First major issue with my truck....

you got a road call to replace one broken alternator belt?
you must be made of money dude--dont you carry spare belts?
2belts about $50---and at most a half hout to change--vs $300 and how ever long that took
and if your ac mount is broken and belt squealing--cut the #### belt off and keep going
getting a callout for a broken belt is just proving the mechanics right about the steering wheel holder part

 

Hey, Raider, I'm headed up to Hutchinson in a little while. I load up there in the morning. I'm just waiting until 1930 so I can fuel and move. It'll be the end of my 34. Any truck stops I can go to up there? I'm coming in form OkieCity.


*Alert! Alert! Hijack in Progress!*

 

Conoco in South Hutchinson. US-50 & KS-96

 

You moving yet, Redd? Been praying the load spirits take mercy on you.

 

No.... We flatbedders don't work on the weekends.

That Conoco is on the south side of US-50 on KS-96. I've stayed there a few times. Got parking for maybe 30-50 trucks if memory serves me correctly. Cheap showers.... And I'm not sure if it is a deli or a resturant, but they got something to eat.

Depending on where you have to go & how your getting there.... You may be better off staying at the dump in Wichita or going up to Newells in Newton.

 

I'm picking up at the paper plant. And I hate rolling toll roads. I'll pay the 'Skins in Oklahoma, but Kansas Turnpike Authority can take a leap if I can avoid their roads. Yeah, I know Swift pays the tolls...it's the principle of the thing.

 

Yeah the place has a restaurant. Since I live here I never have used anything else there. I know they need to fix their parking lot....it's in sad shape.

 

It was night and I had no idea where to get belts at.

I never stopped when the AC wasn't working. I ran with the windows down until I could get it in the shop. Don't know where you got the idea I did anything else.

I'm not the brightest guy so when the shop told me that the belts were in great shape, I took their word for it. So I never had extra belts. I also had fuel gel on me once and I didn't have an extra fuel filter.

I didn't know....duh! It's called learning.

The time I could have spent finding a place to get the belts, figuring out a way to get to it etc... could have easily ended up costing me too much time. In turn, it could have cost me the time I needed to get unloaded and be in line to get where ever I needed to be to get loaded again.

I now carry extra fuel filters....carry an extra belt....and have added a few other items that cold possibly cause me down time that I can fix myself.

Sorry...hope one day I can be as smart as you.