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Originally Posted by marylandkw
Friday morning 33 degrees pouring rain and my purge valve starts sputtering like a motor boat. I am loaded of course but not time sensitive. I figure I will make it the next 50 miles to my delivery and then deadhead home 85 miles and fix it in my nice warm shop instead of just going straight home 20 miles. Well long story short I made it 40 miles, came to a stop at a light and that was all she wrote, dead in the water, in rush hour at a traffic light and loaded
Had to get the hook to drag me to a shop and replaced most of the air system before figuring out my air dryer had gone kaput and needed replacement. Had I just gone to my shop I would have spent about $450 but instead because I was stubborn, $1650. And I still have the load on because my customer closed early. So now I will have the 50 mile load on for 200 miles or so and will drop it off first thing Monday. O happy day!
That sucks and I certainly don't mean to make light of your situation at all but.....suddenly my Friday doesn't look so bad after all. Maybe I can cheer you up a little with this one, you see, sometimes I can be an idiot..........sometimes
I loaded these same plates on Thursday morning but the receiver stops taking deliveries at 1pm so I couldn't have made it in time and you remember the rain on Thursday morning right? Well I go to shippers window and the lady says "You're in the same boat as the guy in front of you, I have to get a rain sheet and the shipper doesn't open till 8:30 am and then who knows how long it will be after that"
I'm thinking oh my god, they got bring in a crew to set up a tent to protect this stuff from the rain, this will take forever.
Well I make a phone call to my people and tell them I don't think this is worth it because they have to set up a tent so we can load and tarp the plates. I'm a little frustrated with all this and it doesn't help that I DON'T like rain. Sometime in all this I see a construction truck pull up so I think good, they're here.
About 8:45 the guard waves me over, so I get out of the truck and walk over to the shipper window and the lady hands me my loading papers and says "pull up there next to the other flatbed and they'll get you loaded" I was a little confused so I asked "When are they going to set the tent up?" Well she looked at me like I had two heads and says "what?" I said "you said you had to get a rain sheet set up or something?" She got a big smile on her face and told me that a rain sheet is just a confirmation that she could load us in the rain.
My wife's been laughing at that all weekend. You see, sometimes I can be an idiot..........sometimes