70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
This crap always happens on a Friday
So you wanted to be a owner operator
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Ouch...
72Fury
Senior Member
That sucks.
300rag
It's Not Going to Shift Itself
Better on a Friday. Then you have the weekend to fix it, and don't lose any loads. Free time is over rated anyways.
Xenon
Senior Member
Yeahhh... What he said.. Like you have anything else to do anyways.....
340Dave
Active Member
That's why( and a hundred other reasons) I don't own large cars any more
tbm3fan
Old Man with a Hat
That what many of my colleagues would say about Friday an hour before closing when someone calls in with an emergency. Luckily my vision emergency was yesterday and the fellow is heading into surgery right now after his wife called asking what the procedure was.
You sure know how to have fun... Did this one lead to another "blackface" photo opportunity?
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Was there any warning before it broke?
twostick
Senior Member
Looks like driver abuse to me...
Kevin
Kevin
livininharrow
Senior Member
just a bang.
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
It has had a on and off vibration every now and again. So random it would be hard to pin point, so you wait for something to go bang, now you found it.
My friend that I am now indentured to for hanging around and getting me going and sacrificing a bolt off his truck to replace one of the bolts that holds the cap into the yoke. The threads are stripped too far in for the little short bolts that normally come with the joint.
So I spent my afternoon fixing and still made my backhaul load and with a couple of longer more correct bolts slipped in this weekend I will not miss a load keeping the truck owner/Mrs. Bigblockdodge happy.
Home now so I'm having that beer and going to bed.
Oh good, it ends like my favorite kind of story... "they all lived happily ever after"... bet your day would have been better if it started with "once upon a time".
I'm glad you got her worked out without costing you the paycheck.
Like I said for ???????? how many yearz? IF YOU AIN'T IN IT GRABIN' GEARZ, YOU'RE UNDER IT FIXIN' ****. Both side boxes were full of fixin' stuff. My faverate tool waz ah 50' long air hose with a glad hand on one end and a female niple on the other end,lol. Many storyz behind that tool over the yearz
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
I just called my Dispatcher and have to listen to him curse for ten minutes before he transferred me to Fleet Maintenance.
Commando. You mean you've never had the pleasure of changing a fuel filter in ah raging *** blizard and felt the shear joy of Silo spilling out and running down to your armpit when you try to spin the new filter on? My Friend, you haven't lived the white line fevor I have. Wonder if you can still buy that stuff? Vergin filters and ah few canz of Silo were manditory partz of the repair kit.
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
That's a short chapter with a second chapter
It was a dark and stormy night. My u joint snapped and I got unloaded and limped down the street to the bar and restaurant by the Marathon refinery and Timken steel. Had some beer, and jumped in the bunk for a good night's rest, in Canton Ohio.
Second is I got up in am and had to deal with broken u joint.
And the repair man comes out says he can't get 2 of the bolts back in, then you are waiting for the hook to bring another truck, yeah that sounds like fun but without the grease. At least you were being paid, my wife is not going to pay me a dime, just a "why did you break my truck", back to what Kevin said about driver abuse, except since I still have to fix it and done on a Monday is always better.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Yes, I know I was a big sissy woose because my breakdowns were solved by a phone. And YES!, I had an inferority complex knowing the O/O's were 100 times more self sufficient than I was. I truly respect guys like you.
I did whatever it took to limp home. We all carried the basic duct tape and baling wire stuff in our bags. But you have to understand our jobs were on the line for missed deliveries and backhaul. We were a 24/7 hr critical time operation and believe me, most times I would have gladly traded dealing with your wife than my dispatchers. The basic philosophy beat endlessly into the dispatchers brains by the company was that all drivers crawled out from under a rock and were scum.
Dave, does your wife write you up and 3 writeups get you fired?
I did whatever it took to limp home. We all carried the basic duct tape and baling wire stuff in our bags. But you have to understand our jobs were on the line for missed deliveries and backhaul. We were a 24/7 hr critical time operation and believe me, most times I would have gladly traded dealing with your wife than my dispatchers. The basic philosophy beat endlessly into the dispatchers brains by the company was that all drivers crawled out from under a rock and were scum.
Dave, does your wife write you up and 3 writeups get you fired?
70bigblockdodge
Old Man with a Hat
Sorry Stan did not mean to poke you. I get tired of hearing from 1/4 pounders how they gave up owning one because it is so much easier and better. Meanwhile they are not getting paid when the truck breaks. Same A-HOLES that can't say no when their dispatchers keep asking them to do yet another load and another and another, meanwhile the dispatcher has gone home sleep in there bed and come back to work the next morning and this jerk-off is still running and calling in again for another. This is why the big companies went to e-logs, to control dispatchers, then asked the feds to push it on everyone, so they could keep it level, all under the guise of "safety". Don't even get me started about if you are a 1/4 pounder and you say no then are give low $$$ loads while the dispatcher sulks.
I will admit the union rules are better followed than the FMCA dot regulations resulting in probably a better safety record than non union ( that's just me pontificating I have no proof to the forum regulators) companies. You got me off track fixing the broken trucking industry when I was just letting everyone enjoy my crappy Fri.
No write ups. After 22 years no paperwork from the bosses lawyer either, must be doing something right, or at least off radar.
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