your posts are alot like mine when I started driving.. I waited and waited forever for a frickin trainer.. finally got one and he was older than dirt and smelled really really really bad.. but alas, he taught me alot of stuff.. I should look him up again..
Heh. About a week and a half ago, I picked up one of our tractors at the lease company in Buffalo, took a trailer out to Syracuse, and came back. When I was swinging around to dock the trailer when I got back (making a U-turn in our yard), I heard a pop and saw a puff of dust from under the trailer tandems. When I looked out the window, I noticed that the red line (which had been replaced) had pulled out of the glad hand, so that the glad hand was still attached to the trailer, but the air line was hanging from the tractor.
Heheheheh. I haven't had a whole lot of air woes, so far. Most of them have been in the category or non-functioning trailer brakes which I was the first to catch (read: actually do something to get them repaired). The thing which irks me about things like trailer brakes or trailer tires (especially THREE OF THEM) is that either the previous drivers a) didn't bother to pre-trip their trailers or b) didn't want to waste the time to get them fixed so they drove on them and left it for the next driver (and the next, and the next) until I got stuck with it.
And of course, I'm too much of a team player to let it slide so I'm the one who ends up sitting at the truckstop getting trailer repairs.
Of course, I figure I'm least likely to be the guy who ends up in a jack-knife or rollover due to some preventable mechanical failure.
Oh to dream. I've always thought the perfect road team would be two drivers and at least one of them was a qualified diesel mechanic.
Of course the problem is where you'd put all the heavy duty tools you'd need. I'm hoping to build a good relationship with the shop back home for general maintenance and repair. They seem like good people and they have a fair price on their labor.
And that is nothing to sneeze at. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can get through the next few months relatively trouble free. I need to stockpile some operating capital.
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Aw, Tim is so cute. He does look awfully young. And skinny!
I miss you. Landlord painted the rest of the closet doors today so the house smells all paint-fume-y. I hope he puts them on tomorrow.
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I left IT, went trucking for awhile, then back into IT.
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And of course, I'm too much of a team player to let it slide so I'm the one who ends up sitting at the truckstop getting trailer repairs.
Of course, I figure I'm least likely to be the guy who ends up in a jack-knife or rollover due to some preventable mechanical failure.
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sounds like you need the services of a ride along mechanic :D
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Of course the problem is where you'd put all the heavy duty tools you'd need. I'm hoping to build a good relationship with the shop back home for general maintenance and repair. They seem like good people and they have a fair price on their labor.
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