I'm good with them booting these trucks. And to provide my thoughts to your comments, If I was in a fuel island & the truck ahead of me hadnt moved by the time I fueled, I would begin to become impatient. From that point forward, the longer that truck sat there, the more impatient I will become. Now, lets say that I seen an employee come out with a boot & put on his truck & I know that its going to be costly for him holding others up. At that point, it turns from impatience to entertainment, I'll be happy to watch this unfold for another 30 minutes. It'll be worth being 30 minutes late to the receiver. I'll take a cut in pay to see that, no problem. Sometimes, some things are just worth it.
Solution for trucks sitting at the fuel island
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Dino soar, Aug 25, 2020.
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Some of the megas probably encourage their drivers to just park on the fuel island for their 30. They know that a lot of their poorly trained drivers would take too long getting into a regular parking place and their 30 minute break would end up being an hour or more.
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I noticed the correlation of fuel island blockage and horrible backing skills years ago. Drivers are afraid to backup into a spot and get ridiculed for it. Probably the number one thing to get fired for is the damage of hitting something when backing and goal is to inconvient these days for the “have no patience for anyone parking” mentality that the truck stops breed. So what do they do? Park in the way with a forward out so they don’t have to try to get in a space even if it is a wide open lot.
It is a major problem and I hate that drivers do it but when I see most of the ones doing it I can understand why. -
I believe all pull-through spaces are the sovereign territory of flatbed drivers. Please stay out of our sacred parking spots. As we all know, flatbed trucks do not have reverse. Those tight, close aisles with back-in parking are for door swingers. We all know you like those tight spots that give you an opportunity to show off your backing skills. After all, it's what you do all day for a living. Us flatbedders pull in and leave in a forward position.
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must be that auto-drive feature when decided put me in the truck. It also seems to throw water bottles and anything else at hand to cars acting like ######### on road. -
I like your truck features! I've been contemplating upgrading my truck to the "piss filled water balloon thrower" option.
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Along with the water douche option ideas you guys have you need a hands free train horn option that has sensers for stupidity. Or one that plays the price is right game show music when you fail to win on outside loud speakers for every stupid move made around the truck.
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when you have an industry over regulated by so many idiotic rules your not gonna find the smartest people to put up with it.
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