Truck Shop
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A discussion in the shop today about drive lines and pto shafts caused me to remember this incident.
A fuel tanker company I worked for some years back had a driver that failed a drug test, the owner put him
through rehab to help him out and hired him back when passed. About a year later this same driver was at his house
with a load of gas on and decided to bump to load and pump some in a 55 gallon drum. For some reason he noticed
the glad seal/packing leaking on the pto shaft driven Roper pump and decided to slid under and tighten the sleeve on
the packing.
Well he got caught in the pto shaft by his jacket, he went around with the shaft and wedged through the
frame rails several times before the shaft for his luck broke. It ripped every stitch of clothing off him and needless
to say it broke dame near every bone and severely fractured his skull.
He lived but he was a quad and brain damaged. He lost his wife, kids, home and his life all because of
drugs and helping himself to gas that wasn't his. It was his choice but what a shame.
A fuel tanker company I worked for some years back had a driver that failed a drug test, the owner put him
through rehab to help him out and hired him back when passed. About a year later this same driver was at his house
with a load of gas on and decided to bump to load and pump some in a 55 gallon drum. For some reason he noticed
the glad seal/packing leaking on the pto shaft driven Roper pump and decided to slid under and tighten the sleeve on
the packing.
Well he got caught in the pto shaft by his jacket, he went around with the shaft and wedged through the
frame rails several times before the shaft for his luck broke. It ripped every stitch of clothing off him and needless
to say it broke dame near every bone and severely fractured his skull.
He lived but he was a quad and brain damaged. He lost his wife, kids, home and his life all because of
drugs and helping himself to gas that wasn't his. It was his choice but what a shame.