Where is everyone #5

I don't often do this - but . . .

I turned off I-57 on to IL 147 to cross to Cape Girardeau, MO. Truck behind me was stuffed in my rear end, maybe 10' or so by the shadow. I was doing the 50-55mph speed limit into the first town. I tried the radio - didn't have one.

Come into town, drops to 45, so I moved the stick and dropped 10 quick with the jakes. 4 lane undivided for a mile, I stay in the left lane at speed limit, he races around on the right, and turns to look at me and make muppet faces at me to express his irritation. AS he does so, he nearly rear ends a pickup turning right (the reason I hold left in that situation).

Genesis - is the truck, STI trailer (Sharkey). Followed him all the way to the same town he's based out of that I'm delivering at - a quick call with the trailer number and a quick conversation with night dispatch to let them know this guy will have a short career in the industry and may cost them millions, driving the way he does.

My hope is they train him, so he doesn't kill or injure someone in the near future. He gained a quarter mile and 1 minute by stupid behavior and impatience.

 

That whole state blows. 8 years of that dumpster fire of a city with ODFL , twice a week was enough. They'd often send us from Rialto to Long Beach or Lost Angels to pick up a set - even at 2-3-4am it could be a nightmare.

Lost pages is my new name for Los Angeles. As in Rand McNally.

 

You oughta try it. Straight faced, I mean, dead pan.

"Name on the order?"

"Josephina Ophelia Del Marcos, the third"

Dead silence. You pause for 6 seconds if necessary . . . and . . .

"Is there a problem sir?"

The insulation is stupid simple - loads in 10 minutes flat. Only hassle is playing edge protector aerial hockey. There's a longer story as to why I'm hauling it - but $1100/day for a 375 mile run is better than burning dinosaur bones for free.

 

Picked up a new one in Champaign for $259 bout an hour ago. Thought they used to be about half that price?

I'll flush, & pull vacuum & all that jazz hopefully if I get wrapped up early enough tomorrow afternoon? But probably not since that's my "plan".. lol

When I got this truck the ac didn't work. New receiver dryer, condenser, expansion valve, lines, bunk ac delete, high & low pressure switches.. Couldn't for the life of me figure out why it was "freezing up per previous owner Dane".. Turns out the darn ac clutch was just on it's way out.! (Although it did actually need most the parts)

Think Dane figured it was icing over the evaporator, but I believe the actuality was it just worked till the ac clutch got hot & wimp'd out. Ran a hot lead on a toggle switch to the clutch & when that would no longer engage I found the culprit.. lol

 

That method will find any weak links lol. I remember a Geo Tracker that came through the shop had one of the simplest A/C systems ever. Just had basically the same from the A/C switch routed through a pressure sensor or 2. None of this complicated crap controlled by the ecm and routed through body control modules where no cold could be a million different reasons like a brake light out.

 

Lmao
I ain't scared!!

Funny you picked the name Josephina..

Me and my Lady have this silly inside joke. When (not if) I do or say something stupid she calls me a Joey, & when she does something dumb she's a Josephina..

Modeled after the US 46th of course..

In the single screw days, insulation was one of the few full loads I could take weight wise, & honestly it was paying good money. Still was ok last time too, but I been under this box for 6 months now so not sure how it is spot market wise.

Probably time to start paying attention again as this gravy is coming to a close soon. I committed myself till end of March, but the guy said he might be able to keep one truck on it all year? Ain't sure I can live with myself being a van guy though..

 

I bought my bride a Roborock vacuum cleaner a couple of years back, and in the app - named her 'Josephina'.

It's our inside immigrant joke when it comes to house cleaning. "Did you run Josephina today?" "Did Josephina get cleaned and Maintained?" "She missed a spot, so doesn't get her $3.75/hr rate today"

Hey - I'm an immigrant, so F Y'all, I get to own that one

 

Can't remember if I have a Sanden or. York - my mechanic said one was rebuildable and one wasn't, I trusted in his disdained look and told him to chuck whatever on it that would prevent me from swearing more often in summertime.

 

Yep, it's just like that.
High/low pressure sensor, & thermal probe in the evaporator will kill the ac clutch. Little high triggers the engine fan 1st though..

Heat is a cable operated slider that opens a water valve. It seals so well, there is no difference in cooling when I shut the under hood quarter turn valves.. Always 40°f coming out the dash vents on max ac, regardless of blower speed, even on 95° days..

 

Lol yeah , I have had to make peace with it . We do way to much work out here. I don't mind it much anymore. Dispatch send me all the way to Illinois the other week , I forgot how much more truck traffic there is east of i-35 I was so happy to get back out west...even cali seems better than that crap out there.