roaddawg54
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Our terminal had all of our nice tractors taken away to terminals that don't have a shop. We have been told that we are getting their tractors in return. Well thats a flat out lie, The tractors were getting are very old high mileage equipment and its obvious that they have been sitting in a lot somewhere for a very long time. The shop is overwhelmed with the work they have been doing to make these clunkers " roadworthy".Almost every tractor is getting major work done to it to get it back on the road I heard that one of these fine pieces of equipment needed in excess of $ 15,000.00 of repairs to get it back on the line. A rig I was driving has almost a million miles on it. Now you could argue that trucks are designed to last that long and I might agree with you if they have been well maintained thes clearly have not been well maintained. Also these rigs have been sent out without proper permits, we have had several drivers cited for this and I heard a road driver was delayed at a scalehouse untill the proper permit could be delivered to him. The kicker was when i finished my day friday and parked I see this beast of a cornbinder ( international) sitting on the ready line for some poor schmuck to drive on monday, it looked like a circa 70's truck and painted that godawfull red that had faded very badly and yes there was a big puddle of oil underneath it. ( SEALS AND GASKETS DRY OUT WHEN A TRUCK SITS FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS SOMEWHERE) And finally someone who was bringing these wrecks in mentioned to a hostler that one of the tractors he was bringing he pulled from the middle of a field where the weeds around it had grown about 5 ft tall all the way around it. I hope and pray that someone driving these does'nt have a catastrophic failure in one these. And I have a sneaking suspision that some of you drivers are going to become known on a first name basis at the local truck scales.....opionions anyone?