Double Yellow's Company Driver to Independent Thread

Check to make sure everything is tight underneath. Then you won't be putting a clutch linkage back together in the dark by feel on the side of I-40 in Tennessee.
Yep, reminds me of another life experIence I had thanks to truckin'.

 

Or at least buy a decent flashlight. And some handcleaner.

 

I don't think there is a trans mount? There is not one on my international anyways.

 

Sounds like you are getting a vibration feedback. Not so strange that it coincides with your recent replacement of the cab bushings and shocks.

 

No free play. Foot under pedal.

You have to have some free play. Was return spring put back on under cab?

 

I thought rattles were a feature, not a problem.

 

Hey DY hope you are enjoying your time off and are planning to get back in that truck eventually. I've really enjoyed and been encouraged by the thread.

I bought a day cab in Feb last year to do intermodal. I put up with losing money for 8 months before I could get out and onto a lucrative, local, power only gig with the kind of carrier I've always wanted to work for. I'm the 15th truck. All o/o. That was all well and good til the new year when we stopped getting loads from that large (not mega though) carrier's brokerage since they were starving themselves do to partially their own misstep of hiring 15 company drivers to help cover the account, knowing that the customer awarded contracts for the volume warehouse destinations to Swift and Dart for half price!

I just broke a 5 week streak of no work this week. I also finally secured a legit and convenient parking spot for a trailer yesterday, and will be picking up a rental tomorrow to get me in the broker/load board game with everyone else leased on here. Then I'll only have a single handicap with the day cab instead of my current double handicap with no trailer.

Things seem to be breaking with the weather here on the east coast, and the way shippers and brokers have been scrambling this week to get us to bid on lanes seems to confirm. Seems like they are trying to lock everyone into cheap contracts in our most desperate hour before rates and freight we pray take off again.