Back up until you hit something, then set the brakes

Is the trashcan gender neutral???

 

It is now.

 

We need a remembrance ceremony for this trashcan, the victim of a rookie driver.

 

I look at that trash can and envision it saying “wtf yo”

 

Did you just assume that all trash cans choose to identify with a gender even if that choice may be gender neutral?

 

If that trash can trys to use the same dumpster as my kitchen trash can, heads will roll

 

I don't remember exactly where, but there was some road construction a mile or so before I got to a truckstop.
I parked and started walking in and heard a crazy noise coming down the road, so waited to see what the devil it was. A guy pulled in with an orange barrel under his steer axle, and we liked to never got it out, even pulling on it with another truck, had to jack it up. lol

 

Technically, they are not bollards. A bollard would be something secured to the earth or to the ship to tie off a ship in dock.

I would describe them better as "Deadmen" or a "Deadman", we called them that in bridgebuilding when we needed something about 10,000 pounds to anchor off a guy line from a column form.

 

Yankee term for concrete barrier. lol

 

Reminds me of the driver delivering to my local Discount Tire, 4 employees, the store manager and a customer all told him to go out on to the main road, make a right, go to the red light, make another right, make 3 rd right, pull past the store on the backroad and back in. He decided to make a tight right turn into the lot while no one was looking...……..ripped the back bumper off my wife's car. Missed the actual sheet metal of the car by 1/16 of an inch. Set off the alarm. Denied doing it, they all watched him do it, they even ran to try and stop him. Luckily for me, they got all his info (which still took me 2 days to get ahold of his insurance company after getting the run around) including DOT number. When the final insurance company denied knowing who he was, I advised the lady that I was also a truck driver, I knew how to play this game. I had his DOT number, I was going to file a complaint with USDOT and seek to have his authority pulled, then I was going to sue him and them for treble the damages to the car, and make sure that Discount Tire never used him again. 3 hrs later, I got a call from the representative, who had called the driver, learned what happened. My body shop wrote up the estimate at $6,500 (actual damage was $2,350), the insurance company balked, saying that was ridiculous. He lied and said that he had not seen the car, but was going off my description of the damage, so he thought the rear quarter panel had to be replaced also, hence the higher cost for sheet metal work and extra paint (the car is a metallic blue). The insurance company came back at $3,000, he did it for $2,000, we split the $1,000 as profit.

 

I've had nightmares of getting stuck (or intentionally locked) in the back of my trailer while working on it, cleaning it, whatever. I have a rule. It's my biggest rule while out on the road. Never, never, never, never, NEVER get out of the truck without my phone. I can tell you the one or two times I've done it in the past year because I'm so hard on myself when I do.

The day you get out of the truck without your phone:
1. You get trapped in your trailer as this guy did.
2. Someone gets in your truck and steals your phone.
3. Someone gets in your truck and steals your truck AND your way to call and report it.
4. Dispatch/wife/broker with great offer/etc. is ALWAYS gonna call that moment you ran to take a leak without your phone.
5. It's dark and you need a flashlight but you left it in the cab (your phone flashlight).
6. You're going to be checking in to a stop and not have that one pickup/delivery number that is......in your phone. This one coincides with the evil guard who is just waiting to find an excuse to check you in late and make you wait longer. It also coincides with the one where you had to park half a mile from the check in and now you have to walk back.....twice. This one also coincides with the day it's p*ss pouring rain and you have to walk back twice losing your place in line dealing with the evil guard.

We're all slaves to the phones now so accept it. Don't get out of the truck without your phone.