A preventable "incident" on my PSP....

Probably (rightfully) told him he has no case LMAO

 

Ive BOUGHT tires cash just to eliminate difficult questions from One Eyed Bossy Man.

There was ONE tire I could not hide. Having been punched by a fire hydrant at the rim right where the next action I took weakened the thing. Baltimore Fire came out and saved it fast enough, thank goodness. The hydrant that is.

That shop is still there to this day, the ancient ones still there have all the time in the world to receive the wonders of the modern internet and finally resolve their tire question when it does not matter anymore.

Now economics in trucking?

If you had Two Tires.... (A satire of if you had two cows commonly taught to economic students)

 

He's not wrong, though. Regardless of who does it, having an incident due to frozen brake drums IS a failure to know how to do the job.

Seriously, I'm REALLY starting to wonder here... am I the only person to have a mentor who actually taught me jack #### instead of being tossed to the wolves?

 

you might be one of a handful that had a GOOD mentor.

thank your lucky stars, which i am sure you have done, and continue to do so.

maybe someday you might consider being one yourself, and "pay back" that mentor of yours by carrying on the wisdom?

 

No kidding. I even went back and read ZVAR's comments and saw nothing wrong. Someone is holding a grudge, lol

 

Within walking distance. I was 80000lbs. I walked back to the truck stop to get something to eat while waiting for the service truck to show up. I was just off of the on ramp.

And no, the Cascadia doesn't have the power to pull snot out of a pigs nose so not accelerating very fast didn't mean much to me other than I knew I was heavy as hell. I checked my mirrors on the ramp and thats when I noticed the smoke. I pulled over but the state trooper wouldn't let be back up the ramp to get back to the truck stop so I was stuck on the side of the road 600' from the Loves sign.

And yes I have always had a CB on 19 since I started driving. Nobody told me anything. Not that they had to, but they didn't.

And again, I didn't set the trailer brakes. The truck was new to me and this was the first time I'd done a 34 in it and I had no idea it leaked air that bad. I found out that morning.

And how dare you people actually comment on me pre tripping my trailer when I'm the only one at a 250 truck truck stop that I actually see doing a pre trip at all? So you people acting all high and mighty like it wouldn't have happened to you you wouldn't have gotten out the truck to take a piss much less check your rear trailer tires. My old employer told me I set a company record one week. 9 tires replaced on trailers in one week caught during pre trip inspections. So don't even act like this is something caught during a normal pre-trip or that I don't pre-trip my rig.

And yes, failure of the brakes to release from the drum is a MECHANICAL FAILURE. Not the drivers fault.

And some of you people need to learn what a "free consultation" is. That's when a lawyer consults with you and doesn't charge you a dime. I also have legal shield, so it's free for me. The lawyer hasn't called me back yet. I don't expect much considering it's the weekend.

 

many times (from what i have been a witness to), is that when i tried calling a driver when something was wrong with his equipment, i'd get silence. maybe no cb radio, maybe just an ignorant jerk.....

ONE TIME and that's all it took was that ONE TIME i contacted a driver, he told me to f off.....

and i knew it was him, cuz i passed him, and he also gave me the finger..before i tried calling him again.

that was a ONCE AND DONE for me, and i swore that i'd NEVER call another driver to tell him he had a problem.

when someone tries to help, then gets swore at and/or the finger, well then by golly, "screw him too" has been my attitude, and i stuck with it my remaining years.

now, that's what "could have been" a situation for you, where someone was also swore at or flipped off, and the driver that might have seen your problem said, to himself, "screw him".

also if anyone did see anything and not call out to you, was probably cuz they think/thought that as a professional driver, you should have checked things better.

in the end, i hope you learnt a very valuable lesson, that no matter how low and slow any rig is that you drive, you DO NOT ASSUME that cuz it's slow, it's normal, as you may very well have a problem

 

I won't hold any drivers behavior against any other driver. If I see something wrong with a rig I will make a solid attempt to let the driver know. The other day I chased a container driver for 26 miles trying to let him know he had a flat tire and it was coming apart. I ended up calling his company and giving them the container number. He got pulled into a chicken coup and I didn't so I was able to get on his side and blow my air horn and make a "flat tire" gesture with my hands. He gave me a thumbs up so I assume he knew about it.

My training was in June so there wasn't much he could teach me about ice but I knew not to set the trailer brakes but also knew I'd pulled a trailer buried in snow in Michigan for 3 or 4 months and all the tires spun normally so I figured frozen brakes take a long time to develop, not just a few hours.

I definitely learned a lesson. This didn't just happen, this was almost 3 years ago. It's not going to be on my DAC or PSP or whatever it is very much longer but still.