Not my winter

Had a guy who did two loads a week to Bucksport, Me who told of one breakdown.

He was so cold he was gona' start tearin' the seats out to build a fire when a snow plow came by...nice warm ride to Dysarts and he was OK.....

 

You should always have a reliable, alternate heat source, like a large candle in a can (make sure to crack the windows though, or all they'll find is your corpse). Along with sufficient clothing and/or blankets, it will keep you warm into sub-zero temperatures. Lots of survival information in the Internet.

 

Was near bayonne one icy morning, #### it can get cold there. chopped up some pallets, got the fuel out of the tank tossed a highway flare on there.

I think they docked me pay for 10 pallets that week. Yelled and screamed. However more people showed up and added a little to the pile burning in that corner and I guess for lack of a better word camping time.

Yes they got the tractor out of there, but what I picked up on human terms that morning was far more interesting than any old broken down tractor. The food, story telling and maybe a few drinks here and there as the people came and went after getting warm.

Valley Forge PA is my personal Bermuda Triangle. I have had three perfect trucks just fail there. poof. Dead. Tow time. I learned not to go back there ever again. I used to visit as a child for the historical winter camp that GW created in the Rev war but not for big trucking. Not anymore. No one could tell me why those trucks died, only that yep they were dead.

 

So you were at your delivery site and no way to get back inside out of the weather, seems odd?

Back in the days of common sense, a couple shouts on the radidio would have likely resulted in another driver stopping to help you out, especially in the extreme cold.

Short of that, anyone running up in the north country in the winter had better be prepared for such happenings.....

 

I noticed in your other thread you pulled reefer trailers.. get yourself a jumper wire you can hook to the reefer batteries to keep truck batteries fully charged when using bunk heater..

 

I carry a few MRE’s. Got a couple cases when Hurricane Michael hit.
They do come in handy. Also a couple of candles help too.

 

Winter is when everything breaks.
Patched a bad coolant leak in december.

Now 2 days ago I was idling my truck at home and found a bad fuel leak on the engine. Luckily not on the turbo side, but it dumped maybe a gallon of fuel over the course of an hour.