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When I "retired" from driving I had a Pilot Car business. I made this video on a trip through Iowa one day with a big horse Peterbilt from Transport National out of Milwaukee. It was 10 below and snowed the night before, and we were heavy, way oversize, and running behind. There is a little surprise at 3.40 on the timer. 🧐 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqy7dBvM1Vw&fbclid=IwAR3CFa4XIt7oaTxRDlLWnhEEGu3g5G0k9vuvhqd_hrOIlXslQaFR7Ej2FLM
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Ken it looks like you got to your destination ahead of schedule due to the fact you were leaving the rest of the traffic in the rear view mirror while out in the high speed lane. If he was going any slower you would have been filling your freezer with Rudolph venison. What was the load and cool video.
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you almost got rudolph! lol
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Exkvate3140 wrote:Ken it looks like you got to your destination ahead of schedule due to the fact you were leaving the rest of the traffic in the rear view mirror while out in the high speed lane. If he was going any slower you would have been filling your freezer with Rudolph venison. What was the load and cool video.
Steve Thanks Steve. That was some kind of fermentation tank for an ethanol plant. I had a lot of close calls in Iowa, more than Wisconsin. I installed a brush guard on my pickup for just such occasions.
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kokosing Const Co wrote:you almost got rudolph! lol Close. They come up out of nowhere.
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Ken: Was it more fun driving the Pilot Car? I bet you missed the trucks though. Any mishaps during this time? Craig
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Ken thanks for the response, I clipped one on the way home Saturday night with my plow. He bolted across right in front of me and I did not even have time to hit the brakes and I just caught his hind leg he lost a little bit of fur I think and kept on sprinting into the woods. I believe he did not endure the pain that the Q unleashes on his sheep, they can just about walk when he is done.
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Quinella: It was a nice job, I enjoyed it! No DOT, no log book, easy to get around, easy getting a motel room. But, the motoring public was a bigger pain in the ass! No mishaps, other than a few telephone, cable tv lines, (they usually were installed too low over a highway) and a couple of know-it-all drivers that didn't listen.. I had a camera facing forward and one facing backward, and they both recorded talking on the CB and UHF radios. This eliminated and question of "what happened" I did a lot of "rear" escort for 4+3+3+3's as I drove a 4+2+3+2 and knew my stuff about trailers taking corners, and I could operate and lift the rear of the trailer for RR tracks and humps. I did a lot of front escort with a height pole. I had a laser for measuring bridge and structure heights, and did a lot of route surveys in Minnesota and especially Chicago. Google Earth was a life saver. You could look at viaducts and corners to see how to get the loads through, and I had a complete list of bridge heights for Chicago. I loved the work and made quite a good living. 
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