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jon f mn

jon f mn

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If you get to your pickup and your trailer looks like this. This trailer was in a wreck so they sent me to pick it up and get it delivered. When I got there the towing company wouldn't release it because they hadn't been paid. They hadn't been pain because nobody reported it to vehicle maintainance because the driver got fired so he just left. Dispatch only knew the trailer was abandoned, and claims only knew the tractor was totaled. After a couple hours getting everyone at Dart to talk to each other I got the trailer released. Then to find a trailer repair place in Lamar Co. in the Se corner of the state, kinda just left of the middle of nowhere. I did find a place tho, but they put a young kid on the job and he knew very little about how to fix this. I wasn't exactly the best customer because after watching him struggle for a while I became a machanics worst nightmare and started offering advice. Lol He did get it fixed good enough to get the load delivered and to a repair place where they can do a thorough repair.
 
Oops, the pics. Lol
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Was there supposed to be a picture attached?

Regardless, I have been in a situation before where I actually stopped the mechanic and took the truck away from him. He was doing more harm than good.
 
Had something like that happen to me. Had to pick up a trailer that needed welding done before I took it. Kid obviously didn't know how to weld and I offered to crawl under and weld it. He walked off and got the shop manager and they drug me out to the waiting room while they hacked it together.
 

They fired the driver for a little damage like that? Pickie, pickie. Friends that have both a trucking co. and a veggie farm near me have been running trailers through their shop all year. Every time I go in I jazz them about when are they going to finish that trailer they've been working on for months.
 
It really bugs me when I take something in to be repaired, and I end up with more grease/dirt on my hands than the idiot that is supposed to be working on it. Only took it in because I was too lazy to fix it myself, or needed some special tool I didn't have. Needed the feeder house floor on 6600 JD combine replaced, took in the tin for him, and he still screwed it up, made him tear it out and redo it while I supervised, they tried to charge me double, they couldn't do that either.

Dick ND
 
How in the world was the tractor totaled when the back bumper of the trailer was only lightly scuffed??? Last I checked these go at two different ends of the trailer!
 
Kinda like "take jumper cables it's been at the drop yard a while and the battery is dead". Nope, battery was good, had to prime the fuel system. But it was dropped in a snow storm because the brakes are so rusted up the only way they will release is to hammer on the adjusters after emptying a can of blaster on each wheel. "Can you take it?" Yeah, just let me back the trailer brakes off and dead head home and I'll think about it.
2 of the 4 trailers on that lot that day had to have road service come out and put all new brakes on them right there.
 
Read the post, hmmm, I've heard about this before, scrolled down to the pix, yep, saw it on welding site the other day. You should have posted the spliced line pix, here, too. Quite a crew there.
 
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