| Author | Message | ||
     Koz5150 |
So how was your day???  | ||
| Oldog |
bwahhahahahahahahaha  | ||
| Seth |
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| New12r |
My place of work is a bunch of stiffs, A kid pulled a little wheelie in the parking lot and got fired!!! I dont dare a smokey burnout, way to go Koz. | ||
| Bruce_bueller |
S... L... O... W...  | ||
| Kenb |
for the last 3 weeks i've been commuting to manhattan from western jersey. what a freakin nightmare. the traffic is so bad that i park my bike at a train station and ride an hour on the train to get here, incredible can't do it much longer | ||
| Dark_vapor |
Arghhhhh. Lots of hair pulling today. Putting in too much overtime I don't get paid for, and to top it off regulators are coming in for an inspection next week. | ||
| Ara |
The only time my new boss utters the truth is when it is personally advantageous to him. He has spread discord wherever he has been in my organization. My day, my week, and my job have suffered tremendously because of this man. | ||
| Ceejay |
I laugh, my job "requires" me to have a degree, for which I have one in Bio/Chem, yet if I spend four years with my dog and 20,000 dollars I am pretty sure she could do a much better job. | ||
| Hdbobwithabuell |
I've got a ton of work to do but have decided to read badweb posts instead. Good thing no one here is really smart enough to know the difference.  | ||
| Koz5150 |
I guess the pic wasn't showing earlier today. Server it is hosted on went down. Now it's up though! | ||
| Swampy |
I'M glad you asked..... The head Queen Bee decided that due to budget cuts, she wasn't going to let our 3 man unit continue doing roadside safety checks. No big deal but we all have a personal profficiency quota that needs to be met by 12/31/05, or else we have to spend 2 weeks being retrained at something I've been doing for the last 20 years. The joke is that the activities have no funding hold, and they are funded by other sources. So now....I just drive around aimlessly......looking (At the scenery  ). BTW...thats my first clipart insertion....so thats a good thing....right? (Message edited by swampy on October 22, 2005) | ||
| Sportsman |
Sorry swampy, but I enjoy when you have no direction. Like you said before about "Barney", there are plenty of WAYYY out of bounds carriers out there. Keeping you funded to find a "potentionally bad" S cam bushing, cripples hard working Americans. Since 9/11 I've actually made a little money with the Baltimore tunnel cops busy looking for terrorists and letting me do my job. With you doing busses it may be different, and after seeing what happened in Texas, your job can be very serious indeed. Keep up the GOOD work, but keep it in context to let people that are just going to work in the morning make a living and not part of the bugetary process. Thanks | ||
| Swampy |
Sportsman, I think you got me confused with someone else, I don't take anything out on anybody. I really do appreciate what the American Truckers do. You guys can be gone for months at a time, not seeing family, getting "Pimped" by brokers and carriers, who are trying to maximize profits and cut expenses(You), hasseling with dispatchers, and getting messed with by the other guy(Barney)who is trying to boost his machismo. The looking I am doing now is the color changes. Not equipment! Remeber...the program is suspended!  | ||
| Sportsman |
Gosh, I really need to learn how to word stuff better. I didn't mean to make you feel you needed to defend yourself. What you do is important and needs to be done. I gave up long hauling 15 years ago for the abuses you mentioned. Now I run a 20 mile round trip, over an over an over. Boreing as it could be, but alot better than road work. Trouble is a DOT check each way. That's 10 times a day wondering if the cop is in a good mood or getting hasseled by his boss to write more. I got a ticket for a tire at 68psi, another for 1 S cam bushing he said he felt play in. That's where I'm coming from with the theory that we're part of the state budget. Really it's been alot better the last couple of years, but you guys still scare me because I never know if I worked all day for the state or not. Please don't take any of this personally. I'm sure that YOU're objective is safety. That pen of yours has more power than the biggest Catapillar. | ||
| Swampy |
Ticket for an S cam bushing!!!? I could have fought that for you! There is no field check in the North American Standard Inspection proceedure for checking that. It only takes into account total pushrod travel. | ||
| Chasespeed |
That pen of yours has more power than the biggest Catapillar. I dunno, you outta see these 4, 3618 Kitty, pushing me arround now......thats sopem serious power.... Chase} | ||
| Sportsman |
3618! Damn! 3408 is bigtime in a truck. What are they, about 1500-2000 hp each? Impressive. But I'll still bet the Coast Guard can stall em' out with a pen. Like I said, it's been a couple of years. But $55 vs bucking a cop you might see again everyday? In principle, yes, reality...?. I think at this point they know my truck and let me go on about my business. Tunnel cops were given the authority and became part of MD state police for a time, but I think that changed back. For a while they sure acted like a bunch of Barney's. I'm just realizing how long I hold a grudge. ...like forever! That bonehead that wrote that probably retired 5 years ago and it's just stuck in my butt that they're highwaymen. I need a psycologyst. Wait! Since it was a state employee that caused the trauma, ya think I could get the state to pay for the therapy? | ||
| Seth |
I guess I can agree on the tire pressure thing (tire fire/blow out etc.) but what the **** is an "s" cam? You mean a slack adjuster? | ||
| Sportsman |
It's the splined shaft the slack adjuster pivots on. The other end is shaped like an S to seperate the shoes when the slack adjuster is pushed. It rides in little nylon bushings. | ||
| Chasespeed |
3618! Damn! 3408 is bigtime in a truck. What are they, about 1500-2000 hp each? Impressive. But I'll still bet the Coast Guard can stall em' out with a pen. They are big time alright...V-18, tiwn turbo(each turbo about 36" in diamter), weigh 15tons a pop... they churn out 9900kw(about 10,000 hp), and I havent the slightest clue as to torque... They redline at 1050 rpm.... If I can get a couple pics, of them for ya, i will.... And as far as teh 3408s, yeah, I know about those..couple those to a 50mm water each, ina 11meter boat...and you are in some for a ride.. Let me re-iterate, these engines ARE HUGE... Chase} | ||
| Lpowel02 |
it's terrible...whenever I pull out of the parking lot for lunch or to go home, my "fellow co-workers" coming out of the building at the same time look over at me like I have three heads...   they need to lighten up... (Message edited by lpowel02 on October 24, 2005) | ||
| Sportsman |
Gad Zooks! Another off the wall thought. It's 10-20K to rebuild a "little" 3406 when it lets go. We could retire on what 1 3618 must cost new. Don't dare run them like you stole em' | ||
| Seth |
"...what is an "s" cam?..."... "...It's the splined shaft the slack adjuster pivots on..." OH now I remember. I got my CDL so long ago that I can barely remember how to even open a hood  Thanks | ||
| Light_keeper |
MAybe I am missing something but what has the Coast Guard got to do with it?  | ||
| Chasespeed |
Well, they are under warranty. The engine are made in Spain, by hand, IIRC. They are marine engines, OBVIOUSLY... IIRC, our gensets are 3408s...and we have 4(but usually only run 1...go figure)... But as far as the cost...yeah, I KNOW I could retire on the cost of ONE of these babies... BUT, we have done a couple power packs, bearings, cam gears... EVERYTHING is modular, in fact, when we smacked the valve, they replaced ONE piston, and the 2 valves...a bent pushrod... everything else was left be... Anyway, I have no idea what the Coasties have to do with anything...we ARE NOT subject to them... Chase | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Don't you have mandatory safety inspections for trucks in the US? every country in Europe it's obligatory on a 1 or 2 monthly basis with a full DoT inspection yearly. As for the tyre pressure issue, I've been driving professionally for over 20 years, & I've never seen so much Tyre debris on the road, than in the US, it's either bad maintenance, crap tyres or crap roads. Give me a Cummins & a Fuller/Eaton every time. | ||
| Sportsman |
Chase, AAAAGH! I thought you were on some kind of giant tug or something. My apoligies, duh. I should have check the bio. Navy, heck, they have tons of money and don't have to pay fines anywhere. Go nuts and see what it'll really do! Yeah we have 25,000 mile and annual inspections (pay a guy to fill out a paper) But Swampy (not trying to single him out, just happens he does it for busses that's why I been babeling at him)does it on the side of the road for free and lets you know what the mechanic missed....not for free. Grumpy, I'd bet you were near a port city. OCEAN CONTAINERS! For some reason it seems like you could pull a 7 tire'd, overweight, trailer, with no lights, and not get a ticket. They run bias ply caps and are allowed a 10,000lb grace on overweight with the allmighty paperwork to make it safe. Talk about lunacy. A port is BIG money for a state that has one and all of them tend to make allowences. Believe it or not, states compete for port volume. And just like in the real world, "easing compliance regulations" (a'hem shortcutting safety) vs customer cost is a factor. AGGH! All my negative views are surfacing. This HAS been therapy! | ||
| Chasespeed |
Navy, heck, they have tons of money and don't have to pay fines anywhere. Go nuts and see what it'll really do! Well, first, we know what it will do.... Second, for some reason we are restricted to a speed of only 33 kts for normal transit... which sucks... But, this is my last cruise on her, and I am trying to make the best of it, but THEY are making it hell.... Oh well... Chase} | ||
| Koz5150 |
This thread went from doing burnouts to... Hell, I don't even know...  |
