Crazy Stuff

I have been having one thing after another going wacky lately. First I had a broken coupling on my blue line. Had to wait on road assistance. 50 miles down the road semi flips right in front of me with a load of chicken feed. Had to get the load repowered 200 miles from drop. Picked up my next load blue line is into. Had to have it replaced. Next day getting evening driver is blowing at me. I pull over to see what’s wrong my running lights have quit. I run my flashers to the petro. Blown relay! So I finally make it to salt lake I’m 8 hours early( reset the clock) the reefer decides to quit. Road assistance says it is the oil pressure sensor and has to come to terminal to be fixed. I came into receiver and begged them to take load early. They found someone to unload it. Their lumpers don’t come in till midnight. I think I’m gonna get me some del taco and forget this junk.

I have been having one thing after another going wacky lately. First I had a broken coupling on my blue line. Had to wait on road assistance. 50 miles down the road semi flips right in front of me with a load of chicken feed. Had to get the load repowered 200 miles from drop. Picked up my next load blue line is into. Had to have it replaced. Next day getting evening driver is blowing at me. I pull over to see what’s wrong my running lights have quit. I run my flashers to the petro. Blown relay! So I finally make it to salt lake I’m 8 hours early( reset the clock) the reefer decides to quit. Road assistance says it is the oil pressure sensor and has to come to terminal to be fixed. I came into receiver and begged them to take load early. They found someone to unload it. Their lumpers don’t come in till midnight. I think I’m gonna get me some del taco and forget this junk.

Hang in there! This to shall pass!

That's truckin'! It's always something.

This got me to thinking - It's so hard to help people understand what trucking is like. Until you've been out there and lived it, you won't know if you're cut out for it or not. Trucking is a fantastic adventure, but it's also a relentless stream of challenges that never let up. Some people thrive on being challenged hard every day, others crumble.

That's why we say trucking takes commitment because without that you probably won't be around for long. If you don't love it you'd have to be crazy to do it.

I used to get real worked up and stressed out over all the little (and big) things that can go wrong from one minute to the next. There are simply too many opportunities for things not to go according to your perfect plan, that you’ll dig an early grave if you let them get to you. As long as your efforts are 110% and efficient, you’ll sleep well at night.

Sounds like a few days I had just coming off home time. Hit Colorado E470 NB and get 3 miles and the left front drive blows. 8 hours later I'm finally roll'n again. Little over 85 miles later the new tire starts to come a part on NB I-25 mm 1.5 in Wyoming. 8 hours later I PC to the rest stop at mm 4. Next day, stop at Echo Canyon rest area to "check tires". What do I find? Both right side tandems are about to come a part. Luckily I was close to SLC. Prime sent a tech out and did a NASCAR level tire change. Was only down 2 hours on that one.

In short, I can feel your pain.

Sounds like a few days I had just coming off home time. Hit Colorado E470 NB and get 3 miles and the left front drive blows. 8 hours later I'm finally roll'n again. Little over 85 miles later the new tire starts to come a part on NB I-25 mm 1.5 in Wyoming. 8 hours later I PC to the rest stop at mm 4. Next day, stop at Echo Canyon rest area to "check tires". What do I find? Both right side tandems are about to come a part. Luckily I was close to SLC. Prime sent a tech out and did a NASCAR level tire change. Was only down 2 hours on that one.

In short, I can feel your pain.

Brought my non working reefer here to Salt lake my first time here. Not Springfield but everyone was very nice.

You need to get that truck into a shop, Dave. There has to be another cause for all those tires failing.

It always seems to happen in bunches. Had an unlucky run a couple of weeks ago myself.

My a/c stopped blowing cold in Brady, TX. Next shop on route is...El Paso, 470 miles away. Outside temp only got up to 107, and I couldn't tell you how hot it got in that truck, but when I stepped out of it in El Paso it felt cool outside. I checked the temp there and it was 104.

Petro can't fix, we head to Freightliner. They fix it and it goes out again 30 miles down the road. They fix it again and we get a load to Laredo, TX. AC goes out again coming out of Laredo. I deliver that load in Dallas and take it to another Freightliner.

If it had gone out again, I was about to drive the truck to Springfield and give them an ultimatum. Hard to run a team truck with no AC in TX/NM/AZ/CA, which is all we run.

If anyone saw a naked guy and bikini clad lady driving a Prime truck around I apologize. And I was wearing boxers!