What's the dumbest thing you've done in a truck?

lol, we NEED to hear the story on the wall.

 

OK, so this is off topic, but it sort of fits in with walls being built. A new strip mall building. A compact pickup truck. Electrician drives his truck into the building, through what will be double walking doors. It's Friday of a three day weekend. He goes to leave, and the truck won't start. He leaves it inside the building for the weekend.

He returns bright and early Tuesday morning to finish his job, and get his pickup going.


And finds that sometime over the weekend, the door crew had come in and put in the doors, making it impossible to remove the vehicle without getting the door people back out to take the doors out for him.

True story. I know, it's off topic.

 

I dropped the trailer where I was told. It was loaded with structural steel for the building & that's where the iron workers wanted it so they could get it with the crane. I took an empty trailer back & returned with the another load as scheduled a few days later. It had rained really hard & was really muddy.

In the first two pictures I was trying to get to the trailer & in the first one you could see how close I had gotten but just couldn't snap the pin. The boss said we'll try in a day or two after it dries up some.

When I went back there was a 50' precast wall in front of the trailer. The iron workers had to crane it out over the top.

This was in Chicago if that helps explain how it could happen.

 

Chicago?

I'll guarantee you those guys spent that evening after putting up the wall, laughing their ##*es off about how they screwed that driver!

 

I took a truck and trailer 48' into a suburban area with a winding 4 lane road with a grass median in it in Fort Wayne Indiana. I had to use both lanes to keep the trailer from running into the curb and trees. I then had to get back out from where I had gone in search for food. Never listen to an engineer on where to go. I listened to him so that was the dumb move. I ended up going through a shopping mall area, couldn't make two turns, and then somehow making my way out of there without hitting anything. Never again am I going to go somewhere that I don't have to in search for food.

 

My dad and I used to do alot of work in the mills for Graycor and Industrial Rents, and I agree alot of the teamsters and ironworkers were total #######, not sure why they need to be like this.

Part of the reason Im no longer a teamster, and dont really want to go in to the Pipe Fitters.

 

I hooked on one and drove off, went 30 miles and darn, it came unhooked. I hadnt checked to see if the kingpin latched. Luckily I was behind a little truckstop and no one saw me. another tme I woke up, drove 30 mi E bnd on I 10, realized I was going to LA and turned around. I ducked down in the seat so no one would see me and make fun of me.

It ain't the heat , it's the humility. Yogi Berra

 

followed qualcom directions, turns out the diretions where wrong was to turn left of interstate not right, drove about two miles saw a nice new firestation, figured if the truck can fit I can turn my flatbed around. Got about half way around and stop moving in either direction, got out walked to back of trailer the back of the trailer was sitting on the ground the back set had sunk in the new grass. fire cheif was highly upset as they pulled me out and called my companay

 

You were lucky their was nore call or would have also gotten a BIG fine for hindering emergeny response.........

 

I was routed through Dallas, TX so I decided to stop at my brother/sister in-laws apartment for the night. She drove for -.-. ------- (co. name not provided) at the time so she told me to park where she always did. I got in late night after a storm. The parking area was off rode and muddy. I parked on seemingly solid soil and went in for the night. The next day I came out to keep rollin' and I was stuck in the mud. I pulled some wood planking from my trailer and jammed them under the tractor tandems for leverage. Approximately 1 hr later I had 1 side on the pavement. Another 1/2 hr later the truck was on level ground and ready to run.

This story by itself isn't all that bad but there's more.

A few months later I stopped by again. This time I decided to park on the other side of the complex. I pulled in late again. The area where I parked was tilted towards the passenger side. My fuel gauge showed 1/8. The next day when I came out the truck wouldn't start. ALL THE FUEL WAS IN THE PASSENGER SIDE TANK. My sister-in-law had quit the above mentioned company and was waiting for the repo man. In the meantime my brother-in-law was using the truck as his personal vehicle. We used their truck to pull my truck to level ground. Then we rode up to WalMart and purchased hose for a fishtank to siphon some of their fuel to my tanks. We returned to my truck and began setting up. Guess who showed up? THE REPO MAN! What timing. Since he was expected, my brother-in-law went about clearing out their stuff. The repo man said that he had been by looking for the truck earlier (while we were shopping). I told him of my plight and asked if we could make some sort of arrangement. LOL He was willing to drain 5 gl. from his tank into a bucket to help the cause. He pulled his truck up and we proceeded with the operation. While this was going on, we all stood around talking. When he realized that my brother-in-law and I were related he came to the realization that the fuel in their truck was bought by them so we could pump that fuel into my truck. I got 5 gl. from the tow truck and 20 gl. from the other truck. It sure does take a long time to pump fuel through a fishtank hose. lol