The rookie

No my trailer is a 5 hole layed out out 4 2 14 2 4. I just talked to the terminal operator. We have the correct compartment right fuel amount and right arm. Talking to the operator he said the issue I had with the drain down hoses was a common one at that terminal. (Not the scully part but the slow draining) it’s a lot to explain but he said I hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary. Just to change the order of operations a little bit but that I was safe. He said if it was up to him I wouldn’t have been locked out. But the operator now is a tech guy and went through all the technical faults and found it. But they got me back turned on

 

Thanks for the kind words, I would say I learned 3 years of trucking in one at the big orange. Once I’d made it so far it was either finish out the year or find something really good. Cause if I left I still would’ve had to pay them about 1200.. I had the money but I wasn’t about to give em a red cent.. Currently I’m doing fine I think my company has one of the best schedules in trucking that’s not a mon-fri and outside of winter ive been pretty much writing my own check.. they just put cameras in our trucks company wide and they get a hard on for sending you videos of you just doing the job but other then that I’m all smiles.

 

Finally Figured it out about a month ago. The trailer I scully’d with wasn’t my normal trailer and I had to drive it about a month ago while my truck was down. Driver who drives that truck doesn’t have a co driver. So stuff only gets written up as he feels. The gauge works on the trailer so it still had pressure but the compartment that scullied has a malfunctioning fire valve that randomly closes.. only way to reopen it is to shut everything down unhook from the vapor close the load bar then re hook to everything.. Now I caught onto it the second time I used the trailer and it happened during my unload I seen my hose jump and trouble shooter from there. Now I’m guessing the day I scullied the valve shut when the compartment was low.. cause when I did my walk around at the terminal my compartments were hollow and I don’t think the valve fully opened under the rack to causing it to take forever to drain down with the hose.

 

Been a while since the last update soo... since April we were hit with our own little gas shortage, at one point 3 of our 5 main fuel terminals were down for about 3-5 days making fuel hard to come by, we’ve been short on guys so it’s been hard to catch up, I mean last week I went 4 straight days going to stations that were completely out. It had gotten better this week then yesterday it flooded everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE... had two fatalities on two separate highways. Street after street after street was flooded... had to make 5 u turns on public streets.. it turned a 30 min drive to the yard into a 2 and a half hour drive. Any place with a underpass was flooded. I went through ten different options of getting back before parking for a minute and just letting it all out lol.
Which brings us to yesterday. It rained a little but the power was out for miles and people didn’t care flashing lights meant green lights.. saw so many close calls, still couldn’t take the freeway due to flooding. My only mission was to make it home safe.. Ended up getting clipped by another big truck. Didn’t notice it until I got to the station but I know where it happened at. I was on Southfield which turns into a freeway and has a east and a west entrance to 94 with a 3rd exit to a street called van born. It’s two lanes to 94 and shrinks to 1 for van born/ back to Southfield. I remember him trying 94e which was shut down to flooding, then I remember him veering back to the lane for 94w then tapping his breaks and veering over to my lane as I went past him for van born... When I went past him I remember seeing all 12 of his freaking gadgets in his windshield. He didn’t flash his lights or nothing. My station was only a quarter mile from the exit. I get set up and start dropping gas and put my bill in the door and on the way back I seen it. He barely clipped me but what he hit was my tail light display box and the metal mud flap holder..