This morning I put my truck in the engine shop in Fargo so they could find the source of the coolant leak as well as get my heat working again. I was literally freezing in my truck.

It pretty much took all day for them to do the repairs and to test to make sure it was really fixed. They had to replace the thermostats and the radiator cap. They thought the head might need to be replaced (again) so they put it on the dyno and tested for compression. Turned out the head was ok this time.

Once I got the truck out of the shop I backed under my trailer and got set to start running for PA. As I pulled out onto the highway I noticed that the trailer looked way too close to the road (low boy trailer). I glanced at the suspension air gauge and it read zero. Hmm, maybe I forgot the flip the switch. Nope, switch in correct position.

I toggled the switch a few times to no effect. Great. I pulled into the Petro to check it out. I could hear the air leaking badly from the air bags. Wonderful.

I am now sitting in the Petro shop waiting for them to replace all four air bags. They had ruptured when I backed under the trailer. This is pretty amazing as the load is quite light. They said they had simply gotten brittle from the extreme cold. It happens.

Dispatch, the broker, and the customer are all going nuts at this point as they were expecting this load delivered right away. Shit happens, but I still had to field the phone calls all damn day.

When I called dispatch to tell them about the air leak, after spending all day in a shop, I think he just gave up.

Like the man said, if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.