kill me why don't you

may have been cussing the guy who adjusted the brakes.

I see no relevance to the rest of the story.

 

Forgive me... My 0-1 years experience is showing here. But isn't most of what you listed fixable/detectable by the driver and is still their responsibility to have fixed prior to using? Even if it's failed to be detected during the pre-trip, any driver worth his salt would have known there was an issue LONG before the brakes began to smoke.

Even if you disagree... Pretty sure the DOT would see it that way.

Something to point out, science warning, since diesel is among the most crude products that comes from crude oil it's got quite a few impurities. So it's evaporation point is much higher than gasoline.

Unless he was stupid enough to try and douse his brakes with fuel, you very likely would've been fine. I do still view it as a safety issue though.

 

check brakes before leaving terminal, all okay, cam or spring brakes from all the salt they put on the highways, brake pad locks against drum, hot brake... NO WAY a driver could do anything about it. There are many other scenarios, that can cause you to have smoking brakes, especially on a set of doubles, as there are more potential mechanical parts to fail.

 

I guess I am more baffled by him being in Ardmore, (I am assuming Ok.) and have smoking brakes to start with, if coming from Tx. the Red River to Ardmore as nothing more than rolling hills, and I use that term lightly, pretty flat if you ask me.

If coming from Kansas yeah, he came over Arbuckle lookout, but honestly, that isn't much of a hill, again, I will use the term lightly. Even running east or west out of Ardmore there isn't anything that I can think of for quite a ways that should/would/could have brakes smoking, at least not a driver of 40 years?

Unless he is having a mechanical issue.

What am I missing here?

 

I remember when it was not uncommon to see drivers fueling their trucks with a cigarette in their mouth. And back when I was a noob driver, I stood there with my mouth agape when I saw that.

About the smoking brakes, like the others have said, I'd have chalked it to a hung brake shoe. And depending how badly it was smoking, it could be anything from a non-issue to something serious like a brake fire.

 

#4 Don't be such a drama queen.

 

Well no harm, no foul. He was probably just flustered an didn't think about parking near the pumps.

 

So now the sexual orientation of the poster is in question?

How does one know if it is a Queen or a Prince, or a King, or a Princess?

 

My uncle used to smoke while fueling his pickup truck when I was a little kid.

 

Were his middle initials, "KB"?