to all end dump haulers...

No snow for me @motocross25 but lots of rain and wind today, been on a little local grind for a few days now, decent money but there’s no time to back out of it, load and ride 3 times a day up to north FL, about a 150 mile round trip.

 

Great picture! Dude you take good pictures like you plan em. I just stick the f##### up in the air and point and shoot.

 

Got an Apple run for tomorrow. I have a sneaking suspicion since this unloads literally 1/2 a mile from my house I’m done for the week. Maybe not tho. Hopefully I can do another Friday. Got washed out and got Black Thunder washed up too. She may be older but she shines up good in my opinion.

 

Black Betty looks good, meant to tell you guys that in fact the new Mack had a bad u-joint at the steering box, had to replace the steering shaft and joints but all is well for now other than a 5th wheel that constantly feels like it’s in a bind, kind of thinking my ride height is out of whack but not sure where to turn on this one, lots of popping at slow speeds and I can feel it in my feet if that makes sense, plenty of grease so it’s not the result of a dry 5th wheel, any helpful hints would be appreciated. 5th wheel is in the 7th hole and could only slide back one more, 11,800 on my steers under a load, scratching my head on this one.

 

So seeing as i was here i asked if they could do a thing at this pete. Ignore the 0 on the trailer bag pressure. The line i got was the wrong size so they are going to put a better one on in the AM that actully both fits and works. I have the twin to this sitting in a box at home that will go in my spare parts bin. But im sure as #### glad i asked them to do it. Turns out internationals use a digital weight system on the bag. So there were no holes, no way to mount it and they had to drill and fab a whole system for it.

 

That’s what I was going to suggest is possibly the ride height. Other than that yea that’s a mystery. At my old place of employment the ride height on the trailers had to be reconfigured with the new trucks cuz it was throwing #### out of whack.

 

Speaking of old places of employment, bad day for those guys. One guy dumped, turned over, so the other guy went around him to dump and flipped over also.

 

Big oof. Hope everyone is alright.

 

Everyone fine thankfully. My buddy just loaded to go up there, this is how he was loaded, and might have something to do with it.

 

See this is why i carry my educational shovel......namely the loader would be in there with a shovel learning why care is needed to be taken when loading a semi. Or he would get to find out what an inverted shovel being forcefully sent north feels like.

In all seriousness good on your buddy for getting up there and actully checking. It takes a special kind of idiot to load a truck like that