Your Funniest, Best, or Worst Experiences While Broke Down

This one is funnier than heck. Was on RT2 in KY the old Purchase Parkway heading Back from Eden NC to IL with pallets for a Glass plant. Well stopped for the night. Pulled into a Truckstop parking lot went to bed. Woke up the next morning and got out to go in to use the bathroom. Got ready to make the last step down took it and BAM I AM ON THE GROUND. I looked during the Night I had broken thru the gravel Parking lot and all 18 had sunk in to the axles I walked incalled Breakdown and went YOU AINT GOING TO FING BELIEVE THIS ONE GUYS. Took 3 wreckers to get me out that morning and I had been parked that night. Truckstop was like how did that happen. I went If I knew I would tell you. I get out and the holes in the ground were all at least 2 feet deep and exactly were my tandems were the night before. Turns out their Contractor had only used 2 inches of rock instead of the 6 they had specified.

 

I had been up for 15 hours was Beyond Tired it was during Thunderstorms from Hell The truck was already shaking I doubt I would have known when I broke thru. Yep the Company made the contractor pay for the Tow bill. I am the kind of person that sleeps deep. Except when I am pulling a reefer units and if that unit shuts off when it is not supposed to.

 

I was driving along I-70 in Kansas and had the stop for the night in sight (colby). That is kind of a joke in itself because you can see it for 11 miles away at night. Just got done passing 3 other trucks when my truck just shut down. No warning lights or anything. As I am coasting to the shoulder I thought I heard the engine come back so I went to downshift. Bad idea. The engine was not running and I lost what little power steering I had. A sensor fell out of the exhaust and shut the truck down because the engine thought the exhaust was on fire. 10 minutes later I was back on the road again. That same day 4 hours earlier I had a back window breaks the hinges on the sleeper so the window was flopping around as I drove. So out comes the 6 foot ladder and I proceed to take the window off of the truck on the side of the road. So that night when my co-worker asked me what I wanted for dinner while I worked on the truck I told him a banana split. I got a weird look from him. I got that banana split and ate it while the epoxy dried on the window to hole it on.

 

Was sitting on an off ramp along the turnpike in PA waiting for road side to show up. While I'm sitting there on the ramp waiting for roadside I lost count of the offers of lunch, beverage, etc that came in on the radio! I had a state trooper, tow truck driver, and a county highway truck crew stop and make sure I had help on the way. This was back before cell phones were common, but I was glad at that time of qualcomm! I was also glad I had a fridge in the truck and it was stocked.

 

I drive for a small agricultural fertilizer and chemical dealer delivering loads of dry fertilizer to farmers. One day I had to take one load a good deal south of town on I-15 in Montana here and blew a drive tire half way to my destination. Anyways, while I was sitting on the side of the highway waiting for the boss to call me back with a place i could go to get a new tire, a rancher and a couple of his hands were working cows (branding, vaccinations, etc.) just on the otherside of the big road.

Well, it seems like it was going really smoothly, until they had a wild cow come through the chutes. There was a low building with some spare fence posts and other things piled up against it just 20 or 30 feet from where they were working their cows. Next thing I saw was this cow jump the sorting panels, run up that pile of fence posts and run onto the roof of this building. There she was pretty much trapped and just ran from one end to the other. Turns out that the roof of the building was dry rotted from age and the elements and couldnt support the weight of this cow...next thing ya know theres a great big hole in the roof where the cow was last standing. I doubt she made it, but I didnt get to see anything after that because the boss found a tire shop for me to limp to and get a new tire.

 

The fan hub went out while going through Vegas. My boss paid for the room & meals for my wife & I, for the three days that it took to get it fixed. Got to tour Vegas & had a blast for the three days & left on the 4th day. Great room with & pool and all the fun stuff.

 

Iowa rainstorm/Here's your sign!
While driving the I-80 across the great state of Iowa, a spring rain developed and my drivers side wiper disentegrated. I exited soon and pulled over on an on-ramp to RandR the wiper. In the middle of this process (rain pouring down), standing on the steer tire and the frame, the good wiper in one hand and wiper arm in the other, a woman in a pickup truck pulls up alongside, slides to passenger side, rolls down the window and asks..Got a broken windshield wiper, huh?..Nope, I said, it's been 'bout 3 days since I had a shower and I just thought I'd take advantage of this little rain squall y'all got going on!..Here's your sign!