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Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

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I drive up and down a fairly steep grade every day to work (route 250 over Afton mountain to I-64 in VA), and it's readily apparent which truckers are familiar with the mountain and which ones are not or are just newbies in general. From what I've observed the ones that follow basically what you describe get down the quickest and I never really notice much burning brake smell.

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Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

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Hopefully the driver of the blue car was dragged into the street and fed trucker boot until consciousness and/or breathing ceased.

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Jul 2, 2010

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Please tell me you took more pictures than that...

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Seat Safety Switch posted:

So apparently Swift is installing driver-facing cameras. I hope they'll share the footage with the rest of us.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.ca/2015/04/if-you-have-noticed-swift-trucking.html

Lets hope most of the footage is similar to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Vgptnstyc

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KozmoNaut posted:

I just finished doing a needledrop of Dick Curless' "20 Great Truck Songs" album for a colleague. He'd gotten the album as a gift a few years ago, but he doesn't have a turntable. Luckily, I have one (two, actually) and I'm pretty handy with Audacity.

It's 100% all proper truckin' music, with songs about deadly accidents on the roads, them durn police always settin' up speed traps, and of truckstop fine dinin' and lot lizards etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGFHo_s1P88
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJuLIzUWKf4

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Holy poo poo, I never knew I was missing this in my life. Thanks for giving me some awesome new tunes to drive to!

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Watching an open gatorade bottle filled with rich, golden piss sail out of a truck's window directly into a Masshole's windshield is something I will always treasure.

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Jesus loving christ :stare:

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