Getting winched out, how does your company view this?

I high centered my trailer landing legs one time at a truck stop trying to get set up to park. I was maneuvering perpendicular to the CAT scale exit and the ramp was much steeper than I thought. And, I was stuck really good. Tried everything and no joy. So, had to call a wrecker to get me unstuck. It was more embarrassing than anything. I was blocking the exit to the CAT scale and 2 fuel islands. I'm a company driver, so Swift ended up sending out and paying for,the wrecker to get me unstuck. Wrecker simply had me disconnect the tractor and he attached to the trailer, lifted it enough to unstuck it and moved it out of the way. To the best of my knowledge, I never had any repercussions from the incident. Although my driver leader did kid me about it for a bit. My driver leader at the time had been a driver previously, but a back injury caused her to have to quit driving. So, I took no offense to the ribbing, she understood.

 

My company views it as "#### happens"... Provided one doesnt make it a habit.

Ive needed a recovery tow once. I got into a fight spot and wasnt going to make a corner. In the process of trying to back out I got off onto a soft shoulder... The rest is history.

One other time I almost needed a tow, I actually called for a tow but cancelled 15 mins later. I took a corner a little too tight onto a brand new driveway. The edge of the gravel driveway gave way under my tandems and the trailer slid about 10 inches sideways. This caused the nose of the trailer to lift both drives on the left side off the ground, and I lost traction. Luckily, they had a large construction loader on sight... I got them to put the bucket under the rear of my trailer and lift it. This allowed my drives to come down and regain traction so I could creep forward about 8 feet while the loader carried my trailer.

Neither time did I hear anything about it from my company aside from, "No harm, no foul"... I actually got a little bit of an atta-boy from the boss after the incident where I got the loader to help me out. I believe hus words were something along the line of, "Good to have a driver with some old fashion farm-boy ingenuity."

 

That is just asinine IMO... Sometimes #### just happens, even to the best of us.

 

Sounds like someone has spent a few days staring at the ### end of a winch cat. Can’t say I miss stringing pipe a whole lot.

 

Lol reminds me of needing a front end loader to make a turn into an Amish furniture mill.

Yeah the Amish use heavy equipment lol

 

Not a pipeline guy sadly, wouldn't mind to get into it tho. Most of my stuff is ag related. A lot of it is unique and I go to really cool places.

Most of the time it's just the usual farms, grain mills, animal food plants, equipment dealers but then there's really neat places. Admittedly there are nightmares as well (tree nursery's and wine vinyards don't like me)

The Amish are really friendly people so are the Mennonites.

 

I pulled a set of convertibles for a while. Plywood out of Kelowna to somewhere out on the grass and feed back into the Okanagan. You sure can find yourself all sorts of weird spots hauling grain. You can have everything on the farm that will run tied on the front of you to get a loaded train out of some of those places.

 

You see trucking companies and insurance carriers look at like this.
The very act of you being conceived was preventable.
Their for anything you do after you are born is also considered preventable.
With that being said even if you weren’t born it is concerned preventable because if you were born you could have prevented it.
I guess what I’m try to say is in the trucking business it’s always your fault no matter what.