Where is everyone #5

That's the only hard part of the equation for sure. Pulling up at the Flying Hook at the fuel island to take their hose to wash might be a little too on-the-nose. Maybe a 10-gallon water jug, fill it up at the fuel island while doing fuel, then go off elsewhere to spray down the truck? I know nothing of flow rates and whatnot, but in a pinch, it could really help cut down on dirt on the truck.

Coming back from Keeyask on Friday, the rain started to fall and cake up everything on the truck in this fine grain, dense mud. If it weren't for the big thunderstorm I drove through yesterday, the truck would have been an absolute mess to deal with. The fuel tanks, headache rack, exhaust, etc were caked an inch thick (because the owner is too cheap for half fenders over the front drive axle).

Letting that stuff dry for a few days and it would have been concrete. The idea came to me only for a solution that didn't involve having the proper equipment on hand.

 

I ran to Walmart to get a better drain pan and stopped by the donut shop to get the wife and kids breakfast. I walk inside and see this.

I guess she is ready to go to the pool.

 

Great memories

 

You two get a room. Good grief.

 

@johndeere4020 wants to know if government subsidized housing would be ok?

 

Well I let it go. And your still chirping. So no I never seen that done with my eyes. The rest of the air plumbing, hauling over weight, swinging coils, renting wreckers and cranes and warehouses to store coils and double up I seen with my own two eyes and everyone that knew him did too. There are lots of guys that will back it all up. However I'm not name dropping, cause some of them still do some of these stunts. Know I understand how a lot of "modern eld truck driver" have no idea of the past or a particular industry. With that said there are aspects of trucking that I have learned about on this forum from a lot of great men. I may have went a life time and never learned. Now if you dont believe and like to flap your gums, go right on ahead. I dont even know you, there for I know you dont know me. Best not to judge someone before knowing them or what they do.

 

It’s not that hard to do, concrete mixers have them, problem is you’re only going to have 120ish psi. Mixers use a big air tank, the fill it with water and turn on the air. They use a garden hose and a regulator to bring down the pressure to municipal levels. You could use a wand and hose off a pressure washer but it won’t work as good as even a cheap pressure washer.

 

I won’t sleep in anything else.

 

Guys,back in the cabover days when everyone was hauling steel,most in Pa,Ohio,Ind,ran a 3 9 trailer setup,and usually a 40' covered wagon. The big thing then was getting on the toll roads with a lot of weight,and not paying for it. Tolls weren't anywhere near what they are now,but if you ran it constantly,it added up. I knew lots of guys that had air ride on all axles,with electric solenoids,to quick dump air valves. Mufflers,were just a truck innnertube wired up in the frame. Exhausted air was dumped into them,and you had a small slit in the tube,and the air would gradually equalize.
Truck doghouse was a bank of switches,that you were constantly woking as you crossed the treadle scale as you got on the pike at the tollbooth. Was hilarious to get behind a guy doing this,watching his trailer hump up and down,as he slowly crossed the scales. All the while the toll attendant,has a pizzed off look on their face,because they know what you're doing. If they heard air dumping,they could make you circle back and reweigh. But if you're just quietly creeping across the scale,they could do nothing,but hand you about a class 3 or 4 ticket,when you just easily got on with 80,90k.or more.
When you first pulled up to the scale,you would be in your lowest gear. As the steering axle gets ready to cross,you would lean down hard on the trolley,give it the fuel gently,and lift your steering axle over the scale,while having drive axle air dumped. Creep drives across,and as soon as they're clear,air them,and dump front trailer axle.
As soon as it's across,re air trailer number #1,and dump #2,repeat with #3. The only axle that really got weighed was your drives,and it was light.
I don't think anyone tried this with weigh stations,but it went on constantly at the Ohio and Pa Tpke. toll booths.
I had friends that did this,constantly,we used to joke that by the time they got off the exit,,the turnpike owed them money.