Cattle trucks - oh shit!

[Mom]

Har!

Now in MYYYYYYY day, () there were no effluent holding tanks on cattle trucks (its true - there weren't) - all the spooge flew out all over the road and everything on it...It was also in the days before full face helmets...yerrr you can guess the rest...riding through Maungaturoto one day, came up behind the cattle truck...over to your imagination....

Now that brings back memories I used to commute the Dome Valley 2 up on a trailly, complete with open face helmet and goggles with face mask attached. It has always been about the style for me you know. Filthy friggen stock truck grinding up the hill (this was before all the new improvements in there to save lives understand, it was a bit of a goat track) wet roads and copious amounts of shit streaming out of the truck. I had to ride in all this green misty rain shit for a while, till I could get passed.

I just knew it was not going to be pretty and had to actually hold my mouth closed, foul, smelly, and somehow gritty feeling on my lips. Got to work, I smelled like a cattle truck, the bike was green and my Line 7 zoot suit was green and yuk! Took my gears off and looked in the mirror, I had a green line on my forehead where there was a gap between goggles and helmet, and my cheeks had fine horizontal lines where this filth had got in between the gaps in the mask. Such a pretty look for someone that works in a bank I tells ya

I can not tell you how many letters I have written over the years about this disgusting practise, there is actually a law now that prevents trucks from dropping effluent on the roads, has not made a blind bit of difference!

[ynot slow]

The law is there,but the effluent tanks hold maybe 400ltrs.If stock were empty before travelling that would help,not many are,and as stated tanks are fixed,gravity works uphill and overflows.When the mass exodus of cows to Southland from Taranaki 10 years ago,I knew a guy whose uncle sent his stock down,they were left in loading race off cowshed,first load were left on concrete pad as required.Truckie said,be back in 7 hours for next lot from ferry.Was supposed to be taken a load each day,ended up the driver did a return trip every 7 hours from leaving to pickup.He managed two return trips within his driving hours.

[Elysium]

Worse then following stock truck is following a truck carrying bee hives. Happened to me on my South Island trip in Feb and my bike had honey all over the front of the bike, let alone the bees stuck in the radiator.

[Forest]

If I was being taken to the 'works' then I'd probably be crapping my pants as well.