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Third Trip, First Attempt
When you plan on a trip, you get ready to have a successful trip. But what if the trip has an unexpected event?
7/10/20252 min read
TRIP #3 First try
3/25
Ready to head to Oklahoma, does mean everything is ready to go to Oklahoma.
Packed up and ready to leave, and we headed out about 8:30 AM. The truck had the trailer in tow, which was loaded with more of our personal possessions that we couldn’t part from, yet. We had two cats with us, Midnight and Iyore, ready to head to their new home.
The truck hesitated a bit when we went up a slight incline, we both thought it was just downshifting because of the added load. The rest of the drive didn’t seem to have any issues, and we continued on our way. We drove for about 30 minutes, and then the truck really started hesitating. And suddenly Bill said, “I lost power”. The truck electrical system went out. Here we were, cruising down the highway, and the power just stopped, and the truck's momentum carried us to the freeway’s emergency lane. Pulling off the freeway as far as possible to be out of the traffic, we parked the car and got out of the vehicle toward a fenced field. There we called AAA, and we told them we were pulling a utility trailer. We let them know our location, but they said they would have to leave the trailer to be picked up by us at another time.
It concerned us to leave the trailer on the highway, so we called our friend Deanne. She had a Subaru with a hitch, and didn’t live too far away from where we stalled. She arrived in under 30 minutes, we loaded the cats in her car, hooked up the trailer and she drove us home. Meanwhile, back on the highway, William stayed with the truck and waited for the tow truck to come. It seemed the tow truck driver didn’t have a solid idea where the truck was located, so they needed to be contacted again and redirected.
Eventually the tow truck arrived, hooked up the truck and safely took Bill and our truck to our local mechanic. They determined the main fuse went out which then damaged the voltage regulator that then caused damage to the alternator. And to think, it all started with the coils giving out. Several thousands of dollars later, and three weeks later, our truck was repaired, and we were ready to try again.
Lesson Learned: Have towing coverage to help get you, your family and vehicle to a safe place in such an emergency.