Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by double yellow, Nov 5, 2014.

  1. Lone Ranger 13

    Lone Ranger 13 Road Train Member

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    Check to make sure everything is tight underneath. Then you won't be putting a clutch linkage back together in the dark by feel on the side of I-40 in Tennessee.
    Yep, reminds me of another life experIence I had thanks to truckin'.
     
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  3. Lone Ranger 13

    Lone Ranger 13 Road Train Member

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    Or at least buy a decent flashlight. And some handcleaner.
     
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  4. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Replaced at the same time as clutch, but I'd have to check to see if they did the transmission mount too...
     
  5. Tug Toy

    Tug Toy Road Train Member

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    I don't think there is a trans mount? There is not one on my international anyways.
     
  6. tommymonza

    tommymonza Road Train Member

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    Sounds like you are getting a vibration feedback. Not so strange that it coincides with your recent replacement of the cab bushings and shocks.
     
  7. Skate-Board

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    No free play. Foot under pedal.

    You have to have some free play. Was return spring put back on under cab?
     
  8. RedForeman

    RedForeman Momentum Conservationist

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    I thought rattles were a feature, not a problem.
     
  9. bbechtel16

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    Hey DY hope you are enjoying your time off and are planning to get back in that truck eventually. I've really enjoyed and been encouraged by the thread.

    I bought a day cab in Feb last year to do intermodal. I put up with losing money for 8 months before I could get out and onto a lucrative, local, power only gig with the kind of carrier I've always wanted to work for. I'm the 15th truck. All o/o. That was all well and good til the new year when we stopped getting loads from that large (not mega though) carrier's brokerage since they were starving themselves do to partially their own misstep of hiring 15 company drivers to help cover the account, knowing that the customer awarded contracts for the volume warehouse destinations to Swift and Dart for half price!

    I just broke a 5 week streak of no work this week. I also finally secured a legit and convenient parking spot for a trailer yesterday, and will be picking up a rental tomorrow to get me in the broker/load board game with everyone else leased on here. Then I'll only have a single handicap with the day cab instead of my current double handicap with no trailer.

    Things seem to be breaking with the weather here on the east coast, and the way shippers and brokers have been scrambling this week to get us to bid on lanes seems to confirm. Seems like they are trying to lock everyone into cheap contracts in our most desperate hour before rates and freight we pray take off again.
     
  10. double yellow

    double yellow Road Train Member

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    Congrats on persevering thus far... And try not to think of the daycab as a handicap -- boast what it can do:

    travel on roads with 65' length limits
    Maneuver into tight docks
    Haul 50,000+ lb


    Somedays I really wish I had a cabover for those very reasons.
     
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