Body Shop Recommendations Please
- Thread starter gotta go
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midwest is a little vague..could you narrow that down some?
Still able to haul loads? is it mostly cosmetics?
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Veteran Expediter
Exactly. And a flip-flopping stomach. I was hit by a motorcyclist. He walked away with some scrapes and bruises to come. He didn't see the truck as he came onto the interstate.
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Veteran Expediter
In the daylight, sun behind us, running with all lights on. He had just bought the bike a few minutes before and was on the way home. The trooper told him he didn't need to be riding a bike. It made me think about the recent threads http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/general-expediter-forum/41930-visibility-study.html, http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/general-expediter-forum/41995-came-close-today.html and http://www.expeditersonline.com/forum/general-expediter-forum/41978-deer-guards.html.
Doggie Daddy
Veteran Expediter
if it's truck damage, Jay Mac in Canton,OH has done good work for us.
If it's box damage, Jeanneret Trailers in Rittman,OH has always done great work for us.....and very cheap pricing on their labor.
Jay Mac (330) 456-0592
Jeanneret (330) 925-5339
If it's box damage, Jeanneret Trailers in Rittman,OH has always done great work for us.....and very cheap pricing on their labor.
Jay Mac (330) 456-0592
Jeanneret (330) 925-5339
Doggie Daddy
Veteran Expediter
I swear people do not know how to merge onto the freeways here. they either stop at the top of the ramp, go the same exact speed I am going and don't slow down or speed up I've seen people drive up onto the shoulder, instead of speeding up or slowing down.
Exactly Dakota, I mean the sign is telling them to merge, the sign does not say that the person already on the highway must adjust their speed to allow them acess.
The way I see it,they have 2 pedals,either speed up or slow down but gitter done.
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Veteran Expediter
Thanks for the numbers. I was starting to think that there weren't any good locations.
Dakota
Veteran Expediter
In a straight I can't exactly "Speed Up" so that leaves slow down if I can't get over. I have no problem pulling over or slowing down for a truck, they are probably getting on as fast as they can, but to have to slow down to 45 for a car that you know can speed up to highway speeds quickly....
You are right the sign says merge or yield, not cause trouble getting on the freeway.Not sure where "here" is, Dakota, but it's pretty much anywhere in the US and Canada (don't get me started on Mexico or Puerto Rico).
Worst of all are cloverleaf interchanges, especially when trying to exit with a 38' truck, and some 4-wheeler believes the seas should part for them to enter the highway.
I realize we have a bazillion signs for really stupid things that motorists should remember from when they received their driving privileges, but I believe one is missing: "TRAFFIC EXITING OR REMAINING ON HIGHWAY HAS RIGHT-OF-WAY".
There is little that irks me more.
Worst of all are cloverleaf interchanges, especially when trying to exit with a 38' truck, and some 4-wheeler believes the seas should part for them to enter the highway.
I realize we have a bazillion signs for really stupid things that motorists should remember from when they received their driving privileges, but I believe one is missing: "TRAFFIC EXITING OR REMAINING ON HIGHWAY HAS RIGHT-OF-WAY".
There is little that irks me more.
I think it is becoming an epidemic with people not being able to read the sign "merge" onto highway. When coming through Phoenix this morning more then one person had to figure out either speed up or slow down as I was holding my own and I could not move over.
Jeannie I have to say the guy is blind to not have seen your truck and I am sure the cop was thinking the same thing. Glad all is pretty well and we are looking forward to seeing you next month at the Expo.
Jeannie I have to say the guy is blind to not have seen your truck and I am sure the cop was thinking the same thing. Glad all is pretty well and we are looking forward to seeing you next month at the Expo.
Dakota
Veteran Expediter
Here is NE Indiana or Ohio, Michigan the areas I work in. Here in Fort Wayne we have these weird on/off ramps so you have the people getting on speeding up and the people getting off slowing down in the same space, makes for some pretty scary merging sometimes, but as the person getting off I have the right of way, but that is not always how it works.
guido4475
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Jeanie,why not go to Hissong Kenworth in Richfield, ohio off of 271? They are awesome, and have a full-scale body shop and paint booth. and there is lodging with food real close buy, they will accomodate you in every way.
