Thanks Swift

this happened yesterday at the flying j in aurora, co:

 

Dang, thank goodness no one was in that truck. I'd like to see the damaged trailer pic. Glad no one was hurt and this could have turned deadly.

KH

 

I took one of the lowboy but for whatever reason it didn't come out good. He was an independent owner op and said that was his first accident in 22 years of driving.

My truck was in the tire bay to the left of the picture to get a repair done to the trailer. This happened right after I checked in with the shop desk. I actually missed the accident by seconds lol.

No it wasn't my fault either, there was enough room to just about make a u-turn between the rear of my trailer and KLLM, so why he made the mistake is beyond me other than he just wasn't checking his spot mirror.

The KLLM driver wasn't supposeed to be there either! It was out of route for his load but he decided to crash at the house for the night. No one was hurt, except for the driver's pride.

 

I'm not defending the driver that hit him but he looks like he could have done a better job parking himself. He looks to be slightly over his line there but the driver backin' up next to him should have known that and adjust for it or found another hole.

 

It's not just semi drivers. A guy here who pulls campers OTR with a 4dr Dodge pickup hit another truck at a truckstop. Nothing unusual there except he wasn't pulling a camper at the time, and he hit the truck with HIS DRIVERS DOOR. The drivers door of the truck he was driving hit the bumper of the parked truck and kept going and hit the back door, the bedside and the dually fender. I don't think a blind person would do that bad.

 

I had a little mishap one time bobtail on the yard where my mudflap hander got the O/O's truck next to the tight ### spot I was trying to get into. They went ape #### over a scratch that wasn't even half the size of cigarette butt that cost $136.00 to have buffed out. Lucky that all. Just got to watch the mudflap hanger's back there behind the tire's that you can't see.

 

####, that pulled the whole #### tractor sideway's.

 

Please remove post.

 

You act like hitting a mans truck and putting ANY scratch in it is no big deal!

"They went ape #### over a scratch that wasn't even half the size of cigarette butt that cost $136.00 to have buffed out."

This mentality is exactly what is wrong in this industry...You hit the mans truck! It doesn't matter how small the scratch was!
Hit my truck and scratch it and see what happens!

 

2 years
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37 years....