A Story While Getting Fuel

[MN Cummins Lvr]

Thought you guys would appreciate this... yesterday while I got fuel at a small truck stop/c-store, there was a tour bus full of people buying snacks in the store. Even though the parked bus had the fast idle on with the Detroit 8V92, people came running out of the store with their snacks toward the bus when I fired up my truck at the fuel pump because they thought the bus had started and was leaving. Wife was sitting in the truck laughing her a$$ off:-laf :-laf

 

[illflem]

Whenever I drive down a city street people come running out with their trashcans thinking the garbage truck is coming

 

[tgbol]

The funny thing about my truck is that I can sneak up on my crew now. We have so many diesel engines (Cummins and Volvo) at work nobody notices mine when I pull up to the shop. But when I was driving the Cherokee everyone would pay attention when I pulled in.

 

[LarryB]

The past few weeks a crew has been working on the road in front of our building. They are using a Cat wheel loader. After he has driven by below my upstairs office window about ten times, I have been finally able to tell the difference between the loader and my partners 98 12v with no cat and straight through muff. Man do they sound the same. They both sound pretty close to the city garbage truck too.



Something about trucks!

 

[Todd G]

I used to car-pool(truck-pool?) on the way to work a few years ago. For fun I would detour into a nasty apartment complex at around 6:00 AM. I'd always burp the throttle a few times to set off the low-riders fancy alarm systems. You should have seen all the people come flying out of those apartments half-dressed thinking the repo-man was in the lot to get their car. My car-pool buddy used to beg me to go through that place. It was worth a million laughs.

 

[redramnc]

Pulled into the local Advance Auto for something the day after my muffler and cat became scrap metal - didn't think anything about it until I opened my door and heard two rice-burner alarm systems blaring. The one beside where I pulled in I could understand but the other one was three cars down on the other side of the drive in front of the store.



I reckon my exhaust was pointed at that one.



One of the ten ways to tell you are a turbohead (courtesy of the latest TDR).....



If the neighbors can tell its you without looking out the window...

 

[SOOT]

The other day when I headeed out to the truck after work there was a rice burner parked next to me on the passengers side directly inline with the end of the exhuast When I fired her up I also fired up the alarm I started laughing and then just drove off

 

[me4osu]

Occasionally, I will give the wife a break, and wait for the school bus with the kids, then go to work a little late. The bus comes down our road and picks up all the kids on our side, then turns around about 3 mi down the road to pick up the kids on the other side.



For some reason, one bone-head and his kids stand in the middle of the road, waiting for the school-bus. Every time I top the hill, he is standing in the road with his kids thinking he hears the bus. They are far enough away to get back to the side, of course. Thank God.