Diesel Tuner Gets Year In Prison

[1971demon]

Trailer brakes do indeed fail. Maybe not often, but it may only take once.

Bought a used gooseneck 40' flatbed a while back, dragged it home some 150 miles on twisty and hilly roads...going a wee bit fast as usual.

Well, got to a stop sign in town, almost home, and the stopping was nothing like it should've been. Once past the stop sign I tried the manual activation. Nothing.

Thanks to, or because of, the excellent exhaust brake on the Ram I hadn't noticed the lack of trailer brakes for over 100 miles. But if something had happened along he way, it could've got ugly. Having to abort passing a car because of oncoming traffic, for example. Or the road littered with elk after a blind curve.

That trailer probably weighs only about 8,000 lbs., so technically it could've been towed with 1500.
But I was sure glad I was in a long wheelbase 3500 that weighs 9,400 lbs. or the trailer could've pushed me through the corner and past the stop sign.

Littered with ELK???...WTF..we get a squirrel...a racoon...and an occasional deer...

 

[Jimmy N.]

Around here, deer is most common, and year around, followed by elk which is a bit more seasonal. If there's a herd of over 60 of them, you pretty much have to stop. Now.

Free range cattle is a distant third, being very seasonal. Besides, if you don't notice the cattle guards and/or signs, you probably shouldn't be driving in the first place.

 

[1971demon]

Around here, deer is most common, and year around, followed by elk which is a bit more seasonal. If there's a herd of over 60 of them, you pretty much have to stop. Now.

Free range cattle is a distant third, being very seasonal. Besides, if you don't notice the cattle guards and/or signs, you probably shouldn't be driving in the first place.

Ben Cartwright aint got nothin on you..

 

[GNBRETT]

The government only gave a shit cause he was evading his Taxes. Otherwise they would't have given a ratts ass. The EPA stuff was just added to his Tax evasion.