knocking on a door. . . when?

I don't care if I'm sleeping, eating, or relaxing. If someone knocks on my door to check if I'm ok, I would think that's pretty awesome. I would think that 99% of drivers out there would agree and be touched that someone cared enough to check. We don't always feel the love out here on the lonely highways LOL.

You MIGHT end up at some point with someone yelling at you for waking him up, but to be honest, if you wake him up and tell him why and he gets mad about it, then he's a real jerk and you don't need to feel bad about doing the right thing.

 

You poor baaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssss..............I feel for you. This is a time when you learn the value of smoking cheap cigars!

 

I think the outside temperature would play a part in my checking.

If the vehicle didn't have an obvious APU, etc and the windows were shut and it was hotter than 75 out, I would assume either they're not there or something bad happened to them. If the truck was running, I probably would be less likely to check (a full tank of diesel could idle a truck a LONG time, though). If it's a big company, I'd assume they'd either know the driver was home, unresponsive themselves due to the qualcomm messages, etc. If it were a clear owner-op, I'd be much more likely to assume 'the worst' happened. O/Os don't tend to park their trucks at truck stops to go home for extended periods of time. They also don't usually have many outside contacts (other than the obvious family, spouse, friends), but they wouldn't necessarily know where he was and might just assume he's been real busy. Also, their customers or brokers probably don't know many other ways to figure out where he is other than a check call phone number or email address. If that's the case, a customer could be sitting there wondering where their load is and have no clue within about 500 miles where it might be (and assume stolen/wrecked rather than just medical emergency of the driver).

Easiest thing to do is look at the DOT# and go to the safersys.org site and look up the company. Call the number listed and see if anyone answers. Then ask if they know a truck has been parked for an extended period of time in one spot and it was starting to look suspicious. A lot of Megas put writing on their trucks or trailers that if seen parked for over 24hrs to call a number. This is both for medical reasons and theft/abandonment reasons.

Never hurts to check up on eachother. We are all in this together.

 

This is definitely a feel good thread. Gives me pause to be mindful of trucks parked for extended periods of time.

 

Simple answer without all the rhetoric? When in doubt;knock. If he/she were to get mad-they will get over it.

 

I notified the truckstop manager when I walked behind a van trailer that smelled like death. Could have been cow hides but I split after I got done walking the dogs so don't know what was found inside that trailer.

 

I can't remember how he was found, but a hooker and her pimp killed a truck driver at the Pilot off 285 in Atlanta. From what I remember, he paid for her services, and while they were going at it, the pimp jumped in the truck and robbed and killed him.

Another guy I read about saved a dudes life by checking on buddy while he was having a heart attack.

 

They had a episode on the First 48 TV show about that Incident. I think his wife reported him missing because she hadn't spoke to him in a couple of days and when she called his phone someone else would answer.