Company Rats

I saw one of the drivers for my company now on the side of the road before I got on the highway, so I pulled up behind him to see if he needed help. He was adding coolant and I surprised him, that he almost jumped into traffic.

 

What really bothered me was the forklift driver was shovelling salt, and this guy was in the cab warm and comfortable. I don't expect the forklift driver to notice, but the driver should!

 

You should have like a stick or something to check the tanks.

 

I have

 

My family still gives me grief over running out of gas in the wife's Suburban. Truck had been getting 10ish mph...370something miles per tank...when the odometer quit working. So, since the speedometer never quite worked since we bought the thing, I found some slick new gauges that would install behind the factory dash panel. Wife said she had just fueled up the day before we parked it to put the gauges in...so when I fired it up, everything LOOKED as I'd expect it to. Drove it around a little to calibrate the speedometer, then left on a road trip. Now the OLD fuel gauge would go all of the way past "E" and we never ran it out of gas, so given the miles she said she'd driven coupled with the miles I'd put on it since I installed the gauges, the fuel gauge APPEARED to be functioning normally when it worked its way down to 5/16ths of a tank. Drove past an exit figuring I'd grab some fuel 10 miles up the road at the next town. Nope. Sputtered out and died a mile past that exit. Turns out, we WEREN'T getting the 10 mpg we had been since dropping the new motor under the hood and prior to the odometer quitting...it was only 6 mpg. Not much I could've done differently without being a psychic. Anyway, a new TBI with a wider bore, new injectors, and a new TPS got us back up into the 10's and gave us a heck of a lot more power. The heads on that Vortec 350 flow more than the 1990 TBI could handle, I guess...

But yeah, it's embarrassing as hell running out of fuel...even if there wasn't a #### thing you could have done differently.

 

Karma is a beech senor. By the by triangles are 15 min or more not before unless you know. Also every safety noob used to drive until the sidewalk at end of parking lot mine was started in 1973 kittypower