I've on many occasions stopped traffic to allow my driver the room needed to cross narrow bridges and to navigate difficult turns. But in most places across these United States of America, both the cat and myself would likely be driven over by several impatient drivers. Lol.
Sometimes you will have a driver pick you up and drop you "on the fly." You will be given a location to meet, but if you flag up and get ready to roll a couple exits sooner, you will have time to get a righteous photograph as the driver you're meeting passes by.
If you do this, ONE, make sure you let him/her know what your intentions are when you first check in with them once dispatched, and TWO, it may be your image, but it's the driver's owned or assigned vehicle, and someone else's load that he/she is responsible for, so the very least you can do is send that driver a copy of the photo.
Discarded remains of a wind farm in Queensland, Australia.
Contrary to the climate scam propaganda spouted by Net Zero zealots, and the trillion dollar "renewable" energy industry, wind turbines are not renewable or "green" in the slightest.
Not only are these monstrosities a blight on the countryside when they're in operation, killing and maiming hundreds of thousands of bats and birds in the process, every single year鈥攐nce their working life of just 15-20 years is up, they cannot be recycled, so they end up being dumped in nature, or in landfill sites.
It's because of the above truck, American actor Claude Akins, and the Merle Haggard song "Movin' On" that during my childhood I became committed to the idea that I'd one day become an over-the-road trucker.
And I most certainly accomplished such, ending a 37 year run, retiring from trucking, and now escort oversize loads across the United States.
The image immediately above was one of my loads, safely shipped and delivered on-time. At the time when I trucked this load, nothing in my life would've indicated that I'd one day become an escort. But regularly pulling Oversize/Over-dimensional loads has been very useful to me as an escort in the pilot car industry serving fellow truckers.
Since retiring from trucking, I've worked with many other escorts that seem clueless as to what a trucker pulling Oversized Loads does and doesn't need. My 37 years overall working in the transportation industry has taught me many things. But those 12 years pulling O.S./O.D. were more useful to me in my current career path than I'd have at the time ever imagined.
It's not that I'm such an intelligent man, full of wisdom. Those of you that know me personally know that's most certainly not the case. What has made me successful as a pilot car operator is that regardless of what situation the trucker I'm escorting will go through, more often than not, I've encountered a similar situation with either escorted or non-escort oversized loads back when I was still trailer-trucking.
I try to apply the knowledge I've obtained from trucking to the work that I now do as an escort. Information stored is merely knowledge. To use that info as a tool to safely and successfully complete a task, and sharing that info with others to increase their knowledge, that's where wisdom begins.
The reason many drivers and transportation companies request me, has nothing to do with my professional attitude. It's got nothing to do with my desire to always try to present myself as a likeable person. The success that I now enjoy as an OS/OD escort is due to the skills that I've acquired during my 37 years serving the transportation industry, and specifically all that I learned from many years hauling Oversized Loads.
If you're interested in learning more about my little company, check us out at the web address below. I hire only the best "experienced" escorts to operate my pilot cars, and work with them to correct any bad habits. Give us a chance to show you why we say at Oversize Services, we're "Leading The Way!"
Web:
www.OversizeServices.com
Instagram:
OversizeServices
Facebook:
Oversize Services, LLC
Facebook Group:
Good Vibes Pilotcar Escorts and Oversize Load Truckers
Heavy-haul doesn't always mean oversized. But multi axle set-ups like this one could definitely handle such, so long as the load wasn't over legal length.