Tool list for the road

Looks like that would be good for panhandlers.

 

FLASHLIGHT w/ EXTRA LAMPS. A VERY GOOD FLASHLIGHT.
Small sledge, 12V test light, wire strippers, a few of wire, splices, wire nuts, " miracle tape "- tape that sticks to itself - very expensive, but will save your butt on occasion, small crow bar, BIG crow bar, Wd40, at least 2 rolls of paper towels, a bunch of rags,
Fuses, extra head light lamp, various lamps for all locations, tail lamp assemblies for truck and trailer. This stuff is pennies on the dollar at Wal Mart or parts house compared to getting something at the truck stop. Like you could buy all that in town for the price of the head lamp at the truck stop. Get lots of fuses.
And all the stuff you originally posted.
Tread depth gauge, and a good tire gauge.
A couple of funnels, $0.88 at Wal Mart.
Broom.

 

Two essentials in my book:

Needle nose pliers - very helpful for pulling fuses

Rubber mallet/hammer - for banging in recalcitrant tandem pins AND for knocking off ice from your truck without damaging anything (I just got back from Christmas vacation yesterday in OKC to find my entire truck and flatbed trailer encased in an inch of ice from the ice storm "Goliath"). An hour of gently tapping around the headlights and windows and more solid hammering on panels, steps, and grill got my truck started and warm yesterday. This morning an hour of hammering on the deck and some push brooming removed a couple hundred pounds of ice from the trailer. Banging ice off the winches helped as well. All just in time to get my first dispatch this afternoon, loading on a dry deck with working winches as opposed to denting everything with a metal hammer (not to mention the risk of deicing the windows with a metal hammer).

 

Get a multiman tool. I have a gerber one. Has saved my butt several times. With it I have rewired trailer lights, broken hundreds of the non rubber seals, replaced a mud flap arm, replaced landing gear handles (also s hooks like u find on the ends of rubber bungee cords, they make a good replacement washer, nut, bolts for the landing gear handles). I always carried wire strippers and those wire nuts that fuse two ends of a wire together. Also electrical tape too. I know guys and gals on here will say they never fix anything and let company do it and I must be crazy for doing it. Well come talk to me when its 200 pm Friday at customers and break light is out. You going to wait on road call and get stuck in rush hour in Atlanta on a Friday because road call wont get anyone there for an hour or are you going to rig something up quickly in half hour and beat traffic???

 

Me, being paid hourly, I'm going to do exactly what the company tells me to do. Wait for roadside, then sit in traffic for hours happily getting paid time and a half for all my overtime. Traffic is frustrating, but the big paycheck makes it well worth it to me.
If I were paid CPM that would be entirely differant.

 

Yeah. I agree. I waa cpm. Now that I am hourly I still carry my multiman too because we use metal seals and it works great.

 

what is that? A Cyclops attachment?

 

They're good, I wouldn't be without one. LED Lenser are good. I've got the $60 one:
http://www.ledlenserusa.com/headlamps

 

Indispensable. I used them for years as a mountaineer for midnight starts. Try holding a flashlight in your mouth for hours so you can climb with both hands.

I'm surprised more truckers don't use them. They're great for chaining at night, or any two handed task in the dark. The beam is always pointed where you are looking.

 

Have used mine for chaining in the dark and also unloading, have two customers that we have to hand unload, and it's always dark when we arrive, no lights in the trailer.