What would u have done!!!!!!!!

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by missjhawk, Feb 26, 2014.

  1. pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    lmaooooooooooo
     
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  3. missjhawk

    missjhawk Medium Load Member

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    I still had 2 1/2 hours till my delivery. I didn't no how long it was gone take 2 convince this driver 2 move. Then I the other drivers was gone help me back out but then a prime pulled behind me so I was trapped between prime and Schidner. I always leave a cushion 4 my deliveries when I started getting fuel I had a 3hr gap and that idiot shrunk it to 2 1/2 hrs
     
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  4. mrbamcclain

    mrbamcclain Light Load Member

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    Same thing happened to me in Palestine, AR at Loves...Werner driver on the fuel island and I've waited at least 20 minutes in my truck, but still no movement. Finally I went to the fuel desk looking for the driver and had him paged, no answer.
    Another driver sees that I'm fuming and offers to guide me back and fuel before him, I tell him thanks, but I'm gonna find this driver because of the principle fact that they are showing no consideration or respect for any other drivers.

    Manager sends maintenance to check bath rooms and showers, not there either. Finally I go back outside, walk around the truck and notice the curtains pulled....bang on the door a few times and out comes driver with game controller in hand! I promise if I had Hulk strength I would have ripped the whole #### door off it's hinges! He's taking his 30 and needs to call his company to move the truck.
     
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  5. truckon

    truckon Swamp Thing

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    #### happens in this industry, all day, every day, as a driver you are going to have to deal with it, it's how you deal with that matters.. getting worked up over it all the time is just going to give you white hairs, learn to shake your head and move on.
     
  6. 8thnote

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    I've got e-logs (don't drive for Schneider or Werner though) and its set so that as long as I keep it under 20 mph and go less than 2 miles I can still drive while on break, at least enough to move across the parking lot. These a holes were just being lazy. They could've moved without messing up their break.
     
  7. Grumppy

    Grumppy Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    First, missjhawk, "How big a ol gal are ya?"
    No just kidding, but all the way around, you probably handled it the right way. Good for you, for not getting into trouble over this.

    This right here is just missing the point & is of no useful advise. missjhawk wasnt the problem. The problem was an idiot who was parked in the fuel island taking a 30 min break. HE is the one who needs a lesson in planning his trip. missjhawk had her trip planned. It was the other guy who was the problem. It shouldnt matter if she had nine days to get where she was going.. the other driver shouldnt have been blocking the fuel island... period.

    I laughed & laughed at this.... now thats funny right there.
     
  8. John Miles

    John Miles Medium Load Member

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    Our Qualcom kicks in as soon as you release the brakes ... not taking up for the #####$$$$$ you are talking about ... but on some you don't even have to move the truck.
     
  9. pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    Drivers just don't care.Its all about them.I get very angry when they're taking their sweet time at the pumps like eating,throwing their piles of garbage out ect.Its like why wasn't that done earlier.
     
  10. truckon

    truckon Swamp Thing

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    Wrong. Things happen everyday, breakdowns, accidents, emergency road construction, the list goes on... the fact that YOU or any person in this industry would not have planned in a extra 45 minutes is just plain lazy and unprofessional, what the other driver did was wrong, but if you think your company is going to listen to excuses everyday about how everyone else made you late you are sadly mistaken. Get out of the me me me mindset, get some personal responsibility and do your job like a pro, regardless of others.
     
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  11. scythe08

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    I have been seeing this more and more and more. I watched an England team sit there and eat their pizza and smirk at the driver who was stuck behind them at the pumps as he was waving at them. I went in the store and they were still there when I came back out. There is this huge ## attitude out there and it's not just new drivers or the mega carriers. I understand the need to run in and use the bathroom and grab a snack. that I could care less about. But when they walk out with subway and two full bags of crap, that is just disrespectful. It takes me 7 minutes to fuel that truck once the pumps starts. I can be in and out of a T/s in 15 minutes and thats including potty time. there is no reason to be there a 1/2 hour to 45 minutes like I have been lately.

    I don't understand how they can possibly think that they can stay in the fuel island if they are on a break. log off the qcomm and move the truck, then log in. mine will scold and hiss at miss if I so much as move the truck if I'm out ofhours, but it won't log a vioaltion if I don't go over a certain speed for a certain distance
     
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