TGIF

[BAD DOG]

Glad this Friday is finally done. Got elected to haul Jersey barriers today which isn't usually a bad gig but I had to take a pre loaded wagon sound good but I didn't get to choose it and some of the company we haul them for has some prize ones I don't know who pulled it before me but I don't know how they kept it in the road. After I strapped everything down as best as I could with what there was to work with I checked it all over and I always check the regulators on the lift axles. The front lift behind my drives had 90lbs in it the second lift had 20 and the very back lift had 40 in it so you are going to have the trailer picking the tractor off the ground almost. When I haul them because of how they load them mostly to the rear I always put lots or air to my back lift and less to my front lift to push ha bit more weight on the drives. But the back regulator the knob was busted off and it was seized tight so I left it alone since I wouldn't be going by any scales on my 100 mile trip and with what they have on there for straps it isn't a legally secured load any way and if they want to look close I'm probably going to jail anyway! Lol! So I locked the front lift up which I normally would do with the centre lift on 6 axle in Ontario but I needed more weight on the drives so this gave me about 65 or70 lbs on my suspension gauge. So I went with it and when I got out to the highway wouldn't you know it my prize downhill Cummins powered Paccar product acted up on me, the engine shutdown light and a few other bells and whistles came on and it de rated itself on power usually I can pull over shut it off for a few minutes and it will be ok not today as soon as I got up to 45 MPH it came back on. Tried it 6 times on the way down made for a long trip. Plus on the trailer on the back lift I had brakes on fire almost because the camshafts were seizing up too. So we tapped the pushrods in and avoided using the brakes as much as we could. Then when I got down to the job they sent me over to the Flying J to wait till they needed my load so what would usually be 5 or 6 hrs turned into 12, glad I get paid by the hour. After a rest and a good regen the truck ran fine coming home.

[slpwlker]

it was just one of those days. Just makes you want to strangle the shit that loaded that wagon

[mack mhe9]

People talk about stress at work. My boss made me do someone else paper work or I had to stay a 1/2 hr after. They have no clue to stress when you are sitting along side the road 15000 lbs overweight or 10 ft wide with no permits. You got to know how to survive the situation or your going to jail.