Dump Trucker Hires A Momback

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  1. Hal Pollner

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    I never had this job myself, but I heard about it from a teenager who was hired as a "Momback" by a dump truck operator for a special job.

    The driver was to carefully dump a 5-ton load in a special spot just laid out for the project.

    He instructed the young man to carefully guide him back to the spot, a little at a time, until the dump truck was in the precise position for the dump.

    The teenager then called up to the driver: "Momback........Momback........Momback........OK, dump it!"

    Hal
     
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  2. Mary Miller

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    C'mon back?
    I live in a small village/town and was at a town meeting. They had just gotten an expensive new multi-function plow truck and the meeting was for approval. Someone had put flyers all over how the town was wasting soooooooo much money. (which I was checking out the meeting)
    Anyway, they did not have a driver for the winter. And something I must have said tipped them off to a skill I have.
    One of the men at the table said, "Mrs Miller? Do you know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?" I said, "Yes but I also have severe road rage. You don't want me behind the wheel of a snow plow." (I'd show them momback! ; )
    I figure the clutch in my cars is an anti-theft device.
    ; )
     
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    Good thinking, Mary. Of our 5 grown children, only one son can drive a standard transmission. Where did I go wrong?? :D
     
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    All 5 of my kids even my daughter could drive stick and all learned to drive motorcycles first.
     
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  5. Mary Miller

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    I am a control freak and a standard transmission gives more control than automatic, I think (or believe ; ) When needed there is more pick up on on ramps and downshifting is good for slippery hills in winter.
    Now, if I could just figure out how to get going after stopping on a hill.
    :)
     
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    Yes, Mary..."Momback" is a contraction for the term "C'mon Back". :D

    Hal
     
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    I have combacked many trucks to an exact location. If I remember correctly, the last
    Halliburton truck I com-backed, while I was directing this driver backwards, the entire
    valley behind me went up in flames
     
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    After work at a job I once had, the route home took me to a hill where traffic was backed up due to a heavy snowfall. It was stop and go creeping up the hill with the standard transmission the car had. It was slip the clutch , go 10 feet, then do it again.
     
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    A few years ago I hit a deer with my 1990 Volvo sedan...4 on the floor. I miss that car.

    I always preferred manual transmission, but your choices sure are limited. I'm shocked at how few truck offer them.
     
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    Wow! Were you there to control wildfires?
     
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  11. Bill Boggs

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    No, @Mary Miller, it was a gas leak on a drilling rig and a welder
    was attempting a repair a leak underneath the drilling rig floor. a
    humid day and gas had settled in a revine where the rig was located.
     
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  12. Hal Pollner

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    And then....and then.....?
     
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