Truck recovery and when to say no to the company. (with pictures)

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Flashdrive7, Jul 5, 2022.

  1. SmallPackage

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    You may need a tetanus shot after just opening the driver door up on that one.
     
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    you got 3 screens...??

    man, you rich.....

    i still got me a 1999 HP desktop.
     
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    yeah, i would do the same, keep all the wet towels in the bath tub, not on the floor. i too make sure any trash is in the trash can.

    i hate for people to talk about me.
     
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    There is only 2 smells that get to me. Sewage and my 2 yr old sons diapers. There is no reason for a cute tiny little human to make a smell that bad.
     
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    Ah, yes. The dairy farms on the west side of 10 in Anthony, NM. Pungent urine from entirely too many cows on too small of a plot of land. I lived in El Paso/Las Cruces for almost the entirety of the 2010s.
     
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    Dang. Does drivers not clean their trucks, like ever? I'm not the cleanest person in the world but by God a couple Clorox wipes go a long way towards keeping clean! I could not imagine living in such filth. I saw barns that are cleaner than pics posted in this thread
     
  7. Flashdrive7

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    I got an additional. I was talking to a driver at the truck stop who watched the pig moving out. He got a ride to rent a U-Haul van. He went in and out of the Volvo a dozen times and more. He had armful of junk. Including regular size microwave, small fridge, TV about twenty inches, DVD player, he unhooked satellite TV dome from the top, he hauled out a mattress made for a regular twin bed. His dog took a dump right next to the truck as he worked. He finally finished and said "well, I'm out of here. Somebody's coming to pick it up. Tell him the keys in the battery compartment" The driver who told me the story asked me "you're not actually going to take that thing are you?" I said ,"Next question"
     
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    I take it you've never run a vacuum truck.
     
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    I wouldn’t have even called, I would just open a fire extinguisher inside and then tell ‘em it’s not drivable because you opened the door and you saw it like that. Mandatory cleaning ordered by company.
     
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    Well, to the op, tell them you can’t do it and stand firm. They can have servepro or even crime scene cleaners clean it up.

    We had a truck stuck in la, the driver quit while the trailer was getting loaded because he had thought he should get paid for things he had nothing to do with.

    he decided to get back at the company by smearing human feces all over the sleeper and dash and leaving a dump in drivers seat.

    we flew out the floater to pick the truck and trailer up. He just opened the door and puked.

    so we had to hire a company to clean the truck up, it cost $549 to get it clean enough to drive and it was driven to another company to get it literally stripped out where the dash top, seats and sleeper panels replaced. Insurance covered that.