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I wonder if this is another Meritor axle on the recall list? The story on Metro News specifically states the investigators are blaming an overheated wheel bearing as the cause. I happened in a remote area so the fire crew could not save the load. Speedloader sent in a link to another article about the same fire. Apparently these two trucks left a bit ahead of him out of the same terminal.

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Actually, here's how Saturday night – early Sunday morning went down: I did a highway load Sat evening, then came back for 2 city loads. On my first city load, I blew a steel coolant line at midnight. By 3 am the service truck determined we couldn't fix it where I was so we called the big hook in for a tow. By 4am, the service truck was dropping me back at the yard for another truck. As I was pre-triping the another rig ( got that flat drive tire fixed Rob!  ), 2 trucks left the rail head loaded in front of me. A Hansens (Canada) truck, and an East Can truck (Canada-Newfoundland  http://www.eastcantrans.com/ ). Apparently, the East Can truck only got a few miles up the highway before the fire started. Ironically, that burnt out Land Rover on the last top trailer position was left behind the night before by a Thorsons truck because he couldn't make it fit in the enclosed trailer. It WAS a nice Land Rover. Oh well, Cah Cah happens. And yeah, the mechanics around the corner seem to be leaning towards yet another Meritor hub. Also ironically, I had a Meritor hub go bad in almost the exact same spot 4 years ago !! I was lucky and caught the smoke puffs in the headlights of the 4 wheeler I was passing at the time. By the time I got to the side, 1/2 mile, the hub and the axel were toast, but I got the fire out because it had only just started. The East Can burnt spot is where we loaded my load onto the another truck.

Whew – some weekend this turned out to be.

SL

A smoldering TUCK …. my gosh … you must be over 50 ! But don't forget, as far as us ol' farts are concerned, it might all be down hill from here …. but you pick up speed going down hill Bro !!

SL

Post it up on here and let us all read it.