Here's my situation.
Friday afternoon I pull into a fuel island at a Pilot and as am pulling in I hear and feel the truck squealing and steering wheel becomes super hard to turn. I open my hood and confirm my suspicion. Power steering fluid leaking everywhere. Reservoir tank is barely reading any, but it appears to be leaking from the steering box (picture attached)
I call my company and they advise me to put some ATF fluid on it and to keep monitoring the level and the leak itself until I get routed to a terminal (several hundred miles away) to get the techs there to take a look at the issue.
I had twenty thousand second thoughts about it, but agreed to keep monitoring it. I buy 5 bottles of fluid and start rolling. My next stop, about 100+ miles away I had to pour about another bottle into the reservoir because I had already leaked out about that ammount.
I call maintenance and my FM and get the same advice again telling me that going somewhere else would make me sit for days (this even after making clear I don't feel this is safe), maybe weeks waiting for a part (not sure if that would sound like a remote possibility) and got routed home.
Currently home having tooooo many second thoughts regarding moving this truck monday at all.
First thing that worries me is if I get pulled in for inspection AM DEFINITELY gonna get fried and CSA points are gonna reflect on me.
To you seasoned drivers, I ask, what the hell should I do??
Potential hazard and CSA points at risk, what should I do??
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Jrivas23, Feb 15, 2015.
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