stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?

The second load i'd ever pulled was my 1st time to the caves in independence,mo needless to say I was very nervous especially when I seen the dock in the rock. I set up best I could worked with it til I had clutch leg and finally success I had made it.....oops forgot to open the trailer doors. I had to pull all the way out of the hole open the doors and do it all over again.

 

one time after i had backed into an insanely tight spot at a warehouse in chino, ca. after dropping the landing gear, somebody came up to me to shoot the crap for a little bit. i somehow thought that i had disconnected both air lines and power cable. so i walked around to the other side of the tractor to pull the kingpin. upon pulling away, i felt the hoses rip right out the back of the tractor. i felt like such an idiot.

 

Just this morning, I performed another of my "Every Ten Years" screw-ups.

Pilot, Binghamton, NY. Hadn't been there since about '99. But didn't know back then you had to circle around the block, so to speak, to go south on 81. So, I went north to the next exit and flipped around.

This morning, 4AM, in the fog, I did it again. I just KNEW that street I turned around on at the next exit looked familiar.

One good thing I did was scale my 31000 pound load (according to the BOL) just to make sure it was every bit of the 43000 it felt like. It was. So I was one for two for the morning.

 

About seven yrs ago at the Flying J in Carney's Pt. NJ while I'm fueling this smoking hot blond asked me for directions. Well I couldn't stop looking and thinking about her as she walked away. Somewhere south of Baltimore a driver calls out for me on the radio and asks what's that hanging out of your fuel tank. I told him it was a souvenir from this smoking hot blond. My friend has that fuel handle hanging on his wall of his shop. I guess I had a blond moment.

 

Well... in my first 6 months i snapped 3 sets of airlines because i was so ingrained in the habit of how i unhook that any deviance from that flustered me and i just forgot the airlines.

I pulled right into a suburb in houston, and then backed off the nice, pretty road, over their curb, into some woods to uturn to get out of there... >.> I got applause from some of the curious locals who had wandered out to my screaming about 'effing wrong effing directions'..

And...

I sat trying to go up the driveway into a home depot for 45 minutes, not realizing that instead of 1st, i had my toggle up, and was in 5th. THAT was fun.

That was all my first 6 months... Im better now, i swear. >.>

 

i JUST WATCHED a JB driver set up and attempt to back into a slot here at the pilot........
there was a dropped trailer in that spot

 

As I was dropping my daughter off at her new job this afternoon, saw a gas hauler pulling away from the cross-street stop light with the cap off of his right side fuel tank. He must've just filled up, cuz there was a LOT of diesel sloshin outta that tank.

We were six cars deep in the left hand turn lane, so we couldn't follow after him to let him know, and after dropped her off, backtracked a lil ways too see if I could find him again, but never did.

 

Probably not the stupidest thing I've done, but...


When I was hauling fuel in Super B trains (140,000 lbs) I thought I would get a head start on the next day's delivery by getting loaded at night, then I could avoid the line-up at the terminal in the morning (read: sleep in).

Everything went fine until just after I had left our yard and I was in traffic. Waiting at a light on an incline, I was worried about rolling back when I started so I applied the trailer brakes. I waited a second too long to release the brakes and that's all it took to spit out the driveshaft.

It was after the tow truck left with my broken truck that I realized I had also exceeded the posted weight limit for the bridge I crossed by about 35,000 lbs. (in the normal course of daily activity I was always empty crossing that bridge going to and from our yard so, although there were signs, it didn't register). Woops.

Umm, and we won't mention the company policy violation of leaving an unsecured, loaded tanker in the yard overnight.


A hat-trick FTW.

 

lol. I had never done it before, well not that I remember anyway. I just sat there, pissed, over and over letting the truck die wondering what the hell was going on.

Didn't even register to check the toggle.