Road Kill Chronicles
Topic 32000 | Page 4
BK, I actually remember that song! Showing our age
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated
I start very early in the morning and I've hit many animals over the years. Had a dear leap onto the highway right into the side of the trailer, then getting rolled up under into the rear tandems getting obliterated. Had dear run out in front of the terminal gate and get hit just hard enough to knock it on its butt and not hurt it or the truck. I've hit dozens of bats with the air deflector on the cab roof, it sounds like a gong. You know they are bats because birds just don't fly at 3~5am. Oh and, at least a billion bugs.
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Straddled a family of Racoons; 5 young ones and an adult. Tractor tires didn't get 'em; don't know about the trailers tires, though.
I passed a spot, one other day, where there were 4 dead racoons all in the same area. Now I see how that probably happened.
Saw my first dead bear today by roadside on I-25 SB on Raton Pass. Looked to be a young one.
A couple I wasn’t expecting was a gator and a wild hog.
Talking about wild hogs, has anyone ever seen a live one in any place along the road in Texas or any other state?
I’m told that Texas has a big problem with wild hog overpopulation. I drive quite a bit in west Texas but have never seen one, dead or alive.
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Dennis, that is a great cartoon!
Reminds me of the song by the Irish Rovers: Green alligators and long neck geese, humpty back camels and chimpanzees. Cats and rats and elephants but sure as you’re born, you’ll never see another Unicorn!
I also occasionally see snakes dead on the highway, some are fairly big.