Tanker Newbie

Too the OP. Who are you signed on too?

 

Yup, that's me..... Has a beard that could kill a bear, when my chiropractor works on me his hands start smoking.... Crush Centrum Silver tablets with my pinky finger... Sometimes if i look at my reflection too quickly, it looks frightened.

 

The most interesting trucker in the world. Stay in the hammer lane my friends.

 

Did anyone tell you that if you have to swerve, for instance you come upon an alligator in your lane then swerve to the right to go around it. If you immediately swerve left to get back in your lane, go are going over on your side if not worse.

 

Thanks to uncle surge he's an unforgiving basterd.

 

I almost rolled last Wednesday in Tuscaloosa . Stupid, stupid mistake. I was getting on the on ramp, from the bypass, to head east and entered the curb below speed and promptly lost focus on what I was doing. Got into the apex of the turn and started accelerating and didn't notice it was a decreasing radius.. I gently let off the throttle, didn't hit the brakes, with the thought of trying to minimize the surge, and rode it through. But I could feel the lean.
I was furious and shook up later. 16 years and you'd think I know better. I honestly have no idea why I didn't notice the decreasing radius. My only thought is that I lost concentration

 

Good luck to the OP, it really is a rewarding job.

 

Yeah, I know that one. There's this turn in San Jose CA where people are always rolling their tankers. It's the exchange from 880S to 101S, the sign says take it at 15 MPH so I take it at like 9 MPH and piss off everybody behind me.

I feel like I almost rolled one time. I was driving on CA HWY 4 towards Martinez, going through Brentwood. At an intersection, the speed limit is 55MPH. It was so dark out, that I didn't notice the slight change in direction on the straightaway--the road kind of took a slight left turn really quick and then continued on straight; from a distance, you couldn't really detect this slight turn until it was too late. I blew through that intersection at 55MPH, the speed limit, and then turned with the road. It was slight, but I felt the back trailer on my truck/trailer vehicle starting to take control as it tried to catch up with the velocity of the tractor. I was shaking a bit when I was delivering my gas station a few minutes later. It only takes a second of error to cause a career-ending move.