stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?

i think because it was so embarrassing or something they never put that on my DAC report after i left...and omg was i embarrassed...i check my mirrors and look out my windows a lil more often now...lmao!

 

While I was training I picked up a trailer in Dodge City, the trailer had no lights down the left side. No problem my trainer said, we will get loaded and get new lights. Ok, I went with that. We picked up the beef and headed to a TS for the repairs. We were in route back home to Denver. I got off at a ramp somewhere in eastern Colorado, cut the turn too tight to the left and took every single light off the left side and destroyed the stop sign. The trainer looked at me and said " the company only gives you one screw up in your first year and you just had two in 30 seconds." Well the long and short of it is that I have not had a chargeable accident since (11 years).

Now, the funniest one I heard and saw was in Virginia with someone's student. My co driver and I was were listening to this on the radio and watching it from down the row. A driver told his student that the truck wouldn't start, that he was going to need a push start. So, he told him to goto the back and push. I see this guy walk to the back of the trailer and push like no other. A minute later we hear the training tell him that he must have had the parking brake on and to try again. So we see this guy come back again and try to push the truck. That guy might be even be on the road now!?

 

I have done this at least 3 or 4 times in my life. I have "tried" to put the green nozzle into a gas tank. Thank goodness they wont fit.

I hear all the time about guys putting gas into a diesel tank, but never diesel into a gas tank. Since I haven't owned anything other than a lawn mower and weed whacker that takes gasoline in the last 15-20 years. I guess its just natural that I would gravitate towards that green nozzle, and do something that stupid.

 

Had to pick up at a place in California... brand new place and had plenty of room to pull up, nice bright yellow lines along each side of the dock... and it was daylight. Took me an hour to back in. Didn't have two w900's to back between!! When I finally got in there, I walked inside and one man was collecting money. I asked a worker, "what's that all about?"

He looked at me and said, "They were placing bets on how long it would be before you finally got in there and that guy won."

 

Been there. Tight dock, barely enough room to squeeze between the other trucks, doors practically touching when you get it in the slot--- hit it first try.

Empty dock, hit any of the 36 doors,--- can't get it on the freaking dock for anything

 

Same here. Why the heck does that happen?

 

well i had an incident last night comming home...18 fricken minutes from my #### house...lol..well sorta...at least thats the scale i got nailed at,.lol....anyway...
i picked up a loac at Smurfit-Stone in Florence, SC yesterday and i couldnt slide the tandems cause they were out of adjustment...totally...so i wentto a repair shop to get them adjusted, knowing i had 3 scales on my way home...so i get them fixed and im haulin ##### home....i'm on us-58 comming from I-95 comming back here to Chesapeake to deliver this morning...so im rolling good in that 60 zone for a while and all of a sudden the light changes in front of me and i dont have enough time to stop but i make the effort to try at least...well i locked them up so bad the rolls of paper that were in the rear of the trailer over the tandems SLID all the way plowing into the rolls that were in the nose...BAM BAM!!!!....sent me thru the intersection thru the red light anyway.....omg im amazed there was no cross traffic or they would've been dead!,,,,
well knowing i had to choice but to take my chances and continue going i got caught at the suffolk scale...i was 10,180 on my steers, 48,200 on my drives and 17,200 on my tandems...needless to say i was a tad overweight...lol my fine? $5,037 .... mind u guys, i just started this job on Tuesday.

 

Regardless of what else is there, I am almost helpless without lines anymore.
Sometimes I get lucky and find a seam in the concrete.
I haven't always been that way. My theory is that it must be my vision.
Even with my specs on, it just seems so much further to the end of the trailer than it used to.

 

Last year I was decided to pull off for the night in OH. I found a Pilot and pulled in. No parking spots. So I decided to go across the street to the McDonalds that had truck parking. Now it had just snowed and their lot had not been plowed. I pulled around to the truck lot and had to swing wide to make the u turn into the spot I wanted. Turns out the pavement didnt go out as far as I thought it went. Dropped my left front steer off the pavement which was about 3" off the ground to begin with. After I sank in, I was probably a good 8-10". How I rocked it out, I dont know. There was a huge rut there. I just parked and walked across the street for my shower. Ended up bringing back the beautiful daughter of a trucker (said her dad was driving her from CA to go see her mom). We had some fun that night. lol

 

are u serious?
how big were the rolls of paper? they must have been small rolls, and some much have been double stacked in the middle for that to happen, but still.... you had to slam extreamly hard on ur brks to move that much weight! u would have been better off blowing the light