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To: potlatch

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LOL!

That wet marl (clay and -) was a heavy load in a dump truck!

We had a Ford with power-boosted brakes - usually great - until you realized you were rapidly approaching the busy Old Dixie Hwy. and you are not slowing down.
One scary Saturday afternoon experience.

Almost my last!

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52 posted on 02/17/2011 6:29:51 PM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . "- we*ll bring a gun!" . . . . alias Jimmy Qaeda II . . .)
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To: devolve

The inertia kept you going, huh? Opposite troubles with an empty truck bed on wet roads, the rears tend to hydroplane.


53 posted on 02/17/2011 6:36:26 PM PST by potlatch ( !/ ~*coincidences usually aren't *~\!)
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