J&R Schugel New Ulm, MN

Exactly. I was told by the Vice President of safety that the Swiss goverment who is funding this. Is also doing a study on how drivers act behind the wheel. Which to my understanding means that camera will be rolling more then just for critical events. He did say he couldn't tell me if I would be included in that or not but that the camera would be going in eventually. Not my cup of tea.

 

My my goal is to stay until November-December pay what's left of debt I'm in. Have this job for the 6 months+ needed to have to be consisted for a house get approved with my fiancé. Buy a house. Get a phone interview with schneider or get a orientation date with JB hunt. Put my two weeks in so that way I'll have a year and 2 months with Werner and these guys combined. Then if it doesn't work out with one of them come back or start my next step in bulk tankers with foodliner, or another small outfit.


and stay away from terminals until they route me to one like they did with my last load to talk about my ticket and then this is when he also mentioned this.

 

Well. Driving this kraft load and I started smelling a burning smell. Checked mirrors, nothing. Got down the road a mile or so kinda got a headache now checked mirrors nothing. If you ever driven through ohio on the US routes they have the four way crossings. Guy was waiting for me to pass and he was staring at my truck. Checked my mirrors and this time there was a good trail of smoke. Immeaditly I thought maybe a brake was stuck. Pulled over, and a ton of white/blackish smoke came billowing from the cracks underneath the hood. I thought that I might have a fire so I jumped out and popped the hood. On the passanger side where the exhaust pipe runs behind the turbo and down underneath the good I could see the smoke. The regen was also on might I add with the temp guage. Saw some fluid that I thought was coolant on the leaf spring. Called dispatch weekend night dispatch. "Can you get to a truck stop?" I said yes, I just passed one. I-75 pilot exit 135 is where I went. Called again he told me to go to the service center across the street from pilot on the flying J side. It's not a truck stop service garage it's a guy that runs his own garage with another man.

First of all they were doing a PM on another truck. Came right over to mine and started going right at it. Turns out I had a coolant leak, and there's a part of the exhaust that was cracked behind the turbo where a fuel hose sprays fuel down the exhaust for it to heat up. You'll have to pardon my mechanical language because I'm just a driver haha! Anyways he told me DOT been out lately and I knew that I wasn't going to drive this load because the smoke is very visible to the point where anyone like a cop would want to know what's going on.

After the mechanic talked to the dispatcher, which he had him on speaker phone he talked to me. "Can you get the kraft load there?" I answered with I want to get it there but the smoke is visible to the point where I could get pulled over and fined. I'm already on hot water for the ticket and I'm not trying to get fired." Well it's a kraft load and it's important." I replied well, would you drive with the possibility of getting fired and pulled over by the DOT? He chuckled Rudley and said " your going to sit there till Monday then?" I then said darn right I am. I'll be going to KW on Monday and until then I'm sitting. He hung up.

let me just make a point here. NO ONE tells me or try's to persuade me to drive my truck ever when there is a problem with it. If they fire me so be it.

with that being said did I do the right thing? What would you have done.?

 

perfect advice as that would give more oxygen for the flame. That didn't even cross my mind. Thank you