Re: Update on mice in a farm truck

Posted by wisbaker on May 06, 2017 at 08:51:16 from (173.30.119.179):

In Reply to: Update on mice in a farm truck posted by GA Rick on May 05, 2017 at 14:23:51:

this reminds me of one of the family stories that would get told at the holidays when my dad and his brother were still around. My Grandparents ran a garbage collection company (it was later bought out by Waste Management). By city ordinance they had to rent a barn at the landfill from the city to keep their trucks in and the had problems with rodents in the shop. My Uncle David would say how in the morning when you got in your truck you could hear the mice scurrying out of the truck. One of the trucks started stinking something awful, Dad and Uncle David cleaned it out, scrubbed the mats, put mothballs and air fresheners and it still stunk. For some reason Dad and Uncle David were working together on a route one day and Dad was getting into the right side of the truck just as Uncle David was plopping down on the seat on the left. Dad said he got a whiff of something particularly foul. They jumped back out and tipped the bottom cushion of the seat up and found it full of dead headless rats and maggots. Seems the rats were getting up in the seat and when someone sat down for the first time in the morning the rats that had their heads between the coil springs in the seat got their heads cut off. Dad and Uncle David pulled the seat out of the truck on the spot and threw it in the back of the truck and brought it in without a seat. Once back at the shed they informed Grandpa where the seat was and if he wanted it back they'd dump the truck out on the apron and he could pick it out and clean it. They ordered a new seat from International got a little more proactive about rodent control after that. They ran a fleet of International Trucks, they had one that kept losing it's brake lights and it was always the switch on the master cylinder was bad, this was back in the 50's and the trucks had the master cylinder under the floor board and only ONE truck needed a new switch every 2-3 months. One day one of my Uncles was out helping the driver and had jumped up on the running board to go to the next stop and the driver told him "hold on I'm taking a leak" my Uncle looks in the truck and the driver is peeing through the hole in the floor board (above the master cylinder). When they got back in that day my Uncle told Grandpa they'd probably have to change a lot fewer brake switches if he told the driver to stop peeing all over the master cylinder.

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