Had an altercation with a Swift driver

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by PackRatTDI, Feb 4, 2013.

  1. milskired

    milskired Road Train Member

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    Good job keeping it professional and holding back the anger any of us have! I will admit it would be very hard to hold back if two morons did that to me!
     
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  3. reefer75

    reefer75 Medium Load Member

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    Hell of a job wish I could have did that when that swift hit my truck but just took his keys threw them out then the cops came history from there but good job on your part
     
  4. Chinatown

    Chinatown Road Train Member

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    I've had a couple of Swift drivers do the same thing to me. Hard to even hear the scale attendant with the horn blowing. What I did both times is set the parking brake while still on the scales & walk back to the Swift truck & ask why he's blowing the horn. They said they were in a hurry, and I said, that's not what I asked, I asked why you are blowing the horn. If you hadn't been blowing the horn, making me think there is some problem with my truck, I would have already been gone. Then I left.
     
  5. Noggin

    Noggin Road Train Member

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    Yeah I know what you mean...and then someone would probably see you and call in on you, with all that shiny black and chrome just screaming "look at me!"
     
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  6. CondoCruiser

    CondoCruiser The Legend

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    There's a new acronym.

    Super Weiney In Fast Truck, or so he thinks! There is always that backwards acronym I can't say on here. :)
     
  7. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    Well it must be "lets be unprofessional to PackRatTDI week". Aside from thr incident with the swift driver, I had...

    1. A driver in an old Schneider tractor cut in front of me so close it set the radar on my Volvo into panic mode. Then to top it off he slowed down and I had to pass him.

    2. A Colonial Freight owner operator berating me when he came up behind me as I was passing a convoy of a half dozen cars and two school buses just outside of Nashville. He made some derogatory statements about Mexicans as he passed and continued to ##### about slow trucks in the left lane, even as he stayed in the left lane and caused cars to pass him on the right.

    3. A fuel tanker came right up on my rear end as I was passing another truck and flew by me when I changed lanes, barely clearing my trailer. Estimated his speed to be at least 80. Did get some sweet revenge as I came up on him stopped by a Tennessee state trooper

    4. Stuck for almost an hour at Max Meadows, VA at the love's behind a truck in the fuel island. He finally came out to his truck, pulled forward. ...and went right back inside. When I had finished fueling, he came out and took his sweet time leaving so I could pull up.

    At least I was able to grab a parking spot without pissing somebody off, lol!
     
  8. 48Packard

    48Packard Ol' Two-stop Shag!

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    I swear...ten years ago, you didn't see NEARLY the garbage you see now among the "professional" driver ranks. Now, more of them are just rank.

    And it stinks to high heaven.


    (...and I just realized what I wrote. This was an unintended play on words. I'm just wired as such, I guess!)
     
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  9. milskired

    milskired Road Train Member

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    I was told I was #1 today by a 4wheeler! He used the wrong finger but I just smiled and waved! Lol
     
  10. Drifter42

    Drifter42 Hopper Heartache

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    You should have left the truck on the scale to get your ticket:biggrin_2559:
     
  11. Brandonpdx

    Brandonpdx Road Train Member

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    Oh god. Nothing makes me roll my eyes harder than two morons in a mega carrier rig. It's like they need two of 'em to make the #### thing move.
     
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