Does everyone make dumb mistakes

I load two trailers per day. This morning I started at 4am to take a load to the plant. I write one trailers paperwork for oatka and the other for Campbell. Both loads were sitting next to one another in the yard. At 4am I wasn't fully awake and I took the load that had paperwork written for Campbell to oatka. I ended up sending the other driver photos of the paperwork that I had for his trailer and he sent me photos of the paperwork for my load. It was fairly easy to fix but I feel like a fool taking the wrong load. Both trailers loaded with raw milk and weights within 4k so not a huge deal but still something really stupid and makes me feel like a fool.

Am I the only one that has done something like this lol.

 

Next time I hold a load over that I'm taking the next day I will leave my truck hooked up to it to avoid doing this again

 

Yes! Absolutely! You are the only person on the face of the earth to do something like this!

I'm just razzing ya. If I had a penny for every time somebody did something like that.
The people at Coca Cola loved the Budweiser.

 

I never miss exits and have to turn around or find another route.

 

All I can say was at 4am I wasn't fully awake lol

 

Well, I don't know, we've all done stupid things, some doozy's the boss never found out about, and I'm not bragging, but I've lost count how many wagons I backed under, in the thousands, and I never recall taking the wrong trailer, that was my fault, anyway. To me it's the most important thing, taking the correct trailer, that's the job. It's important to drive the truck safely, but that's only part of the job, you are suppose to deliver something, correctly.
Now, once, a guy had his dispatch for a certain trailer, during the night, the dock loaded the wrong trailer, morning comes, this guy backs under the trailer he thought was his load, never checked inside, and dragged an empty trailer 100 miles to the 1st alleged stop, can you imagine his surprise when he opened the door, and an empty wagon, man, ,,we laughed about that, the boss wasn't too happy, tho.
Moral of story, check the wagon and check the load, I don't care how tired you are.

 

Everyone makes mistakes. The best thing is to learn from the mistakes and not repeat other mistakes.

 

I agree with this. Don't do it again...
And at least in this case the mistake didn't cost anything but a few seconds writhing out new paperwork. I do remember awhile ago one of our drivers Bob tailed 300 miles and then called the boss..... Where's my trailer? The boss replies it should be behind you..... Oops.

 

This is why having a printer in the truck and an espresso maker is essential.

 

Yup mistakes happen. Think i said somewhere before. Those who make no mistakes..don't do anything. And..haste makes waste.