Best Tools for the Road

Couple of pairs of Gloves. You'll prolly loose some.Oh an an extra pair of undies...........somewhere along the line your going to s&^% your pants.

 

LMFAO! To true!

 

After the last couple weeks, I now have a small tube of caulk, some pop rivets and poprivet gun, fiberglass board, spray foam in the truck with me too to make small repairs inside the trailer for the idjits that decide to play bumper cars with my walls.

 

A couple I use is:

Instead of a 5th wheel pin puller I use vice grips.

And one of my favorite tools I didn't see listed yet is a tandem stop, as they make sliding your tandems alone a breeze. I bought mine at the Iowa 80 TA. They are sold in packs of two, but you really only need one. So find another buddy to sell the second one to and recoup half your money.

 

Zip ties, duct tape, electrical tape, sockets (long and short), wrenches, crescent wrenches, screwdrivers (Phillips and flat) vice grips, Allen and hex wrenches, box of nitrile gloves, box cutter spare blades, knife,

 

I love those things. They make a great field expedient crapper seat in a pinch, too.

What I carried depended on the specifics of the job I was doing, and what was expected of me. The last company I drove for was an aggregates and landscaping materials delivery company, and they didn't want you doing anything. Last OTR gig I did, I had quite an assortment. On top of tools for mechanic work, there were also the ones for load securement... a claw hammer (I used a 22 ounce Stanley FatMax hammer... I'm partial to the single piece hammers), prybar, cordless drill and bits, nails, screws, a ladder. Ratchets and sockets, crescent and combination wrenches, various types of pliers, sidecutters, vise grips, screwdrivers (slotted and Phillips in various lengths), digital multimeter and test light, wiring tools (strippers, wire nuts and butt connectors, spools of wire). For pneumatic tools, I bought a length of hose, put female couplers at both ends, and piped it directly into the wet tank. As far as those went, I kept a 3/8" and 1/2" impact wrench and sockets, a 3/8" air ratchet, air chucks to inflate the tires, die grinder and angle grinder (with cutoff wheels, sanding discs, and surface conditioning discs), and a 1/2" air drill (because sometimes the cordless just wouldn't do it).