Saturday, April 21, 2007

Indivisable Loads and How Wyoming Got Stupid.

Indivisable loads.

Yay these many years ago it come upon beuracrats and naceant lawmakers that the common man had life MUCH too easy. They saw it as their diety given duty to eradicate that. Life then become more complex.

As an example of that. Permits.

Back when if a farmer had "stuff" that needed to go to market he loaded it on his wagon and took out. If he overloaded his wagon then the wagon broke....or more likely the mules (or horses) pulling the wagon went on strike. No big deal....reality.....deal with it.

With the advent of the infernal cumbustion injun and roads...things got more complex. Suddenly...we had to have rules. Maximiums were set. Currentlly the maximium weight allowable on the interstate network is 80,000 lbs gross (load + the vehickle combination it's on or in).

But wait a minit. Suppose the Govenor of some state...oh...pick a state....like maybe Wyoming....has interest in a Open Pit Mine....or maybe one of the Guv's major campaign contributors owns that mine...or oil well drilling company....or whatever......and needs "Big Stuff" transported for purposes of that business.







Stuff that weighs bunches more than 80,000 on the truck.



Well....that's where "indivisable load" comes in. If a load cannot be "readily and practically taken apart.....(yadda yadda legal double talk)....then an overweight permit may be issued for the purposes of transporting that load.

Load. Keyword.

Most reasonable folks would think that if you had....oh...say a windmill nacelle on a 2+2+2 configuration 9 axel rig that weighed 95 thousand lbs then that would constitute indivisible....and they'd be right.

Most reasonable folks wouldn't pay much attention to the blocks of wood...the extra chains not in use right that minute....the tools...and/or the hundred and one other things that the trucker MIGHT have stored on the trailer that he has use of ocassionally...for other loads...for maintenance...or for safety purposes. As long as the "stuff" was secure and wasn't gonna fall off in the road then it was no big deal.

Most reasonable folks.

Wyoming D.O.T. used to be reasonable. Not any more. December of 06 they got stupid.

Right now the rule is that the ONLY THING that can be on an overweight permited trailer is the load...the dunnage it's sitting on...and the securement devices (chains and binders) used to hold it on the trailer...AT THAT TIME. Nothing else.

Like say...tarps? Which aren't necessary for THAT load..but are for other loads...and cost about $800 each....and were stored on the unused upper cargo deck.



Extra chains...in case one breaks...stored in the neck...on a chain rack...provided by the trailer manufacturer for that express purpose...

Extra binders....shackles....

Tools....

Extra or other Dunnage....

Nope....can't be on the trailer. Not even in a toolbox on the trailer. Not even in a toolbox that is inextricably fastened to the trailer....that's intrical to the trailer...built in by the manufacturer. Nope....the tool box is OK...but it's gotta be empty.

Why that is....not even the Wyoming Highway Patrol Dude my wife spent several hours talking too knew. He doesn't make the law...he enforces it.

Probably a pretty decent guy...but he's being forced to be stupid. Him being forced to be stupid is forcing other folks to be dangerous.


Soooooooooo....rather than go thru Wyoming....some loads are going thru Colorado. I'm sure the snow bunnies are loving it. Can't go thru Eisenhower tunnel so it's over Loveland pass. That's real safe.

Or up Wolf Creek Pass....even safer.


How about thru the middle of Denver?

Reasonable folks....lawmakers.....two concepts that don't go together.

That in and of itself....reasonable as taught by real world (not book larnin) is reason enough to NOT vote democrate. Professional politicians all of em.

Imagine Hillary loading potatoes on a wagon and driving the wagon to market?

Not Hardly.

EvMick

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Common Sense...it seems to be in short supply these days. Especially when it comes to elected officials. We obviously need fewer lawyers and more farmers, truckers, welders, etc., taking up the mantle of "legislator".

Anonymous said...

This time the holocaust will be black.

Austrian Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychoanalysis yet people have (mental) health problems because of their disfavor, illustrating the preditory purpose of this discipline, this individual.
These people.

Of course Hitler was Austrian. Glock, maker of the semi-automatic gun favored by the most ruthless of black street gangs, the Bloods and the Crips, is Austrian.
RedBull Energy drink, Buwdeiser both Austrian.

The Holocaust was foreshadowing, yet another example of the Jews sacrificing to help the disfavored::::
1. 1492 exodus from Spain.
2. Spread throughout Europe as clue to heathen Christians worshipping a false god.
3. "Quasi-Holocaust claim" contradicting boss.
The Apocalypse (or an Apocalyptic event) will be initiated by an Austrian. When the national referendum to allow foreign-born individuals to run for president is introduced I recommend you DEFY and vote NO!! In the years prior to this vote the gods will send POWERFUL clues suggesting the IMPORTANCE OF DEFIANCE.

It will be the Koreans. There may not even be any invasion:::They gods will scapegoat them telepathically.
Black people like the ones who terrorized Korean businesses during the 1992 riots in California will be executed. I have personal reinforcing evidence.
This time the holocaust will be black.

Italy's boot is a clue showing the god's intent with the Romans.
Oshkosh. Oshkosh is a clue just as Lake Michigan and Green Bay are clues::::
Oshkosh is the ejaculate clue:::Life springs forth from this city.
Expect your traditional Second Coming of Christ to come from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Consistant with the possibility of matrilinial lineage it may be the mother's family from the Lake Winnebago area fulfilling some "Manifest Destiny" bullshit theater.

1. Corporate sourcing violently punished::::
They suggest the whole "sourcing" era, where it is positioned that their brain-less clones obtained product from China and other Asian countries for the lowest possible price, will be punished violently if the gods elect to employ the "Chinese invasion" script.
One of the reasons it was so important to get out before 1980 or before the end of each 20-year war-revelry cycle (1960, 1980, 2000, 2020, etc).

2. Deception of Southern rednecks to blame for Republican control:::::
Republicans, party of preditory disfavored, keep guns available. Easy gun availablility is an "open door" for the gods, a tool used to prey on the disfavored.
Republicans, party of preditory disfavored, gave you the Clinton impeachment theater 1998.
Republican loyalty is why noone cares that rednecks are set up for the slaughter.

The Simpsons offered many clues to the disfavored, not the least of which the frequent references to "pack/mob mentality".

This isn’t about reals and clones. This is about the brains and the brain-less.
This is the key which unlocks the god’s puzzle.

Kosher is a favor bestowed upon the Jews. The South eats LOTS of pork and there is a oyster bar on every corner.
It's kinda like liquor stores in the ghetto. This is the kind of irony the gods laugh about:::::

gods got rid of the retarded woman who lived across the street, prior to the fall of 2006 so your handiwork wouldn't stare you in the face while there was so much attention.
gods took similar evansive manuvers w/ bi-racial.

Bill Clinton wasn't impeached because he lied.
Bill Clinton wasn't impeached because he was orally copulated.
Bill Clinton was impeached because it was 1998.

HOW TO PRAY:::1. I'm sorry for what I've done wrong. 2. I don't want to sccumb to temptation and make any more mistakes. 3. I want to fix my problems. 4. Please don't hurt me.

We will ALL be held to the responsibilities entrusted to us, no matter what temptations contradict this.


If you don't do the right thing you're going to do the wrong thing, and the right thing to do is to ACTIVELY fix your problems and pursue the favor of the gods.
If you're not working hard to fix your problems, if you don't creatively work to get the hell off Earth then you will be consumed by it, by the reverse positioning-institutions they instilled as temptations::::popular culture, democracy, materialism.

evmick said...

Anonymous ole buddie. I got no idear what you just said.

I mean...what's it MEAN?

I'm purty shure it's got little or nuthin to do with my blog posts. I'm purty shure it's also got nuthin to do with trukin in general.

If I didn't know better I could be convinced it was racist....which I ain't.

So tell you what ...to avoid any unpleasantness...why don't you just toodle on over yonder and start your own blog? I'm sure you'd have just oodles of folks who'd love to hear what you got to say. You'll have a lovely time.

As for me....I'll just keep on keeping on.....

Have a nice life...

Seeyabye.

basset said...

What-in-the-hell was that all about!?! Sheesh, talk about random ranting! I do know on lj you can block people, dunno about the google version you be using.
But, sheesh! Here I am, scrolling back to make sure I'd read em all, and I see this one is suddenly a LOT longer. So, I sit on down to read it again. Wow!
I'm at a loss...really!

john
fear the drool, i am basset

evmick said...

John:

Er....drive by ranting?