Pump Rage At A Pilot Leaves A Driver Stabbed

So they squeal in abounding overflowing joy that they are now a celebrity and begin to rake in that free CAR...

 

In sum places your better off fueling at 2AM in the morning...lol...then again you get the drivers taking their 10 at the fuel island...lol

 

I once took my ten on a ice covered intersection overnight during a ice storm. This was in NE Mississippi, town of Oxford I think, If my memory has any accuracy left in it it's plumrose in that facility. a very good shipper. Problem was the whole facility was on a hilltop and sloped down in all directions, particularly side streets which access the gate.

That was a interesting problem. I would set the spring brakes, wait for air to pump back to 120, release brakes for 4 seconds or 5 heartbeats and pull em again locking em down again. The problem was I would either slide through the chainlink 20 foot wide gateway or slide off the road into a 4 foot plus ditch which would have laid all of that pretty FLD 120 onto it's side with the great dane as well. Pallets and all.

The wheels would rotate about one and one half turns if not a little more forward and then slide 5 inches or so towards that ditch 6 feet away. Now 5 feet now... The crisis arrived when I only had about 30 feet left of the trailer to fit through the gate and about 3 feet from the fence end post with the latch that holds the gate closed.

It only took about a hour to get it in that gate. There was no rush that day. Not at sunrise and two people working a 400 man factory.

It was -20 that day, I don't know why I bothered to precool unit like a idiot savant obeying commandments from on high over the stupid qualcomm telling me to get trailer to -20 All I had to do was open doors and go to bed. **Bangs head.

 

hee hee...now that's a good one...I once had to chain up to back into a dock...normally I wouldn't have come into their facility but they plowed driveway salted it...BUT didn't do any docks and you couldn't see it to you had your truck n trailer on pass the driveway...guard came in late...said he never seen a girl chain tires before...oh geeze...lol

 

Ha i am a woman, and I had a woman driver not pull up. She got some words thrown at her. I'm respectful of others, if the guy is still in front of me after I fuel. If I gotta pee, there's a truck behind me, I go say something. See if it's okay if I ran in real quickly. I hate people nowadays and their lack of regard for others, among other things.

 

I like you already. I'll look forward to more stories at some point into the future.

I have a couple myself, but the day I quit telling stories might be my last one.

 

I'm horrible with people who don't pull up. I got into another argument with a man, who completely overreacted, screaming like an idiot. Guy who worked at Pilot stepped in, and the driver got out of his truck and got in his face.. I felt bad about that.. if I see them walking to / fro their truck in at the pumps.. I clap my hands, tell them congratulations that they think their too good to pull up. Don't have much patience for a "professional" driver, who can't respect the real professional drivers. I'm not always an ####### like that. Some days are worse than others

 

And you have to be mindful of the fact sometimes the pump panel is not working and you have to go inside to get it turned on. Or issues with the fuel card. So you want to somehow make sure you don't go off on somebody who's just doing what they have to do.

Then, there's the places where if you pull up, others can't get out or you put your truck hood at risk because space is marginal.

 

The ones that I've said things to deserved it.