OK experienced drivers, post your most recent rookie mistake!

Locked myself out of a 99 mack in small town Manitoba in the winter. Went to get something at a little store just as he was closing, only store in the town. Made it back to the truck and figured out my mistake only to see the store owner had locked up and left. Did I mention it was winter....managed to break into the jocky box and pop up the bunk and reach through to unlock the drivers door. I could maybe have taken my jacket into the store with me but it was just for a sec....turned into an hour. Did I mention it was winter

 

Yah know, I stopped having that problem when I got the 10 lb hammer keychain...

 

My T660 doors will not lock unless I manually do it with my key. Love that feature.

 

Picked up a preload and when I went to pull out it wouldn't budge much. Got out, checked the brakes, and tried again but it still wouldn't budge. Jumped out to take another look and noticed the landing gear was still down.

 

In 2006 I was doing local intermodal for Schugel in Bethlehem, PA. Ran about 10-12 trailers back and forth to the rail yard every day. After a while you don't check every time. The last one of the day, I did just that. Except mine did move. And it moved over the hump at the tracks too. Which is where they got destroyed. A DA move for sure.

 

They have trucks in Heaven, but nothing gets hauled. You see they don't have dispatchers or brokers! They all went to Hell.

 

I always kept a bungee or two on my 97 Mack. Took longer to bend the hooks into the proper shape than it did to open the wing window with them.

 

Oh yeah here's another....not me this time but one of our drivers. After getting empty a few winters ago in upstate NY, the consignee told him to "just drive straight ahead out of here toward that bridge". Driver couldn't tell that the snow was plowed off flat and level and made the ditch look like a road. He drove straight in all right. Smashed all the fancy plastic ### lights and fuel mileage stiff they put on a T2000.

 

Ya I got a low boy, so I haft to be a little watchfull around sloaped roads. The dot bar hits all the time.