Ever have one of those nights where it's literally one thing after another, non-stop? Well, here's a couple highlights of mine. For starters I'm in my "old" truck because my "new" truck is in the shop for a failed steering linkage part at only 30K miles. Built F@RD Tough
First car of the night loaded and to the storage lot, going through the gate, the lot attendant hits the gate button and literally closes the gate on the car I've got on the hook. Swears he didn't but I know he did; there was nobody else there when I pulled up. I jammed on the brakes at the exact right moment that the gate stopped at the sidewall of the tire. Any further ahead or behind and it would have hit the fender. No damage, but I was still REALLY pissed off..
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Second vehicle of the night, somehow managed to pop the hydraulic system on the wrecker, just after loading. Had made it around the corner and set it down to re-grab, opened the claws, and they didn't sound right. Yup.. so now I'm sitting in a parking lot around the corner from where I just loaded, with the boom on the ground, extended, and disabled.
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Hydraulic fluid all over the engine compartment and of course all over the ground under the truck. Not sure if a hose burst/split, or something else is going on, it certainly wasn't anything I was gonna fix on-site.
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About 45 mins later with the help of a co-worker arriving so we could lift my boom up (which required me cracking open one of the hoses off the valve body so the fluid in the cylinder and lines could escape) I got a couple straps under it, secured to the frame rails, and limped the thing back to the shop with the boom sticking out, and swapped trucks to another so I could finish my shift.
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Many more gory details to a really long night but most of them are just typical every night BS.
Richard