Where Are You Continues, Again.....

Yep. I was at the place on the other side of the big road last night

 

Monday coming up i75 north bound in Florida I was following a cargo van, I got the green light at the agriculture station, I got the green light at the scale house also but the van didn't stop
DOT came out of the scale and pulled the van over for not stopping.
Florida doesn't mess around with people not stopping at the scale

 

Frystown Pa at the Hook tonight, picking up a Federal Mogul load in wonderful Ramsey NJ in the morning

 

Wait... are you referring to Bandit yesterday? Were you parked for the night? I don't know any truck stop on the other side...

 

Yes, I knew you were at the Bandit

You must not be where I thought you were tonight, I was at exit 4 last night

Tonight I'm at the Flying J at exit 10 on i78

 

I'm on I-75 TN....

 

Ain't sure where I'm at, where I been or where I'm headed. Honestly don't know if I'm back in up or pulling up

I do know I'm just glad be truckin

 

Sometimes it helps to set lower expectations on a roadside repair versus a shop repair. The #1 priority of the service truck is to get you mobile. Sometimes that means a less than ideal repair due to limited parts on hand, along with working in a hazardous area. Sometimes it may even be a temporary fix that will never pass muster in an inspection, but will get you down the road to a shop or parts dealer equipped to do it over the right way.

Don't take this the wrong way: I'm not excusing a sketchy roadside job. It isn't brain surgery to do an air line repair that doesn't leak when it's finished. On the other hand, I'm not going to get too picky about what quality of parts get installed, or how neat the repair is done.

I had a similar situation come up last week. I was on my way to pick up a load and went across some rough pavement taking the I-985 NB ramp on the way to Gainesville GA. I started hearing what I thought was a ruptured intake hose. I watched the gauges for a mile or two and decided I ought to be ok to make it to the freezer then check it out while loading. At about the 14 mm the low air warning came on, so no I'm not going to make it LOL. Turned out it was the air supply line from the compressor to the dryer up under the back of the engine. That's a braided, high pressure hose, so not fixable with anything I carry. So I made the service call.

Truck came out and in 30 min I had two stainless air lines connected together and routed under the engine above the steer axle. It wasn't neat, but secure enough to take it to NY and back. When I returned, I went straight in to their shop and they cleaned up the job. Securing the line better and changing the routing a little to prevent rubbing. While the tech was under there, he found one of the front relay valves had broke loose from the mount and fixed that too.

So did I pay for the same thing twice? Not really. The first job was to get me down the road and not miss my load and sit all weekend. The second job was to make it a permanent repair that would not break again or cause concern over a weigh station inspection pit.

 

I have some like that, but not on the truck. Those are usually used to hold work pieces together while welding. In other words, they function more like a quick release clamp than a plier. On the truck I have about 3-4 different ones. Large, small, curved and straight jaws. It was a small set like this one, that I bought with a bunch of other tools to outfit the truck.


For your gladhand repair, a suitable sized steel hose clamp around the whole thing would be the ideal temp fix. Next choice would be a super heavy duty zip tie, like the size I heard police use for handcuffs. Basically anything that will keep the two parts of the gladhand together securely enough to seal. (edit to add) and securely enough not to bounce or pull apart between the breakdown and the parts store.