truck drivers check out this

[charger490]

> http://javimoya.com/blog/pics/200607/bolivia.htm
i dont think i want to drive this route charger490

[TruckDriver]

  You couldn't pay me enough to drive that............. NOOOOOOOOOO F'N WAY!!!!

[OttawaCharger]

  I guess I won't compain about driving the old north eastern seabord towns anymore. 

[dodge freak]

Think a guard rail MIGHT be a good idea. Then again it would help to increase speed which is not good. Thats one road the drunks should avoid, wonder how many vehicles fell off every year.

[Steve P.]

I think they need to invest in cable cars!! 

[Lowprofile]

And I get pissed when my Air ride seat doesn't work!   Those boys got it rough! Thats like driving on a mountain goat trail.

[BigBlockSam]

i'd rather be driving it then be a passenger on a bus   

[Orange_Crush]

And I get pissed when my Air ride seat doesn't work!   Those boys got it rough! Thats like driving on a mountain goat trail.

Couple of years back, I sent a pair of Sterling LT9500 trucks powered by Cummins ISLs to Ecuador.  I ordered those trucks with hendrickson suspensions, Jake Brakes, School bus wheels, 4.10 gears and spec'd for extremely hard use.  The salesman said "I don't know what you're gonna use these for since I never sell trucks built for that kind of use." 

I said, "these trucks will make a daily round trip which starts out at sea level and travels up and down extremely steep grades (9% and up) in the Andes mountains with no escape ramps topping out at a max altitude of 13,000 feet with a final destination at 9,300 feet.  Many parts of the road have not been paved in 30 years.  The total round trip is 16 hours and happens once a day.
I'm hoping the trucks last 5 years.

So far the trucks have exceeded everyone's expectations.

[Highbanked Hauler]

  Sure wouldn't drive at night on that road

[Drache]

My dad was asked to drive logging trucks down in Peru and the road looked almost identicle. They were offering their drivers crap loads of money but people kept turning them down.

[REDNECK]

wtf man thats crazy

[8WHEELER]

I have been on roads like that in my KW, but they were only about 1/2 mile long, they were that steep
but not that high. Going forward with the trainer was no problem, but backing that bad boy up on that narrow
of a road was interesting    I drove for a large roadway contractor, delivering
equipment, I had to get in to so pretty crazy places. Some times the truck was leaning so much I was leaning
out the drivers side window a little to keep my body vertical    that was when the truck was empty.

Dan

[73dodge]

My dad was asked to drive logging trucks down in Peru and the road looked almost identicle. They were offering their drivers crap loads of money but people kept turning them down.

No sense in getting tons of money when you won't make it a day or two past payday.

I wonder what the death rate for that road is, you can see several spots where trucks went over.

[dodge freak]

I hear they are high paying jobs in Baghdad , but I am not going.

[73dodge]

I hear they are high paying jobs in Baghdad , but I am not going.

That is not a bad gig,  a friend father is there now doing truck repair for the DREADED Haliburton *GASP* 

He says he's not had a problem he feels safer there than in some places in the US and he's making buckets o money and he's in his 60's & going on his second year in Baghdad ...........

[Lightning]

ooo.....looks like fun.

[Shakey]

I hear they are high paying jobs in Baghdad , but I am not going.

They're paying big buck$ in New Orleans, LA at the fast food chains to keep them open.  A bit closer to home and not as dangerous.   

[Johnny SixPack]

I hear they are high paying jobs in Baghdad , but I am not going.

They're paying big buck$ in New Orleans, LA at the fast food chains to keep them open.  A bit closer to home and not as dangerous.   

I heard from a former LA resident that Wendy's was offering $10.00 to start, but you had to sign a contract for 6 months guaranteed employment. 

[topduarte]

My dad was asked to drive logging trucks down in Peru and the road looked almost identicle. They were offering their drivers crap loads of money but people kept turning them down.

I went for work about 6 years ago in Peru.  We went west of Lima with some highway people to investigate some highways.  Our distance from Lima to our site was was about 180 km.  It took us about 6 hours to get there and the last two hours in the dark.

Talk about almost shitting my pants!!

There were many tombstones along the road where buses and/or cars had gone down the hill, sometimes thousands of feet!!

We did see one landslide on our way back.  People got out of the buses, ran across the affected area while the bus slowly manuevered around the fallen rocks and boulders!!!

It was an eye opening experience for me.

One weird thing is I never saw any accidents in the jungle mountain roads or in Lima, not one!!