[AT] New truck

[Steve W.]

You just waited to long before you had a tractor come around on you... I 
had my first power jack knife during a rainy day while at school getting 
my CDL when I was 20. I was REAL lucky though as I managed to get the 
drives to grab before they got out to far.
The instructor wrote - Small power jack knife, student recovered well, I 
hope I will soon....
The absolute worst day I had driving was when the Northeast got hit with 
the big ice storm in the mid 90's. I was on my way North on 81 coming 
out of Scranton when I hit the start of it. No chains and LOT'S of ice. 
Bad enough that I could actually push the nose of the tractor sideways 
easily! This was on a Friday and I had the next week off. Dropped it in 
low 2nd and creeped my way back home. 120 miles took almost 8 hours.

That seat had some real pucker damage though!

Danny Tabor wrote:
> Grant, Thats what scares me. I was only going about
> 35. I downshifted before going into the turn. I really
> felt comfortable into it. Coming out of it I upshifted
> and thats when the drives started going out from
> under. Even then I thought I could recover it. I was
> wrong.
>        Its taking me awhile to get my nerve back
> driving in the rain. I've always tensed up a little on
> turns but now its rediculous how I am. I'll get back
> in the groove again but I'm afraid it'll take some
> time.
> 
> Danny Tabor
>     
> 
> --- Grant Brians <gbrians at hollinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Danny, jack-Knifing a truck is no fun! I had that
>> happen this year with a 
>> pickup pulling a trailer load of irrigation pipe,
>> damaging the truck, 
>> trailer and a few pieces of the irrigation pipe. The
>> scary part is that I 
>> was traveling at only 25mph and had a tire blow
>> out.... Had it happened 100 
>> feet earlier I would have gone over an embankment of
>> 20-25 feet and if it 
>> had happened a half mile earlier I could have gone
>> down a cliff or over 100 
>> feet. Glad you are fine.
>>         Grant Brians
>>         Hollister, California
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Danny Tabor" <dannytabor2000 at yahoo.com>
>> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 8:46 AM
>> Subject: [AT] New truck
>>
>>


-- 
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

Pacifism - The theory that if they'd fed
Jeffrey Dahmer enough human flesh,
he'd have become a vegan.