Columnist Porky Cutter returned from the South Atlantic Well Drillers Jubilee once to find out an entire water well drilling rig had disappeared. Source: iStock
The guys were moving a rig from one site to another and while going up a hill on the highway, the U-joint broke. Of course, the rig stopped. Looking in the rear view mirror the operator saw the driveshaft lying on the highway. Not a big problem at this point … the operator just needed to pull the emergency brake, right? Wrong. Back then, the emergency brake was a part of the truck transmission output shaft. Therefore, no driveshaft, no emergency brake.