stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?

well, some of you were posting about military bases...

I rolled up to the main gate of the Army Rangers training facility in Walthoursville GA on 9-12 with a tank load of explosives..not cool..and they didn't think so either.

Looking for a consignee in Lancaster SC. Stopped in the center lane of the road and walked into the building to make sure I was at the right place..bills said "must back in off street" so I wasn't taking any chances backing into the wrong place. The guy was really nice and we walked back outside toward the truck. He said "where are you parked". I looked up and the truck was gone. I ran to the middle of the street and the truck was about 1/4 mile down the hill up on the curb on the wrong side of the road. Didn't hurt anything but my pride..and scared the s### out of me. Forgot to set the brakes.

Don't ever want to experience that again!!!

 

That would have to suck, big time.

 

Well,when I started this 6 years ago I was 45 yrs old,and wanted to impress my first employer....so when he asked me if I could lose the trailer after my test drive,I said SURE,and all was good untill I pulled away from trailer.......I forgot to dolly down.......its never happened since!

 

so was he also your first former employer, or was he ok

 

If that question was for me,when I found him and told him about it,he tried not to laugh and ya he was OK with it.,It wasnt that big a deal cause the trailer wasnt loaded,but,it sure made me KNOW my place in the world.-(embarrassed to the 1st degree)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Funny!

I did something like that,
but it was the trailer registration,
my wife just emailed it to me ...

crusin

 

two things happened to somebody else while I was on the road:
1)Washington DC , afternoon rush hour, myself and the truck in front of me were getting on a on ramp that turned left then straighten out for about 300 yards then merged onto the main road...
I was looking right at back of the trailer in front of me , when this black car cuts off the truck in front of me , he swerves left, well it had one of those guard rails that gradually increase it's incline from the ground to normal height...well the rear driver side trailer wheels were on one side of the guard rail and the passenger side wheels were on the other (the road side,just for maybe 10 seconds) because that black car cut the truck off,..well thank god that guy's trailer was empty... he just swerved right and the dang trailer just bounced right off...
we both just kept going...
we both pulled over after he got on that main road to check everything.....
I'm surprised he didn't get a flat or something..

2)Mid Ohio , around 02:00, heard a lot of chatter on the radio,
all of a sudden I look to the left and see a FedEx rear double trailer just sitting there in the middle of the granny lane, no lights, no truck either...
the police had just pulled up right as I was passing it on the other side of the road...
Trailer dropped while he was in-route....I guess the driver didn't know, or care or maybe didn't know how to recouple ..

stupid.. glad I wasn't on that side of the road...

crusin

 

I have posted on this thread once already,but I do remember "another one". 4 years ago during the month of Dec.,I pulled off into a rest stop in Mt. on a State Hwy. cause winter was rearing her ugly head.Glad to be of the icy road and done with the day,I set my tractor AND trailer brakes,and did whatever to amuse myself until the morning..When I woke up & noticed a cattle trailer (empty)going up the mountain grade in front of me,I determined it was good to go..I had a LIGHT load of snowmobiles on the stepdeck trailer,and although the rig took off a little slow,thought nothing of it.....Until,a few miles down the road,I heard the KABOOM,and still kinda a rookie,thought maybe I had lost a sled...looked in mirrors,and kept on my merry way cause I saw no sled on side of road,and,another,-KABOOM.....Stopped rig on 2 lane road then,as (no traffic) Mt boonies,and discovered I had 3 tire blow outs on 4th axle cause trailer brakes were LOCKED UP....... I know,-what a dumb F###.....

 

Not my story, but I just happened to find a CR England newsletter at the hook so I was reading it. A trainer was killed by his student. For some reason the student was hooking up to a trailer and his trainer was standing on the catwalk. Student high hooked and crushed him.

 

I saw a driver last evening drag one set of doubles out of the parking lot. He wasn't on CB.

Saw another driver NOT do a tug test. Then when he took off the trailer dang near came off the frame/rear tires.

Right now watching a Swift BACK into a Pull-Through.......