[AT] History Exam, now kid memories

[charlie hill]

One day this week I saw a local contractors 1 ton terribly overloaded.  It 
has a 12 foot bed with 4 foot sides.  The thing was rounded up with bricks, 
concrete, and dirt from a job site.  The springs on the front and rear axle 
were bottomed out to the point that the front wheels were cambered out at 
the road.  There were several bricks and hunks of concrete laying  right on 
the rear edge of the bed with no tailgate or tarp securing anything.  They 
had loaded the truck until it wouldn't hold anything else and not even 
bothered to clean off the stuff that was tettering on the edge.  The load he 
had on it would have been enough to weigh down my 2 ton.

He was on a highrise 4 lane bridge, driving in the left lane at about 10 mph 
below the speed limit and forcing cars to pass him to the right.  It was all 
I could do to keep from dialing *HP on him.  I hope he made it to where he 
was going without loosing any of that stuff on someones hood.

Charlie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Hall" <jthall at worldnet.att.net>
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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories


> That is just plain scary! Guy around here with a couple Chevy 1-tons with
> dump beds that grosses about 17-18K--too much for my liking.
> I can understand why the guy you know has lots of flats as we used to have 
> a
> terrible time with the tires on the F600's but they finally went to bigger
> tires and no more blowouts.
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cecil Bearden" <crbearden at copper.net>
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> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam, now kid memories
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>
>>I rebuilt a lift on a one ton 1985 ford 1 ton for a fellow here.  It had
>> a 12 ft dump bed on it that was a load in itself.  He is a contractor
>> and it is nothing for him to have 25000 on this truck.  In fact when he
>> brought it in here, It must have had 20,000 of iron in the bed and I had
>> to repair the dump....  On top of everything else, it usually has a flat
>> since he is on construction sites......
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
>>
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