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Post by slumpy on Aug 11, 2007 21:46:14 GMT -5
is it true you can get ticketed driving with your chutes on with your hazard lights flashing and driving really slow just to go around the block or the next street over?  |
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Post by concretejoe on Aug 14, 2007 16:30:46 GMT -5
Yes. However, the legal aspect isn't the only reason why you shouldn't do it. The bouncing that your chutes do is bad on equipment. It is also dangerous. A friend of mine was doing the same thing. He was even following behind a customers truck, but some guy decided to make a turn and my friends chutes went right through the guys winndshield. It nearly took his head off. Everybody has done it, but realize that it's not a good thing to do, be extra careful and smile when the cop hands you the ticket.
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db2179
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Post by db2179 on Oct 28, 2007 19:55:21 GMT -5
we had a guy get a ticket and they called it a unsecured load. It was for 225$ and he had to pay it. i'll do it in a residential neihbor hood that is totally under construction but no were else.
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Post by lafargeslave on Mar 21, 2008 21:13:11 GMT -5
I have done it before when pouring handycap ramps all along preexisting sidewalks. fold the end chute up and make sure an escort pick up stays with his hood under the end to catch the drop off and to keep other cars from getting under/between us. rare but it happens. also have done it when doing long stretches of DOT highway patches/rejionting. leave the chutes on, one guy standing on the drivers step pointing out the next patch, other guy standing on the passenger step with the vibrator wrapped around his neck. running along severl miles of blocked off lanes. pull up to hole fill it get back on and run to the next hole.
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Jul 18, 2008 22:47:41 GMT -5
Three chutes on in Newport Beach. Had about 30 post holes to fill with slurry. Drove around a three mile area with all three chutes on, practically right on the beach. Took about two and a half hours. I'll post a pic of one of the alleys I had to creep through.
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Post by gant on Jul 18, 2008 23:01:48 GMT -5
My plant is in Festus, MO and we pour for The city of festus all the time and they have us drive around to about 8 different spots will all our chutes on all over town.. i do it as long as they follow me around and my chute is slightly to the left so i can see it out my mirror..
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Jul 18, 2008 23:02:53 GMT -5
I was pouring slurry around Newport Beach. Edison had dug out about thirty electric poles and the holes needed to be filled. I was going down one way streets and tight alleys. The houses on the right in this pic were right on the beach. It was hard to concentrate on my mirrors when there were hot babes walking around my truck.  Gotta love this job. ;D |
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Jul 18, 2008 23:17:59 GMT -5
I was pouring slurry around Newport Beach. Edison had dug out about thirty electric poles and the holes needed to be filled. I was going down one way streets and tight alleys. The houses on the right of this pic were right on the beach. It was hard to concentrate on my mirrors when there were hot babes walking around my truck. Gotta love this job. ;D its like that when we do the same in venice, redondo manhattan beaches. Its a pain in the a$$, but as long as they sign the ticket I'll go anywhere they want. |
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Jul 18, 2008 23:28:20 GMT -5
Yea, sign the ticket, but there were a few tight spots I wouldn't go. Near the end of the pour, with about 3 yards left, I told them to get out their wheelbarrows.
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