| While I was driving my engine from the district out to our three Mile 9 Rx units I could hear a strange noise coming from the truck that turned in to a vibration. I pulled over immediately to check it out and found all of the lug nuts on the drivers side back dual wheels were very loose and the wheel was wobbling on the drum. The morning checks were done on the vehicle prior to it leaving the district compound except for the torque on the lug nuts, that happens on Wednesdays, so just a visual check of the tires was done. The safety issue and near miss of this incident was the fact that this engine had been on the units the day prior and was driven back to the district in the late evening over a very steep and winding mountain highway in this condition and there was no mention of the noise or vibration until I brought it back in. It was only then that the driver from the previous night said "Oh, I wondered what that noise was." |
