Some of y'all are scarin' me!
While at the Good Sam rally in Phoenix last month, a camper was parked next to us. She had an 18ft TT, and was pulling it with an SUV. While there, she purchased a new 22' TT from one of the vendors...
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ScottG wrote:
...Then there's the OTR trucks. Unless they happen to get caught up in a surprise inspection, they're often junk on wheels.
You think it can be bad here...When I was active duty I had to do my rotation at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. We were in the process of moving all the munitions items from PSAB to the new base in Qatar. This involved packing everything, blocked and braced, into 40 foot shipping containers. We contracted a Saudi trucking company to haul these containers to their final destination.
The first day of the "ship-out", they had truck show up that I swear were used in the old Mad Max movies. There were trucks with only 1 tire per rear axle when there should have been two, trailers with NO Brakes (no shoes, air pots, air lines, actuating hardware, just a brake drum). We had one truck come in with no tread on 3 of the tires (you could see the steel belts).
Our transportation department had to do safety inspections on the rigs before they could be loaded. That first day, out of 27 trucks that showed up, 15 were loaded, the rest sent off for repairs.
The owner of the business, a Saudi, had a conniption fit because we told him he would have to fix those trucks before we would put anything on them, little alone explosives.
