I went my first 3 months without missing a shot, and now I've only hit one of my last four and that last one wasn't even on time. Every time its a different problem, so while I'm learning to troubleshoot its extremeley frustrating to have 2 trucks that never work. I was sent out the door yesterday at 4 to shoot a vo/sot, edit it, feed it back, and go live at 5. It wasn't breaking news. It was about holiday travel at the airport. I did everything as efficiently and calmly as I could and could not get video on my monitor. I remembered that I could go straight into the transmitter and was able to jimmy rig my shot after finding a cable that actually worked. I have calmed down now, but at the time I was a chicken running around with my head cut off. I shot the vo at the airport, sprinted back to the truck to start raising the mast, sprinted back to find the reporter who was getting the interview, then sprinted back to try and fix one of the many problems with our trucks. Every time I use the truck something new is broken, changed, or missing. The chief engineer came out to make sure it wasn't operator error (since I'm new), and between my 5 and 6:30 live shot he determined almost all of the trucks cables to the mixer were bad. Originally I was worried people were thinking that I was not doing my job properly, but I've had it reaffirmed that I am doing everything I can be doing. Now I'm just pissed that I'm being placed in ridiculous time constraints for no reason with trucks that have masts disconnected from the transmitter, all bad cables, and engineers that don't know how to recieve live shots on the other end. I am speaking up to management, but its a learning process in itself to figure out who to speak up to. I'm trying to fix the problems rather than place blame, and though I'm learning how the truck is wired, I'm not a trained engineer, and was not hired as one. I'm actually starting to get paranoid that they're purposeley messing with the truck to see if I can fix it. Good Practice I guess, but it would be nice if our trucks worked at least once a week. Ok, I'm done venting, and I'm glad I don't have a live shot today.