Went over to the shop to see if they had worked on my trailer yesterday evening. Nope. It was still sitting in the yard. New crew in there today. The boss was back. He had me hook up to it and bring it into one of the bays. Four guys started right in on it. They also did an inspection too. Found a bunch of stuff wrong with it. While two guys worked on replacing the bad, and broken wood on the back deck another replaced the two bad tires. Another was underneath inspecting. He found that the front axle driver's side breaks were low and needed replacing. Also found a wheel seal blown on that side. That was a real dangerous one. Could have left me stranded. On the passenger's side, front axle, the breaks were not even working! New pads on it and never been used!! The guy that replaced the two bad tires found another tire that was bad too and replaced it. Then he took the wheels off the front axle and replaced the breaks and wheel seal. The guy underneath greased it and worked on the break that wasn't working. When all that was done they started to replace the wood on the bottom deck. When they took the old wood off they found several very serious frame defects. The boss was summoned and he looked at them and placed the trailer out of service indefinitely. So I ended up getting a different trailer. Fortunately it was a lot newer. The broken one was a 1993 model. The one I got to replace it is a 2010 model. Much better shape!! It is longer than the other one too. Pulled the broken trailer out to the yard and dropped it. Hooked up to my new trailer and swapped all my stuff over to it. It was now after lunch time.
Headed over to pick up my next load - the one I was supposed to pick up yesterday. Loaded a Hyundai 290 Excavator. My gross weight with this is 110,840 pounds and I am 10 feet, 6 inches wide. It's a biggie. It is going to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
By the time I finished I didn't have enough time to beat the Harrisburg curfew so I went back to the Petro truck stop in Carlisle, PA for the night. By the time I got there I felt like I was run over by my truck. My back was aching as well as everything else! Took a long hot shower, that helped. Then went to bed very early!
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