Not impressed with Mr. Plow

[Looking4new]

The highway plow trucks are noisy, big time. It isn't necessarily the exhaust, but the noise of the motor, the noise of the plow itself which while weighing about 10,000 lbs and about 3-4,000 lbs for the wing if they run onto hard road like a bare patch with no snow and then there is the VHF radio (which I kept an extension speaker right beside my ear) and the tunes turned up almost full volume. It is pretty hard to even hear yourself think in them. And then there are the long hours, if there is a snow emergency called you can be out there until the snow is all cleaned up. The longest time I was out was back in the 80's....3 days. I started plowing on the Friday afternoon and finished up on the Monday morning. The cop I saw in the coffee shop every night at midnite asked me how I did it. He asked if I was doing speed pills commonly called 'beans or 'goobers'. I told him no, just coffee and donuts. Part of my route and the very last thing I did was the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) station. That is when I saw the cop and he asked how I did it.
For that storm I was actually called out of school on Friday afternoon and went back on the Monday after I secured the plow, (fueled and washed), and wrote an English exam. I went back to school in the 80's to upgrade my grade 8 education. It was a grade 11 English exam.

 

[GManBart]

LOVE IT! :laughing:

 

[Looking4new]

LOVE IT! :laughing:

You do know that IF you are a business you can get that in stick on vinyl. I t looks like 'flashy' advertising.

 

[GManBart]

You do know that IF you are a business you can get that in stick on vinyl. I t looks like 'flashy' advertising.

I've actually had to get those made up in the past, but moving snow is just a necessity for me now, not a job!

 

[J F]

Glad you guys enjoyed the "art work". :laughing: And GManBart, I might suggest "Quoth the raven..." for your tailgate graphics.

 

[jimpen]

The slush was flying 40-50 feet off the side of the road, the rest of use were traveling behind the plows at about 45MPH and this guy comes up on the outside lane and starts to pass the far right plow. He drives right into that slush!

Semi-OT. Several years ago I was doing my 55MI commute home on a snowy, slushy night on relatively rural interstate. The speed limit was 65. The commuters and truckers were generally running 45-50MPH with large following distances. The plows were running 50-55. We had an 18 wheeler, a 4WD and an AWD vehicle come blazing by us at 65-70MPH. Then all of sudden all of us were in a traffic jam. Luckily I had stopped at a store to pick up some adult beverages before really getting on the highway.

So I sat in the traffic jam, and considering that I was within 20MI of home, popped one for about the 20 minute delay as the cops and FD went around us. I tipped and nodded cheers to the 18 that was jack-knifed 40' off the highway and the 4WD and AWD which had bumper to bumper accidents about a mile beyond. :drink: Both the vehicles had popped airbags, or in other words effectively totaled. :thumbdown:

All I can think about them is "Don't you know you are an idiot?" Hopefully they figured it out. If not -- I wish I had a video of these fools. :mur:

 

[Looking4new]

In dirty weather I drive at a speed that I feel is safe as long as it is the limit or less. I use 4wd when I need it. I don't care what the other guy does as long as he doesn't involve me. I have watched 'them' fly by me only to find them 5 miles up the road either on the side of it or in the ditch.

 

[hdmyers]

Plow guys in my northern Ontario have actually pulled off/slowed down to let me pass... some plow folk are nice...and others treat it like war.

 

[Normal Bill]

Glad you guys enjoyed the "art work". :laughing: And GManBart, I might suggest "Quoth the raven..." for your tailgate graphics.

I like it!
What is this "Quoth the Raven..." thing? Edgar Allen Poe? The Simpson's Halloween Special? Some inside joke?

Competition can be fierce. Watch out for Plowking

 

[J F]

Yeah, it's from Bartman/raven in the Halloween special...laughing: