Good Night From II

Gonna stop at loves in Tulare ca instead.
Thought t/a in Livingston was off ex 103. Checked book.... nope 203 lol.
Oh well lol

 

Back st the loves i Tulare ca.
Delivered those rolls of paper to li.dsay ca this morning. Then drove back here.
Got 2 preplans that were removed just as quickly. lol.
Got another later that picked up in carson going to pueblo co.
Not enough hours to pick up and get out to a truckstop.. So refused that one

 

Kingman AZ, delivered my rebar this morning in vegas, sat at PDM steel a few hours, took 1.5 to secure because the loading was a bit meh. And required much individual securement. But there honestly wasnt a better way to load it. Mixed steel loads are a pita that way.

I stopped in kingman AZ, far i know. But this delivers in wickenberg and i severely needed a shower after crawling around the steel so much. After that its off too Queen Creek, up to Brigham City UT and back.

 

Anyone ever had a air/electrical line get caught between the drive tires and then dragging all the lines to wrap around in between the tires, before the red line snapped to stop everything?

Yup, that happened to me Saturday evening as I was delivering to Sam's Club in Casper.
I was only turning around to line up to the dock, but it was a fairly tight turn.

Both air lines and the green, and the socket on the trailer was ripped off. The left quarter fender in front of the drives half way ripped off, damage to the green line socket on the tractor, and a flat drive due to the valve stem bending. The air line connections on the tractor snapped off at the junction box making it impossible to simply screw in new lines. And of course the spring hangers.

It must have been the green line that snapped off the trailer first, but there should not have been enough slack to allow it to get between the drive tires. The wings were firmly and perfectly wedged between the two tires.
And how the red line stayed attached long enough to allow the lines to wrap around the axle nearly twice I'll never figure out.

The repair truck that came out could not do much. He ended up caging the trailer brakes so I could dock the trailer, and he did manage to get the cables out from the tires.

Repairs in Casper is very limited. No one else could get there before Monday (today). Even then, there was no one that could replace the air lines in Casper. I had to go to Douglas to get that done this morning, after a five mile hop to get the tire problem fixed.

I'll have to stop at the Denver shop on my way to NM tomorrow. No one had the quarter fender, and the trailer has no left blinkers. I replaced the relay for that. I thought I saw it blink once and then nothing. Maybe the last shop wired the new green line socket wrong.

I went back to the dock after the snow stopped yesterday to pull the damaged trailer to the parking lot and sent a mac 38. I didn't want to leave that for the next driver that delivered to deal with it.

 

@Moosetek13 happened to me going down hwy 95 few months back.

 

I've been at the Denver terminal over 3 hours now, and the trailer problem is still not sorted out.
There is a short somewhere, maybe more than one, so the left blinkers don't work if the lights are on.
But the front marker lights blink instead. Only the front, on both sides.

 

Picked up st Ross dc in shafter this morning. Delivered it to sante fe springs.
Couldn't fi.d the empty they assigned me so grabbed another.
Picking up here I. Irwindale a d goes to red bluff anytime tomorrow.
Sitting at shipper doing a 30

 

Santa Fe, NM behind Sam's.

4.5 hours to locate all the trailer problems and get it fixed. They had to rewire half the trailer. It was a 17 trailer so not that old.
That made me 2.5 hours late for my delivery.

There was no mt trailer yet, so he let me dock in a different door while he finished up unloading so I would have an mt. Nice guy. I explained I was nearly out of hours so he didn't make me wait.

 

Willows ca terminal.
Delivered load to Wal-Mart dc in red bluff rhen came here to get a bit service done. Got here as they were closing so have to wait till 0700 tomorrow.
Winds we're pretty strong once I got passed Sacramento airport.
Weather channel on radio says up to 40 mph gust.
So stopped at the pilot in dunnigan to check and call dl.
Everything I and dl checked says 20 mph. Mostly north to northwest winds so headwind all the way.

 

Orland ca at the pilot
Took willows shop a bit longer to do the bit service than I thought . Went and get empty and they had red tagged it.
Went in and asked why and said 5 cosmetic Things they wanted to replace
Another 1.5 hrs and finally done.
Next load picks up anytime tomorrow in willows ca and delivers the 27 in perris ca.
Dl gonna see if customer will let us deliver the 26th since it's a drop n hook.
Then gonna do local rubs till monday nite since I have a doc appt Tuesday.
Came here since willows terminal has no food and only a chevron next door