stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?

Had a spotter pulling my trailer out of a door just as was getting there to pick it up. 46000# of steel beams in a van trailer. well it was mid august and roughly 100* deg out and this guy decides to drop it on a little patch of blacktop about 2 foot deep 10 feet wide. well he dropped it alright as soon as he pull out from under it it sank about 1 1/2 ft into the ground below the concrete. this guy worked there for 10 yrs, no rookie, and they have signs posted all over not to drop loaded trailers in this area. well needless to say my sunday start took about 4 hrs longer than should've cause they had to call a wrecker to come pull it out of the ground.

 

Last trucking job. For got to put down the landing gear on a empty trailer in front of the safety manger.

 

ddddooooohhhhhh!!!!!!!!

 

Which day do you mean?

I just can't pin my stupidity down to a single 24-hour period!

 

That is true,you can go for weeks and not have a problem then all of a sudden,one brain fart after another.lol

 

Well, I toss this one in...

Some years ago, I had stopped at the Wal-Mart on I-81, exit 273 in VA (when trucks were still allowed there). Load was about 40K, and the truck was riding a bit firmly, shall we say. So, I figured I'd slide the tandems a bit just to even things out (we frequently loaded at this shipper).

Well, just after I pulled the pins, another driver approaches and asks how this company is to work for. We chat, exchange pleasantries, and I leave.

Yup. Without finishing the slide job.

I get about a mile down the road when all of a sudden I say "darn!" (I'm paraphrasing here). I ease on the brakes, pull off on the next ramp, and finish the job. The tandems hadn't moved an inch, thank goodness.

 

Hell, it would take me 24 hours to type it all.

 

I was loaded with 44k of copper coils on my first load ever, the engine light came on, dispatch directed me to the Volvo dealer. The techs told me to pull around the building, it had rained the night before and they had a dirt lot, as i pulled into the lot the truck sinked like an anchor. I some how I worked my way out after building some momentum rocking the truck back and forth. Got to rolling in reverse a couple feet I said what the he!! I could probaly make it out going forward. That wasn't a smart idea, once again I got stuck. The volvo dealer and techs were dying laughing. They called a tow truck out for ten minutes of work he charged $250.00. I paid it out of pocket in fear that my company would fire me.

 

That would apply to most of us here.....