OK experienced drivers, post your most recent rookie mistake!

My last rookie mistake: It was 5am I still hadn't fully woken up yet and thought I released the trailer brakes and started to roll out. Was wondering if the trailer was loaded, then realized I hadn't released the trailer brakes after all. Made 4 nice ruts in the lot. That was a week ago.

Life is a learning experience. When you stop learning, it's time to hang up the keys and retire.

 

Here's one that still turns me white just thinking about it:

Back at USA we used Qualcomms, the stupid things would chirp at you but otherwise be unusable while moving.
Being something of a neat freak I always used to hang mine back in it's cradle next to the bunk, seeing as I couldn't use it while moving, what was the point of having it in arms reach?

So I'm somewhere in the Greensboro-Durham corridor of NC. when my QC goes off. I pull off the highway and onto the shoulder of the ramp, then get up to read my message.

The things says "cannot use when vehicle in motion"?!?

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LIGHTBULB!!!!!!!

I never slammed a parking brake so hard before in my life.
I don't know how fast I'd managed to start rolling backwards downhill, but thank God the trailer stayed straight!

 

Not noticing that the red packettes between the mayonaisse & mustard were filled with taco sauce instead of ketchup.

 

Not exactly truck related, but one of my brothers organized incentive vacations for companies at one time. He organized a trip to Hawaii for a company based in Idaho, an incentive for their top sales people. The first night they put out an incredible buffet.

One gentleman was piling up his plate at the buffet table and said, "Oh look! I LOVE guacamole!"

My brother didn't have a chance to stop him before he jammed a dorito into the "guacamole" and got a big mouthful of wasabe. He'd never seen a guy pass out like that before....

 

lets just say that parking on ice, tho while your loaded is fine, becomes a long day once you are empty!

 

There's a trick for that. Grab a single chain that you can stick through one of the holes on your wheels. One chain should get you out of situations.

 

Ripping an airline off my dolly when breaking my set of doubles

 

we all do the rookie thing dont we. i drove a freightshaker classic for two years and learned to keep a spare key inside the band of my hat or in wallet. since all u gotta do is slam the door to hard and it locks on its own. LOL i now have a 379 petercar and still keep the spare key just in case i go stupid again, and like they say, you cant fix stupid

 

Parked for the night in midland, TX. nice night, left windows down... woke up a few hours later to a rocking truck, realized it was just the wind, & rolled back to sleep. Woke up in the morning to find a thick layer of dust EVERYwhere.

Few days later, bump dock @ an egg packing plant. Go check in and come back to discover 50 flies reenacting top gun in my cab. 300 miles later there are still a couple stragglers...

 

Yup. Been there done that, got the T-shirt LOL