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Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Dave_in_AZ, Mar 19, 2018.

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FLtoOKBound said: ↑

Ok. Odd question. But I think I just heard supertrucker talk from a kid.

Is it possible to have over 12 accidents as a trucker and still be employable?

I'd suspect not.
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Depends on the accident id guess. 12 accidents where u got rear ended or not at fault accidents i dont see why u couldnt get a job

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FLtoOKBound said: ↑

Ok. Odd question. But I think I just heard supertrucker talk from a kid.

Is it possible to have over 12 accidents as a trucker and still be employable?

I'd suspect not.
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Is there a company terrible enough to hire them? I'd be shocked. lol

...but then again I wouldn't.

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Maybe he works for SWIFT? lol

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FLtoOKBound said: ↑

Maybe he works for SWIFT? lol
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We criticize Swift, but even they have standards.

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We slept like another 3 hours today. Which is really weird considering we weren't tired.

Swift just parked next to me. The OM is like, "I can't watch."

Thought for sure he was gonna clip me, but got it in with one pull up.

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People go to megas, second chance, last chance companies, drive on their best behavior, get on with a decent company, then let their hair down, so the cycle starts all over again.

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The OM has just become the complete road savage.

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Judge said: ↑

Ok..
So.. I don’t know if I was the victim of a prank, or someone was just testing me.

I went to the dreaded wal*mart, with my mask on, incognito, and while getting my few items for my next weeks great adventure, in the back of the store, I hear some woman say, “There’s your daddy.” So, I’m not paying any attention because I’m there alone.
Next thing I know, 3 kids are grabbing me by the legs yelling, “Daddy!!Daddy!”

I’m getting these kids unwrapped from me saying, “Wtf, get off me, I’m not your father.”
They’re still jumping up and down yelling “Daddy!”

So now, I get accused of being a racist, because I’m denying the kids?

So, I just really don’t care, I’ve just got finished working on my truck again in the heat, hating peterbilt for putting batteries under the driver side step, hitting my head on the latch several times, soaking wet with sweat, and looking like a mechanic on a bad day.

So, finally I tell the woman to come get her kids, and meanwhile this employee, comes up wanting to know “What’s going on here.”
I’m still masked up, and trying to explain, and now this woman is crying, saying something through her sobs that I’m not helping her and her kids.
So now I’m looking like some deadbeat jerk, and it’s a springer episode starting.

I finally tell them to get away from me, I don’t know her or her kids.
They’re treating me totally unkind acting like I am abandoning a family in the store.

They didn’t get anything from me, so I don’t know wtf was going on...

Am I in the wrong by denying a family I don’t know..
I mean, just think, what would the wife say coming home with 3 kids and some woman.

I don’t need that kinda drama.. I am just wondering if this is some new scam I have not heard about?
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Feel for ya, bud. That's why I call it "Wallyworld". It's stranger with security at the one here. I won't even whine.

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FLtoOKBound said: ↑

Ok. Odd question. But I think I just heard supertrucker talk from a kid.

Is it possible to have over 12 accidents as a trucker and still be employable?

I'd suspect not.
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Sure, I had a few students who almost poo their pants on steep downgrades, heavy traffic, hard backing cases.....so maybe he just has had 12 or so "accidents" in his pants!

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You didnt tell him to polish the wheels on your truck as part of his household chores? Suweet! I will call you Dad as well!!
Yeah, that deal in Walmart sounds like some one trying to impose fantasy on realiity. Or the gal watched too many shows of The Gallaghers

When I took it apart originally. The alternator could not be tightened as one one had put a bracket (the sloted piece of steel) in backwards. The slot is now in the correct spot. Previous owner had the slot against the cam gear cover making it unadjustable.

I will make it work. Yet with out seeing how it was supposed to be assembled, it is a challenge. No, the agco site isnt anygood for info. No I didnt take pictures of it as I took it apart either. My bad
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Whoulda/Shoulda -is gone... Will it make any difference if you swap mounting positions ?? top lug now to bottom slotted bracket--- then bottom lug now to the top position. It will change the geometry, may not help.
How can I find your post on the Heavy Equipment Forum when you were inquiring on Perkins engine info?
Would like to review that.

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