I know I am asking a lot of Questions BUT...

LOL....no, I would guess that just about everyone has done it at least once. The airline cost about $20 each, just take the gladhands off the old and put them on the new, and put the other end back into the fittings on the truck.

You will learn to get into a set routine each time you drop and hook a trailer to help prevent this from happening.

 

I've stretched my lines, but never broken them that way.

 

You won't always get a brand new truck when the one you're in is being retired- I didn't. I turned in an 06 Volvo with 490,000 and got a 07 Prostar with 288,000. I've actually never had a brand new truck. I doubt I ever will. It really doesn't matter to me anymore, since I have to clean it out and turn it in anytime I take more than a couple days off, anyway. Any truck I get, I won't be keeping, so why worry about it?

I do hope I never see 303611 again, though, and I pity the driver who has it now. I spent more time in the shop than on the road with that one.

 

Oh...it does matter...I think you really do want a brand new truck...