What has been your worst experience on the road?

Ditto. Had a shipper in Chicago refuse to let me use their restroom a few years back. I thought for sure I’d have to pull over and take a douce on the side of the road. Luckily I made it to gary just in time.

 

Having the last open spot in the truckstop and cr england and swift circling the lot

 

you know you stayed up until the battle was over

 

Yep with one hand hovering over the air horn for quick reflex

 

It's a toss up for me between my first 4 weeks training with a DB as a trainer, or jumping out of my trailer and blowing my knee out. Never had an accident, not even a small one.

 

Bailed out of a logger once. It went over the cliff. Tip-Make sure you clear the trailer tires.

 

Food poising, awoken at 3am sitting up straight and knew it was bad. Projectile vomited dark coffee like grind looking puke with blood, (dark coffee grind was the old blood) rushed to hospital where I had lost enough blood they had to give me two units. Tubes shoved up my nose into my stomach and scoped out. Three day hospital stay. All caused by bad chicken at a truck stop.

 

Yes that's what I had, coffee ground vomit is what's its called. Mine was tiny though and the loss of fluid was the only concern.

 

Wow, I'm afraid I've got nothin on some of you guys.

Here's mine: Left out on Super Bowl Sunday right about game time to finish up a run from the week before. Fuel sender was bad on truck and I wasn't smart enough to be watching my odometer instead of the gauge. Ran out of fuel on 75 in Kentucky somewhere. NO road service would come help. All the guys on call were sippin' suds watching the game I guess.

Eventually I got a Love's truck from 100 miles away to bring me fuel. Had an 0500 appt the next day in Cincinnati. I finally got moving around midnight and headed about 50 miles up the road to a J for fuel. Pulled in and noticed my left steer was low, WAY low. I gauged it and it had like 30 lbs. of air in it. I have no idea how I wasn't feeling it. I had to go to about 3 truck stops to find one with a working air hose and then drive another hour or two to my delivery.

Grocery warehouse. Not a square foot to park in the middle of the night. I just set the brake in the middle of everything and crashed. Nobody bothered me.

Woke up to a LONG line at check in. Made it to the guard shack 4 minutes late. Waited 6 hours to unload with a flat steer tire and then was denied detention by some sleezy broker for being 4 minutes late. I wasn't 4 minutes late, I was an hour early.

I cursed that kid so bad he got his feelings hurt. Well, he hurt mine too. I lost my next run due to his lousy customer and then I had to go spend $500 on a steer.

It was a bad day......but nobody died. I respect you people whose worst days involved fatalities.

 

#### they broke your caps lock too?