Getting stuck, reported as accident

i hear ya bud i trash treated with sewage it was a byproduct of some type of compast and it was nasty stuff my trailer would reek for a week no matter how many loads of mulch i hauled after that...o glad i dont have to go back to that place

 

I delivered to a couple construction sites,gotta love those construction sites.Foreman wanted to me drive on the sinken mud so they could unload.I said to him,if I get stuck are you going to be able to get me out.He then decided its too soft and unloaded me from the street.Anyplace I go and see its nothing but a mud pit i'll walk or call the customer before getting too close.I don't wanna be in a tough situation and I surely don't wanna pay for towing thanks to my company.

 

I got the trailer stuck and phoned breakdown. They said no problem and called a wrecker. Since the trailer was blocking a portion of an on ramp, I also called the police to make sure this bad situation didnt get any worse. Well, it did because another driver hit the trailer while trying to manuever around it. It went from "no problem" to an accident which resulted in me getting fired.

Also I got the truck(bobtail) stuck in my yard, but the company didn't mind. I was about to come off hometime, but the truck pretty much sank due to days of rain, so they had to take me off the load I was on and said to let them know when I got it out. A few concrete blocks and a Toyota Tacoma and I was ready to roll.

 

Just thought I'd throw this out here. If you do get stuck and need a pull out only hook to your frame or tow hooks. Not the bumpers or the suspension. Once your strap/chain is tight then power up. If your blocking a travel lane get those triangles out to protect yourself so when some hic tries to get around you and doesn't make it. I almost flopped a tanker off road last year into a 10 foot pipe ditch when I drove across a false bottom new diked haul road. Being the first one and a loaded truck! Yeah that little voice in the back of my pea brain said you know this ain't right. Boss told me to back in and I drove in nose first. I had my reasons. He scolded me and I stood my ground. He got in his p/u and drove off and a dozer hand pulled me out.

 

oh no. Our OSR took me out in the yard, AND Had me do some real slow maneuvering. Then he set up a cone , had me pass it under the trailer while doing a uturn. Gave me some other things to look at/for when backing. Helped alot. At that point, I was only 2-3 weeks solo.

 

i have a chrome logo on the side of the hood of my old kw it reads street machine, when a customer mentions dirt, i walk them to the hood and point it out.

 

if you want real fun drive in there with a trailer dump, very easy to get stuck, one thing is allways have them pull and DONT PUSH hell Ive had days were every tractor had to get pulled out of a hole after being loaded,

there were 6 acers where I used to live I used to be able to pull in the yard with double pups and a single axle, got burried in that but had my buddy pull me out with a loader, on fuel that I syphend out of their tanks....rather then making them pay a towing bill of course

 

I never have,why have you?
Originally Posted by xtexasbabex
has any driver got stuck and needed towed out and had it reported as a accident


that's funny i don't care who you are !!! thanks there pattyj-

 

north shore guy myself fisher guy born and raised in newburyport fished out of gloucester for many years

 

i've been around many different types/forms of trucking but the one that has impacted me the most and in the most positive manner,as in REALLY benefitting from it,is logging. from driving thru the mud or snow and several other applications,driving a log/stick truck and coming out of the woods with it has been invaluble experience.not saying getting stuck won't happen to me but knowing when to hit the throttle hard and stay on it to having a loaded double rack of logs beat me down the side of a very wet/muddy hill to having a skidder pulling me and one behind pushing me out of the woods,man you just don't get that kind of experience out on the road.that experience has stayed w/me out on the road.pulling logs/sticks out of the woods is truly a wild and fun from of driving a truck.

I have dropped trailers on asphalt and the dolly legs sink all the way up to the belly of the loaded trailer as soon as I pulled out from under the trailer.that required a tow truck but wasn't reported.I now carry wood to place under the dolly legs to prevent that. I have pulled into gravel lots that already had trucks on it but not make it off the hwy completely because where the concrete ended and before the gravel started was a minature grand canyon covered by what looked like a very small puddle of water and I had to be lifted/extricated from that by a tow truck.it wasn't reported and no damage that i couldn't repair(busted air ride leveler and air line hence the reason i carry a tool box and all sorts of whatevers gathered over the years,inclusive of a couple throttle springs that fit mechanical engines) which saved me the repair bill.It was my fault for not getting out and looking at the situation even though you'd think there would be no problem since other trucks were already in there.There was a trick to getting around the mini grand canyon but couldn't be seen from the road.

there are several other examples of minor things/events but my point is that no matter how long you have been driving,sheit can and will happen. That sheit helps to make truck driving just that,truck driving.