Does everyone make dumb mistakes

We had a Kansas City driver that dropped the mail for Detroit then took his 10. Came back, hooked and took off to Kansas City with the same mail he just brought out of there. Oooops

 

Yes.
Even after 30+ years and millions upon millions of miles.

We say to ourselves... "You F'n Idiot. I hope no one was watching that."

Just learn and move along.

 

i made a really DUMB mistake just this morning..

i got up at my usual time of 4AM..

put on the coffee, made my breakfast, then put the butter away.......before i buttered my english muffin

i hate dry toasted english muffins......

i think the tropical fish saw all that too....

they had better not tell on me.

 

One time i picked up a pre loaded trailer from my companyyard in michigan. Load is going to california is what my dispatch said. Cool, i get to the yard And get my paperwork ,didnt bother to look at it cuz ive done this run a million times, need to go im short on hours boss. 4 days later i make it to cali and i go to find the adress for my delivery so i grab my paperwork and lone behold this load is going to frickin IOWA not california. LOL called my dispatch said u guys know this load is going to iowa right? , luckily they didnt know either. Somehow it got mixed up in the office . atleast they paid me round trip but everybody messes up . thats just 1 of the more crazy things thats happened to me. Ive messed up so much times i could write 16 pages on here

 

LOL now that is some funny #### right there

 

Yes, happpens to all of us. 30 years driving, mostly as a car hauler or tow truck driver. Twice in that time period I picked up the wrong car and took them to auction, not a huge issue only because we also got the transport orders for the cars I actually picked up. Could have been bad if we didn't.

At one part time job, delivering spring water, the company also had their own blow mold plant and sold their gallon jugs to other bottlers and small dairy outfits. I was on a bottle shuttle, would take a load of bottles from Honesdale, PA out to Johnstown, PA (about 250 miles one-way) and bring the empty trailer back. Well, plastic bottles don't weight anything, I hooked to what should have been the empty, it was dark out and I just gave a quick glance. Got all the way back to the plant only to find it was 2/3 full. Didn't notice in the dark. From then on I used a flashlight to check the empty trailers.

Mistakes happen, learn from them and carry on. Try not to make serious ones that will hurt or kill someone and you will be fine.

 

With so many cameras today, I bet someone was watching,,,

 

30 years later if it wasn't for cloverleaf's and u-turns I've never get anywhere