stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?

The stupidest thing I've ever done? Give my cell # to dispatch. They won't leave me alone!

 

i am a company driver, but we pull a lot of broker loads for some of our back hauls,
i dont mind dispatch having my number as i get along with MOST of them.
the stupidest thing i have done was give my # to a broker

broker: call us when you get there..
me: im here
broker: call us when your loaded..
me: im loaded..
broker: your gonna make it on time right?
me: ill call when i get unloaded on time..
(every 3 hours )
broker: you are gonna make it right?
broker: your running on time right?
broker: just making sure your gonna make it:
broker: are you running into problems?
broker: where will you be parking tonight?
broker: what time do you think youll make it to the delivery?

you get the drift.. they dont stop calling...
soo.. when i call them to verify all pick up information, and they ask me my truck # trl# swing or roll up doors, the conditon of the trl..ect. then they ask me for my cell #..
i simply tell them that if they want to find anything out to please contact my disp. as i am not getting paid to talk to you..click...

 

I was fueling in Pa and forgot to shut my side door. I get 6 miles down the road and another trucker informs me over the CB about it. We were in a construction zone too. I pulled over and luckily got back on the road. On top of that I got humiliated all over the CB. I never made that mistake again and always secured my side door every time I was stopping to use whatever was in there.

KH

 

I think that I have everyone beat,one of our straight truck drivers made a delivery 45 miles away,backed into the dock and opened the back door.OOOOPPS ! he forgot to load the truck !!.

 

A couple months ago an HD wrecker pulling a schoolbus got stuck in the median on I-81, tried to do a U-turn and got hung up...blocking one side of the road. Had to have another wrecker come pull him out. WTF? As a wrecker driver, you know he's seen a lot of stupid F-ups, you'd think he'd know better than to try to save a couple bucks.

You know I-10 in Texas where theres spots with no fence next to the highway, and a service road right next to it? one time I was down there, the westbound side was stopped because a corvette had burned to the ground in the middle of the highway. A lot of people were joking about it on the cb, like "he forgot to tell the illegals that were in the truck they couldnt smoke back there!", "he dropped his joint!"....anyway, so some cars got impatient and went through the ditch to get on the service road. A BUS DID IT TOO. WTF? Didn't get stuck either! LOL In normal traffic, where there isnt a ditch, its pretty common for these people to do this, so they can get somewhere that doesnt have a ramp. One time i watched a swift truck do it. LOL.

Today I was going to the Petro at exit 157 on I-69 in Indiana. This is one mile north of I-80, a turnpike, and I was coming from the southbound side. I jumped the gun and got off exit 156...oops. I paniced and i could have just turned around in the drop lot for the doubles guys, but i missed that chance and got on the turnpike. NO EXIT FOR TWENTY THREE MILES!!

 

I broke down once just past the exit that you turned around at, I was headed eastbound. The wrecker hooked me up, had to do the 23 miles up, 23 miles back to get me back to the Elkhart Freightliner. That ride seemed like it lasted forever.

 

hahaha. $800 tow bill then?

 

About six weeks ago I was half way through 'dropping' a trailer at a cuctomers we were being really nice to and trying not to upset any more. I was the only truck there that day, I had three other trailers to load after that. I pulled the trailer airlines out the truck and it busted a fitting on the tractor unit. I was 'in the outback', it was 300 km (200 of your miles) to the nearest possible town, (Carnarvon, WA) bobtail to get it fixed. Oops.

 

When I first started, and was still in school, I was learning drop and hook. The important here is drop, because that's what the trailer did when I pulled out from under it without lowering the landing gear. I might as well have forgotten my shoes when I left the house. I was just happy I was on the truck by myself and nobody saw it happen. It was an empty trailer, and I cranked it back up really quick, and hooked back on. That completed my drop and hook.