Truck driver b.s.

Good morning driver's was a beautiful 70* day yesterday and a cloudy 58 day today. Everyone be careful and have a good day.

 

Well my truck is in the shop, abs light, thin brake linings, and a trans cooler leak. If they can't get it fixed by monday I might not be working, they are having trouble finding a rental. Another driver is on vacation so ime driving his rental truck for a couple days.
It never ends with these shit trucks.

 

Friday fun!

 

Don’t miss that one bit.

 

My work is a little more subdued these days. Last night was especially nice.

 

That's not at the water heater plant?

 

No but I’ve been there hundreds of times.

I’m about 80 miles south of there.

 

Beans beans beans

 

One of my typical loads. 65k of wheel studs right down the middle.

 

Someone would be reloading that shit

 

Nope, that's how we haul em everyday.

 

Any reason to why? I’d think you’d split them over the drives and over the trailer axles.

 

Also riding with the new guy again and we also got into a wreck. Interstate was cruising along just fine. Then there was a wall of mist and right as you get to it all you see is a sea of red brake lights. We lay anchor and jump the right lane and then hit the shoulder to avoid making a sub compact out of an Escalade. New kid handled it great even on a wet road with the trailer fully locked up and starting to step out. Nothing much to learn from that other then maybe go a little slower into the fog but he kept us upright and off the wall.

 

No straps or locks??

 

Got to drive this in the yard today...

 

I noticed that too, then I thought: That much weight, if it moves, you've already got bigger problems.

 

That stuff needs to be on the floor side by side where it can’t move.

 

It's a spread 4 axle trailer, it spreads the weight out. You don't want gaps between the bins, if you hit the brakes they will slide with force! Sometimes we will put a few single stacks in the nose to keep the weight off the drives, but their can't be gaps between the bins anywhere. And you turn very slowly.

 

Nope, just one across the back.

I agree, that would be better, but no one takes the time for it. We use a lot of other trucking companies to haul this stuff and they haul the same way. Trailers that are just tandem 42k will go single stack side by side. That's better and I agree. There has been rumor that the dot is going to change the law so that they have to be side by side. That's finally going to hold companies accountable. I just drive really slow with the way they load this crap. They are getting new 6 axle trailers, can't wait to see how they load them with 92k