Where is everyone #2!!

OKC is @430 miles from us, and you are more than welcome.

Martin

 

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This was my morning here in Chicago being a few degrees. The truck was not happy!

 

Got to the dealer this morning at 6 am just like I told them I would everytime a spoke with them since I dropped the truck off on Friday.

Guy behind the counter says can't release truck until I pay $2200. After the top of my head exploded, I told the guy he better call someone and no I was not waiting till 8 for the shop foreman to get in.


Anyway, still no resolution on the road speed issue. Good thing this is what I am hauling

 

nice lol.... wasn't quite that cold here today. had to turn the a/c on so I didn't break a sweat

 

This was my Friday. Went 40 miles up to a quarry to dump broken concrete and get a load of sand to bring back to our yard. Went up a little hill and bang, M11 in the KW decided to blow the turbo. Sat and waited for a tow truck for about 2.5 hours on the side of the road. It was very interesting to ride in an O'Hare towing truck that has an empty weight of 37K pulling a tractor trailer weighing 71K when the tow rig had a 10 speed and a C13. SLOW ride to say the least!

Edit, if you have ever seen the TV show Wrecked about the towing company in Chicago, that is O'Hare Towing.

 

LOL now they are calling for 5-10 inches of snow here so I will be busy snow plowing the next couple of days.

 

Ive seen a few tow trucks specced with otr style power trains. Never understood that. Set it up as overkill for dragging 75' of truck at 80k. Gotta be easier on equipment to do a job they were built for instead of abusing them to just make it happen.
what do I know-I drive a truck

 

Got to the customer just before lunch time in Seattle, get checked in and partially unchained. Yard guy comes and gets me and takes me to where I have to unload the grader. Unhook from trailer, take off air lines, pull the pin on the neck, knock off the dogs and back underneath the neck. Throw a couple of blocks between the neck and ramps, air back up and drive forward, BAAAM! I'm like WTF? Get out and look, back of the neck is on the ground, blocks are still in where I put them, under the flip, should have had them under the main part of the neck instead. Lesson learned the hard way, but I was able to get the neck picked back up enough (by myself) to slide it back onto the trailer and re-block it the way I should have in the first place.

Get done with that and jump up in the grader and start it up to let it warm up while I took the last three chains off. Get the chains off and I am walking around to get in it and it starts running rough and smoking like crazy, again I'm like WTF? Get in it before it dies and hit the throttle, it straightens up, push the clutch in and it starts running rough and dies, would not restart. Found out that the fuel gauge in a $500,000+ grader is not even close to being accurate. Flag down a yard guy, and he says "them ########" do this to us all the time. Gets on the radio and calls a fuel truck over, he comes over and puts in about 50 gallons. Half of a can of ether and allot of cranking and off the trailer it goes.

This was bad timing for all of this because I needed to get down to a yard and get a machine picked up before 3pm for another one of our trucks, this yard is closed tomorrow because of the stupid holiday. I haul ### down there and get there 5 minutes to 3, gates are closed and locked and not a soul to be found, guy wouldn't answer his phone either, he knew I was on my way and was going to wait for me. Pisses me off because I was going to take that machine 10 miles south to another yard and leave it there for our other truck. Would have been nice to have had that revenue since my machine is not ready until tomorrow.

So I will load mine in the morning going to Grand Forks, ND. And our other truck I guess will have to sit and wait until the 2nd to load his.

 

Off till Friday when I load and tarp an 18' wide x11'high x48'long building going to Texas. I cant wait

 

Better you than me, I left all of my tarps at home, no sense in carrying them around when all I do is haul equipment.