Things every driver must do once

Then back in the 70,s was offered $10,000 to switch and drive a loaded trailer out of florida. Said no and watched another driver take it, they made it to the scales where the drug enforcement folks were waiting, it was bales of pot to the back door. Never trust anyone waving huge amounts of money in your face for easy work.

 

Or, continue and you'll have a new story to tell in this thread. Or, think that 3 or 4 digit state routes in Kentucky are good short cuts. Or that cutting thru downtown New Orleans is a good idea. An epic story awaits when drivers start thinking up good ideas.

 

Did that back in 2001 at the Dallas Pike TA. Poor ol' JB Hunt driver freaked out when he came out of the shower and his truck was gone.

 

Sounds like an urban legend to me.
Would it not be nice if ta would hire a heavy haul tow truck for a week at every location and have them tow anyone in the pumps for 20 minutes....

 

Buy something at other than Walmart or a TS while on the road.

 

Watched someone shut down OR 95 for 4 hours just because they didn't want to chain up to get up the hill. Tow truck finally arrived and refused to tow them lol. Cop made the driver chain up.

 

Drive I 80 in Wyoming in the winter.

 

Make a phone call to breakdown trying to describe where the air leak is at when you don't know the name of the parts and neither does the person you're talking to. "Well, there's a valve on the back of the air tank with 4 hoses coming out of it, and a blue air line going into it, and the air is coming out the bottom of that valve."

Company stuck me with a "driver unload" one time. Pallets of laundry detergent and I could only use a manual pallet jack. I'm no princess, so I gave it a shot, but my puny little body just couldn't get enough force to get those pallets up the ramp. On to plan B- smiling and flirting with the lumpers. Who began sneaking pallets off my truck when their boss wasn't looking. Trailer unloaded, and I got an extra $20 (!) on my paycheck.

Get honked at by a little old lady who thinks you're taking too long to back into the Sears dock at the mall. Never mind there was a giant empty parking lot in front of my truck and she could easily have driven around me that way. Nope. She wanted to drive right where I was at and I needed to durn well get out of her way now.

 

Be drenched in nasty landing gear water.Actually it just happened......again.

 

I never get locked out for two very simple reasons, one we never lock the doors and two we have a spare key hidden and tied by a piece of wire somewhere.

But I got a $5k overweight ticket, negotiated down to $3k.

Spilled coffee over everything.

Crawled in rain and mud trying (successfully) to jerry rig a height control gauge rod that failed, out of scrap machinery that was on the trailer. Despite it having been a horrible experience, I am very proud of what I did.

Forgot to raise the landing gear and successfully drove to a scrap yard like this. Trailer was sunk low and truck was lowered by air bags to get under, that's why they were 2 inches off the ground.

Blew a head gasket on a Mercedes MBE 4000 engine. Repair cost, $800 labor and $1,200 parts.

This is all during my only 1.5 year long CDL A experience.