Story Time; Sticky Situations w/ Creative Solutions

I like story so I’ll play again. I have fat fingers so I don’t type well and I’m trying to use voice to text but it doesn’t work so well so the run-on sentences and the confusing syntax is because of that I apologize in advance.
As some of you know I spent time with RL carriers both as a line driver and as a city driver. When I first made the move from Linehaul to city I was relatively low on the seniority board. A bid went up for a straight truck position in Toledo Ohio. Anyone familiar with a LTL Will know a straight truck means work you get all the deliveries that are too tight for a regular truck plus a lot of the crappy home deliveries. I took the bid because it was an early start time and guaranteed work which at the bottom of the board you’re not always guaranteed. First day out on the bid we had a late spring snowstorm here and Ohio it was a heavy wet thick slushy kind of snow that just coagulate everywhere on the bottom sides of vehicles if you’re driving through it. The truck I was driving was an international ex Penske truck 26 foot box in the air dryer on that particular unit is right up under the frame behind the front wheels. About four hours into the run I stopped building air and the air dryer apparently had stopped functioning and was frozen up I was not in a good part of Toledo to have this happen. All the service companies were booked up and it was a long wait but somehow RL found a guy that was a so-called road service that showed up in an ancient station wagon with just a bunch of tools in the back. He commence to try to get that air dryer unfrozen chipping at the snow underneath going out with a torch and finally after about two hours just gave up and left. To my knowledge he never even build the company for the service call and I use that term loosely service call because I was still stuck. Had the weather been decent I simply would’ve had with my family members come pick me up but that was out of the question because the snow is so bad.This truck happen to have a grass burner exhaust on it and I had plenty of fuel and a couple pieces of cardboard in the back of the truck from pallets. I rev the truck up to high idle by wedging an object between the pedal and the seat got under the truck and cobble together a sort of directional vent with the cardboard from the hot exhaust at the air dryer and was able to finally sufficiently thaw that air dryer that it started building air and I was able to go home. The head of maintenance was thoroughly impressed and forever than on I was part of their story that a driver fixed his own truck with a piece of cardboard and his exhaust

 

Here, let me get my boots on. It's about to get deep in here.

 

Maybe somebody should tell X1 Heavy’s alter ego on the other site that there’s a thread like this I bet he’d blow it up. on the other hand now I think I’m good I won’t say anything

 

I helped alleviate a fellow drivers creative solution to his woes.
He was delivering gasoline to a station but the cam on the off loading header was jamed ajar. His solution was to drain the gas from the piping into a bucket by just barely cracking the cap and then using a upside down traffic cone as a funnel, pour it down the fill pipe. Then open and close the internals again to fill up the pipe and start again. With a 2000 gal compartment and only 4 gal in the bucket at a time it would've taken him awhile.
I pulled up and grabbed the hose and tossed it under the tank to the offside valve hooked it up and let it go. Took all of five minutes to fix the offloading problem.
Poor fellow had a look on his face like he didn't know whether to thank me or kill me. To be fair he had been unloading that compartment by hand for over an hour and was a bit tied.

 

It only means something to those who know nothing. The Wuhan flu is one of the biggest scams ever. The data is politicized and corrupted and therefore cannot be part of a serious discussion

 

How about this instead.
https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/search/67593293/

 

I was driving OTR with manual Peterbilt. I was on the road and it felt like I broke my left foot. I taugh myself to float gears so I didn't need to press the clutch. I used the trailer's trolley valve to hold the truck at traffic lights and used my right foot to clutch from a stop. It turns out I had gout in my big toe.

 

He deleted off here apparently, but he’s on another board and admitted on there that he “killed off that other guy” here on TTR. Said TTR has been dead for awhile now and his stories weren’t appreciated.

 

Once used the girlfriends tampon applicator and two hose clamps to fix a ripped fuel line crossover that had no shut-offs.
To be fair,it was her idea.
And it held up till we got home.