Electric Chicken
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Parts and such. I bought wiper blades, and scanned the receipt with my bills for that day's load.
Got them premium RainX ones.
Do you find the quality of truck drivers on the road to be decreasing?
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Got them premium RainX ones.
patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
You mean they let you put your own wiper blades on,im shocked.I'm not teasing you just think it's ridiculous a company don't trust drivers to do A simple thing as changing a lite and I bet road brkdown does too.Parts and such. I bought wiper blades, and scanned the receipt with my bills for that day's load.
Got them premium RainX ones.
Electric Chicken
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I rebelled and did it before they could say anything.
Electric Chicken
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But they reassigned that truck so I found it and yanked 'em back off until I got reimbursed.
Electric Chicken
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F*ck all if I'm gonna do free labor for someone else's truck.
Electric Chicken
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But anyway they're in queue for my current truck aka spares ever since they paid me for 'em.
Duck
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On the last Van Wyk truck I drove I replaced the wiper motor. It happened to burn up when I was passing through Illinois on I-80 so it was only about a 40 mile detour to haul ass home, snap a picture of the VIN number, hop in the car and run down to the Volvo/Peterbilt dealer before they closed. Night dispatcher paid for it over the phone. I went home, swapped it out and still made the rendezvous point before my clock ran out. I was relaying a Sioux City to Boston load, that I'd picked up in Des Moines, to a guy in Toledo.
Later the boss said they normally don't want drivers doing anything but the simplest of repairs but that load was behind schedule already, and they known me for 11 years. It was one of those loads that has to keep moving pretty much non-stop halfway across the United States to make delivery on time, usually the fault of Tyson not having enough bilingual plant supervisors, to put it in the most "politically correct" terms...
I'm not positive but I think the boss had payroll dump an extra hundred on my check for that.
Later the boss said they normally don't want drivers doing anything but the simplest of repairs but that load was behind schedule already, and they known me for 11 years. It was one of those loads that has to keep moving pretty much non-stop halfway across the United States to make delivery on time, usually the fault of Tyson not having enough bilingual plant supervisors, to put it in the most "politically correct" terms...
I'm not positive but I think the boss had payroll dump an extra hundred on my check for that.
patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
How long did it take to change motors?You saved the company alot of time and money plus they paid you so that's a good thing.
Duck
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I don't remember.
I just remember it being a lot less of a pain in the ass than I had expected it to be.
Especially since I was doing it at night, in the wind and rain, with a propane lantern on the engine for light.
about the only thing i did many years ago, regarding wipers was not the motor, but the E-clips that hold the transmission arms onto the pivots. i had actually back then a small parts assortment of clips, cotter pins, etc. took only a few seconds to fix. then i warned my co-workers about thier e-clips, and showed them how to replace it.
patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
You know how shops are,they never have the part and either has it overnighted by FedEx or some delivery person brings part the next day.By the time all said and done,you're down for two days with a high Bill for the employer.
since i was a long ago mechanic, it was easy to replace such an inexpensive part. in fact, i know i have many of those small parts still. i do not however appreciate climbing up onto a steer tire to do anything like that again. in fact, it has been years since such an e-clip ever broke off again.
patriciajnsn
Steering Wheel Holder
I had the wiper motor go out on me in the pouring and I do mean pouring rain.Found a place to pull over and called it a day.Never rained after that but it was sure a mess outside.Had to stop every so often and clean the windshield.Jason my boss wasnt about to have the motor fixed on the road.I had to wait till I got back to his shop which was almost two weeks later.
Duck
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If you're incapable or unwilling to climb up on a steer tire you have no business driving a truck in my opinion.
Unless you're ten feet tall, it's the only way to access the wiper blades when they need attention, and on most trucks, to top off the coolant overflow. Or to get dead bugs off the windshield.
when you've done this crap as long as i have, you too will not wish to climb on any steer tire. as far as bugs on the windshield, this is what those long poles are for with sponges on the end, and of course, a garden hose.
as far as replacing wiper blades, this is what the shop is for.
i touch no more than i have to or need to.
Fredl
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90 minutes waiting every Time
Fredl
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We have a Cleaner to clean Cab,and Wipers at Workshop
Electric Chicken
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We have a detail bay at our terminal but...they're not as particular as I like. So I use them for the worst of it then go over it again myself.
Fredl
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Cut an Apple in half and wish over the Windscreen will hold the Water off it
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