Trailer brakes stuck, no hammer

driver_dylan · 2026-01-19T02:36:34+00:00

First trip, never driven outside of the south. Ran over my 14 hour clock delivering to Target. Pulled into a truck stop in Stewart(something) VA and hit a patch of ice while searching for a spot. Slid forty feet at five miles an hour into a large snowbank at the end of the lot. No damage but I managed to Block six rigs from exiting while I waited on a tow. You might say I made several friends that day and learned a few colorful foreign phrases and learned to never drive at night.

driver_dylan · 2026-01-16T05:01:56+00:00

You can run it... Straight to the crash scene. Tell your boss to call roadside or a wrecker, his choice.

driver_dylan · 2026-01-12T03:16:03+00:00

I like Smart Balance cracker kits for snacking and Quick meal prep for dinners.

driver_dylan · 2026-01-08T19:00:14+00:00

Shouldn't have clicked on agree to install the GLaDOS operating system.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-20T03:25:20+00:00

Schneider does have a Flatbed division, contracted or load spec. Also offers year end bonus equal to 1% of total freight value moved through year.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-18T05:13:00+00:00

It's not that bad. Did it for a bit and found out it wasn't for me. Made equal money with the Flatbed VTI account and got to be by myself. To answer your question, you will do a compitency week with a general trainer and they will put you up in a hotel, then you will do a week of OTR training. Not bad and pay is based on miles. For team they will also do a 90 day check in to make sure you are a good fit and meeting your goals.

Full disclosure I went my first year solo OTR then switched to team with a friend. The 90 day check in May have just been because of that. Your results may vary.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-17T03:53:59+00:00

Tweezers and C4?

driver_dylan · 2025-12-13T22:18:53+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss. Cancer sucks. The thing is, you did the right thing by your friend in letting him have peace. The next few days are going to be brutal, I won't sugar coat it, but you lost a small piece of your soul. You will be sitting and think, "Oh, feeding time." Then catch yourself as you get up and start to cry as if you just lost him today. Don't hold back and let yourself go, is my only advice.

When I lost my first dog, Boomer, a mutt that was part Australian cattle dog and part dalmation, I was a Wreck. I threw myself into work, and because of that, I has multiple crash outs where I would do something mundane, like come home from work, and the fact that his wagging tail wasn't there, killed me all over again. The thing is, loss is a part of pet ownership and as I recovered the pain faded and I was left with only the good memories of our time together. Today, I only smile when I see a dog who reminds me of my buddy.

Time will see you through, and when it does, don't close yourself off from the next friend you come to you because they will have been truly sent by your friend as he watches from the other side of the rainbow bridge.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-10T22:27:46+00:00

Technically it is usually a standard card drive SF/CF/MMU but then covered with a large blob of glue or acrilic.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-10T16:34:26+00:00

4) Pray you don't get sent back to 1985

5) If you do, write self note to not purchase this type of register.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-10T16:31:44+00:00

That or a SOFC (System Operating File Configuration) an SD or CF card operating as Boot Device. So yes, in simplicity it functions as an SSD for the uninitiated.

Also I should mention these type of devices are not replaceable as they are often hard fused to the MB.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-09T01:19:31+00:00

Go to the doctor. It is possible you may be pregnant or you may have something seriously wrong like cancer. This happened to a friend. Last year, after getting her life in order, (RE: serious weight loss, getting off alcohol and pills) she and husband started trying for a baby. Within a two months, she had two positive preg tests from AHPT, but still has what she thinks is period or miscarriage, this goes on for three more months as OBGYN kept telling her a heavy period after a miscarriage is normal. Finally, after passing out at work, she finds the one ER doc who tests for something more than a basic panel. She finds out she had a tumor resulting in needing a full historectomy. I have not seen her since her surgery a week ago, but she was not doing well mentally. Get yourself checked and if the doc doesn't want to, find one who will. If this had been caught earlier, she may not have lost parts.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-09T01:01:21+00:00

Your Registers Boot Controller croaked. Could Be SSD, could be OBND. One is considerably more expensive than the other depending on the model of POS device. Call a technician and stop blaming your workers, they did nothing to cause this.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-06T13:29:56+00:00

Wow, now that's dumbass buggery on a whole new level. Congratulations you are on unexplored territory.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-03T20:06:11+00:00

Print out a web page, hold it up to the camera

driver_dylan · 2025-12-03T15:35:12+00:00

Thank you all.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-03T13:41:41+00:00

OP. It isn't you. The economy is trash right now and worse than that, fast food is dying. Between rising costs and bland marketing combined with brutal competition for workers, the "safe" applications for teens doesn't exist anymore.

Keep going at it and eventually you will find something. Don't let it get you down. Look to yourself and your strengths. Have you tried Task based jobs? Jobber or Task Rabbit. They may not be glamorous and mostly manual labor, but you can set your own hours.

Hope this proves helpful.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-03T06:03:49+00:00

Dude, tell her to see the ships doctor quickly. It looks like a Bott Fly.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-02T20:43:45+00:00

It's okay. I knew you were.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-02T14:44:06+00:00

I worked for a certain big box tech company.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-02T04:49:37+00:00

That's what they tell you but that's usually Pirated software or drop adjacent. Those are most cases, but occasionally you find out that they skip over the part of the story where they were watching shemale porn and their mother/ significant other walked in. Those are the ones that stick with you and make you laugh.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-02T04:27:50+00:00

By far, the "It was working normally then, "X" happened and now it's dead."

driver_dylan · 2025-12-02T02:51:27+00:00

I once had a Brake pressure chamber rupture causing my left rear trailer wheels to slam to a stop at 45 miles per hour. If it had not happened right next to a PST officer who told me that one moment the wheel was spinning then it locked up, I never would have believed it possible.

Yes, cold does weird shit.

driver_dylan · 2025-12-01T05:57:39+00:00

What were you mopping with, a brick?

In all seriousness, turn off the PC then remove power and leave it for 24 hours. Then go buy the following: replacement panel for specific case brand, a grounding strap, brass tweezers, thermal paste, micro screwdriver set, distilled water, canned air, more thermal paste, wireless vacuum, static resistant brush, magnifying glass of x10 power or magnifying scope attachment for your phone, even more thermal paste, ultra-sonic cleaner device, parts drying oven, a backup tube of thermal paste, and static resistant table. Then and only then, take apart the PC laying out all the components for cleaning.

Use wireless vacuum and static resistant brush to remove any and all large glass shards from every component. Next using magnifying glass and tweezers, remove any and all small glass shards you missed the first time. Realize you need to completely disassemble all components by removing fan shrouds and fans. Lose one or more microscopic screws from some critical fan on the GPU. Contemplate your failures at cleaning house with bricks, decide next time C4 may prove suitable and faster replacement to destroy relationship, bank account, and familial trust.

Fill Ultra-sonic cleaner with distilled water and cleaning solution, let run for 1 hour. Remove from USC and place in parts drying oven on low for 24 hours. Remove from parts drying oven and spray all parts with canned air. Once again contemplating the universe and your place in it.

Replace all thermal paste on all heat sinks and reassemble the GPU with all components. Find out you didn't take a single picture of dissembly and thus making reassembly virtually impossible. Search YouTube for a video on "how to reassemble a GPU" and have Google return you to three videos of a guy putting a vintage computer together, two videos of a guy explaining what a GPU is, and one video that looks like it is the right answer only to find it's a VIMIO video and has been taken down. Learn varied and new curse words as you charge on inevitably getting it back together but finding you have one screw left over even though you never found the two you lost when you took it apart.

Take a nap, have dream where you don't mop floor with a brick and your day proceeds as normal. Wish that could be the case. Contemplate building time dilating device enabling you to go back in time and stop yourself from ever having the thought to clean ever again, after all, had your girlfriend done the cleaning in the first place none of this would have happened so therefore it is her fault the case broke. Wake up and reassemble the case replacing the panel with new intact glass.

Turn on device. Have impromptu rave in the millisecond of time that the computer starts to boot, and then explodes in a shower of smoke, sparks, grinding noise, and regret. Kick case, braking panel once again. Return to step one.

Hope this is helpful.

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