stupidest thing u have done or seen a rookie do?
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Pretty funny stories!
Team driving- hauling a refer --we normally ran to California with dry freight and back with a refrigerated load
It was about the third week out as a rookie , I believe it was the route 70 to route 44 interchange in Saint Louis MO which was a hard left hand ramp and elevated curve that was just covered in potholes.
so as i am going down this ramp just a little to fast every time my seat would bounce down it would rebound about an inch higher than it was before, i just kept hitting pot holes and it kept raising till i literally couldn't reach the brake pedal and the seat belt was too tight to let me slide forward to reach the pedal.
I cant really remember how i got out of it, but i assume the other driver told me what lever or button to hit.
Apparently when i looked at the 2 seat controls, "Rock back and forth" i must have assumed that the other one you set for firmness- i didnt know you set it for your weight -- the last driver must have weighed in at about 300lbs cause that seat wasn't coming back down. -
About a year after starting my current job one of our branch managers needed a load of concrete parking curbs delivered to our facility in Arkansas about 100 miles away. Our dedicated driver wanted nothing to do with it (as usual)... but I was new and literally jumped at the opportunity. I went to go pick the load up at the prefab concrete plant in our 18 ft box truck. The curbs were stacked on horrible pallets that couldn't be moved with a pallet jack. I knew little about DOT regulations or gross weight... so I ended up hauling about 12,000 lbs of curbs in a truck rated for 6,000 lbs with the entire load in the extreme rear of the box. The front of the truck was literally aimed at the sky and floated like a cloud the entire trip. Have no idea how I made it safely those 100 miles winding around narrow Arkansas back roads... but somehow I did. I learned some valuable lessons that day and will never pull such a "stunt" again.
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Was backing my truck under the plant to get loaded (concrete mixer) noticed there was about 6" of sand and rock on the ground under the boot. I called for the loader operator to clean it out, but the batch man says "no, back under. I need to load you." So I back in. Hopper catches the top of the boot and bends all to he!!. Moral of the story: It's my assigned truck, I drive it every day.I know when it won't fit somewhere. And from now on I won't try just because some batch man is in a hurry to get a load out.
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I saw someone get out their truck at a truck stop and it started rolling then he jumped into his truck fast and pulled the airbrakes but nothing major a lot of other drivers were like stupid rookie air brakes are yellow pull it and i was telling him everyone goes through that
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I was making good time and I was fallowing my GPS and it said to make a right, so I did and ended up on a side road. It recalculated and said I could make the next left about 2 miles down the road. As I get to the point it was someones driveway. So I spent the next 45min driving in reverse. And I was late by 30min to my delivery.
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