stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?

MGT1085 dressed that you would have fit right in shopping at walmart

 

When I first started as an owner op I was leased to a company pulling dry vans. I picked up a loaded trailer and went to the house. I dropped the trailer and the next night around midnight was heading to louisville. I got hooked up to the trailer and done my tug against the trailer to make sure I was hooked. All seemed good. I started down the road about 100 feet and started to turn left. I hear a loud BOOM and some dragging noise. Oh **** I look in my mirror to see my trailer heading right to the front porch of a house across the street. I get stopped right in the middle of the road and luckily the landing gear dug into the pavement and stopped the trailer from smashing through the house. Okay by this time neighbors are coming out to see what just went BOOM. I am sitting there like a deer in headlights wondering what I am going to do now. Darn thing pulled all my wires right out of the back of the sleeper. Luckily my uncle has a semi and lives in the same town. I just hoped he hadn't left out yet. So I call and good thing he wasn't leaving till 4am so he came down and backed under the nose a litte so I could crank the trailer up on some blocks so he could get fully hooked and move it out of the road. Good thing is nobody got hurt and everything was okay. Needless to say I didn't make it to Louisville for my drop/hook and I now had to go buy a new 5th wheel as the guts were out of mine.

 

I was at the Tstop in Phoenix last week saw a dude taking a dump under my trailer it was like 8pm and I was walking back to my truck I acted like I didn't notice him so I opened the door real quick and started my truck and he ran from under it with his pants down and left his toilet paper under the trailer. I think about and I still LMAO.

 

Couth may not be dead in this country, but it's definitely in ICU on life support. The prognosis is not good. Bad part is without his TP he probably wiped with his salad bar hand.

 

dumbest thing I did I did this week.....

I was in Davenport IA...on a delivery...went to the back of the building like all the signs tell me to...once I got there and checked in i get told to take the load to the front docks since I have cardboard packaging...well I get to the front docks to realize I have to blindside it in...well I GOALed as normal and realized I had to miss a corner of a building while trying not to run over a car parked in the loading area....Well as I am blindsiding I am looking out my sight side to ensure I am not going to hit this car with my drives when I hear CRUUUUNNNNCCCCHHHH behind me...I immediately look out my blindside mirror to see the trailer pinned up against the truck and my cab extension bent to hell.....well I eventually got my backed in without further damage...and inspected my extension and seen I had bent it around the stack.... well the loading dock guy then says to me "well I should have had you pull around the building so you could have sight sided it.." yeah that was my Idea until I seen these big ### no truck signs the company had posted on that path...so I went back the way I came and now I have a bent cab extension...FML

 

Ok, I still feel really bad about this one, and haven't told anyone about it ever, not even my wife.

It was my first solo trip after months with a trainer. I'm happily driving along in my ugly blue "new to me" tore up and abused Pete, pick up the load in Sodus Ny at the Motts plant to deliver to snapple at some town on northern NJ that I don't remember. I get off the freeway at my exit in Jersey (following QC directions) and end up in the far left turn lane turning left off a one way street. I think we all can gues what haopened next, as I turn too narrowly and feel a small bump as the trailor pulls over something, I look in the mirrors and see nothing damaged, and a lot of traffic behind me, with no one looking at me or trying to stop me so I do the typical new "bad" company driver thing and keep rolling, thinking I just went over a high curb and felt the trailer bounce, as if I could be that lucky. A few blocks later I have to pull off to the side of the residential street I'm on investigate the smoke coming from my tandems, find out the air lines are damaged, the axel on the trailer is damaged, and before I can go anywhere I need to call for road maintence. After waiting for a few hours for roadside maintence to arrive (it took him while to get there because "someone" managed to take out a fire hydrant a few blocks away from where I was parked), the maintence guy is baffled by how I managed to damage the axel like that, and baffled by all the strange fire hydrant red paint on the axel and bottom of the trailer.... Oops, oddly enough this one didn't cost me my job, my dispatcher sort of looked the other way on it, everything got fixed and I was able to deliver the load a day late, wih an odd lack of consequences. But I still feel bad about it

 

ok my first solo run was off all things to queens ny off of a queens service road .....so i follow the directions am going down the service road looking for the turn off ....directions say to turn at so and so ???(don;t remember the name) pull the truck over thinking i missed my turn and lo and behold i did they changed the name of the business so i talk to the cosignee and tell them i need to find somewhere to turn around the rest gets kinda blury got back on one of the highways thought i from the map i could come back around but of course every interchange and exit i needed was closed for construction after four hours a coke driver helped me find my way back ...my dispatcher calls asking wtf i was as the receiver said they talked to me this morning ...low and behold i found the receiver took five peope to block traffic and help me back into one of those indoor garages .....so on the way of the island i am still tripping call my trainer he is laughing so hard he almost pissed himself ....i told him i;m on 476 looks like a straight shot off the island i;m getting the eff outa here ....ya great idea scored a 180 ticket from ny;s finest there are three there at that tunnel 24 hrs aday to write tickets stop trafic and turn you around (had to wait in a line of trucks for your turn ) they did give me directions to the gw bridge might i say 6 years later i still hate the island

 

very funny!!!

 

Can't say I know how experienced any of these guys were, but:


Don't know how many semi's I've seen pass the entrance to the North East Extension while going southbound on rt 663 and do a uturn at the intersection right after the ramps. Funny thing is that that road is pretty much just a back entrance to the North East Extension so the uturn isn't even necessary. It joins onto the ramp just before it opens up into the toll area.





When I worked at a frozen food distribution center near Allentown, PA:
Was sitting in my car on lunch break and suddenly hear a scrape thud thud. Look around to see a cab was trying to pull away a reefer but it slid off and was resting on the rear tandems of the cab. Driver puts it in reverse and smokes the tires trying to back under the loaded reefer but is unsuccessful. He ends up lowering the landing gear and pulling away, a yard jockey uses his hydraulic 5th wheel to lift the reefer so they can lower the landing gear more. Driver gets back under it and drives away without incident. The next week I come in after having off for 4 days and hear I missed another dropped reefer that happened the day before. But the driver didn't save this one, the landing gear collapsed and crushed the gas tank for the reefer. They had to have 2 wreckers come out to lift the reefer up, then the load had to be transferred to a different reefer. Don't know if the driver had to take the damaged one to get fixed or if his company sent somebody to pick it up.

Different time while sitting in my car on lunch break I look up just in time to see an unattended cab out for a stroll by itself. The driver forgot to set the break (maybe left it in gear too?) and it started rolling down the lot away from the building, right towards the employee parking spaces. It miraculously went into an empty space between a Jeep with a napping worker and a sedan, only clipping the side view mirror of the Jeep. It then gracefully bounced up the curb and went a few feet up a grassy hill to knock over a sign before rolling back down the hill and coming to rest against the curb. If it had just been a foot to either side it would have taken out one of the parked cars.





When I worked at the walmart in Quakertown, PA:
We get a call saying the delivery is running late and should arrive in an hour. An hour goes by, nothing at the doors. Another half hour goes by and the phone rings. Driver is calling saying he's at the dock and waiting to be unloaded. We open the bay doors but see nothing. Tell him we don't see him anywhere. He says he is in dock number 3. But, we only have 2 docks. Go outside and walk around the store to see a walmart truck parked at the dock of the neighboring ACME, which had been empty for 2 years. He was at the wrong building in the strip.

A few years earlier when the ACME was still open.
A driver drops off a walmart trailer and leaves with an empty that was sitting in the back lot. About an hour later that evening a manager from the ACME comes over to the walmart and says he has a trailer missing and wondering if we have anything on our surveillance cameras. Just then the phone rings and its the DC in Tobyhana. Apparently the walmart driver took an ACME trailer by mistake and took it to the DC an hour and a half away. He had to spend 3+ hours bringing back the ACME trailer and grab a walmart one to take back to the DC.

 

i saw trucks backed up at the scale in Okiehoma, behind a truck that was stuck in the grass past the driveway entrance where he or she tried to get in line after passing trucks getting off at the scale. Don't know if it was a rookie or not, but it was a training company truck and something you don't do twice...