This trip started out with four of our trucks (153-Dale, 170-Jimm, 171-Rudy and 328-Robert) headed to Wisconsin with loads of trailer crossmembers
destined for two seperate Stoughton trailer plants one in Stoughton, WI and the other in Brodhead,WI. Then it was over to our reload site in West Allis, Wisconsin a suburb of Milwaukee for the start
of our 2054 mile journey with the loading of four large vessels, one for each of us. These vessels were the hydraulic pressure and return tanks for the largest OSB (Oriented Strand Board) press in North
America.
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Sometimes trains wobble and yep sometimes they do fall down. We often hear on the news about train derailments and sometimes how people from this or that town had to be evacuated. I recently had the privledge of working with Southwest Salvage moving a number of grain cars that had gone off the tracks near Newdale, Manitoba, Canada.
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This is a story involving the teller, George an owner operator with Kleysen transport.
On this past trip to New Kingstown, Pennsylvania, after emptying out, Lois and I headed up to Milroy, PA for our reload. After reloading we ran into George at the truck stop and when I explained about my channel he related this story. It seems that on one trip while southbound on I-39 in Illinois, as he approached the Rest Area at mile marker 81, he heard a faint "help me" coming over the CB radio.....
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I'm asking drivers and those who deal with us to write stories about your experiences and e-mail them to me. Now I realize that at least some of you may be experiencing finger lock up at the mere thought of typing out a bunch of words then have them published along with your name for the world to see.....
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This is a new category for views from your side of the steering wheel.
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