WOW L.D. I'm printin' this one out and takin it in to work on Monday!
I don't even know where to begin fellas.
I started Thursday with a part time driver whom I "trust" tellin me I was going to be madder than hell when I saw my truck ....hopped in my normal Mack after a long hiatus where they replaced the Trunnion and other suspension parts, among other things that a truck needs after 190,000 and 28,000 miles and hours My freshly painted shiny drum had been taken off and laid on the ground, hence scratching the paint and decals up beyond belief, my Inverter for my phone charger was gone (but was still in there the day before when the truck came back from the main shop!) my chipping hammers were gone, my brand new fire exstinguisher was gone (which the shop had put in there), my water hose was gone, my gloves, both driving and rubber, HARD HAT gone. Map, flashlight, hardhat, tire gauge, and light bulbs in the interior lights, GONE. Everything was there the day before, so where the f u cktard did it go? So I go back into the building and raise hell, and I'm told that I take a risk to leave that stuff in there, and that I have no recourse blahblablah bl ah blah. So, I go haul mud all day, and the air hopper don't work, and the engine is running rough, and when I start the engine, the starter drags and doesn't want to start it. Generally the truck has been put thru the mill. So I go by the maintenance shop, and speak to the mechanic, he checks the electrical stuff, and notices that it's running rough, so he pours a bottle of injector cleaner in the tank, and tightens the battery cables and sends me on my way. My radio hasn't worked in this truck since about 3 days after I got it (4 months) and so I went by the shop un-announced (how else was I supposed to go? if they'd fix the radio I could call that I was going there)
So I get back to the plant and talk to my boss about it and INTENDED to say " Yeah, I went by the shop for a bit, my starter's dragging and on it's way out, but rob said not to worry about it" What came out what was something along the lines of "yeah, i went by the shop for a bit, my break's dragging and is on it's way out, and he said not to worry about it" "truck's grounded" "Um why?" "Just go get in the spare truck" "ok"
About halfway up the hill I realize, O nuts. I f'd up I said break not starter, WHY did I say THAT, god gotta go back after I get this truck ready since we're haulin buggy today and let him know I meant starter, and not break/brake. SO I get the old girl fired up and do the PTI gauge says full fuel and I hear "plant 1" so I scoot over there, and fill up the water tank real quick and trot on inside and the mechanic is coming in the other side and I go "rob, I got to tell...."(was going to tell him that i blabbed the wrong word to my boss) and he cuts me off "YOU DOUBLE BARREL SON OF A pregnant dog BACK STABBING MOTHER TRUCKER YOU TELLIN PEOPLE LIES ABOUT ME X-NAY BLANKITYBLANKBLANKSNABTISFLAKERNABBERDRILLITYEESNNND" and off he storms upstairs, and i look and about 3/4 of the drivers are sitting down all like this
at me.
My ticket dropped, and I was out of there, I washed down reallllly quick and scooted back over to the front side of the plant thinking "i'll go up there and i'll have this straightened out in 30 seconds and everything will be ok" so i go up there and my boss is running the plant and rob is sitting there eating a hot dog. He sees me and squeezes the dog all over the table, and starts screamin and yellin again "get the truck out of here I dont want to speak to you, blankity blank snarfinflagghen" so I go "rob, look" I aint lookin at nothing, get out of here before I kick your ass" "lemme say this" "NO GO" I then kinda lost my cool and hollered "all I said was have a slip of the tongue" and then my boss turns around and is like "the customer comes first, and this mud is in the red, you can either go haul it, or go home"
SO I go haul the mud, and I get to the job, it's a jobsite from hell, ended up backing up under a school, with a hole knocked int he side for the truck, and I get in there and they're like "three chutes" "no prob" so I unlock the chute and raise it alittle and start putting chutes on, and I lock it again and I hear a pop, so I hit the buttons, nothing, no control at all, so here I am with a chute that's stuck down, and thingyed to one side, so can't pour the mud but straight down, need the mechanic, but the mechanic wants to kill me, so what do I do? I tell the guys, "oh well this is what you've got to work with, sorry" So two hours later, I'm done, and I notice the fuel gauge is still reading full, so when I wash out I check how much fuel I got, um... I got like 2" of fuel in the tank and i'm 20 miles from the plant, ohhhhhhh boy says I
So i wash out real quick and take off and the first gas station I saw I threw $10 worth of diesel into the tank, on my dime, just to keep from running out. Made it almost back to the plant and she started sputtering, pulled up to the pump and it died at the pump, wow... So I get my fuel and go to cranking, and it fires up, running like crap, but running, so I go park it and go in and tell my boss and the first thing he does is say "come into my office" and then I had to explain the whole break/brakes/starter thing, and yadda yadda, and I say "to top it all off, 106 is screwed up now, too chute wont unlock or go up or down" and he just says "when it rains it pours, I'll ry to straighten things out with rob" go wash out that truck and find another one" So I go out and hit the key and what do I hear "pssssht" and "click" go out back and the chute is working again, SIGH. hit the lock button and "pop" well at least it's not thingyed ot one side anymore.... SOOOOO I go get in my normal truck again, and I haul a load, and lo and freakin behold I'm driving along and I see smoke behind me, so i pull over, and I got a brake dragging, pull over and I'm just standing beside the truck "I just cannot believe this" I grab my cell phone and tell my boss "you're not going to believe this but......." so I put-put to the job, get the load off and put-put back to the plant, and get into.... yet another spare truck. So I haul another load with this one, and I'm driving along and BLAM blapblapblapblap a tire blew out, when I checked them all, so I had to put put back to the plant again and my boss is just like (>.<) "HOW can you kill three turcks in ONE day?
?!!" "I have no idea" "you're cursed, go home and enjoy your holiday, see you monday SHESH!"
All I got to say is, I didn't know so much sh!t could go wrong in only 10 hours.
Do apologize for he mispellings verrrry sleepy
?!!" "I have no idea" "you're cursed, go home and enjoy your holiday, see you monday SHESH!"