Hey you experienced drivers....I mean you REALLY experienced drivers

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by FatDaddy, Aug 29, 2015.

  1. FatDaddy

    FatDaddy Road Train Member

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    So as my mind was wandering as it tends to do from time to time and I passed by a wrecker hooking up to a big rig and I got to thinking.....what did you guys and gals who have been out here longer than I've been alive (I'm 41) handle breakdowns back before the fancy boxes were in the trucks and devices where you can talk to people with a push of a button on the other side of the world like the Jetsons? I'm thinking of examples where the motor quits on you at 2am on some goat path in the middle of the dessert and there ain't no phones or cars around for miles.

    Anybody have any stories where they thought "oh ####.....I'm really ####ed here!!"

    I know most of you had to know your way around a motor and for that my hats off to ya for doing it for so long.
     
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  3. Cranky Yankee

    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    running up and down the eastern shore from outer banks
    it was easy you waited for the next fish truck or perdue to come along
    everyone always stopped back in 1980
     
  4. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    Show some leg and say "Me love you long time."
     
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  5. mhyn

    mhyn Road Train Member

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    my story:
    happened in 2008. in the middle of nowhere on us-190 between Eldorado, tx and iraan, tx. busted turbo, no cell phone. local shop who could fix my truck 75 m away.no local tow truck. waited until sunrise. disconnected turbo's oil supply line and the big hose on air intake. I was lucky I had air hose for tires. I cut that hose and one end connected to oil supply line and the other end to oil fill neck. I had 12k in the trailer and some how within hours I got to Fort Stockton, tx.
     
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  6. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    I blew two tires on one axle on my trailer north of Junction, TX. Took forever for my boss to find a service truck willing to go out into no man's land.

    I was surprised I had cell service out there.
     
  7. mhyn

    mhyn Road Train Member

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    no man's land ! exactly !
     
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    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    It was crazy. I popped a tire and before I could say "#### me!" the one next to it popped.

    The guy who came out sold us a decent used tire to go.along with the spare for a reasonable price.
     
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  9. Cranky Yankee

    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    not all that unusual pop one the sudden extra weight blows another one
     
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  10. mhyn

    mhyn Road Train Member

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    when I hear words 'wild west' I imagine western part of tx. )))
     
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  11. Freddy57

    Freddy57 Road Train Member

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    Back in 1988 I was broke down on ice covered hill over a hundred miles east of Tonopah Nevada on highway 6. The old freightliner gave out pulling the hill. I gave the phone number to a lady that happened by that night and she went home and made the call for me. It was several hours before help arrived but at least somebody was willing to lend a hand.
     
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