Comments By scorchednuts

I just happened to look while I was in between a drop and hook today, and the back set of duals is not even touching the ground! WTF? That's gotta be some kind of setting I inadvertently messed with?

This is a new development. Truck is a 2020 International. When bobtail, I will get stuck on completely level, dry pavement. The back set of duals will start spinning. I have to lock the differential to get moving. It even struggles a bit with an empty trailer. This began immediately after I went through a truck wash, although I can't imagine what that would have to do with it. Anyone have a similar experience?

I'm sure it does smell like money to Mr Harris, whom as the article I linked notes, lives 100 miles away and flies in on his Cessna to check on operations. Lesson learned here.

Forgot to mention the flies. Anywhere there is stench and death, there will be flies, clouds of them. It seems like for every second the door or window is open, a fly gets in. As I shoo out 5, 7 more enter. But there's a Carl's Jr., so there's that.

Love it brother. I too owe a lot to this site convincing me to make my start. I'm only a month solo, but this life is so fun and challenging, everything my previous 17 years in manufacturing was not. Roll on, my friend.

Thanks for the tip, both of you. Unfortunately, due to Sacramento traffic burning up my clock, couldn't quite make it that far. Had to shut down in a real gem of a place.

Hi folks, I'm about halfway through a 34 hour reset near Coalinga, CA. I'm honestly not sure I'll be able to make it another 17 hours. It's the stench. It hits you like a wall the second you roll down the window. I mean bad. Like, hard to keep food down bad. In the truck, with the recirculating air and my glade plug ins, it's at least bearable. Apparently I'm just downwind of one of the largest cattle operations in the world. Here's an article written about how bad this town smells:

https://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/12/21/coalinga.html

Lemme hear some reset horror stores.

I'm gonna have to reset soon and I'll be coming down the 5 from northern CA. Does anyone have a tip on a nice spot that's within 3 or 4 hrs of the LA area near the 5, maybe near a lake or some hiking?

I've only been solo for a month. I've been in some bad weather, but that was my first actual wind advisory. It was not going to get any better, so I just figured I'd take a shot, took it slow. Really wasn't bad. One or two gusts that made my bum clench.

Seems like I saw someone post a chart on here once with like wind speeds and load weights that you could use to help decide what's safe.

I'm sitting at Flying J in Tooele, UT. There's a high wind warning in effect, 20-30 mph sustained and gusts to 45. I have a pretty light load, 25,000 lbs. Park it or run it?