mistakes that let everyone know youre a rookie

And proud of it!!!

 

Some of the old threads were fun and in some cases still are. I have actually enjoyed this one and hope it sticks around a while!

 

Sorry fellas new to forum, only here today Monday back to work.I have enjoyed reading posts,,,,,,,,and been helped with info for a few yrs now.Finally took time to buzz in!!!! I would like to start a forum about influences we all had.Basically so I can post a tribute to my father who taught me so much.Dont really know how to go about it just yet.But I’m a fast learner.Good bye and God bless for now We Gone Back Quiet!!!

 

Can this post be revived lol

 

Sure.

How about washing your windows with the truck stop buckets and squeegee?

 

Hmm, The dark arts are at work. Some one is using thread Necromancy.

 

This has not been one of my best days. Hurting a lot and getting things ready for my upcoming surgery. I loved this thread back then and even today it has made me smile. I think back to when I was an active driver. If I could go all day and not pull a boner or two that was going to be a great day.

 

My worst rookie move? Thats easy.

My very first live load ever since trucking school. In my first like 6 months in the industry. Everything since then was ... supervised. But that morning, My dispatcher told me to take a empty box to Virginia, load meat and bring it back to Baltimore. Get going.

No one taught me anything about loading boxes in this case a reefer container. I didnt even know how to prechill. (After loading, reefer was turned on at whatever temp the bills said. Weather outside was 86...)

I get to the place near Harrisonburg VA. I find the dock office of shipper. Busy busy busy busy. They throw a pile of spreadsheets at me, point me 5 juvie deliquents as lumpers and tell me to fill that box with this product going to Europe by ship.

Then ran off leaving 5 Juvies staring at me needing directions and some sort of leadership from me. So I am now a crew boss and supervising loading?

While I am trying to put together all this product the forklift shows up with the first big pallet. I told him stick it in there.

No. Take this off pallet put on your floor, Hurry I got many more.

Kids look at me some more.

Ok let's see this product in that front corner over there.

It was not long before the kids being too short asked me how high should I go with the stacking of product boxes.

How the hell should I know. (I knew nothing, remember I was the rookie...)

I see the red line inside the reefer container "DO NOT LOAD ABOVE THIS LINE"

Derr hurr great. Stack to that line.

So they did.

Forklift comes and goes, boxes flying I thought ok we are getting somewhere. But that seems like a awful lot of product. (It was...) Packed solid wall to wall 7 high and leaving a foot and 4 inches from top roughly.

Forklift product reaches the end of the container box. Kids are all tired out. Did mens work as punishment for breaking local laws community service or something.

Busy busy busy busy scratches some scribble to sign the stack of bills.

I climb into the truck. Try to pull forward 10 feet to close doors. Truck would not move. But swayed side to side. Huh... thats not good.

And so the rest of the day goes. Back to baltimore we go!

such a stupid wasteful expensive and destructive day. And its been oh... I dont know at least 30 years give or take.... to have a day like that from a company that could not be bothered to train anyone at all.

In terms of damage ranging from state scales, citations to totaled truck and god only knows what the cranes at baltimore took on the lift it was a expensive day worth firing me for it.

If I had a time machine and went back 30+ years to stop the younger me from taking that live load I would. Trucking companies cannot be that stupid to send out drivers who know absolutely nothing about what they are getting into.

 

Hang in there sir. There are some days it will rain and be difficult. But if you keep on upgrade eventually you find the sun.