How Mad Would You Be?

Where in the **** was his trainer!!! I know when I was training I didn't leave the jump seat while the truck was moving

 

i'll tell you something that happened to me many years ago. i was driving for a company known as "Victory Express" out of Medway, Oh, (they were bought out by US Express years ago) and i was sleeping. i was at the T/A in Bloomsbury, NJ, parked in the last row, right near the exit gate...

ok so a Schneider driver decided to blindside next to me. he hits my trailer, i quickly wake up, and he's pulling away....well i jump out of my truck, i had a claw hammer in my hand, he now has to circle around the lot to get out. i cut through the rows of trucks, i get up along side of him and smack his drivers door with my hammer and screamed at him he hit my truck.. he dumbfoundly say's, "i did"...?? i said yeah mother***** you did...

now i got your number and i'm calling it in as a hit and run.....well he stopped right there, and gave me his info. I CALLED HIS COMPANY and told them what happened..........the person on the other end now wanted to talk (or shall i say scream) at him.....

need i say that Schneider paid the damages, and sent a long letter of apology to Victory Express.....??

to this day, i will never know what happened to that driver, but when i told Schneider of the hit and run, that's all they had to hear...

oh yeah, that hammer smash to his door....??

he never reported that to them.......!!!

trucker's justice......and i'll gladly do it all over again......if i had to.

 

trkngrl is right,i train also,never leave the jump seat when my student is driving,you lose a lot of sleep,b ut thats what a good trainer is supposed to do.unfortunately that trainer is not a trainer,hopefully he lost his status as a trainer.

 

This is why you will never see my truck parked at a big truck stop where alot of the big company guys stop. I stop at the least traveled spots.

 

Exactly!! I don't want to be right next to tons of neighbors when I'm home; certainly not when they are mobile and can cost me time/money!

 

I backed into a trailer at the Reno T.A. just crawling and I felt it, didn't see that there was an air conditioner unit hanging off the back of the container. I don't know how one could take a hood off like that or even hit anything without feeling it. Some people are just idiots I guess.

 

Ummmmm, nope, sorry you don't even get a police report. Private property and no injuries in most places cops wont even come out. At least thats what they told me about a month ago when some azzhat hit me at the truck stop while i was dead asleep in the bunk.

That A hole didn't even have insurance. Month later my truck is still broke, and I am getting sick of looking at the duct tape holding it all together.

Quite honestly if I had it all to do again, I would have beat the holy hell out of the piece of #### that wrecked my truck. Maybe even strangled him with the ###### sitting on top of his head. I could have gotten family to bail me out of jail, and I would at least feel a little better about the situation.

I keep waiting for $6K to fall out of my butt to fix it, keep looking, but it aint fell out of there yet.

 

@brinkj23
They do feel it and they do know, although if caught they may say they didn't. They just want to get away.

@Kansas.
Sorry you're going through the ####, man.

Whether cops come or not depends on the jurisdiction and how busy they are when you call and if anyone's hurt (or about to get strangled!). California Highway Patrol came to the J in Frazier Park for me. Laredo PD came to the Pilot for me. Both in less than 15 minutes. No injuries in either case. So it depends. In both cases they gave me their reports, because I was "an involved party."

 

So the solution(s) are:

1) pull in nose first.


2) the truckstops need to make the lots larger because, i don't think they were designed with 53' trailers in mind. And then, of course, everyone just has to have a long conventional..........

 

pulling in nose first "can be" a good idea, but me personally i will not do it. the chances of hitting someone opposite where you park is too great, even along with CONSTANT "G.O.A.L.", and help from others via the c.b. radio.

next, as far as making parking lots bigger for trucks goes, there is just so much space now for any truck stops to expand to do this, like here on the eastern seaboard. truck stops being built in the mid-west and west coastal areas may have MORE land available to them when they start building. but then i think it goes along with over all parking capacity. if (say) the corporation of the truck stop wants 1,000 trucks to be parked for more revenues to the truck stop they will have 1,000 spaces. if the corporation was to NOT want revenues, then maybe 300 spaces can be made up.....so what would YOU THINK realistically comes to the mind of truck stop corporations, "revenues, the more the better", or a "LACK OF revenues"...??????

it's economics, location, potential revenues, the stock holders, and the corporate big shots that all play into the design and building of a "modern day" truck stop. because MONEY speaks volumes, NOT a trucker's opinion(s) on how a truck stop SHOULD BE built.....and never will be either.