now that we are on our way home, let me tell you guys a little about it.
it took us 16.5 hours to drive home because of 3 reasons,
1. we first took off and as soon as we hit the highway, i started to get up to speed and then it happened, the trailer went all haywire on us and jerk violently back and forth, jerking the back of the truck back and forth and at on time it actually came up onto 2 whhels on one side of the trailer, i tried stopping by hitting the brakes and thats when it got worse, so i let off the brakes and it slowed down a bit so i let off the gas completely and it all stopped, it took about 15 seconds of throwing me around to get it all kalmed down, but we saved the tank, but we now could not go over 53 miles an hour all the way home.
2. the truck hardly pulled the tank, so every hill we hit, it slowed to 35 miles an hour and i had to shift down to second,
3. we went up hills for about 2 hours into P.A. and then the snow storm hit, it was so bad that we were down to 15-20 miles an hour and there were no street lights on rt80 there, so i could barely see, were traveling slow as can be, and then i started seeing things, i dont know if it was my lack of sleep, or just the snow playing tricks on my eyes or the fact that i was sooooo cold, it was so cold out side that the truck barely put off any heat, and what was coming out of the dash i had to direct to the windshield to keep the frost from forming, so i ended up opening the window to keep me awake and was just driving sooo damm cold that when i thought i saw a truck with no lights on the middle of the highway i slammed on my brakes and slid with the tank for about 20 foot, and there was nothing there, i could only see about 20 foot in front of the truck and it was snowing so hard, i was tired, cold, and miserable. and from that point all i could think of was pulling over tp find a place to sleep, but i kept on going,
4. now the new problem, im driving this truck and sliding all over the highway, and the tank weighs close to 4000 lbs on the trailer behind me with no trailer brakes, the trailer plug on the trailer was a 4 prong plug and the plug on the truck was a round 6 prong plug, well we bought a adapter to have b rake lights and so on, but the adaptor did not let the trailer brakes work, so if i started to go down a steep hill, even at 20 miles an hour and i tried stopping or slowing down the 4000 pound tank was just going to keep on pushing us till we hit the bottom of the hill, there was no way i was going to stop it, so at the top of every hill i had to slow almost to a stop to see over it to tell if it was too steep, and the only thing i was going to do was pull over at the top of the hill and just sleep in the truck till daylight and the snow melted before attemting any more driving. but as i was going slow with the driving a huge snow plow came onto the road right ahead of my and we follwed that for a while, it was definatly a scary night.
