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What do you do when a truck can't do the job?
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 877370" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The problem I run into isnt containment of bulk...its that they keep loading my route into one of the long, skinny, single-axle P-7's with sliding rear doors. The damn things have the turning radius of an aircraft carrier, they get high-centered on a cigarette butt, and on my hilly rural route with tight, windy, steep roads the single rear wheels tear huge ruts into gravel driveways and I have literally gotten stuck on wet pavement.</p><p></p><p>A lot of the roads on my route are narrow with no shoulders, and the driveways are 1/2 a mile long, so I have no choice but to get off the road and drive down to the house. When I am on the way out in one of these cars, the turning radius is so bad that when I try to make a right turn out of the driveway onto the road, I wind up swinging <em>all the way across both lanes </em>and I have to stop and back up to keep from going into the ditch on the <em>opposite</em> side of the road. When this is happening on a 45 mph road with a blind corner, I am in danger of getting hit head on. They might as well be sending me out in a damn school bus. It is a constant fight for me to get my route loaded in a conventional , shorter P7 with dual rear wheels and a suitable turning radius. The genius who ordered these "skinny" P7's needs to be castrated so that his idiot spawn will not do any further damage to the gene pool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 877370, member: 14668"] The problem I run into isnt containment of bulk...its that they keep loading my route into one of the long, skinny, single-axle P-7's with sliding rear doors. The damn things have the turning radius of an aircraft carrier, they get high-centered on a cigarette butt, and on my hilly rural route with tight, windy, steep roads the single rear wheels tear huge ruts into gravel driveways and I have literally gotten stuck on wet pavement. A lot of the roads on my route are narrow with no shoulders, and the driveways are 1/2 a mile long, so I have no choice but to get off the road and drive down to the house. When I am on the way out in one of these cars, the turning radius is so bad that when I try to make a right turn out of the driveway onto the road, I wind up swinging [I]all the way across both lanes [/I]and I have to stop and back up to keep from going into the ditch on the [I]opposite[/I] side of the road. When this is happening on a 45 mph road with a blind corner, I am in danger of getting hit head on. They might as well be sending me out in a damn school bus. It is a constant fight for me to get my route loaded in a conventional , shorter P7 with dual rear wheels and a suitable turning radius. The genius who ordered these "skinny" P7's needs to be castrated so that his idiot spawn will not do any further damage to the gene pool. [/QUOTE]
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