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<blockquote data-quote="qdg2" data-source="post: 5607878" data-attributes="member: 100309"><p>Interesting. I went there every week. Our "training" in sleepers: "Here's your LMA"(Me: What's an LMA?")." Here's your tractor."</p><p></p><p>I never really looked at any map...at least didn't "study". I would talk with my friends from my hub..."Where are you?" "Somewhere in Ohio...I think..." Anytime there was a road closure or some such......we'd have to stop and reroute.......usually in the middle of nowhere. My trucker GPS would present a route. I trusted it without question. The LMA had turn for turn, word for word directions offering two different paths. Interesting as you would have had to take your hand and eyes off the wheel to read it....to do properly pull over and stop.</p><p></p><p>Without question, Los Angeles and Jersey/NY most difficult....really CA. Those states don't have anywhere to pull over.... Even the towns. Truck stops in weird places.</p><p></p><p>Luckily we never had much trouble.</p><p></p><p>We have a few overpasses here that read 13'6"....the height of our trucks...right? Ask Mgt.......blank looks. We have a high truck warning here too.....flashing lights. I've had them flashing while I went by......but was that my truck or someone else? Tough call in heavy traffic. We had some 14' trailers here. Mgt: blank looks......BTW, that trailer(14') was used all around our hub for CPU.</p><p></p><p>We've had plenty of folks "go around" accidents(alternate path) and hole a trailer on a low tree branch. You bet they got charged with an accident. I always thought this was unfair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="qdg2, post: 5607878, member: 100309"] Interesting. I went there every week. Our "training" in sleepers: "Here's your LMA"(Me: What's an LMA?")." Here's your tractor." I never really looked at any map...at least didn't "study". I would talk with my friends from my hub..."Where are you?" "Somewhere in Ohio...I think..." Anytime there was a road closure or some such......we'd have to stop and reroute.......usually in the middle of nowhere. My trucker GPS would present a route. I trusted it without question. The LMA had turn for turn, word for word directions offering two different paths. Interesting as you would have had to take your hand and eyes off the wheel to read it....to do properly pull over and stop. Without question, Los Angeles and Jersey/NY most difficult....really CA. Those states don't have anywhere to pull over.... Even the towns. Truck stops in weird places. Luckily we never had much trouble. We have a few overpasses here that read 13'6"....the height of our trucks...right? Ask Mgt.......blank looks. We have a high truck warning here too.....flashing lights. I've had them flashing while I went by......but was that my truck or someone else? Tough call in heavy traffic. We had some 14' trailers here. Mgt: blank looks......BTW, that trailer(14') was used all around our hub for CPU. We've had plenty of folks "go around" accidents(alternate path) and hole a trailer on a low tree branch. You bet they got charged with an accident. I always thought this was unfair. [/QUOTE]
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