mistakes that let everyone know youre a rookie

I jad picked up a load out of missouri and drove all the way to edwardsville to transfer it to another driver only to realize that the load was destined for california and i never weighed or set the tandems for cali...had to drive 500 miles on my dime to have them fix the load cuz it was overweight for cali.

 

No problem... at least you hooked up to the correct trailer... ;D

 

Oooo k ..a good rookie mistake that I did... Statute of limitation is long gone.. Back then we pulled a lot of 40 trailers.. I hauled styrofoam like for bean bag and insulation, so I went into a lot of shopping centers delivering to fabric stores. I was backing up and noticed out of the corner of my eye a parked car move sideways.. I had hooked my bumper with a bumper of a parked car picked it up a couple of inches and moved the back of the car sideways. Put it back in forward , moved the car back to about the original spot it was before, and by doing that unlocked the bumpers.. No damage, thank God. And never told anybody.. Now don't forget everybody had steel bumpers back then ... We sure can't do that today.

 

well sicne i had a few laughs out of this, (esp the firs 20 pages) i better add in my own.
high hooked a few trailes loaded and had to crank it up, moved truck dr0pped trailer and thought it was right, high hooked again, (really loong day)

pulling a load of paper i think in CA didnt knotice the sliding tandmes were not locked hit the brakes and the tanemes slit all the way back drove through CA like that for abotu 30 min or so, coundt understand why it turned like ####

 

You know what is far worse than forgetting to open your doors berore backing into a tight situtation? Opening them up and knocking one off.

 

A new guy it is a rookie mistake.. The old guy it's a real stupid mistake.. Everybody makes them ..

 

My rookie move was many years ago, in a giant dump truck. The guy on the job came over to me every time that I backed up to the cliff to dump, and he opened my tailgate.

Well he was busy one day and didn't come over to the truck, and, you guessed it. I forgot to open the tailgate. The front end of that truck went up in the air like Evel Kneivel riding a wheelie. I stopped in time, but there is no feeling like 60,000 lbs of truck with the front end six feet off the ground teetering over a cliff.

Never did that again.

 

did you get that suction action from your back side to hold you down? Lucky you didn't go all the way.

 

this should take some of the fear out of new drivers. thanks