Ahh yes, turbos make such a lovely mess.
Did you have your triangles out? Can't comment on being stuck on a busy road I guess, but if it was busy traffic, I imagine it causes a dilema.

2 weeks off work? That is insane, we've blown 3 in the last couple years since I've been around, including 1 for me. In every case it was a phone call... bob tail home..... turbo sent up from the city.....back on the road 2-3 days. If we weren't 1200 miles from the parts place it would have probably been ready the same day.

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Here an event that happen to me. I picked up a load of PVC Pipe in Alabama. i did not make it 10 miles down the road and it shifted. Turn around and reload. Second time I stopped at teh Rest area at the Georgia line and tighten the straps. 5 miles down the road, the pipe shifted again. So your load may not allow you to get to a safe place. I was half way to my drop then so I went slow the rest of the way and stayed in the slow lane.. It did get me ahead of 3 other trucks to get unloaded. They wanted it off before it fell over.

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As lady North said, even at the end of a very long supply chain in Alaska it takes 3-4 days to get a turbo fixed.

You have far more patience/BS tolerance that I do. After the 3-4 day with no progress I would tell the company to:

A) Fix my power unit

B) Get me another one

If I did not have a satisfactory answer I would let them know that I'm leaving.

we always move over if we can if not we will down down and mover over as much as we can i never want to be the driver that hit someone walking around a truck or car.

and most (not all) of the time i will ask on the cb if thay are ok or need help.

we blow a egr pipe out of the turbo on I40 in AZ late at nite air temp was 25 couldn't ldie and had to sit for 5hr for the hook to showup and all the time we sat only 3 drivers asked if we were ok sure showed us just how much some drivers care about other drivers.

danj_otr you are right about not saying anything to the shop ( i would be all over the company) the reason we borkedown was we had our volvo in the volvo dealer for 4 days having a new turbo put in. the company got all over the dealer about it (thay had 5 of our trucks in the shop and none of them were getting fixed) 4000 mlies after thay did get the new turbo in the egr pipe blow's out, volvo shop had cracked it putting in the new trubo..

Most blown turbos I've heard of involved the seal getting destroyed and the crankcase oil departing out the stack :shock: . I've also heard of the intake compressor coming apart and chunks of it heading for the engine cylinders via the intake air :shock: . I might be crazy enough to chance it and bobtail home too - but I can understand folks not going for it 8)

Lovely, boss always tells us to bobtail home. Luckily its always worked for us!
(You can see in the pic I posted, the oil that blew out the stack, that was a co workers trailer, mine didnt do that)

Thank god i picked the 379. haha

What am I missing, Petes don't blow turbos?

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And paid how much for your time?

Dan and i started at may at the same time but i got first pick of trucks i took the pete and he got the volvo and i have no problems with my truck. get the picture ?