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I realize it is weeks after the fact, but I did promise an analysis of what went wrong with the Jason Pede misadventure through the mountains of Colorado in February. To refresh your memories, Jason Pede took a so called “shortcut” through the mountains of central Colorado in early February.  He was trying to cut [...]

My friend Jason Pede saved himself over the weekend of Feb 7th, after being stranded in the snowy mountains of Colorado for four days.  He took a “shortcut” that his cellphone GPS recommended and was confirmed by a local resident.  It almost cost him his life! Jason was transporting a rescue dog from southern California [...]

So!!  You’ve decided to become an oversize load escort.  You’ve gone out and bought all sorts of lights and flags and signs and all the other stuff you need to escort.  I’ve got news for you!  Believe it or not, just getting your escort vehicle set up and your equipment set up is the easy [...]

We dropped our load this afternoon at the Climax Mine on top of Fremont Pass, north of Leadville, CO.  Now I am in Pueblo, CO, heading home. Our load was 27 feet wide.  That means that on a typical two lane road, the load hung over each shoulder.  We ran with four escorts-two up front [...]

I am in Houston tonight, for the third straight night.  Sunday night, we got in two hours after sunset and had to wait until Monday morning to deliver our load. I picked up a load heading back near my home…supposed to leave today, but didn’t.  Sooo, I got to stay two additional nights here. I [...]

After waiting since Tuesday evening for our load to California to move, we finally got started this morning.  But not without problems.  To start off, the driver could not drop his third drive axle.  The reason:  a wire had corroded loose on the actuator for his air bag.  After about an hour, we jury rigged [...]

Tonight I learned of the death of a friend and colleague this week.  Karen Aleman (or possibly Alleman) died Tuesday evening in a rollover accident while returning from escorting an oversize load to Colorado.  I do not have any specific information about the funeral, other than it probably will be in Lafayette, LA. Apparently, Karen [...]

I am sitting at a truck stop in Longmont, CO.  We are in a ten hour holding pattern until we can get back on the road at about 8:45 PM.  We hope to deliver this plane to Colorado Springs Airport by about midnight tonight, if all works well. Apparently this Skyraider is going to be [...]

Today, I dropped the load I’ve been on since last Friday.  There were two notable experiences related to that.  The first was a 20 mile trip around a lake on narrow winding 2 lane roads with a 14 foot wide load.  Actually it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been.  Traffic was lighter [...]

I dropped a load (temporarily) near Gallup, NM.  We can’t leave until Monday after the driver gets his Arizona permit.  We are en route to western Nevada. After leaving that load, I came back to Albuquerque to perform a route survey for a 23 foot wide load going into Colorado on US 285.  I thought [...]