Classic Hangers in Arp, TX

Stumbled across these from when I used to work at Werner and figured I would throw them up here. Anyone else have the pleasure of visiting this fine facility?

 

Trash. :/ The big ruts out of the passenger window are from me. The right front steer sunk and it sucked me in. Lost all steering input, it just pushed. The harder I tried to get out, the further in I ended up.

 

It was a bit tighter than it looked. Everything directly to the passenger side was soft as hell. It actually sank in so far that it pulled half the bumper off. Thank god for bungee cords. The bad part was that I told my dispatcher that I didn't think it was safe to go in there with a truck over the qualcomm. He told me trucks do it all the time and to just go slow and that I couldn't refuse the load. When I went to get the bumper fixed, they did an accident investigation. I gave safety these pictures and told them to look at the qualcomm conversation. Somehow, they determined it was preventable. (The ground was not torn up before I went in there. All that was from me rocking the truck to get out. Couldn't tell it was wet at all. The steers just sunk instantly.) They didn't put anything on my DAC though thankfully. (I don't think they could have for something like that?) So glad that I don't work there anymore. It's a wonder that they have million milers that are accident free if breaking a piece of plastic is an "accident" to them.

 

I work locally now, and Werner is a thing of the past. As for the dispatcher, I was on DG out of Ardmore, OK. The dispatchers work there and there is no glass dividers. Walk right past them to the break room actually. LOL. We had words and he apologized. As far as the accident, that was in Omaha's hands. We did have an on site safety rep and he was shocked that they determined preventable.

As far as doing some shady maneuvers, this wasn't as bad as some of the things we had to pull to get into some of the DG stores. I really learned how to back on that account, and was very grateful that I wasn't still driving a Freightliner XL Classic.