Broken driveshaft

Broken drive shafts, rear ends, axles, etc. All stuff that could be pre-existing. Could have got stuck 6 months or a year ago. Or someone else driving it before you had their foot slip of the clutch on a hill with a heavy load and were lucky enough to keep it in one piece. The fact that it didn't take too much for it to break on you is a good chance it was all ready f....d up. Most bosses that have been around for a decent amount of time will know this. If they give you grief, it's because they don't like you or they just like to be on their high horse. Next time this happens, try putting a chock block behind the trailer wheels. Dig a hole in the snow where the chock block is gonna go to help keep it from sliding. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

 

Wow. I've had a yoke break and a weld come apart, but never that!

Driveshaft are something that can fatigue overtime with abuse or heavy loads. Welds crack, ect.... If they let you go for it you're better off somewhere else.

 

Happy new year to you too.

Anymore info you can shed on the fatigue issue?

 

Dont have much info for you. it was several years ago. As i said, the truck barely made any noise when it broke. The truck stopped without commotion. Broke stub between the tube and the spines? The driveshaft shop replaced the broken stub. They didnt replace the female slider. Repair tech said it was fine. Apparently he was right, never had another problem with it?

 

I had a drive shaft twist like that when I was driving a tanker in the late 90s. It was a full load and I was stopped at a light on a steep uphill in WV. Started in 1st gear and it twisted. Maybe from the surge but it looked like when you wring a string mop out.

 

Use to occasionally drive a Kenworth Tri-drive that had a drive shaft that was protected by torque fuses. The shaft was split and coupled by two circular plates that were inter-locked by three special bolts that could shear to protect everything else. Great idea and easy to replace. They would shear occasionally.

 

I just got fired from paschall truck lines (ptl) cause I got stuck on ice trying to hook up to trailer and I got out truck trying to get tow truck from the comp to send and my team driver got in seat and tried to get it to move and made truck jump and broke drive shaft but since my name was active driver on Qualcomm I got the blame. It got fixed the next day and drive for 3 weeks and came home and they called me today and fired me. Wtf breaks and 3weeks later I'm fired and my team driver won't tell them he was the one that broke it so now I'm jobless looking for a job so PTL dnt go. I thought it was good but after this bs I won't send no one there. I was trying to get ppl to come but I told them nm.