Good Cop Bad Cop

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

I had flagged down Mike, one of the maintenance guys here at Goodman manufacturing. My trailer was empty and I needed to do a small repair. But I needed a clamp. I got some plastic tape from Joe in the welding shop, but I really needed something stronger.

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My tractor drivers side fender was loose and touching the tire!  The front brace was broken near the frame.  Mike drives up on his golf cart, and I asked him if he had anything better, like a clamp. He said he's going to look for some duct tape. So we drove off for about 10 minutes and came back with really wide black tape. Mike is a retired cop. Sometimes he can be a "bad cop" and swipe some supplies; sometimes he can be "good cop" and be helpful.

So I wrapped it real good with the red plastic tape. Then wrapped over that with the wide black tape that kind of resembled duct tape. I knew it's was going to be pretty strong when I left Goodman manufacturing. I knew I had seventy miles to go till I got to the shop.

I started going down the road and watched the fender the whole time I was going back to the yard! It stayed solid as a rock. The whole 75 miles even though the truck was bouncing around, the fender stayed straight and the tape held.  I got to the yard we had to cut the tape off just to look at where the break was located.

A lot of times in the trucking industry you just have to do what you got to do; to get to a truck stop, a shop, or back to the yard. You always want to have a good roll of sturdy tape to tape up air lines, parts, or anything else to get you down the road temporarily.

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