I Feel sorry for this driver.....

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  1. Redtwin

    Redtwin Road Train Member

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    My claw hammer is my tire thumper and it resides next to the driver's seat.
     
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  3. Criminey Jade

    Criminey Jade Road Train Member

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    Why even move? Just lock the doors, hit your panic/call 911 and roll your camera until the goofnut is removed from your hood? Now the driver is, I'm sure, fired and up to his eyeballs in violations. If he stayed in the lot, other drivers might've pulled the guy off his hood. Maybe I'm being too optimistic with that one...
     
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  4. MACK E-6

    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    I read on another site that ABF didn’t fire this guy.
     
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  5. not4hire

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    Driver wasn't in a lot when the loon jumped on his hood, he was on the highway.

    And there's no way I'm pulling a guy who has been bashing a windshield with his head off someone's hood unless it's with a tazer or a Glock.
     
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  6. Rocks

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    I heard some people saying it's the 5G towers or something like that... that will start making people go nuts....
     
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  7. Rocks

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    Folks laughing while recording that....? I must be "different"... but I don't find that funny at all.... it's horrible...
    Congratulations to the driver who did whatever he did the best way he could to handle the situation... and nobody got hurt....
    Thankfully there was police to come in time... one of these days there might not be anybody to answer 911... Shall see...
     
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  8. Criminey Jade

    Criminey Jade Road Train Member

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    I'm glad to hear that.
     
  9. Studebaker Hawk

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    The various comments here, I always have a hammer, tire knocker, crow bar etc and I would have just .... the guy. That is all fine, except this is a linehaul ABF driver, who besides the fact that he slip seats his tractor, is probably prohibited by company policy from carrying all that stuff in the cab. Those guys gave up even putting the CB radio box in the cab and clipping on the antenna's because it was too much hassle.
    This is a one in a million circumstance. No one here or anywhere else could be prepared for this.
    I love Monday morning quarterbacks.
     
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