Bought another tractor.

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

nice truck man!!

 

[baddis]

ummm is the no air brake endorsement just a thing for your state? one of our new guys just went and took his test and had to have it to get his class A

 

[Hopman]

Are they fun to drive? I've never ridden in one but I don't think it'd be a bad job.

Once you get used to the fact that it isn't as tossable as your Ranger, they ARE fun!

It can also be stressful. the paperwork can be a bitch, and try controlling 40 tons down a hill innocently named "Cabbage Patch."


What's even more fun is seeing the look on kids faces as you yank on the air horn.

 

[Ozwynn]

ummm is the no air brake endorsement just a thing for your state? one of our new guys just went and took his test and had to have it to get his class A

I don't know if it is or not.... but if it is then its Michigan and Indiana because I had both working for me and they did not have airbrakes. Airbrakes is now part of the general test according to the department of commercial motor vehicles in MI......... I asked DOT about this when I was inspected in Albany NY on thursday (got my new CVSA "get out of inspection free" sticker good until 2011) and he said he hasn't seen airbrakes on one in the last 4 years (so anybody that has had to renew a CDL in the last 5 or so years may not have one).

and try controlling 40 tons down a hill innocently named "Cabbage Patch."

Cabbage isn't bad at all..... not even in winter. the worst I have ever seen is Wolf creek in colorado and it doesn't get used anymore..... I have seen some 9 and 10 % grades in kentucky and West Virgina when you get off the interstate........ I have never seen anything out west (as far as passes) that could even compete with the life ending passes in the appalachians...... just be in the right gear and stay off the brakes.

 

[baddis]

i just looked at my license and no endorsement..... i did have to take the test though

 

[Hopman]

Cabbage isn't bad at all..... not even in winter. the worst I have ever seen is Wolf creek in colorado and it doesn't get used anymore..... I have seen some 9 and 10 % grades in kentucky and West Virgina when you get off the interstate........ I have never seen anything out west (as far as passes) that could even compete with the life ending passes in the appalachians...... just be in the right gear and stay off the brakes.

True. But on US-2 (or it US-302, I can't quite remember) outisde of Gorham, NH there's a 12% grade that a tough haul, even for a car!

The only reason I know about this is that our family traveled over it every year, pulling a camper & loaded with gear, on our way to Maine.