know it all equipment operator

loading my last load of the year Saturday. got all setup to load. the operator tracked the big 349 around and lined up to my trailer. throttle half open house ####ed at a 45deg. angle. red flags all about that picture. but hey he has been doing it for years. tracked up on my trailer perfectly. swung the house around and guess what? the force kicked the tracks to one side. threw my hands up and yelled don't move an inch. mr know it all operator wouldn't listen. he activated the right track and BOOM off the side it went with a thud.(dang near flipped the machine on it's side). kept my cool eyeballed the tracks and had him back off the trailer slowly. no damage except for one little gouge on my top rail that a grinder will fix. got him lined up again and walked up to the door and said this time idle it down and keep the house straight and watch me! didn't yell or get mad. kept my cool. well mr operator started spouting off about how many years he has been doing this. that's when I broke. I had a crowbar in my left hand, I turned and walked up to the door again and looked straight at him and said my trailer, my truck, my way of making a living. I said you eff up again and I will pull you out with my crow bar. went pretty smooth after that. chained down and went on my merry way.

 

it wasn't. that was pg rated post. there was a few choice words squeezed in between some of the words I spoke.

 

true that!

 

one thing I have always done. if no one is at site then yeah I will load myself. heck I prefer it that way. but on these union jobs there is so much so called politic's going on I wont. they load it and if they damage the machine or my trailer it's on them.