7 Apr 2025 8:59 pm
What a nightmare with that water delivery. Yeah imagine the weight and really not much value there compared to the weight you are toting.TwoIfByTea » Today, 7:05 pm » wrote: ↑ I never did that but seen em.
Take a buncha new cab tractors connect abuncha them by 5th wheels and deliver them brand new terminal but sit it the yard another month or so until they got Insurannce, Plates, and Regisitration "Straight"
Then Old guys been there 20 years got the "Brand New" sitting out back.
I always got the piece of crap burned oil & stuff but I knew enough keep extra oil and Anti-Freezee my boxes.
Fuses and especially a 9/16s wrench ya gotta adjust Slack on the breaks.
Today slack adjustors "Computer" adjusted but every once in awhile get old 1980s era trailer "Drop Hook" will need do that a wrench yourself.
Hub Oil too always kept a gallon jug side box.
Dont keep up and fill em real problems.
About a decade ago picked up Chippewa Waters past Eau Claire Wisconsin cases of bottled water heavy *** load headed Woodmans Marketts Rockford Illinois.
Made it fine down 90 to outskirts of Rockford at a red-light this guy pulled up pointing my trailer tandems where "Smoking" crazy.
Blew a hub pulled over on a side street called up "Dispatch" what ya wanna do.
The roadside service guy didnt show up until 8/9 nine oclock that night.
He packed the trailer wheels with thick grease get ya back home but Woodmans was "Closed" I took the truck back home and they hadda crossdock the bottled water a better trailer.
Things can go wrong in a big way with THE BIG IRON.
My "Trucking" experience was all with Army "deuce and a half" cargo trucks and the 5 Ton Tractors we used to pull a 40 foot long repair shop on wheels with.
Those trucks were maxxed out at 55 mph and loud as **** inside the cab.
The 5 Ton Tractor could just about do a wheelie if your revved it all the way then dumped the clutch
