8 September 2011
Once again I am sitting in the Huskey Truck stop/Super 8 Motel in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. I come here for the night if I can manage because they have free wifi, which allows me to communicate with my loved ones. I think Loneliness is by far the hardest thing to deal with in this job.
Yesterday while I was driving from Pittston, Pennsilvania to Buffalo, New York; I stopped to get fuel. After about five miles I started to smell deisel, and I was fairly certain my fuel gague was going down faster than it should have been. I stopped again, to make sure the fuel caps were on tightly. They were, and so I kept driving. Still I felt that my fuel gague was falling faster than it should so I stopped again in Waterloo, New York to check the tanks. It was not raining there, which was part of why I could not tell if there was a leak or not, any puddles were taken away by the rain. Well When I got out to look I saw a generous portion of some clear liquid dripping off of my fuel tank on the driver's side. "Oh great." I thought; "that's a serious leak." But just to be sure, I dipped a finger in the puddle and sniffed... It smelled like Deisel.
A few hours later I was in the shop, and the mechanics asked me to come show them where I had seen the leak. When I showed them they started laughing. What I had seen was the bleed off from the Air conditioning condenser. The water was dripping only partialy off the fuel tanks, and it was there that it mixed with extra deisel that was on the tanks, which is why I smelled fuel...
So basically, I am a moron, or at the very least a mechanical dunce... which I knew anyway. But it was frusterating being laughed at by the mechanics, I think that lots of people who have a specialty tend to think that because it comes easy to them it comes easy to everyone... How could I not have known that the black tank beside my fuel tank was the AC condenser... I -am- a truck driver after all... Well I didn't know, and there are lots of things I don't know. BEing able to drive a vehicle does not require that should be able to take the engine apart and put it back together....
That all being said, the humor of the situation is not lost on me, and i'll be laughing about it in a while... for now i'm just chuckling.
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