OK experienced drivers, post your most recent rookie mistake!

An hour isn't checking a truck for safety compliance, it's hunting for something to be able to write you up. And that mentality that's rapidly spreading throughout the enforcement ranks may just keep me from ever climbing back in a truck again. But that's a whole 'nother thread.


Last year I'd loaded at night and had used my magnetic flashlight 'larry' for something or another, and just stuck him to a post as I finished tightening chains. Larry is very bright. So I'm tooling down the road and keep getting high-beamed from behind; not the flash-flash-flash of something wrong, but the turn 'em on and leave 'em on variety. WTH?

So I hit the first place I can find and head back to see what's going on. I find larry still stuck to the post, about waist high, and aimed right into the eyes of passing traffic. OOPS!

 

I forgot how much overhang the back of 53" trailers have (if you have the tandems up), so I tried to pull a uie in a VERY tight spot very close to the other trailers. The butt of the trailer ended up scratching the nose of a dropped pup (LOL). Nothing too bad, it's just old metal.

 

Rookie Mistake?? I NEVER EVER MAKE ROOKIE MISTAKES!
I ONLY make full blooded grown man knows better DUMB ### mistakes!
Im NO ROOKIE--Ive been out here so long I dont even remember--
AND when I #### up--I DONT HALF ### IT!
LMAO

 

I hope nobody did this one before on my very first night run by myself got to my destination ready for bed . I had drop and hook. bump dock let my landing gear down pulled my pin got in my truck pulled off while all my lines were still attached to my trailer pulled all 3 out my truck it took on road 2hours to fix my trk i felt so stupid caz i forgot to unhook my lines my dm called me next day just to laugh at my rookie mistake

 

oh my god what a dummy!!!! Ha ha ha ha. I never did that!!!!! Well, not just once. Twice in one week. 3 years ago. My friends don't let me live that down. Lol.

 

That SLAP on the back of the sleeper is a sound you'll never forget, that's for sure!

 

The first time scares the hell out of you. The second time makes you want to bash your head into the steering wheel!

 

Ok, I will throw one in here. A few years back, when I was still driving for SNI, I was out west somewhere. I dropped a loaded trailer and needed an MT to get my next load. Of course there wasn't one at the place I dropped but, I found one on the street, just down the road. I called it in and SNI said take it. I backed under it, hooked up the lines, did a PTI on it and headed down the road. I was only going a few miles to the Pilot but, I noticed every car that passed me was looking at me like something was wrong. No one tried to get me to stop so, I just kept going. I wasn't until I got off the highway, to the Pilot, that I heard the noise. It than hit me what it was! I pulled into the Pilot but the landing gear caught. So, I got out and rolled them up, like I should have done when I backed under it. What a flippen idiot! Not the first stupid mistake, and definitely not the last.

 

Like everyone else,I locked the keys in my truck,took an hour to get the wife out.

 

Supertrucker here, we don't make mistakes