Memorable First Year Stories

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An average dog looks better than most lot lizards.

 

I'm from a quiet, small town where everyone knows everyone. I don't lock my door at home, car in the driveway with keys in the ignition. Took a load to buffalo New York delivering down in the heart of town. Went inside while getting unloaded. Not thinking shut the truck off and left the window down. 20 minutes later I come back out and the company issued Nextel phone and gps are missing from the dash, yet oddly they left me the $50 cash I had left that they gave us for tolls each trip.

I I still leave keys in the ignition and door unlocked at home but in the big truck if the door isn't open its locked.

 

first job and had been drivin maybe 2 weeks , boss didnt have a pos for me to drive that day so he sent me out in a brand new plastic still on the seats and floor freightliner on a 150 mi run to hibbing mn with a load of beer .
by the time i got back to yard that nite i had both cab extenders smashed in and the bumper tweaked .
figured i was fired so i tossed my stuff in my pick up and went home , next morn the fone rings and its my boss wanting to know why im not at work yet so i asked if he had seen his truck yet ? he says yeah and i explained what happened ...he says well that might be the best dam thing that happens around here today so get youre ### on in here we got more iron to bend today .

 

Got to ask what did u do to the poor truck

 

their normal dock was broke so they sent me another dock out in mudhole that probably hadnt been used in 20 years and surrounded by mature oak trees ...hit a post with the bumper buried in the weeds and those trees were hell on those cab extenders lol.

 

Actually I got a few, but for time constraints, here are at least 2

1), doing team as required by a former employer, I was the lead driver, as I had at that time, a few weeks in. We were going down hill somewhere in CA, co-driver driving. He was losing his brakes as he would NOT listen to me tell him how to descend down the mountain. He was nearly in full panic attack and on the rear bumper of a pumpkin.

Somehow, we survived.

2) same co-driver, now I am driving on I-70 through Kansas, east bound. Didn't know my exact location, but FM radio was on, giving warnings of tornado. We were getting pelted by golf ball sized hail. Co-driver was asleep. He wakes up, and asks, if someone is throwing rocks at us, I say no, there is a tornado up ahead, (I now knew where we were).

He yells out, what do we do, what do we do?

I said, don't know about you Dave, but I'm dressed up, you're in your underwear, and when we get tipped over, they are going to laugh at your dead body.
He was falling down trying to get his pants on. He's in shear panic mode, more so that the mountain problem a few days earlier.

Crying something like, I want to go home, I don't want to drive no more, several times.

I pulled over to the shoulder, or what I thought to be a shoulder, and the rain, winds, hail were pelting us more now.

Storm passes, he now needs to squirt the dirt and asked me to pull the truck up a bit, I tell him, "just do it". He said he can't there is no shoulder.

I had parked just over the edge of the shoulder to a 40-60 foot steep drop off.

I never saw him no more when we returned to the terminal in Ohio, and he flew home. Back to my state mind you, never heard a word from him since, and that's all of 25 years ago.