Pre trip mistake

Anybody forget to put oil cap back on and tun 30 miles ... have your truck turn off... i did .. do y'all thing my engine is done?

 

Guy I bought a truck from. My truck hadn't been titled & plated yet, so I take company truck.
Pop the storage box under the sleeper & there's like 6 gallons of water / coolant in there.
I'm going whoa. This thing must use a lot of coolant.
Start pre trip on engine. I notice the cap is gone from coolant reservoir.
Then I notice reservoir cap laying on inner fender.
AH HA says I.
Drove it for a week, in Phoenix & Texas in June, never used a drop.

 

######, Carl!!!

 

Pretrip the truck. Then check your pretrip.

 

29 years of tractor trailer, I've forgotten to do just about everything at one time or another. Slow speed brake with spike only will show whether or not your fifth wheel is properly locked. However the three visuals should tell you everything. Adjustment fork nut is seated, no air space between fifth wheel and kingpin plate and the jaw check. The jaws will always close if the engage the kingpin properly, but if the adjuster nut is not seated they are not locked.

Pre-trips are complicated, that's why you Pre-trip your unit every day. Walk around inspections 1 hour after start and every three hours on long trips.

 

Yep was your truck coated in oil too?
Mine was lol

 

yep, and not just once have I done it!!

 

I forgot to put the fuel cap back on once.

 

I've done that one more than once...lol