Pretrip in the dark during the day in the dark is not normal, take off the sunglasses neo. Haha. Night driver myself.
Aint that the truth.
I don't think I've done anything anyone else who commented hasn't done, unless you count leaving my paperwork on the dot bar.
Pre trip mistake
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I've forgotten the oil cap a couple of times following oil change, luckily smelled the oil burning during the following trip so it never cost me an engine. Just a few days ago I was washing my windshield at a tire shop while they installed some tires on my trailer.....I looked up and watched a pair of new Cascadias pulling out of some parking spaces in the edge of the property.... As the second one turned a right hand turn toward the street I realized his trailer was slowly getting further and further from the tractor. I jumped up waving my hands to STOP, luckily the driver saw me and stopped before the trailer landed on the ground . He looked confused until I pointed to the trailer, he got out of the truck and almost fell over when he saw the trailer wasn't coupled up at all.... Moral of the story...... Check, check, double then triple check, and even after that keep your fingers crossed
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Well that happened to me a month ago now, got underneath it with flashlight, but guess I didn't notice the kingpin wasn't in there, did a tug test and tractor didn't move at all. Pull out and something just didn't seem right when I started turning, look in the mirror and my #### trailer tandems are lifting up off the ground...s*** myself put on the brakes and trailer went back down on its wheels. Got out and thanked Jesus. Put the legs down and hooked back up to it. I feel like I was a hair from dropping the trailer. Was full of ketchup so guessing all the weight on there made the tug test seem like it was fine. Will never do that again. I check it at least twice now.
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At my meet point where I'm supposed to swap trailers after 10 off I grabbed the wrong trailers. Got 3 states away before I checked the paperwork and realized my error.
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I was in the yard. The mechanic was right next to me. The oil was 1 gallon low. I check the box and found some old oil jugs. I asked him if there was oil in them or something else. He said it was oil as he personally had filled them. I opened the lid and said are you sure. He said yes. I poured a bit of it into the fill tube and mentioned that I had never seen Green Oil before.
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