Horrible Work Day

For me I've had my share of rough days at work, because I guess no matter what kind of job you work at your going to have your shae of rough days. I've had my share of different jobs throughout my entire life but my worse day at work has got to be the job I'm working at now which is an environmental field inspector.

I was getting ready to go to oil site, to do some base inspections, concrete testing, compaction testing and geological surveys. I usually get into the office early before everybody else because the majority of the oil sites are roughly a 1/2 hour to an hour outside of town.

I had to be to the site before 8:00 so I was just casually driving without a care in the world. I came to the intersection that led to the site and its company vehicle and oil site policy that when you come to an intersection or a stop sign you must come to complete stop if you don't and your caught your vehcile gets taken away from you and you get suspended.

I was coming to the intersection, and I was gradually slowing down. i tried to come to a complete stop and pressed the brake pedal all the way down and nothing happen. Oh Shit, I have no brakes. Thankfully I had slowed down enough that I could take the turn into the road and thankfully the road proceeded upward, so my vehicle came to a complete stop. I put the vehcile in park and noticed smoke coming from the vehcile. I thought well I just lost my brakes so the brake pads or something was overheated. I proceed to call the office and tell them that I can't drive onto the site with busted brakes but as soon as I picked up the phone I noticed more smoke coming from my vehicle and I seen flames.

The first thought was to get the hell out of the vehcile because that morning I had just filled up the vehcile with a full tank of gasoline so I literally ran as fast and as hard as I could while I watched my truck and everything in it literally burn away to ash. Thankfully the vehcile didn't explode. but it was totally and completely ruined.

It was just a rough day, because supposedly it was the first time one of the company's vehicles had caught on fire and the company I work for is international so the incident made its way to the CEO. There was just so much paperwork, meetings, investigations, and the fact I worried my fiance to death. The few days afterwards, I didn't have a vehcile so I had to walk to work, but overally I'm glad I came out of it ok.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Anazai

Wow. Crash Landon that sounds like the most horrible day ever. I would have been fuming at the mouth if I had to deal with those guys. And Angel of Light: did you ever find out why the car went up in flames?

There was a month investigation but they couldn't really determine the cause. Initially they thought that there was some of friction within the brakepads that caused sparks and could of ignited something within the vehcile. The funny thing is when they examined the brake pads were still intact and not burnt as initially thought.

What they concluded is that it was some sort of engine fire, and that the fire had burnt through the brake line and thats why I lost my brakes. They concluded that the vehicle was already on fire from underneath as I was driving it. Its their only reasonable conclusion since they couldn't determine the real cause because the vehicle was completely ruined.

I'm not a mechanic, maybe someone is on this forum that could shed some light on the subject, but this topic is not about discovering the true cause of my situation. I just hope nobody had to go through an experience at their job in which their own life was in danger.

How ya doing, buddy?