Please don't be like this driver.

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Goldenfan, May 3, 2023.

  1. Goldenfan

    Goldenfan Heavy Load Member

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    rnodteSosptat6ma2u20061151mat81h9tcma4g60948fcfh4uc3u2af2040 ·

    So, you think you’re having a bad day? Do NOT drive around barricades and road closed signs. Do NOT try to drive through flood water. Your day will only get worse.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbi...eWOS6BZsRLCHaGrEDZJLzzHpoTFCd6JU&__tn__=*bH-R

    This happened yesterday in my town. The driver blindly followed his GPS and I'm thinking it wasn't a truck GPS as that's not a truck route. Mods if there's a better place to post this feel free to move it. This happened in Prairie du Chein WI. I'm not posting it to be a butthead and we all can make mistakes but stop and call if you're in a situation you need help out of. This is a small town, he probably would've got a butt chewing for being off the truck route and they'd have got him back up to the highway and around.

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  3. Frank Speak

    Frank Speak Road Train Member

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    That’s one of the better looking Western Express trucks I’ve seen. Isn’t that always the way? There was a Pilgrim at Poly when I worked there that got a brand new truck and smashed it into the back of a tanker truck.

    Couldn’t total one of the POS loaners, had to be a brand new truck.
     
  4. bzinger

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    Last time the Mississippi flooded one of k@b,s finest ignored a closure sign in Missouri and went for a similar swim , I there are pics on ttr somewhere.
     
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  5. Rideandrepair

    Rideandrepair Road Train Member

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    You think the house with water up to the roof would have been a clue.
     
  6. dave01282000

    dave01282000 Medium Load Member

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    People just can't figure out the whole "blindly following the GPS" thing, for one reason or another...
     
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  7. Val_Caldera

    Val_Caldera Road Train Member

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    I Loved Trucking when we used an ATLAS, a C.B., and ASKED LOCALS AT TRUCK STOPS about local businesses as well BEST access. We also used Qualcomm, PAPER LOGS.

    The scariest stuff I ever heard about was driving on PONTOON Bridges in Louisiana.
    Years later, I drove a Class 8 (don't recall if auto or straight drive) Freightshaker Sleeper Truck with an EMPTY 53' Air Ride Dry Van across a couple Pontoon Bridges on my backwoods way to Morgan City, far as I recollect.
    It was Beautiful down there.
    On the way down, there was an off and on Canal Wall on my right.
    CHEERS!!
     
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  8. Concorde

    Concorde Road Train Member

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    Probably could have made it if his truck had stacks :)
     
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  9. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    he didn't make any mistake, he wanted to wash off the under carriage from all this past winters road salts...
     
  10. JoeyJunk

    JoeyJunk Road Train Member

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    Western Express never disappoints.
     
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  11. Jumpman

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    Now, that is one smart driver. He can cast a rod out the window and do some fishing while driving.
     
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