I use mine every time.
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Maggie’s park brake, use it.
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So do I. I have done enough LTL and local deliveries to know that the parking brake is the TOP PRIORITY before I exit the vehicle.
People doing this line of work knows how potentially devastating a single slip up will be. You are at the back loading a hand truck. That vehicle rolls back even a little bit, you are fucked. You only got one life man, you DO NOT want to screw it up, especially due to something that could be 100% prevented.
Years ago in NYC while walking my dog at night a station wagon pulls up and stops across the street.
One adult and a toddler in the front bench seat of the car.
The adult puts the column shifter in park and jumps out to give a package to a woman waiting in the doorway.
The toddler stands up on the seat moves over and grabs the steering wheel and starts rocking it back and forth, he then grabs the column shifter and puts the car in drive.
The car rolls away with the adult in chase ends up crashing into a parked motorcycle and pushing it into a parked car.
Nothing happened to the kid but if that was in a modern car the airbag would of shot him through the back window.
One adult and a toddler in the front bench seat of the car.
The adult puts the column shifter in park and jumps out to give a package to a woman waiting in the doorway.
The toddler stands up on the seat moves over and grabs the steering wheel and starts rocking it back and forth, he then grabs the column shifter and puts the car in drive.
The car rolls away with the adult in chase ends up crashing into a parked motorcycle and pushing it into a parked car.
Nothing happened to the kid but if that was in a modern car the airbag would of shot him through the back window.
When I was a young man my buddy and I were out on the town, doing what young men do. This cute girl pulled up to the 7-11 as we were driving by and got out of her early 70’s Camaro. Just as she jumped out of the car it started to roll out into the street. We slowed down to keep it from rolling into our car. She is chasing the car, desperately trying to get the door open to get back in and get it stopped. Her deeds fell short. She fell in the middle of the street, her Camaro went all the way across the street and slammed into the building across from the 7-11, crushing the quarter panel, rear body panel, tail lamp, etc...
I looked at my buddy and asked him, “Do you think this is a bad time to tell her she has a nice ass?”
I looked at my buddy and asked him, “Do you think this is a bad time to tell her she has a nice ass?”
Before I was career fire I was a volunteer. My real job was an auto mechanic. After I went full time fire I did that P/T for a whle cause fire don't pay the bills. I worked in a Toyota dealership. On those cars using the parking brake kept the service brakes adjusted.
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Once left my Mustang GT in neutral and w/o the parking brake. It was a mostly level parking lot. A couple hours later the UPS driver asked who's car was in the middle of the parking lot. Lesson learned. Fee was minimal.
Try driving an 02 F250, manual shift.
Set the brake, put in 4hi, and reverse. If you do all that, it just might be where you parked it when you get back.
Set the brake, put in 4hi, and reverse. If you do all that, it just might be where you parked it when you get back.
My grandma had a 72 Monte carlo, 350 with a four barrel quadrajunk carbeurator. It ran good for the most part but the auto choke in cold weather would sometimes slowly rev the engine while idling when she let it warm up. You could just pat the gas and it would drop to normal idle. She worked at a department store in town and on her way to work stopped by our house for something, left old blue idling and warming up. I came around the house with my trusty 760 pumpmaster crossman bird whacker and thought, damn maw maws car is revved up high. Then somehow it jumped into reverse, slinging gravel and arcing leftward and 30 yards later met Mr oak tree. It centered the tag on the rear bumper, folded that trunk deck in about 3 feet. Needless to say she didn't make it to work that day. Lesson learned. Cars can jump into gear! Had the wheels been turned the other way I don't know if I could have got out of the way. That bastard was hauling ass!
Maybe I should show this to my father. Every time we're in my car or truck, he tells me I don't really need to use my parking brake and that it stretches the cable when I do. Although you'd think that he'd know better, given that he's had two trucks roll away when they popped out of gear.
As a mechanic you know what I see. I see the whole system rusted up from no use, then when the day comes you need it, your fucked.
Yep. I do not trust compression to hold a 7,500 pound vehicle.Try driving an 02 F250, manual shift.
Set the brake, put in 4hi, and reverse. If you do all that, it just might be where you parked it when you get back.
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