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Many of us have driven our trucks right out of the GL yards. Most of us service the trucks before doing so and visually inspect them to ensure their safe operation. However, what happened yesterday has led me to think driving the trucks out of the yard, before conducting a serious safety inspection, is a very bad idea. I bought an M35A2 some months ago. It was driven out after it was serviced and a safety inspection was conducted. I had the appropriate transit tag and insurance on the vehicle. Anyway, I've owned this truck for several months and have put quite a few miles on it. A friend borrowed it two days ago to tow bar another deuce home from Letterkenny. The truck made the trip without much trouble, but he did comment that the brake pedal felt funny at times...at least he thought so but was unsure. After getting the truck back, I crawled underneath to check everything over. I noticed some "wetness" on the inside of both of the right rear tires. A little further inspection revealed that the brake line was rusting away and a pin hole had appeared. I told him to push the brake pedal and the silicon brake fluid squirted out of the pin hole. I don't always consider replacing brake lines unless they need it. I know for a fact that I'll be looking over every brake line on every truck I own to ensure they are in serviceable order. Had he lost all of the brake fluid, he would have been a 26,000 pound (two 13,000 pound M35A2s together) bomb rolling down the highway. The moral of this story is that we really need to be careful when driving these trucks, but particularly before we really know the truck and have gone over it. I fear that too many of us simply buy these trucks, change the oil and fuel filters (maybe not even that) and then drive them like they are new trucks. Many of us have no big truck driving experience. For most, the deuce is the largest truck they have ever driven. I know these two things were true of me when I first got into the hobby nine years ago. Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know about an experience that I just had in the hopes that it may save someone some trouble.