Is Cyle legal or illegal?

[Mike270412]

Wow! Pigs must be flying!!! I actually agree with Cyle. I'm gonna mark this one on the calendar. Kanedog is still a troll but nobody is taking the bait tonight. Thanks for playing.

 

[Mike270412]

Do you wear a seatbelt?

No. The point is he is a commercial driver and makes the choice to ignore the laws and regulations because of laziness. I find that unacceptable as a professional driver.

Stuff like this hits a cord with me. There are far to many fly by night and backwoods operations in the transportation industry which makes it bad for every one of use who chose it as a profession. If you have a class 1 license and a NSC number you are obligated to follow the rules as written, not to disregard what you choose to disregard.

Plain and simple there is no excuse for not following the rules. They are put in place for a reason and there is zero tolerance for blatant disregard for the rules. This one might only be a small thing, but what else is being ignored? To lazy to hook up electric brakes? Does he adjust his brakes on his truck? Does he do other maintenance? It all comes into question. Maybe only this one situation, but as an industry we all have to try harder to make things better. When somebody screws up there is a good chance someone dies.

 

[S.W.A.T.]

The air must be thin up there on your throne, I was simply being honest. Tell me this after a 12 hour day if on your way home empty you realized you had 1 tire really low on air or flat on a dual, would you sit there and wait for a tire guy to fix it or would you drive it? If you're going to say 100% sure you would sit and wait your lying. Now that's illegal, but it is safe. So don't tell me you've never drove a rig at some point that wasn't 100% legal, EVERYBODY has. But one that's still safe is a lot different.

Maintaince is a lot different then not installing a brake controller. I can assure you my equipment is in better shape then the vast majority on the road.

Big difference between maintenance at the end of the day and just simply not doing what is needed. Perhaps find out what the fine would be vs the cost of installing the controller. Plus the infraction against your NSC. If there was ever a accident even if your truck isn't at fault and they find out that the trailer brake isn't hooked up your are automatically at fault. At that point the $1500 would seem pretty cheap.

 

[Stompin Tom]

Do you wear a seatbelt?

Yes. No choice in the matter.

 

[Stompin Tom]

The air must be thin up there on your throne, I was simply being honest. Tell me this after a 12 hour day if on your way home empty you realized you had 1 tire really low on air or flat on a dual, would you sit there and wait for a tire guy to fix it or would you drive it? If you're going to say 100% sure you would sit and wait your lying. Now that's illegal, but it is safe. So don't tell me you've never drove a rig at some point that wasn't 100% legal, EVERYBODY has. But one that's still safe is a lot different.

Maintaince is a lot different then not installing a brake controller. I can assure you my equipment is in better shape then the vast majority on the road.

In our industry a low tire is very common and we travel prepared. I carry an air hose, a Milwaukee 3/4 drive impact, plug kit, spare tire and a jack.

The CVSE has zero tolerance here for low tires, especially with loggers. We travel allot of mile on gravel roads. Mandatory check when you leave the forestry road and enter the highway. Tire checks are the first thing you do along with load security. Once you are unloaded at the mill you have an area to go to for mandatory walk arounds and cleaning debris off your equipment.

This stuff is not taken lightly. We work in an industry where 25 years ago the was an average of 25 fatalities a year, now that average is less than 5. You know who runs legal and who doesn't, and those who dont are not around very long. Between CVSE, lost trips and mechanical repairs the fly by nights go broke quick.

 

[Stompin Tom]

The air must be thin up there on your throne, I was simply being honest. Tell me this after a 12 hour day if on your way home empty you realized you had 1 tire really low on air or flat on a dual, would you sit there and wait for a tire guy to fix it or would you drive it? If you're going to say 100% sure you would sit and wait your lying. Now that's illegal, but it is safe. So don't tell me you've never drove a rig at some point that wasn't 100% legal, EVERYBODY has. But one that's still safe is a lot different.

Maintaince is a lot different then not installing a brake controller. I can assure you my equipment is in better shape then the vast majority on the road.

12 hour days? October to the end of March we work 15 hours a day. 12 hours is almost like a day off.

 

[Pedaling pete]

isn't it illegal for a truck driver to work 15hours a day ?

 

[Pedaling pete]

isn't it illegal for a truck driver to work 15hours a day ?

and it should be. don't need all you tired as Sholes out on the highway runing over a family trying to haul logs to the mill

 

[X-it]

Those guys are good drivers, i doubt many on here could even make one trip without filling their shorts on some of those crazy spots they haul from now.

 

[Pedaling pete]

Those guys are good drivers, i doubt many on here could even make one trip without filling their shorts on some of those crazy spots they haul from now.

you see I didn't know they were supper human. I knew they drive like some of the biggest dick heads on the road though

 

[X-it]

My money says they are not the dicks.

 

[FernieHawk]

My money says they are not the dicks.

My order for the biggest dicks...Cattle Liners, wood chip trucks.

 

[Pistonbroke]

My order for the biggest dicks...Cattle Liners, wood chip trucks.

My summer list of Road Dicks:

All bicycles. Just get the fawk off public roads altogether, forever.
Minivan with 33 foot bumper pull camper. Chaos waiting to happen.
Intermodal 18-wheeler with New Canadian "pilot" (usually CN)
Rented Canadream RV. Slow and highly unpredictable
Any Subaru with a roof rack (Roof Rack Retard, AKA "Triple R") Always driven cautiously and incompetently by some Liberal Cockwomble.
Distracted soccer mom going 140 while swatting at kids in back seat.

I could go on.....LOL

 

[Bnorth]

I thought Cyle pulled with a pickup not a tandem dump?

 

[kanedog]

Cyle drives with no trailer brakes and low tires. Cyle claims these activity are safe. Cyle misunderstands the word safe. Cyle will be writing the new CVSE rules.

 

[Lund]

Last summer i was traveling a secondary road on my motorcycle fallowing a pickup truck with a distance of about 150ft-200ft gap, we were doing about 75-80km/hr the speed limit was 80. Either way was a nice day for a liesure ride on the bike but i'm guessing the guy in the pickup truck was coming back from the dump or something cause suddenly one of the lids from his garbage can came off and came at me like a frisbee. I duct into my handlebars as it flew by. I pulled over thinking holy crap, the truck kept going clueless of what just happened.
The thing is, in a car or truck well big deal, on a motorcycle this could had been serious, thank god it wasn't. Point is no matter who you are as a valid driver's license owner you need to take responsibility to have that PRIVILIDGE of driving. The dude in the pickup should had secured his cans, it could had cost me. Same as the dude hauling and pulling need's to use the required safety systems to make others safe on the road no matter how trivial they may think it is. I'm sure the guy in the pickup hauled his garbage can countless times in the back of his pickup with no incidents till that morning last summer that almost cause one.
Neglect and laziness has no place on public roads.

I have had 2 other occasions of neglect on others that did cost me once and almost cost me another time, luck have it I was driving my truck and not the bike. BTW from guys hauling trailers.

 

[teeroy]

isn't it illegal for a truck driver to work 15hours a day ?

no.....

 

[Beels]

My summer list of Road Dicks:

All bicycles. Just get the fawk off public roads altogether, forever.
Minivan with 33 foot bumper pull camper. Chaos waiting to happen.
Intermodal 18-wheeler with New Canadian "pilot" (usually CN)
Rented Canadream RV. Slow and highly unpredictable
Any Subaru with a roof rack (Roof Rack Retard, AKA "Triple R") Always driven cautiously and incompetently by some Liberal Cockwomble.
Distracted soccer mom going 140 while swatting at kids in back seat.

I could go on.....LOL

BWAHAHAHAHAHA....
Subaru = Lesbian Limo

 

[doorfx]

If Cyles trailer kills a family of four in their mini van, is $500 for a brake controller still too expensive ?
If only two of the four die and the remaining two have to live the rest of their lives with that pain, is it still ok to be lazy ?
Asking for a friend.

 

[kanedog]

Cyle is getting internet bullied. Haha this is fun! Hi Cyle!