Anyways, I just got parked at the Louisiana welcome center at Slidell. 600 mile day after 3 hrs this morning setting up the truck. Truck did well today. Ok, I'm gonna fall out now. Tomorrow will be only 3-something. I'll stage at the Love's in La Porte for Monday morning del.
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Been staged at. the Love's in La Porte for a few crazy hours. About 20 miles before taking 146 off I-10, I moved left for a car merging in that had an officer's car in Front of the merging car. Not behind as normal. I was able to move back right after passing the merging car. All the rest of the way on 10, all the way down 146, west on 225 this car followed me. Sure enough when I exited off 225 the car followed me all the way into the truck parking area. Strange huh. So after I backed into a spot, I started walking over to the car and noticed it was an elderly woman. Turns out she was lost. Unfortunately, in more ways than one. So after reaching this conclusion, I called 911 and got the local pd to come out. Eventually, we were able to enough contact info out of her to hopefully get some folks to come get her and her car. She lives alone about 40 miles to the north.
As for the work day, mostly went ok. When I fueled at the Love's in Vinton, La. After I had pulled up and fueled the reefer, I tried to crank the truck and nothing. So I am broke down at the pumps. Got their mechanic out there and eventually he tapped on the starter and it cracked. We'll see what it does in the morning. -
Sometimes the brushes don't make good contact on the armature...the springs need a li'l help by tapping on the case :smt021
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Kind of an event filled day. Had a starter that had to be tapped now and again. Eventually left me stranded and had to be replaced.
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Unfortunately, today has been awful. Delivery went fine this morning. Was MT by 0815. Was told to top off reefer and head to Galveston drop yard. Arrived here at 10:00. And waited, and waited...... No preplan, no phone call, no messages. So I aired up 9 tractor tires that all had 90 psi up to 110psi so they would conform with the ONE tire that actually had 110psi. After leaving the truck off for a while, I tried to crank and the starter was seized again. So had to get road service out to get me running. The A/C on this truck does not cool. The air bleeds down to unsafe about 15 minutes after truck is turned off. So around mid afternoon when I still hadn't been informed by operations what was going on I reached the point of "Come to Jesus" time. So I made a couple communications indicating clearly that Everything must improve QUICKLY, period. I will not settle for a lemon truck, low miles, and poor communication. We'll see what tomorrow/tonight brings. Atleast now I know I am waiting for a produce load headed to North Platte.
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Broke down again at another fuel island. It is too unnatural for me not to turn off the key at fuel pumps. I am expected to do this for a couple more days. I made it to the J in Ardmore and left it running but they made me go back 1 mile to the Loves. The Loves mechanics couldnt find the "sweet spot" on the starter so apparently someone is being sent to pull start me. The odds of me making it a couple more days without turning off the key are not good. Not good at all.
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Nothing a piece of tape and paper can't fix, if you can't think of a way to keep yourself from doing something that simple you might want to rethink being a professional driver.
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the joys of being the low man on the totem pole at a new company.
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producelove85, truckinmike1984, sevenmph and 1 other person Thank this.
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Yeah take that Key inside the trk stop , wrap it with paper and tape with the word "NO" on it
me & VMaggs loved our 2009 freight shaker ...but it did finally died at about 500K
make my 2013 prostar seem nice....I'm sure they will upgrade u once they know you will last longer than a few weeksThe Challenger and double yellow Thank this.
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