Where is everyone #5
Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by DDlighttruck, Aug 27, 2017.
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I know I found Jesus 20 years ago in the cab of a freightliner...
Can't remember the model. But was old enough it still had the round windshields. 350 Cummins. 9 speed with no Jake.
The boss had bought a old mail trailer in Baltimore. Short walled 42 footer with a side door for job sites.
I got nominated to go get it. It was in pretty rough shape. Rotten tires and paper thin brakes.
I told him I was gonna loose at least a couple tires if we loaded it on the way home...
Nope. Run it. Stuffed 47,000# of bagged something or another in the wagon and I'm headed home.
I'd run the west plenty and kinda laughed wondering where the "mountains" was everybody talked about out here. Sure the signs alongside the highway said x% for so and so miles. But it sure seamed a lot more gentle than what the signs was telling me.
Then I get to the brake check east of Morgantown. I put a wrench on my p.o.s trailer slacks for the second time and took off down the hill. They was working on the road and had it down to one lane. The left lane. Soon as I got merged 2 empty flatbeds that blew by the brake check rode up on my ###. They was #####ing to one another how some idiot was always holding up the show.
I made a mistake. I grabbed another gear. That old truck with no Jake you learned real quick how she wanted to come down a grade. Big difference one gear makes between brake snubs. I was on em more than I wanted but thinking the end was in sight just stayed with it. I come around a curve and seen the end was NOT in sight. I give her a harder and longer jab wanting to grind it into low.
Dropped one gear. Still to much so I hit them harder yet.
Trouble was that was just enough to cam over a couple trailer brakes...
Now I really got problems.
I'm on them for all I'm worth and picking up speed. One lane road with nowhere to go but down the hill. Funny thing was they didn't even start smoking for quite a while. But when they did I ain't never seen anything like it!
Towards the bottom when I figured I was gonna make it, I sheet you not this rv camper starts coming up the ramp in front of me on our one lane bobsled track. I'm on the horn, trailing smoke like you never seen before. It was close, but he sped up and out of the way.
I got to the bottom and just limped along for several miles trying not to catch the trailer tires on fire. First shop I come across I called the boss and said either it gets new brakes and drums or it's staying there.
After I got a truck with a Jake I was amazed how you can come off the same hill and never even touch em, going the same speed as that old p.o.s freightliner ran away with me...
One thing I've never done to this day is speed up for someone else.
Young and dumb. But they say good decisions come from experience, and that you only get from making bad one's.
One thing I do know. If there was a runaway ramp I woulda #### sure took it!! -
hahahahaha and agreed. She would have to get me good and liquored up for that to happen again.
Im only talking about a beer tonight. -
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By the way Tug, great job on that polishing! -
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Al. Roper, 1951 ford, blairandgretchen and 22 others Thank this. -
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If you had 20 yrs experience and you knew the consequences and you didn’t call your boss then I’d say you’d be in a tougher spot. That is criminal negligence/manslaughter -
Scratch keeping 5 %. That's just enough to teach the replacements how to cheat the game. Let's just round it up to a nice, even 100 %.
A fresh start eh ?
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