12/21/2009

Well the day started out right.

I took off about 1am and made it over to Jackson/Richland, MS about 5:30. The directions were about the weakest I've encountered so far. They weren't really bad, but not specific enough to be as helpful as they could have been. Fortunately there was a Walmart not to far down the road and made a uturn in their parking lot and made it to the consignee before the traffic got started. As I pulled into the consignee my check transmission light went off on the dah board. I shut down the engine and restarted it and the light went away. Good enough or so I thought.

The unload was a bit of a pain because the crane they used was very limited. Once unloaded I headed over to a nearby Flying J on my way there the bloody light went off again and the transmission disengauged. So I coast over to the break down lane. I try my restart the truck routine and now at least the transmission would work. But................................ it wouldn't go above 5th gear. If you haven't guessed by now I drive an automatic. I made it over to the Flying J and sat around for about 10 min. I sent a macro off to Fleetnet. call the boss and let her know and then drove down to the Freightliner dealer about a mile away. I spent the normal amount of forever sitting around the dealership and still wasn't told a thing. finally about 6:30 I asked what the story was the nice lady behind the counter told wellllllll

"They've got some battery cables being overnighted here."

Oh really. When did we do this?

"About 2 hours ago."

I usually take a good long time to get mad. But this put me into the express lane. I've been sitting here for 2 hours with my thumb up my *** and nobody bothered to tell me. Grrrrrr I didn't say anything to the lady behind the counter because my anger would have been misdirected. Anyway off to a motel for the night I went.

Now as a side note: What the hell battery cables have to do with a transmission problem is beyond me. As we have spoken of before my mechcanical ability could be contained on a head of a pin

I've went through a spate of this repairs of late. Here is hoping that the new year sees a reduction. So far this is shaping up as one of the worst quarters I've had.

Now the real question is ..... Will they get the damn thing fixed in time for me to make it home for Christmas.

Here's hoping

Bookerz out