Posted by Bruce from Can. on February 22, 2018 at 07:44:05 from (76.69.31.140):
In Reply to: Run away diesel!? posted by 56oliver on February 22, 2018 at 06:43:55:
Older fella I know , used to drive high way tractor , hauling gas to service stations in the early 60's. They put him in a new truck, a Diesel , only the second Diesel truck in the fleet,all the others were still gas jobs. The tankers at that time all pumped with a PTO pump driven off the tranny, so the truck was left running while unloading , to power the pump. He had been on this new truck about two weeks , and was putting a load off one evening at a station . Very calm summer night, no breeze at all. Told me he went up on top of the tanker and opened the air vents , got every thing set up, back into the truck to engage the pump, all is good. Then all hell starts to break loose, truck engine revs like wild, tries to shut it down , but there is no killing it, and it is running away. He takes off running, and she blows. The blast when the tanker blew flattened him , next thing he knew, was waking up in the hospital. The cops , his company ,and their insurance company wanted to know if he was smoking while unloading the gas, they were all sure he was, but he said that he wasn't. Week later the other truck in the fleet blew up same way. They figured gas fumes from the tanker, were being drawn into the air intake of the Diesel truck, and caused it to run away. No more pto pumps on those big trailers, and I have no idea what they do now, perhaps gravity ?
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