What tools do you keep in your truck?

^^ do they test hair or pee at your company?

 

I cut the handle on a 12 lb sledge to about 18". That sucker will move almost anything.

 

OK, I give up. For those of you listing them, what do you use the rubber mallet for?.

 

The big box of ultra sensitive Trojan condoms. You can get em pretty much anywhere man. They work great when I find myself in a sticky situation.

 

For when I want to knock stuff around but not damage it with a metal hammer.

When I used to haul tanks, knocking hoses apart or caps off/out. A dead blow works better in that sense.

But a rubber mallet can be used in a light job where you want to bang something but not mark or damage it.

I don't know any real applications as I haven't had to use it on the truck yet. But when the time comes I'm sure it will be used.

 

I don't remember ever using a rubber mallet, but I did use a large ball peen hammer. Sometimes I used that hammer on a recalcitrant trailer landing gear or trailer tandem locking pins. That hammer made a good thumper too.

 

It's used for knocking lot lizards off your tank steps it hardly leaves a mark

 

Nah man, they're chill. As long as you don't have track marks on your forearms you're golden!

 

At Iron Horse trucking in the ND oilpatch, we were required to carry a whistle, and a candle, and a propane torch, and a dry bag of rice
still think its funny...

To contribute, I like having extra headlight bulbs...If your grabbin crappy old trailers, the vise grip and bungee helps when you have to move your tandems, and the handle wont stay..

 

In my toolboxes:
Large can of WD-40, Vise-grips, 5lb mallet/hammer for stuck 5th wheel and tandem pins. Socket set, crescent wrench, open end wrench set (for probs with air lines). screwdrivers, wire stripper/cutter. electric tape, duct tape. After having a metal seal go through my glove and all the way to the bone on my middle finger, I got a pair of sturdy snips. I keep a 3ft pry bar and a pair of channel locks for removing nails from trailer floors, and a broom. As for the truck, I keep 2 pairs of extra wipers, 1 pair extra headlight bulbs, extra marker lights/clearance lights and fuses. Large zip ties and a couple blk rubber bungees. I also keep an extra gal of oil. It is a lot of stuff, but after waiting 6-8 hours for service trucks, I'd rather have a good chance of fixing minor stuff myself and getting down the road. And I've used everything on this list many times. Worth having IMO.