stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?

I'm gonna guess Volvo ain't like the others.

 

Volvo has a option called "pretrip" that you select to make all of the lights flash. I don't know of another manufacturer to add that feature.

 

Pretty funny stories!
Team driving- hauling a refer --we normally ran to California with dry freight and back with a refrigerated load
It was about the third week out as a rookie , I believe it was the route 70 to route 44 interchange in Saint Louis MO which was a hard left hand ramp and elevated curve that was just covered in potholes.
so as i am going down this ramp just a little to fast every time my seat would bounce down it would rebound about an inch higher than it was before, i just kept hitting pot holes and it kept raising till i literally couldn't reach the brake pedal and the seat belt was too tight to let me slide forward to reach the pedal.
I cant really remember how i got out of it, but i assume the other driver told me what lever or button to hit.
Apparently when i looked at the 2 seat controls, "Rock back and forth" i must have assumed that the other one you set for firmness- i didnt know you set it for your weight -- the last driver must have weighed in at about 300lbs cause that seat wasn't coming back down.

 

About a year after starting my current job one of our branch managers needed a load of concrete parking curbs delivered to our facility in Arkansas about 100 miles away. Our dedicated driver wanted nothing to do with it (as usual)... but I was new and literally jumped at the opportunity. I went to go pick the load up at the prefab concrete plant in our 18 ft box truck. The curbs were stacked on horrible pallets that couldn't be moved with a pallet jack. I knew little about DOT regulations or gross weight... so I ended up hauling about 12,000 lbs of curbs in a truck rated for 6,000 lbs with the entire load in the extreme rear of the box. The front of the truck was literally aimed at the sky and floated like a cloud the entire trip. Have no idea how I made it safely those 100 miles winding around narrow Arkansas back roads... but somehow I did. I learned some valuable lessons that day and will never pull such a "stunt" again.

 

God was watching over you

 

Pro Star has it, too - with lights off, hold the WORK button for five seconds. Handy feature.

 

I try it in the morning

 

Was backing my truck under the plant to get loaded (concrete mixer) noticed there was about 6" of sand and rock on the ground under the boot. I called for the loader operator to clean it out, but the batch man says "no, back under. I need to load you." So I back in. Hopper catches the top of the boot and bends all to he!!. Moral of the story: It's my assigned truck, I drive it every day.I know when it won't fit somewhere. And from now on I won't try just because some batch man is in a hurry to get a load out.

 

I saw someone get out their truck at a truck stop and it started rolling then he jumped into his truck fast and pulled the airbrakes but nothing major a lot of other drivers were like stupid rookie air brakes are yellow pull it and i was telling him everyone goes through that

 

I was making good time and I was fallowing my GPS and it said to make a right, so I did and ended up on a side road. It recalculated and said I could make the next left about 2 miles down the road. As I get to the point it was someones driveway. So I spent the next 45min driving in reverse. And I was late by 30min to my delivery.