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I had a bad day!

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Brickman, Oct 15, 2007.

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  1. Oct 15, 2007 #1
    Brickman

    Brickman Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Only a second of inattentiveness and the truck I was renting went from a nice truck to totalled truck (ins adjuster will be out in the morning, but I'm sure its totalled) all in 2 or 3 seconds.

    I had just made a corner and heard some thing fall to the sleeper floor. (it was my squirt bottle of cleaning solution) I was picking up speed and had glanced back once then at the road. I glanced back again and that was all she wrote. The road was narrow with barely any shoulder, and what was there was soft from the rain we've had over the weekend. Once the truck started in the ditch it was all over. I cramped the wheel hard left but to no avail.

    Not a scratch on me at all, but so much for my formerly nice truck.



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  3. Oct 15, 2007 #2
    bbkeo

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    That's not good. I feel for you. How much you think that's going to cost you?
     
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  4. Oct 15, 2007 #3
    Ducks

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    Oh, Brickman... I am so sorry! I'm just glad no one was injured.

    Now I understand why sometimes there are "soft shoulder" signs along the highway. That's just plain nasty stuff.
     
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  5. Oct 15, 2007 #4
    Brickman

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    $46 fine for failure to maintain a lane.

    State law requires you to drive between the white line and the yellow line. Like the cop said obviously I didn't do that.

    I snickered and he said if I thought that was funny he would write a "careless driving ticket and that was $1000 fine and/or up to 18 months in the big house if they wanted to do that to me. I assured him there was no need to rewrite the ticket.
     
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  7. Oct 15, 2007 #5
    Brickman

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    Not sure yet. $1262 just for the tow bill.
     
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  8. Oct 15, 2007 #6
    bbkeo

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    Dang that much just for the tow? Well atleast the ticket you got was only $46. I guess that's one bright spot. Hopefully you won't be down to long. Good luck to you.
     
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  9. Oct 15, 2007 #7
    Burky

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    Ouch. Add about 10K at least for the gang at the body shop. I assume from the pictures that the majority is cosmetic, but that still comes with a hefty price tag. Second picture shows it well, deep ditch and absolutely no shoulder there. Hope the wagon came out okay and doesn;t need any repair. Glad you were empty at the time, or the costs would really add up.

    Glad you're okay, trucks can always be replaced, but not drivers.
     
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  10. Oct 15, 2007 #8
    W5IT

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    :biggrin_2555: And I thought MY day stunk.

    I live off a road that has no shoulder like the one you were on. Once a wheel drops off the pavement it's all over.

    I sat several hours in court on a case I handled back in July. On the stand to testify for about 10 minutes. Of course by the time I got out of court the whole day was shot.

    Then after I got home I took Missy (My Boston Terrorist) outside so she could do her thing. Heard a noise from the road, looked up just in time to see a small pickup go spinnin across the road thru the ditch and into the woods on the oppisite side of the road. The driver was not injured and not much damage to his little pickup. He said he fell asleep and woke up as he was runin off the road. His wheel dropped off the road and when he tried to correct, he over corrected and away he went.
     
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  11. Oct 15, 2007 #9
    Etosha

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    Wow, thanks for the post... as awful as it must have been for you today, it sure is a wake up call for the rest of us.:shock:
    Sorry about your truck. I hope it all works out OK.

    One positive thing I see in your photo... the absence of cars on the trailer...
     
    Etosha, Oct 15, 2007
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  12. Oct 15, 2007 #10
    bullhaulerswife

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    Awwwwwwww Brickman, I'm sorry that your day was like this. :biggrin_2554: Thank god you weren't hurt. I hope that you can get it straightened out without too much hassle.
     
    bullhaulerswife, Oct 15, 2007
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