Something not often seen

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher) 10/23/2019 at 16:17 • Filed to: Rust monster

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A Semi tractor with body rot. Usually they mile out before the rot like this.

WilliamsSW > shop-teacher 10/23/2019 at 16:21

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I honestly thought those things were mostly composite - at least the OTR tractors.  Yard and local I see rust on - especially locals.  

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > shop-teacher 10/23/2019 at 16:27

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I honestly thought that panel was a composite like the faring.

I live in NE where everything rusts and I honestly can not remember ever seeing a semi on the road with body rust.

shop-teacher > WilliamsSW 10/23/2019 at 16:28

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The skirts are composite , and those are what are down on the ground getting blasted by salt , but the cabs are metal.

shop-teacher > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 10/23/2019 at 16:33

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I think the reason we don’t really see this, is the cab is way up out of the salt, and the trucks typically mile out before the rust sets in.  

T5Killer > shop-teacher 10/23/2019 at 16:52

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What is this RUST you speak of?

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > shop-teacher 10/23/2019 at 17:08

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“Crotch Rot”

shop-teacher > T5Killer 10/23/2019 at 21:12

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Its a vi cious monster that is slowly dissolving the rocker panels of my poor truck :/

T5Killer > shop-teacher 10/24/2019 at 12:17

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So sorry to hear about your truck :( 

shop-teacher > T5Killer 10/24/2019 at 12:43

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Thanks. It's a huge bummer.