What has been your worst experience on the road?

What’s the worst experience you’ve had driving trucks? Whether it’s an accident, road conditions, broken down, ugly roads you had to drive through, bad experience at a job site, etc. I personally drive a dump truck, so my worst experiences have to do with going to dangerous job sites where I’m praying nothing happens to me or my truck. Feel free to share any experience you’ve had.

 

Absolute worst?
It's a toss up between diarrhea or spewing what I ate for supper out.

Everything else when I was OTR were simply annoying.

 

Shattering my right heel while being on the complete opposite side of the country.

 

DECKER TRUCKING LEFT ME AT A SHIPPER WITH BROKEN DOWN TRUCK FOR 2 DAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
NO FOOD.
NO WATER.
NO HOTEL.
GOT TOWED TO PETERBILT AND I WAS GONE!

 

Worst experience? There were two of us hauling rock to build logging roads. We were twenty miles from the pavement and at least thirty from the nearest phone.
The truck ahead of me backed up to a berm, went a little too far back, and went right off of a 300 foot cliff. He was thrown from the cab on the way down and then hit and drug by the truck as it rolled several times.
I grabbed my first aid kit and ran down to him but he was DRT.
The foreman came by and said it would be at least four hours until an extraction team showed up and asked me to stay with him so the critters wouldn't gnaw on him.
The extraction team didn't get there until after daylight the next morning. It was too dry to build a fire to keep the animals away so I just sat up all night throwing rocks at noises in the brush.
I was 16 years old.

 

Wyoming January 1999 ice snow west of elk mountain. Trailer starts going sideways. Could read the side of the trailer in my mirror. #2 in 2003 went over the boarder in el Paso tx tx Mexico. (Jaurez). I like a idiot drink the water. Hell to pay for 72 hours. And I mean hell

 

WOW!

Can anyone beat that?

 

I don’t like it in winter when ice forms on my windshield and blades. I have a problem with vision so I drive slowly and have to stop often.
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If you got a chip or crack in your windshield be careful of your defrost in winter it can make it worse.

Also I ran over a raccoon that made a big mess, and I think I killed some eagles in dense fog, but I’m not sure. I think REO has that beat!

 

i was at the petro in Beaumont tx once. i believe it was about 3 or 4pm. this girl walked up to me and asked if she could get in. i told her it was too early for that $&@. she said i dont look that bad do i. i said well you dont look that good either. danm girl came back about 2am knocking on my door again. she said its dark time now. im like what do you do now.

 

My worst was feeling bad and having diarrhea in the trash can in my truck because I was at a huge rest area with no chance of making it to the bathroom. Then I starting puking and had to puke, you guessed it, in that same trash can, where every whiff I got of the previous bowel movement caused me to puke again.

I finally made it to the bathroom only to pass out and wind up waking up flat on my stomach on the floor. It was midnight so nobody came in while I was passed out. I have no idea how long I was passed out but the ice cold tiles of the bathroom floor on my cheek is the first thing I remember when I woke up. The next afternoon I convinced my company I could drive 30 miles to a Pilot which I did. I was rushed to the ER with severe dehydration and blood in my vomit. I believe I had a stomach ulcer. They put me OOS for 4 days.