about truck drivers. We had a driver who thought he could back a trailer into a dock today in Chicago and swing the front of the tractor up onto a set of railroad tracks without busting up the oil pan and draining all of the oil onto the ground. He was wrong. I happened to be nearby with another semi and got to him in 30 minutes. I questioned him about what happened (nicely I must add ), and he just grabbed his back pack and walked away. Bit of a cold walk back to Wisconsin.
- Thread starter Hoofer B
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We were working at a warehouse a couple years ago and watched a truck try to back up to the dock. Work was being done and there was a dumpster restricting the area but the company guy backed in all day no problems. Two guys in one truck tryed 13 times and were still a couple feet off when they gave up.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Must have been the curvature of the earth.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Gee ,I hope he had his long johns on . Maybe the Chicago traffic had him mesmerized , and he was still in a trances like state, or he could just have been a jerk ,lol. Did he at least shut the truck down before she locked up ?
We sent our "company driver" to Houston with a container to be shipped out. Driver came back and told the story on himself. He tried for 4 hours to back the trailer between 2 other trailers at the dock. All of a sudden the driver's door opened and this woman driver grabbed him and told him: "Get out, you pipsqueak!". She climbed in the truck and put the trailer to the dock in one try!
I was waiting in line one day at a dock in NJ. The guy ahead of me starts to pull out, and I notice the truck is starting to come out from under the trailer. I jumped out and got him stopped before the trailer made it off the fifth wheel. The dude wanted to argue with me that there was anything wrong, then when he went and looked, made like it was my fault? I just didn't want him dropping a trailer in front of a dock that I was waiting for...
larry@stinescorner
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Too bad you cant get Jon F to drive with you..I remember him posting a story of a truck hitting him while his truck was parked at the truckstop and he was sleeping in it.It woke him up.As I drive Interstate rt 78 ,and have for many years,I have noticed truck drivers have changed,I could be wrong,,its just an observation on my part.Some of them seem to do some crazy stuff.It didnt seem that way years ago.
RedMF40
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Years ago had my first job seasonal worker state park. They were waiting for shipment of picnic tables. Waiting and waiting. Where were they? Finally flatbed semi pulled in one afternoon. Driver climbed down, pants falling off and ripped tee-shirt stained with coffee God knows what else. Quick glance at trailer revealed the load had burned up. Big charred boxes nearly breaking free of their straps. At least the driver unferstood when the park people declined the delivery. BTW the fire damage was mostly on driver's side, possibly from cigarette tossed out the window. Possibly, can't be certain about that.
WI Dan
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- Location
- Northern Wisconsin, Price County
I'd read your book!
Between you and the rest of the crew on YT - could probably write a multi-volume series.
Between you and the rest of the crew on YT - could probably write a multi-volume series.
I loaded and unloaded trucks at my last job. Meet all different kinds of folk, some you were glad to see, some ya wanted to tell em, don't ever come back. I used to tell dumb truck driver stories to my BIL who was driving at that time, till one day he told me if I could name 3 things that don't come to consumers on a truck, I could keep telling my stories/jokes. I been pretty quiet since then. Ain't no easy life style or way to make a buck. Hats off to all them, even the ones that need more practice.
We have a lady in the area who drives semi's hauling grain all the time. She has been known to help out more than one farmer get his semi into proper position at the local elevator. Unfortunately , her husband passed away last spring and she has sold their two semi's now along with other equipment. She is really taking it hard but looking a bit better lately.
Dune Country
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Back in the 80's I hauled a load of hops from Washington st. to Rhode Island.
Backing into the dock in the morning this guy was guiding me in, come on, come on, BANG!~
I came flying out of the truck and as we were having words the brewmaster shows up and asks me if I would like to accompany him on his rounds, sure :wink:
After a hour or so and a few samples we are back at the dock, he asks me if I needed a refill? sure.
He walks over to a hose bib sticking out of the wall and fills my glass just as the guy running the forklift does the same into his coffee cup.
Brewmaster tells me that the employees that are going to retire soon are assigned to the docks and are a little grumpy in the morning!!
Shows me where to park my truck for the night and at the end of the shift a couple of them take me out for the best lobster dinner ever.
Backing into the dock in the morning this guy was guiding me in, come on, come on, BANG!~
I came flying out of the truck and as we were having words the brewmaster shows up and asks me if I would like to accompany him on his rounds, sure :wink:
After a hour or so and a few samples we are back at the dock, he asks me if I needed a refill? sure.
He walks over to a hose bib sticking out of the wall and fills my glass just as the guy running the forklift does the same into his coffee cup.
Brewmaster tells me that the employees that are going to retire soon are assigned to the docks and are a little grumpy in the morning!!
Shows me where to park my truck for the night and at the end of the shift a couple of them take me out for the best lobster dinner ever.
Andy Martin
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I was working on a project in an East St. Louis (Wood River) oil tank farm. Narrow high (5 ft) dikes between the tanks. Driver comes in and clears security and gets instructions to take the perimeter road around to the construction site where a crane would unload him. So he goes straight onto a maintenance road on top of a dike, maybe ten feet at the top. Drives right down it to a 90 degree corner which is difficult to negotiate a pickup around. He gets his tractor around, damaging the dike on both sides and drags the trailer down the dike until it rolls and flips his tractor. Only then did he stop.
New policy, every truck gets an escort. New policy in 50 year old plant.
New policy, every truck gets an escort. New policy in 50 year old plant.
ramblineagle
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Retired driver myself, saw many a woman driver put a trailer into places that I would not even think about trying to do that in tight spots.
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