Tuesday, November 9, 2010

No Inverted Aerials

Driving a truck requires a higher level of attention. To name a few things, you need to be concerned about stopping distance, overheard clearance, and gross vehicle weight. Then there's all of those pesky road signs that apply to trucks specifically, like this one.

You can't flip your truck over backwards, pretty straight forward. Those of you who may only be driving a truck every other decade or so on moving day may not know exactly how to avoid that.

Just to clue you in, that would require disabling your front breaks, loading the back of your truck with lead weights or something heavier, speeding backwards, and slamming on the rear breaks. It's hard to avoid doing in car, never mind a truck. But on a certain stretch of road near Horsham, PA, you'll just have to be extra careful.