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The Army in general makes me want to do that!!

 

Well, you got me there... but I would argue that in garrison, the Marine Corps is the biggest cluster******* EVER. We are great in the field, worthless in the office. At least you guys get paid correctly and I would guess on time.

 

hell farm your omly a couple of hunderd mile from manitwoc,i was there yesterday lol and now in denton tx about 200 miles from my drop,cought a nasty ### cold,been fighting it off since i hit wisconsin,,i dont normaly get a cold but once a yr,figure it would have to come now,might be alittle grumpy but still trucking!!!!keep the loads comeing!!!!!! oh and hey pharm anser your #### phone once in a while lol.you aint no diffent than the rest of us ,juggleing bills lol

 

ok for todays adventure!!!!!stoped driveing about 11pm so got a late start comeing out the gate ,but thinking,hmmmm get up about 7 am transflow the bill from the trip up and grab a shower at the pilot in kerny,mo ,i was getting the shower bag ready and looked up and the shut engein light was on along with the low coolant,hmmmm what now?????cut the motor off,get out and theres aboout 3 gallons of antif freeze on the ground???????wtf grab a flash light and there my hose clamp laying on the ground in a puddle of anti freeze,ok i think to my self did i pack any extra clamps???????hmmmm not this type ,####ski!!!!so this piolt has a shop,bring the old clamp with me and they have 2 instock at an outragous price of 17 bucks a pc,well got no choice got to fixe the leak before i loose all the anti freeze,grab the clamps and thro them on real quick and the leak stops cool cause ive never had any cooling issues,but now i need anti freeze hmmm should i go ask the ultamate dumb question????you guessed it how much 17.99 a gallon lol you all are on crack!!!!! so dino being smarter than the average dinosouris lol remember seeing an obrains parts store acroos the street when i pulled in ,its now 8.30 am ask the manager how much for a case of anti freeze,regular green ,not red oh 6 gallons to a case 60 bucks,jug of hand cleaner 2.99 and some shop rags he thru in and to boot had his parts driver bring me to the truck,got to love desent peoplethe 70 yr old man runs me over there and wants to help me in the worse way so itake everything out of the truck ,pop the hood,and the old guy has the case open and handing me jugs,come to find out hes a retired trucker ,with over 30 yrs under his belt and a hell of a nice guy to,told me a couple of stories of back in the day and i tryed to give him 10 bucks for running me over and helping me, and he said to me just feeling like im back in the seat helping you was reward enough!!!!!!i must say i didnt know how to reply except i tucked the 10 spot in his shirt and said thank you and have lunch on me today ,he didnt want to take the money,but i insisted ,it was only 10 bucks and believe me just him driveing me over with the case of coolant was more than i needed and his storys were pretty cool to,so the old girl is running sweet and luck the clamp went there and not on the hiway going 70 miles an hour,would have been big bucks between the tow and any engine damage,,got real lucky,,,,,,!!!!

 

No prollem brudda!

The sick part about it is, I've actually started putting together a list of "must haves" and "must do's" for you. All based on my limited experience mind you, but hopefully it'll help out in the "prevention" department.

 

hmmm pharm in learning mode?????

 

Hell, thats a GOOD thing! I know a driver who drove for 44 years (he was an instructor at TMC when I started ornamentation a few years ago). Told me he learned something new his entire time driving up until the day he retired. Then he started learning new things from new CDL holders when he started training at TMC.



I remember thinking when he told me and the other newbies in the truck about his time on the road: "####, this guy started driving trucks before I was BORN!!!!"

 

hey i think its great rob want to learn more!!!!! i think he did great jumping into this but not understanding the maintaince part,i think he found it to easy to pic up the phone and call someone to fix something he should have figured out himself but in the same token in robs defence if you dont know what your looking at ,and not understanding what you looking at how do you exsplain it to someone on the phone,and what has happened those phone calls have eaten up his proffit and hes back to squar one,but with a better understanding,i truly believe,i can hear it in his voice,he now knows why everyone trys do do as much as they can themselves or thru advice on this site from those who have gone thru the same thing,,, but at least now robs not saying hey this is just a truck what could possibly go wrong!!!!! i believe all his questions as far as that statement is concerned have fully been anserd and hes willing to learn more to save those 2-500 dollar phone calls,but i do believe his sunroof skills are begining to come out in him when he gets home roflmao had to throw that one in there rob,

 

I agree, that part of Wisconsin is amazingly beautiful (good job glaciers!!!), but it is murder to drive a truck through. I used to have to drive from Eau Claire, Wi to La Crosse, Wi all of the time and had to go right through that same area. If you have a gutless wonder, it can be an agonizing drive.

Dang it!! I was all settled in and now I gotta make a beer run. All hail the Spotted Cow! (drooling... crying... drooling)