What do you do if your in a parade, with say 5 old guys riding in the back, waving at the crowd, and suddenly the truck conks out?

No sooner then I decide the best I can do with my truck is a Sunday drive and an occassional parade: Then the next night I have this dream.

I woke up right as the marching band came to a complete stop on my tail gate.

I know this has got to have happened somewhere...do people off the street leap forward and give you a push to the next side street? Do you make the old guys get out and push? Maybe just get out, slink away, and have a friend find out where the truck is the next day?

What would you do?

Stylesider

 

I would get the old guys out, you said there were 5 of them correct. That means they could each have a letter to push on, C.H.E.V.Y.

Than I would get the nearest Ford to haul the old boys in and make it the best damn parade ever.

 

This reminds me of a funny parade thing that happend to my co-driver and I a few years back. We had a load that needed to be deliverd asap to a company in Harmony Pa.

So we arrived in the wee hours of the morning backed up to the door the night reciver unloaded us. Us not having any reload plans yet we asked the reciver if it would be alright if to park till morning,he said no problem tomorows a holiday we were the last truck expected.

We go about sending dispatch a sat-com message to wake us up when he decides what to do with us,we were right burnt out (we came in from BC in 57 hours). So we hit the hay. All of a sudden we wake up to the sound of "LOUD BAGPIPES" I look at the clock it's 11:30am the sat-com was beeping. Urgent Message our pickup was about 70 miles away and we had to be there before 2pm. So we kick the tires and light the fires.

We pull out of the plant make the first left and find ourselves looking at a road block and a wall of people. Independance Day parade,Well that explanes the bagpipes. My co pilot jumps out and ask's one of the parade marshals if theres any other way out of town for a big truck. Of course the answer is nope! My co-pilot explains our delema to the marshal. He gets on his two way my co-driver hops back in the truck looks at me and say's "HEY WHERE GONNA BE IN A PARADE"

After 2 marching bands 3 floats and some clowns were in! We meander through town "HONKIN" and waving for about 3 or 4 miles then we get a police escort out through the crowds to the hwy

 

> What would you do?

Check my points, fuel pump, and fill it with gas.

 

We had this happen to our Fire Chief's vehicle on memorial day. Our 97' Explorer had it's alternator puke in the middle of the parade. Luckily we had quite a few guys there to jump out and push it off the road. We radio'd for a flatbed and left the driver with the vehicle and marched on. It was pretty hilarious at the time.. it was a first. Although our antique truck frequently tries not to make it to parades with various problems, but it always does ok in parades.

 

Well the closest I got is this weekend car show and parade called "Burn to the Point" and these guys in their nice cars and trucks all line up to do a nice burn out to end the evening and they are all showing off ( I wish I had a picture) and they start doing their burn and it gets pretty smoky - about 50 cars - and lasts for like two minutes then they called in the fire truck to put out the Chevy Nova that had a 454 and burned up his tires and started the car on fire. A few guys also lost trannys and rear ends but it sure was fun.