nasty trucks

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  1. Transit_lifer

    Transit_lifer Light Load Member

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    What's the nastiest thing you've seen or smelled while repairing someone's truck?
     
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  3. AModelCat

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    Thankfully just cigar smoke.

    Worst thing I found was a mouldy orange.
     
  4. o1reb

    o1reb Bobtail Member

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    work on a fat rendering trk in the summer
     
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  5. Goodysnap

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    Poop filled underwear tucked behind driver seat.

    Floor soaked with so much dog pee your eyes water.

    Rotting fridge food and the Body odor smells are some of the worst.

    Cigarette smoke is annoying but quite pleasant compared to above.

    Some people are just plain nasty. Will I work on it.........sure. But your paying to clean it first.
     
  6. chriskc

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    A buddy I worked with that used to wrench at a shop, once told me they had a truck that had three guys in it. They cut a hole in the floor and that’s where they went poop and pee, so they wouldn’t have to stop.
     
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  7. REO6205

    REO6205 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Half of a tuna fish sandwich stuffed behind the seat of a dump truck that had sat out in the summer sun for a month.
    It was brown/green with maggots crawling all over it. I don't even want to try to describe what the inside of the truck smelled like.
     
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  8. Deere hunter

    Deere hunter Road Train Member

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    How many times have we heard this story? 20 at least .
     
  9. AModelCat

    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    All I can say is I'm thankful the only trucks I've ever worked on were daycabs.
     
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  10. Deere hunter

    Deere hunter Road Train Member

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    One of my trucks took out 36 sheep one morning. Had to crawl under it on the side of the road to fix air lines and such. Wool,pieces of meat, chunks of fat and just slimy in general.
     
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  11. SmallPackage

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    Forgot a gallon of frozen Ice cream we had picked up on way home and left in the side box for over a month. It rolled out of one of the eight bags of groceries and we didn't realize it. It thawed out and leaked out of its tub. Truck sat for a month and half in hot Texas summer. Smelled like death.
     
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