Drive without service brake?

I know there was nothing wrong. I'm just saying rather then messing with the air lines and possibly causing more damage just cage the breaks. No risk of damage that way.

 

Empty? I’d run the 8 miles. Loaded? I probably would too but would drive extra careful. The issue is the risk of someone cutting you off and you not being able to stop in time or having your tractor brakes lock up.

 

Use your jake and downshift, or Put a quarter in between the glad hands and don’t drive like a d!ck

 

Long as your not in the mountains. If careful using jakes could do most of that without touching the brakes. Empty or loaded.

 

Rescued a power only from a broker one time the original carrier broke down. Some shoddy outfit from Elk Grove Village, IL. 45,000 lbs of paper rolls in the box with no trailer brakes over Monteagle. Drove 15 mph and used the jakes going down it. Never hit the brakes. This was a short run, easy money. But there's a reason I never rescue loads for brokers, because this is what I expected to find but I was greedy that day.

 

Most air line leaks are super easy to repair if you have the fittings and a couple feet of air line .

man’s you should always carry spare gladhands , they don’t take up much space in the side box and I guarantee that when , not if , but when, they break, it will not be in a truck stop parking lot , it will be in the middle of a busy intersection or something like that .

I was in my Chevy pickup the other day and came up to an intersection of two four lanes that was totally blocked by a 18 wheeler that was crossways in it , he gladhands had snapped while he was totally blocking the entire intersection

The driver didn’t speak English, but actually had a spare set of gladhands , and a few tools , I helped him swap them out , and he was moving again in just a few minutes , verses an hour or two and about $1200 if he had to call a road service .

when I was driving I always carried a coil of every kind of air hose and a tackle box full of every kind of fitting and coupling.
the hose that runs from the frame to the axle and chambers is usually the one that gets a hole rubbed in it , and it’s an oddball hose that a lot of road service mechanics and shops won’t have in stock .

 

we charge $134.99/hr plus mileage. You arent getting charged from when we show up til when we leave youll be charged for when we start road service preparations ie. Gathering appropriate tools, parts, and information, going through pre roadcall checklist of our service truck, and contacting driver to confirm location details ie north/southbound, roadside or in a lot etc... Then the drive time there, time spent on the repair, which if a specific tool that wasnt forecasted for the issue ends up necessary means you're paying for the time and trip back to the shop and back to you, and total calculates drive time and mileage back to the shop after repair as well. If you can legally roll your truck into the shop youre potentially saving yourself TONS of money because standard service for a tire change in shop is $65 + cost of the replacement tire. On roadcall it could easily be $400 + the tire if youre 45 minutes away from the shop. Only recommend road service in extreme situations or if you work for a company so they cant hold you liable for further damages or other bs they like to pull on drivers because you tried to save them money rolling on a singled out tire or something.