good thing to be wearing glasses. The glass from the windshield goes all over the place. The corner post took up a good deal of the impact from the one I hit. If not for that, it would have come through and landed in my lap. They DO fly every now and then.

I figured if you hit one, at a pretty good speed...I would imagine it would be like hitting a hawk, or owl. :eek2:

Here is the simple question. Is an on-ramp a parking lot? Sure, trucks park there all the time but they do so at their own peril. Don't matter if the driver was distracted, it was foggy, drunk, whatever. There are better places to park. If you run out of drive/work hrs and you're in the middle of BFE....then you didn't plan your trip very well. You ran out of time willingly or stupidly in BFE....and chose to park on a ramp. You accept the risks of doing so. If you park a truck, non emergency, you dont belong in the emergency lane. and that part of the road is still the emergency lane.

For all of you who had hoped i died, or moved on doing another career...sorry....still driving, same company....same ol a--hole. =) sorry to burst your bubbles. HAHAHAHAH

Oh come on now, you know we love you :thumbsup:

hes from vermont so he is automatically guilty

Stopping on a shoulder or ramp is one thing, stopping in your lane demands a good GD reason. I hope Hunt has one . .

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