What if it Snows?

Ok, so here we go. It's been quite a while since I did any tourist trucking, I got a little jaded, TBH, so thanks, @Dave_in_AZ for the nudge.

So I'm talking my 30 at the rest area at Deer Lodge. I was going to wait until the top of Homestake, but honestly, the view from here is a lot better.

 

And yes. My tractor does have googly eyes.

 

I must say those corner hood mirrors blacked out would be really good in a proper storm. I know that some look down on the things but there were many times those two would be the ones still working heated or not.

 

She sure is purrty, though.

 

Well got pm done on truck and trailer. Tech found a grease line cut in half on the auto greaser system, and was nice enough to show me rather than just saying nothing and pushing grease thru it like most of them do. had him track down my coolant leak as well and it turned out to be a fitting on heater core inlet, right in front of my face the whole time. Sometimes its good to get 2nd pair of eyes. Easy fixes but aint paying shop prices to fix it when i got the tools to do myself. Might as well knock out the apu coolant hoses that i been procrastinating to fix . Have all the parts for that now. Getting new brakes on trailer and then home 4 the weekend. Been a succesful day , may even give big blue a bath at the streakin beacon, if hes lucky!!

 

doing all the pissy stuff is where you will REALLY save on maintenance.

 

I took mine to the beacon, it’s worse now imo

 

No.
I mean: my tractor has googly eyes.

 

Yeah i am just lazy sometimes lol but got a couple days off so gonna take care of it . I am just glad the tech was cool and showed me some things wrong , even looked over airlines and brakes on trailer while he was in the pit. Didnt charge me a dime extra for looking it over but found a cracked trailer brake drum , he got a brake job out of it and i tip him 50 bucks for bein a good mechanic. It is nice when the mechanics actually care about the equipment they working on rather than just looking at problems and not saying anything, he told me he used to be a driver so he knows how it is