jeffgordons24
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So today I nearly got into what could have been a big accident.
We had a customers truck with a bad clutch. Now a truck with a bad clutch can be driven by a skilled driver, you can either start it in gear or throttle it in and once your rolling you don’t need the clutch. When you need to stop you shift into neutral.
So needless to say I don’t have anyone other than myself capable of doing this so I had to step in. All went well until I went to shift into neutral and the shift mount on the transmission let go (the owner drove it for a while with the clutch failing) and I couldn’t shift into neutral. Thinking quickly I turned off the key but the truck kept running (another shop had done some wiring for a trip logger and I found they crossed the acc and ign terminals)
Engaged the air park brakes, pumped the brakes did all I could to make it stall and it just kept going until I was running out of parking lot. As I nearer the apron of my lot I shifted focus to timing it just right and avoiding an accident. I was ready to take out my truck if I had to hit anything (this would be less paperwork) tried to honk the horn of course it didn’t work.
I somehow managed to bob and weave my way into the street barely missing 2 cars. So aside from a few a sore hand and ankles from pounding the brakes I made it out unscathed.
Conveniently none of my co-workers saw this take place when I got back and asked so I pulled the footage from my CCTV system.
We had a customers truck with a bad clutch. Now a truck with a bad clutch can be driven by a skilled driver, you can either start it in gear or throttle it in and once your rolling you don’t need the clutch. When you need to stop you shift into neutral.
So needless to say I don’t have anyone other than myself capable of doing this so I had to step in. All went well until I went to shift into neutral and the shift mount on the transmission let go (the owner drove it for a while with the clutch failing) and I couldn’t shift into neutral. Thinking quickly I turned off the key but the truck kept running (another shop had done some wiring for a trip logger and I found they crossed the acc and ign terminals)
Engaged the air park brakes, pumped the brakes did all I could to make it stall and it just kept going until I was running out of parking lot. As I nearer the apron of my lot I shifted focus to timing it just right and avoiding an accident. I was ready to take out my truck if I had to hit anything (this would be less paperwork) tried to honk the horn of course it didn’t work.
I somehow managed to bob and weave my way into the street barely missing 2 cars. So aside from a few a sore hand and ankles from pounding the brakes I made it out unscathed.
Conveniently none of my co-workers saw this take place when I got back and asked so I pulled the footage from my CCTV system.
DUDE !!!! 
