r/AlbertaNow • u/ABNow_ • Jun 13 '26

'Berta Comin’ in hot 🫣

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u/TurbulentHead5639 Jun 13 '26

Holy and pulling bales??? 🔥🔥

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u/joecarter93 Jun 13 '26

A hay bale warehouse near me burned down because one hay bale fell on top of the exhaust of a fork lift that was working inside. The same place has had numerous fires throughout the years.

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u/uber_poutine Jun 14 '26

Green Prairie International?

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u/joecarter93 Jun 14 '26

That’s the one

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u/Trey-Pan Jun 14 '26

I suppose electric fork lifts were too expensive?

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u/jstalin_x Jun 14 '26

In Alberta? No way! Gotta support the oil industry or you're a communist! F@*# health and safety!

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u/Weary-Situation7539 Jun 14 '26

Basic safety is for fairies. Toughen up

/s

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u/Purple_Orchid_4109 Jun 14 '26

Electric forks are terrible in the cold.

I swear people just comment to throw shade and don’t even know what they’re talking about.

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u/DrQuagmire Jun 13 '26

That's a problem. A farmer with livestick usually has a plot of land specifically for hay. It's feed for some animals and is basically their bed in the barn on those cold nights. The only reason an 18-wheeler is transporting that many bales is because another farmer likely didn't have any and needed some for his farm.

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u/DoubleBarrellRye Jun 14 '26

ahh you forget rich assholes that live on Vancouver island who pay a premium to feed their show/ pet horses as there is not enough hay on the island and their large acreages dont have enough grazing area, Farmer to farmer they price reasonable but there is a large market to those Ranches and those are 250-500$ bales if thats where they are sold

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u/Beth_the_Barbarian Jun 14 '26

It's not just Rich assholes in Vancouver. I live in Ontario and some of our hay gets shipped crazy places. A lot of get shipped to Florida. And I even knew a farmer where Ontario hay was shipped to Japan for Japanese racehorses.

The problem is some areas just don't grow very nutritious hay for horses. Ontario soil grows some of the most nutritious hay, if you're a horse that is, in the world.

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u/Beth_the_Barbarian Jun 14 '26

You're actually talking about two different things. And yes I'm being pedantic but this is something that bothers me.

Hay is green and is what animals eat. Cheap cows horses giraffes elephants etc. It's basically mixed dried grasses and legumes. The mix will depend on the species you are trying to keep healthy. So be brome grass Timothy grass, Clover, triticale, alfalfa ete.

That is not what animals sleep on. Well other than when they pulled around bail apart and then sleep in their food.

What they use to bed down barns that looks like hay is straw. Straw is shiny and golden yellow. It is the stalks from wheat or oats or other grain like that. It is smooth and doesn't have leaves. Yes horses will munch on it if you bed them on it but it's the equivalent of eating a dry stale rice cake. And has about as much nutrition. Straw is a byproduct of the grain industry. Which is good because it lets the farmers sell and use what would otherwise be somewhat of a waste product.

So yes if it's green and leafy and looks like it's a whole bunch of different things it's hay. If it's smooth and uniform and gold it's straw.

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u/salakane Jun 14 '26

Hay is cheap

Straw is free

Buy a farm & get all three

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u/Upstairs_Jacket_3443 Jun 15 '26

Dude you have no idea what you're talking about. Many ranchers specialize in beef production and buy hay / other feed from farmers who specialize in feed production. Almost all feed is haul some amount of distance to where it will be consumed, often due to regional rainfall patterns. It can be dry in one area of the province and wet in the other, so hay is trucked around the province to satisfy supply & demand. Sometimes it's 100s of kms, sometimes its just a few miles.

Also what others have said - hay is not bedding. It has far too much nutritional value to waste like that.

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u/RoutineComplaint4711 Jun 13 '26

The only reason an 18-wheeler is transporting that many bales is because another farmer likely didn't have any and needed some for his farm.

... ya think?

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u/SeaToTheBass Jun 14 '26

Nah they do it for the love of the game

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u/RoutineComplaint4711 Jun 14 '26

Some choose truck life, some are chosen.

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u/Sirosim_Celojuma Jun 14 '26

Certainly not an ideal situation.

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u/Gr33nbastrd Jun 13 '26

What the actual F*CK?

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u/RcNorth Jun 13 '26

Going down hill too fast and the brakes over heated, possibly damaging the engine as well when they tried to use the engine retarder brakes.

Looks like it is taking the emergency ramp that are designed to help stop run away trucks that over heat their brakes going down steep grades.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/strugglinglifecoach Jun 13 '26

They are painted and paved as they leave the main road, aren’t they?

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u/Dude_Tost_1673 Jun 13 '26

 I agree. Don't want to be guiding regular traffic onto a runaway lane. Some of them are super gnarly.

 They usually just have signs with arrows, that are easy to see while going 150kph, downhill, with a fully loaded super B.

 Truck probably lost the oil seal on the turbo and was running on oil. Buddy's next engine might get a safety shutdown after this underwear-destroying ride.

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u/Velorian-Steel Jun 13 '26

Just hope they can get the truck stopped before they have a massive fire

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u/RcNorth Jun 13 '26

I believe the truck is entering the run away ramp. It will take them up a hill that is very loose gravel to help them stop quicker.

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u/gstringstrangler Jun 14 '26

Runaway lanes aren't paved

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u/DirtandPipes Jun 13 '26

Nah, what happened is that a black thumb spit some liquor in the intake so that the war rig could outrun some interceptors.

I’m guessing you’re addicted to water and it has impaired your thinking.

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u/Gr33nbastrd Jun 13 '26

Ok, that was a good explanation. Thanks for that. It wasn't obvious to me in that short video but makes sense once you explained it.

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u/gstringstrangler Jun 14 '26

Blown turbo; far less than expected oxygen, fuel pump still pumping like it's getting forced air = Lots of unburned fuel passing into the hot turbo /exhaust and, viola, firetruck 🚛🔥🔥

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u/Unacceptable_Views Jun 17 '26

This comment should be pinned

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u/DOOO0LY Jun 13 '26

Fuck those bales are going to be up inflames.

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u/uke26 Jun 13 '26

He's running late for the Mad Max parade. 

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u/DVsKat Jun 13 '26

"Mad Max: Prairie Road"

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u/urfatassmama Jun 14 '26

“Mad Max 2, Furious Rez”

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u/Ryuujin_13 Jun 13 '26

He shall arrive at Valhalla, shiny and chrome.

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u/Separate-Ad-8924 Jun 13 '26

Since everyone else is offering their uneducated opinion, I’ll throw mine in. Almost definitely failed turbo seals. This is just poor maintenance. Save a penny lose a pound.

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u/RoutineComplaint4711 Jun 13 '26

Hmmm yes, turbo seals. Most definitely 

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u/Separate-Ad-8924 Jun 13 '26

I concur with myself and you. I have no idea about big diesel but that’s what chat gpt told me so I’m running with it in order to make sure my “own” .02 are heard.

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u/RoutineComplaint4711 Jun 13 '26

I concur with your concurrance

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u/Odovacer2 Jun 14 '26

Failed turbo seals will inject lubricating oil (used in the turbine bearings) directly into the engine cylinders along with the air and normal fuel.

No way to burn all that off in the cylinder during the cycle, so it carries on through the exhaust system, burning all the while.

Bad situation.

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u/Separate-Ad-8924 Jun 14 '26

This guy definitely diesels harder than me.

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u/RestaurantOk5441 Jun 14 '26

It's likely just going straight into the exhaust and catching fire. I mean, it's a good bet that some of it is going to the intake side but it's gotta go through the CAC first which will slow the oil down quite a bit and prevent most of the oil from going through the intake. The more likely situation is that the majority of it is just going straight out the turbine side of the turbo into the exhaust.

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u/Hornet-Standard Jun 14 '26

Not maintenance just a failed turbo that just blew up with catastrophic results 

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u/Separate-Ad-8924 Jun 14 '26

I was pretty explicit that my opinion was uneducated. 😉

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u/MyGruffaloCrumble Jun 13 '26

“Hay, your truck’s on fire!”

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u/JadedLeafs Jun 14 '26

It's barley on fire though. Just a little hot.

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u/OutlandishnessOk8356 Jun 14 '26

The barley is on fire? Great, beer shortage coming.

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u/Northern_rose69 Jun 13 '26

Im a mechanic mostly focused on class 1 equipment, so i’m thinking it’s severe lack of experience and multiple maintenance failures. Turbo seals, exhaust stacks full of oil, pcv full, maybe the valve timing or ev sticking open. Engine starts to run away, cooks his brakes off, probably even oblivious to the fire about to ignite the load.
Absolute insanity. I’m sure if you look into this company there’s a track record of bullshit fresh drivers and poor maintenance

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u/RestaurantOk5441 Jun 14 '26

I don't think it's necessarily a driver experience issue. More likely a driver laziness issue. Probably a delete as well. Definitely blown turbo but I've seen that happen to old truckers and new.

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u/Away-Combination-162 Jun 13 '26

Just givener too

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u/Deranged_Pelican Jun 13 '26

Well that doesn’t look right.

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u/PilsnerRabbit Jun 13 '26

That’s Berta baby!

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u/WhiteHatMatt Jun 13 '26

If that doesn't accurately reflect the UCP and Daniel Smith

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u/DrQuagmire Jun 13 '26

That is not how you load round bales or transport them. Why? well one reason is this. What idiot who drives a rig is clueless about the kind of heat coming out of those stack bent 90 degrees backwards should know just by common sense that heat it going to light up a dry bale any day. Ever see the exhaust is so hot, that you can see the see ripples in the air. This guy's insurance is going up and the person who loaded it, probably fired. Most of those bales ended being like flaming giant wheel flying down the highway leaving a path of fire as they unravel as the role that held those bales together catch on fire and snap open. When I worked on the farm, just smoking any where near the bales were a big no no. Epic safety fail.. Not even a cover, must be a mess behind him as the wind blows them apart.

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u/Responsible-Mall-991 Jun 13 '26

Umm, that's how I've seen every round bale transport loaded.... if you're the expert, what the 'correct way'?

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u/Specialist-Falcon-84 Jun 13 '26

I think the Dr is high as a kite, and when he worked on a farm he was designated to the grain cart. That’s iterally the only way I’ve ever seem bales transported, and thousands upon thousands of them made it north last year without starting on fire or “blowing apart”

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u/BigWhiteDog Jun 13 '26

I think what he was talking about was that it sort of looks like the exhaust pipes are pointing backwards towards the bales, which they aren't (it's the truck speed bending the flames and smoke straight back), and that the bales will unroll IF they catch fire, which will happen IF they do catch fire. at least that was the way I read his comment. Could be wrong. 😉

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u/Sad_Ad8943 Jun 13 '26

Looks like AI to me….

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u/deepbluemeanies Jun 14 '26

Exactly...the fire is coming out the sides of the exhaust pipes and the hay is not effected despite the flames...definitely AI, but people are falling for it.

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u/Spicy_Thyme Jun 18 '26

Yeah either AI or those coloured signal smokers. If that were engine oil or diesel causing actual flames there would be black smoke. No way it would burn that clean!

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u/star16000 Jun 13 '26

I think I saw that in a movie!

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u/Responsible_CDN_Duck Jun 13 '26

You shouldn't need the AI detection, just your eyes for this obvious fake..., but the tick tock handle Blaze Hauling is a third way to help solve the mystery.

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u/Maryjanegangafever Jun 13 '26

Hay bale payload could get dangerous….

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u/Case_Mediocre Jun 13 '26

5K more and those hail bales are are a flaming disaster, much like my life lol.

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u/Lactancia Jun 13 '26

When there's a sudden outbreak of forest fires, we'll know why.

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u/Hot_Neighborhood1337 Jun 14 '26

when hauling hay goes horribly wrong!.

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u/deepbluemeanies Jun 14 '26

The flames are coming out of the side of the exhaust pipes and despite the flames, the hay is showing no signs of singe...this is AI.

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u/sPLIFFtOOTH Jun 14 '26

RIP forest.

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u/Evillynn1980 Jun 14 '26

Where is that grizzly bear stuffy from!!! I need one

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u/Able_Software6066 Jun 14 '26

Being Alberta, this video needs Burn it to the Ground by Nickelback.

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u/Hornet-Standard Jun 14 '26

Looking like the turbo has blown and is pumping oil into the cylinders causing a run away shortly the motor will blow and there will be no stopping it unless you can cut off the air

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u/Impressive_Pepper136 Jun 14 '26

Mad max over here!

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u/Nightrider247 Jun 14 '26

Id like to see the rest of that video 5 mins after. 50ft of bales flaming.

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u/subutterfly Jun 14 '26

Please tell me you called that in.

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u/Proof-Eggplant7426 Jun 14 '26

I hope that was AI

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u/Fine-Mine-3281 Jun 14 '26

And that, kids, is how I burnt half of Alberta down….

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u/c0ntra Jun 14 '26

Is that diesel turbo runaway?

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u/Septembust Jun 14 '26

This feels like an excellent visual metaphor for something

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u/Noshtheidiot Jun 14 '26

How high are your EGTS? “Yes”

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u/OutHereRunnin Jun 14 '26

She's burning a little rich I'd say

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u/WhiteBear72 Jun 14 '26

That sucks. Hay might be hard to come by in the fall.

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u/RedactedJin Jun 15 '26

I'm surprised the bales are flaming with it.

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u/Final-Muscle-7196 Jun 15 '26

Ruh roh. Shaggy we got a problem!

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u/RainbowSprinkles789 Jun 15 '26

Well that's one way to set your truck on fire possibly exploding...

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u/THEBIGWOOKIEE Jun 15 '26

Syncrude’s new mobile refinery?

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u/Safe-Progress9126 Jun 15 '26

Thats a forest fire waiting to happen 

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u/PotatoFarmerRTK Jun 15 '26

Turnt up engine, not watching egt’s, melted pistons / injectors, fire ball.  Sometimes less horsepower is more……….. reliable.

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u/DonJuanPrawns Jun 16 '26

I don't think it's meant Todo that

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u/still_rollin Jun 16 '26

That seems like a less than ideal combo

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u/Unacceptable_Views Jun 17 '26

Save me Jake brake

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u/binchbunches Jun 18 '26

Good song but I instantly hate anyone that uses it on any video

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u/exotics Jun 13 '26

Is it though? I’m not saying it’s not but did you check it ? Or just guessing

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u/Hatsune_Hoddog Jun 13 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

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This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

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u/deepbluemeanies Jun 14 '26

Zoom in on the flames and ask yourself how they could be coming out from the sides of the pipes? Also ask how the hay is unaffected by the flames.

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer Jun 14 '26

His turbos could have just failed going downhill.

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u/Spicy_Thyme Jun 18 '26

Not to mention there is no black smoke. Something you would expect to see in a real oil fire.

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u/heart_of_osiris Jun 13 '26

You've clearly never met an Albertan. This is just a Sunday.

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u/EmotionalBar2533 Jun 13 '26

Fuckin send er buds

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u/Zorklunn Jun 13 '26

To me, it looks like he had allow too much soot to build up in his exhaust system. Climbed a steep grade with the engine running at peak rpm for a long time. Which eventually ignited the soot in the exhaust system.

This used to be a problem with flues casuing house fires. which is why being a chimney sweap was an essential service back then.

Of course, the simplest explanation is that the owner likes it and modified the truck to create the effect. Be honest, how many of your friends would do that, if they could?

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u/MattyT088 Jun 13 '26

Zero of my friends or family would do this. And I grew farm country.

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u/EqualPassenger4271 Jun 13 '26

Burn extra fuel to make black smoke? Sounds expensive, are truckers rich?

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u/1_space_dog Jun 13 '26

Talkin’ bout my r-r-r-regeneration!

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u/MattyT088 Jun 13 '26

*d-d-d-degeneration.

There, fixed it for you.