A lesson learn by a rookie driver I hope...

you know what they say. "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink".

 

What to do? Pull out your 2nd log book.. What are you teaching this guy how to be a trucker or how to hold a steering wheel

 

cutting it that close i wouldve done what you are suggesting. Ive been into NYC 3 times, and knew from the stories it sucked on my first trip. Sometimes its best for the rookies like myself to just learn on our own and take our lashings.

 

I'd rather be "lazy" than stuck on the GWB out of hours any day of the week. Too bad he can't pull out the extra log book on e logs..

 

The George Washington Bridge is NOT a place you want to get stuck on, regardless of whether or not you are driving a car or a truck.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Had a situation like that last year. Had a run going from Corpus Christi to Limon,CO. Showed up to load, and realized that the other 2 drivers were pulling their first blades. They weren't rookie drivers, but they'd never pulled a superload before. Great...wish they'd tell me this stuff before we started. We got loaded, near 190 ft long. Didn't get a BOL until 3 PM. I told the pilot cars to call it a day, and we would try it again tomorrow. A couple of them looked at me odd. Well, one of the drivers came up to me telling me that the other rookie is pissed because we weren't leaving. "Ummm...okay?" , was all I said.

So a few minutes later, the hothead rookie comes up to chat....

Hothead: Why aren't we going anywhere?
Six: where is it that you want to go?
Hothead: Somewhere. We need to go.
Six: I understand that, but where is it that you want to go? If you have a plan, we will go.
Hothead: We could get into that truckstop in Junction, Texas.
Six: There is a metro curfew for Bexar County from 4-7pm, then we'd have to take the 1604 Loop east, north then west to I10 west, 56 miles on the 1604, then 110 miles to Junction. What time would we be pulling into the truckstop with a superload?
Hothead: About 9:30?
Six: Well after evening curfew has begun. The safest thing to do is avoid bad situations altogether. There are 2 safe places...shipper and receiver. We are still at the shipper. The load is safe.
Hothead: That makes sense.
Six: See you in the AM.

It takes a bit to figure it out, but there's more to trucking than just go go GO.

 

Too bad the dummy didn't stop at the last service plaza on the NJTP , I cannot remember the name myself, however, but nearly a stone's throw away form the GW Bridge.

Actually nearly ANY service plaza on the NJTP would have been better, past say the half way point. that should have worked.

Like said, you can lead a horse to the water, but when he has to pee, where does he go.??

 

Yeah that one is called the Vince Lombardi plaza, has a huge parking lot. It sounds like you were delivering to the market in the Bronx ... if he did indeed make it there before his time ran out he could have parked out back ...

How would that have worked on e-logs? Got to receiver, parked at say 3 pm, out of time at 4, receiver comes in at 8 and wants you to back it in, can you continue as sleeper time or does it automatically go to on duty or even driving then you are either in violation or have to start a 10 hour break again? I'm on paper and after I get done delivering there in the middle of the night I sneak over to the NJ service area ...

 

All e logs are a little different. I can drive 3 miles in sleeper birth without kicking my logs onto on duty or driving. When I had a qaullcom it was only 1.5 miles.