Most embarrassing moment as a trucker.

I was leaving a Fed Ex and my door swung open knocking a cheap mailbox off its post when I stopped at the guard shack. I didn't even notice and I thought the security guard was messing with me at first. This mailbox looked like it had been knocked off a hundred times before. A brisk wind could have taken out this dinky mailbox.

When he started to walk back to the guard shack saying he had to report it I started begging and pleading. It was one of those cheap plastic boxes you can buy at the hardware store for $9. I told them I'd buy them a new one but the only damage was the wood chipped under the two screws holding it down. I set the box back on the post and was about to run back to my truck to get my hammer and some improv nails when he says, "looks fixed, get out of hear." I thanked him up and down and drove out of there with my tail between my legs.

When I pre tripped the empty trailer I was taking out of there I just barely latched the door without throwing the handle back in the keeper. I didn't even mean to, was just careless and didn't fully latch it after peeking in to see if it needed sweeping.

I was so worried I was about to get a preventable on my record for .02 cents of wood under a $9 mail box. I'm glad the security guard was reasonable and let me go. I hate how some people want to start pulling out the paperwork when something so minor happens. I'd replace an entire fence out of pocket, right there on the spot before incident reports and phone calls and insurance all starts up.

 

Weird. Typing the word dink, auto populates a smiley??

 

Lesson learned, I bet you won't do that again in the near future
Road_runner over in the LTL section asked a sarcastic question few weeks back. " Mailboxes grow back right " They sure ####### do !

 

I still don't know how I missed this, but I once drove over 40 miles at night with a loaded reefer and BOTH DOORS WIDE OPEN. I still scratch my head as to how the heck I managed to miss the fact that not only did I not latch the doors closed, I didn't even close them.

 

I know a guy that had a door fly open and caught one on those industrial downspouts on the side of a building coming off the gutters from the roof. I asked him how much it cost and if they reported it. He just shook his shoulders and said, "I don't know, I just kept on going." Sheesh. Making us all look bad.

 

another time....I picked up an empty trailer at a drop and hook location.....did pretrip....trailer LOOKED CLOSED.....got about 1 mile down the road and some car comes screaming upto my driver side pointing to my left trailer door swinging about! WHOOPS!

 

Falling asleep in the drivers seat while parked at a fuel pump waiting for the truck in front of me to move. Heard a loud bang on the door and a very angry man telling me to move the f*** out of the way. I parked for the night cause I knew it wasn't safe for me to be driving till I got some slee

 

I have two. One was with the last big company I worked for. I was so tired from the pace they had me at that one day pulling into a store parking lot to get something to eat I actually forgot I was pulling a trailer. By luck or God's grace I didn't hit anything. The other was a couple weeks ago near Junction Texas. I saw what I thought was a brand new sleeping bag laying on the shoulder. You know the kind with that shiny plastic cover it comes in at the store. I pulled over, ran at least a quarter mile back to it then saw it was the remains of a water bottle case.

 

I hooked to a chicken wagon and took a picture. Most embarrassing day of my life....

 

This happened to me in 97 I was in Ripon CA at the Hook. I was Dead and I Mean DEAD TIRED. I had just delivered a Southern Route load of Cool Whip to Stockton and I was beat. The day before I had gone from Casa Grande to Stockton on 4 Hours sleep. Yes I was BEAT. So I set my Screaming MEANIE for 15 hours on LOUD you all remember that thing it had 2 settings 120 and 150 DB I had it on 150 and went to sleep. I was sleeping THROUGH it and had about 20 drivers shaking the truck going WAKE THE HELL UP DRIVER AND SHUT THAT THING OFF.