Don’t try this at home....

It was the first act of aggression by the bollard; you can see the yellow paint on the rear tire. The bumper was the encore.

 

Or, the moron driver was already too far along. Clearly he hit that bollard hard with his wheels to taco them like that.

I didn't realize "professionals" needed unrelated babysitters to assist them to do something simple like pull straight frickin through a fuel lane.

 

About 12 years ago I was training a rookie, and we switched drivers at our evening fuel stop. As he started the truck up, my words were literally "watch your off-set, it's a tight fit pulling out". Next I know, KABOOOOOOOM! He'd STILL hit the bollard pulling out like a rookie, blew the tire off the rim, and woke up just about everyone at the truck stop. Got a tire guy to come out with an new rim and on the road we went, but I'll never forget how incredibly loud that tire coming off the rim was.

I promise you this maroon driver knew what the problem was, but ran out of ****s to give. Or just plain panicked. Either way, should not be a truck driver.

 

Proper if the curb agrees with it and you're only dealing with 4 lane intersections. Everything else you read on the fly. There's been many times I've turned from the incoming lane to the other and just barely missed a pole in the curb. Central Bangor, PA rings a bell.

 

The funny part is that there is another thread here asking for the definition of a STEERING WHEEL HOLDER.

 

Yeah buddy, we'll never know. Maybe his pet parakeet died at home and he was having a brake down Maybe he dropped his Double Whopper and was trying to get it off the floor while pulling out, maybe his hands were covered in Astroglide as he beat it while trying to escape from the fuel island. Don't judge, hahaha.

 

The other day I was fueling at a pilot. Just casually observing a truck pull in, caught my attention as he proceeded to park side by side next to a truck, The reason that caught my attention is they were the only two trucks parked in an entire row of parking spaces. I mean most of us would leave a space or gap, but OK no big deal. He wants to park right next to the only other truck for a quarter mile, that’s his business. Guy runs in, apparently buy some to eat runs back out and jumped in his truck. I noticed he was in shorts, and wearing flip flops...Figured he might be a newer driver.... guy starts to pull out, and while I’m standing there watching him he immediately starts to turn to his right. Just like you would a car pulling out of a parking spot. And you guessed it, he takes off the entire front end of the truck he decided to park right next to. Literally just ripped the whole front end off. And then proceeded to try and drive off. The guy in the truck that he hit jumped out and chased him down on foot and stopped him before he exited.

I just finished fueling in total amazement of what I just saw.