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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;x1Heavy, post: 7303742, member: 178676&quot;]Air compressor died in Doswell Petro during dinner, came out to dead air, spring brakes locked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tow vehicle brings shop queen from Maryland, drags my dead tractor back. I get the queen hooked up went to bed. Still 4 am...</p><p><br /></p><p>Morning after breakfast I had pulled out of there out of Doswell when shop queens power steering showed flaws and whole front end went out at 22 or so. Pulled over. out the triangles and waited. Other company people showed up, got the word passed. My safety boss got involved and used his authority to force the shop boss to hand me the big day cab via tow truck.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of this was preceeded by a alternator failure to feed batteries that died in Norfolk Navy Base during a delivery. That took a hotel stay and a half the second day to fix. Before Doswell. All together 4 some days lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had words. I was paid that week for essentially 24/7 at twice normal pay to be shut up and I think they did some one way converstations to the shop boss for sending me the shop queen. I got a new virgin daycab Mack 350 the following monday.</p><p><br /></p><p>The worst place for breaking down anywhere in the USA for me personally is Valley Forge. I can have a brand new truck (And did twice...) that would just quit. And die right there in that cursed valley. There I sit breaking appt times, satellite messages going no where and so on. what a waste. Twice in my life I sit up there until towed clear.</p><p><br /></p><p>To this day I do not go anywhere near Valley Forge. I visited the place as a kid for history and found it not to be my liking. Little did I know later on in trucking just how hideous it would become.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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