The Cryo Hauler Thread

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There's several contributing factors. The main one is that if you dont have a shop, there are very few businesses that can work on your equipment. We had a grand total of ONE local shop that can work on our stuff and when that guy retires.........I dont know what anyone around here is going to do. We can take it to Fife and have the Linde Shop there work on it, after they service their stuff, and that could be several days, plus getting another driver to and from there to get the equipment.

The second main one is that our equipment runs 24/7 and most of the driver will not do pretrips or write up stuff, so small problems become big ones. Our Jumbo Trailer has disc brakes. I drove it the other night and only took it 2 blocks to a customer and back. I did hear the brakes squealing and didnt thinks anything of it as we have some other trucks with brakes squealing(These trucks has S-cams and pads). I checked the Rotors, but never thought to check the Piston thing that presses the pads. So the next guy takes and the truck goes forward ok, but the trailer wouldn't back, because the these thing was locking up the tire. I have never seen this before so we dont know if something hit the piston and snapped it or the 'Foot' at the end came off and it ground this down, how what the Heck happened. But now this trailer is down until fixed and we have only 2 nitrogen trailers , out of 4, for 7 drivers. We are barely maintaining customer levels as is. We have several that can empty a tank in a shift if they run full out, and the past 2 weeks we have a Huge customer that had an in house N-plant and it went down and they were using 700,000 cubic feet(one full truck load) in every 2 or 3 hours, so we had to have 2 call and demand drivers come down to help feed the #### thing, then ANOTHER Plant went down and we had to feed that darn thing too. Its a lose lose situation. The first plant was a 6 hours round trip(Starting from loading the tank, going to the customer and unloading and returning) for one load. The second was 5 miles down the road, luckily. Then add drivers that refuse to NOT run the pumps full out, and dont pay attention to truck tank pressure and we end up blowing seals and damaging stuff becasue they wont listen to other people that work on them for a living , telling them to not run the tank pressure up until the tank safeties blow off.

 

43°, dewpoint 42°, perfect weather for a nice plume!



He was also getting the fringe benefit of serious side eye from the clueless doorslammers who waddled past!

 

Anything new going on , fellas? We are finally, kinda back to normal. All the down plants are back online, so I got to do some actual running this week, almost 2500 miles. My back is done lol. Theres a super steep bridge in Longview Washington that crosses the Columbia river into Oregon. Stupid truck(an automatic), gets a dead throttle halfway up. Its a narrow 2 lane bridge, so no room to move over. I have to stop and set flashers right in the lane of travel. I'm in panic. Truck is still running, but zero anything when I press the accelerator. I put it in neutral and then Drive and the "D" just blinks. Air pressure is ok and I'm not getting any warning lights, zero action on throttle. I set the brakes and turn the truck off, and back on, nothing, when I hit the pedal. I flip back and forth between "N" and "D" and finally I hear the "Click" of it going into gear. Made it over the bridge and back home. Swore my fury about Automatics the entire way back. I thought for sure that I was getting a tow.

Now that I think about it, I remember another Driver having a transmission issue on that same bridge and had to be towed.

 

At least it wasn’t on rainier hill on the Oregon side!

 

Our Call and Demand/Rest and Roll/Whatever guys were "admiring" their raise in front of us last week, the jerks lol. Not sure how our terminal operates with Raises. I know most everyone from drivers to Technicians all claim the purse strings are tight here and you have to ask/ beg and then basically have to threaten to quit or actually quit and then reapply and then ask for the raise upon before employment. Friggin weird place.

And, yes, its a cascadia and its a covid truck. One of 3 that have transmission issues. CO2 got 3 brand new trucks and all of them have had shop time already for tranny issues. One minute the truck is fine and then you're stuck.

 

Sounds like the international I drove a couple years ago. Transmission died twice in that truck. First time it straight up refused to get into any gear after I did my pretrip. Last time the transmission died in that truck. Every even gear would be making a grinding like noise when driving.

 

It was weird. There was no noise, idiot lights or any warning. Just going along no issues, and then instant dead pedal. Then, an agonizing 4 or 6 minutes later, it seemed like it ran fine and no one complained about it the past few days on our work group chats, so hopefully it stays healthy until Fife steals it again.