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scraped up my first trailer today

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Freebird135, May 15, 2009.

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  1. May 15, 2009 #1
    Freebird135

    Freebird135 Road Train Member

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    i dont have a CDL but ive been using the yard jockey trucks for over a year at my work

    im always very careful, even when first starting i never hit anything

    pretty disappointed in myself, i scraped a trailer today...it was very light and did no damage but i still side swiped it (i always back slow, no matter how good i think i am....its like the guy who taught me told me, if you are going slow and you do bump a trailer, you probably wont damage anything, and it does happen)

    anyways i was putting a 53 footer in between a very tight space in the yard, not on the dock, so people drop trailers at different distances apart out there

    anyways yea i scraped it on the blindside (i wasnt blindsiding)

    should of Got Out And Looked

    no damage done but im still disappointed in myself

    i told the other jockey about it and he said dont even worry about it, that #### happens almost everyday as tight as our yard is, and even the 20+ years drivers do it every once in a while
     
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  3. May 15, 2009 #2
    stranger

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    As Forrest Gump said, "S### Happens".
     
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  4. May 15, 2009 #3
    CURTWAYNE

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    We had a spotter putting a trailer in the dock, on the far end of the building where the lights weren't working correctly. The lights on the building would go off for a while, then come back on for a while, etc...
    Anyway, the jack wagon didn't have an electrical line for the trailer to have lights, but he was doing the best he could. He backed into the door, and after looking, decided he needed to pull out and scoot over a little bit.
    As he was pulling out, the swing door on the right side of the trailer came unlatched and swung out. He couldn't see it when it caught the fender of a brand spanking new sleeper truck. Ripped the hood completely off that tractor. Oh, man! Over $7,000 damage to a brand new truck.
    They let him go, even though he had talked to two supervisors, their boss, and his boss, about the lights not working BEFORE this incident happened. They refused to let him work another minute.
    Oh yeah, he was a clas A cdl licensed driver.
     
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  5. May 15, 2009 #4
    bubba mark

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    It happens. Years ago I was a switcher for a small trucking company. My job was to move trailers around the yard a night. There was almost no lighting in this yard. I couldn't even begin to count how many times I hit the fence or other trailers.
     
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  7. May 15, 2009 #5
    Dukesdad

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    It probably won't be your last.:biggrin_25526:
     
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  8. May 16, 2009 #6
    notarps4me

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    Switcher??? You work for the railroad???:biggrin_2554: I thought that was a spotter....:biggrin_25523:
     
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  9. May 16, 2009 #7
    Ridgerunner665

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    I know a place that calls spotters "switchers" too...

    As far as rubbing a trailer on a yard like that...it happens, just make sure you're not going fast enough to do damage.
     
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  10. May 16, 2009 #8
    Freebird135

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    spotters switchers hostlers jockeys ive heard them all lol

    our yard also has poor lighting but this happened at 2pm

    and half the swing doors on our trailers have some kind of homemade way of holding the door open....they are suppose to have a little chain with a hook at the end that hooks to the hook on the side of the trailers

    most of ours just have a little piece of old rope somebody tied on there, or we have to use a trailer seal....ive had a door come open before too but i didnt do an damage
     
    Freebird135, May 16, 2009
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  11. May 16, 2009 #9
    notarps4me

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    Well; my wife is a switcher... she can go bear hunting with a switch...:biggrin_25523:
     
    notarps4me, May 16, 2009
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  12. May 16, 2009 #10
    L.B.

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    We used to call them mules.
     
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