My shoes should be dry in about an hour.


AND they'll have that fresh-roasted aroma we all love to wake up to!

I never set my trailer brakes when I pull into a truck stop. I stopped in Wytheville a couple of years ago got my stuff and pulled out. I thought hmmmm my trucks running funny. Hit the interstate ...man wheres that smoke comin from? Someone hollers on the CB that my trailer is smoking. I pushed in the brake and said thanks...I'll stop and check it out!

Might be when I moved my truck loaded with hot chicken grease with the dome-lid open. I realized my mistake when I seen grease running down the windshield.

Was in the FlyingJ at Apharetta, GA with a flatbed load. Tried to retighten the load with snap binders. Leaned all over the snapbinder putting everything I had into locking that binder. Well, you skaters know what happened next. I took the hardest shot to the jaw that I ever could imagine. Ive been in a buttload of fights and was never off my feet. This time tho, I got KTFO!

When I came to, I was on my knees staring up into the sun. I guess my eyes were opened for so long that they didnt work. I couldnt see. My senses slowly returned and it dawned on me that my head was in the wrong position. I started to panic, "OMG my neck must be broken!" I figured as soon as I moved my head, I was going to die. Another driver walks up , "Hand, are you okay?"
"I dunno."
"What are you doing? It looks like you are praying in the middle of the parkinglot"
"Cheater bar slipped off the snap binder. Just making sure my neck isnt broken."

Broken jaw. Neck was fine. Never happened again.

Originally Posted by king81

I was loaded with 44k of copper coils on my first load ever, the engine light came on, dispatch directed me to the Volvo dealer. The techs told me to pull around the building, it had rained the night before and they had a dirt lot, as i pulled into the lot the truck sinked like an anchor. I some how I worked my way out after building some momentum rocking the truck back and forth. Got to rolling in reverse a couple feet I said what the he!! I could probaly make it out going forward. That wasn't a smart idea, once again I got stuck. The volvo dealer and techs were dying laughing. They called a tow truck out for ten minutes of work he charged $250.00. I paid it out of pocket in fear that my company would fire me.

I once had to hook up to a trailer, it was sitting in a dirt lot, and the ground was sopping wet. I was in a JB Hunt cabover with no nose. I got out there in middle of the mud, and the drive tires started sinking. By the time I hit bottom the tractor was practically vertical, with the windshield pointed at the ground and the drive tires sticking straight up in the air. I'll just say I had some explaining to do, but I managed to not get in any trouble over that one.

Just came off 4 days at home. Friday, got my notification from the Feds that I could get my HazMat endorsement. So I did. Made a copy at home to give to my DM.

Left to come get my 1000 mile, 2-day load this morning (Monday).

Oops.

Driver's license is still in my copier, 74 miles away.

Load is gone. I'm sitting. And wifey will have to bring the license to me when she gets off work at 5PM.