Well well well well let's talk about my eventful day today shall we.
It begins at 5:15 when my trainer picked his route for today and out to the yard we go. We do the pre trip and everything seems to be in order but wait what is that noise we here. Sounds like the starter is about to blow up. Sure enough it is the starter worst yet when we tell the mechanic he comes out and gets under it and what do we see sparks. YIKES!!!
He replaces the old starter with a new starter. Only problem is we were set to leave at 5:30 now it's 7:05am. Well we get to our first stop and as we are turning off the engine the starter is making the same noise but now there is a burning smell with it. The trainer turn off the engine only problem is it doesn't cut off so he hits the clutch a couple times and it finally shuts off so we complete the stop and what happens. Nothing!!!!! Absolutely nothing. Engine won't start. About a hour and a half later the mechanics show up and tells us you have to get towed.
Hour later we are being towed back to the yard. Now it's 11:30 they are telling us we have to swap the product to a working truck well not us but you know what I mean. So we are to go out and try to do as many stops as possible. Only problem with that is its noon and we only did 1 stop.
We complete a total of 8 and get back in 11 hours all in all a very eventful day. Thought they would seal the truck back up so it could be used as a training route but that didn't happen it was striped. Well as always any questions please don't hesitate.
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