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[California]

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$100K + in damages!

That likely illustrates the principle of Fired On His Very First Day!

 

[BackRoad]

As a kid I remember Grandad had a small piece of white tape in lower left of his windshield which I asked what it was for. Tape lined up perfectly with edge of the road.

I added two tapes for left side and right side reference on the windshield on my F-350 dually. She's a little wide in the hips!

I added them while hauling our 32' 5th wheel through miles of Interstate road construction and narrow National Park roads after we retired.

I can run the inside edge of the fogline now for miles without even thinking about it.

Using the tape lines as reference is so second nature at this point, it's almost subconscious.

Needle's Eye Tunnel...8' 4" wide, clearance of what seemed like the paint thickness on each side of the dually...foolishly, yet successfully threaded (without the RV of course!)

 

[Rockbadchild]

Here in Europe, Eastern Europeans are taking over. Particularly the Hungarian Waberer is notorious, there are Facebook groups in which domestic truckers share the, sometimes plain stupid mishaps and accidents caused by Hungarian drivers that got their drivers license with the groceries.

same here in Kanasta... accidents are now frequent in the summer and certain in the winter its just a matter of time... it has gone scary to travel. For use they caught 3 agencies of ''license/training'' firm flat out giving licenses out without training and lately caught a few of them training for the test and training for the test only so license are giving out after a few days. They pass each other left and right, without giving who ever is trying to pass a chance and both trucks are lock at 95kph, so now they pass inside towns (reduce speed limit) and in corners, will drive in the middle of the road so you can't pass some drive at 60kph in bad weather some will drive at 105kph, nether can't back up.

 

[masseyrider]

A guy I know has a small business with a warehouse.
He was having a trailer load of stuff delivered.
Truck shows up and stops in the parking lot.
Driver comes in ( a recent immigrant and holder of a driver's license ) and says they can unload their delivery.
Friend says not from the parking lot, back it into the loading dock.
The driver spent the afternoon trying.
Friend can drive 18 wheelers but made the guy try.
Ended up taking the load back and sending another driver the next day.

 

[Rockbadchild]

A guy I know has a small business with a warehouse.
He was having a trailer load of stuff delivered.
Truck shows up and stops in the parking lot.
Driver comes in ( a recent immigrant and holder of a driver's license ) and says they can unload their delivery.
Friend says not from the parking lot, back it into the loading dock.
The driver spent the afternoon trying.
Friend can drive 18 wheelers but made the guy try.
Ended up taking the load back and sending another driver the next day.

good on your friend

 

[ultrarunner]

I manage 1 post office and for decades no issues.

The last 3 years contract drivers have damaged the loading dock… sometime not even a week after repair.

Put in deadmen filled with concrete and they have been hit many times and replaced.

How can it go decades without issue and now so many?

 

[LouNY]

I manage 1 post office and for decades no issues.

The last 3 years contract drivers have damaged the loading dock… sometime not even a week after repair.

Putin deadmen filled with concrete and they have been hit many times and replaced.

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"Free trade" "Open borders" and incompetence on the so called authorities responsible for licensing requirements.

 

[Rockbadchild]

"Free trade" "Open borders" and incompetence on the so called authorities responsible for licensing requirements.

for use, they purchase/got themself in charge of the licensing program, just look at Ontario Canada transportation minister and that might explain a few things ... so go figures..

 

[bmaverick]

And off to work I go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

 

[gstrom99]

How can it go decades without issue and now so many?

Just spend at least 30 seconds looking at these videos the guy loads up. Sadly, there is lots of content available...

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[gstrom99]

And off to work I go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o

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I first thought it was great idea, but his bike tires look flat.

 

[Dftodd]

Interested in part 2 of that ambulance. I bet someone's insurance company had a few choice words. As well as someone's boss for lack of rigging.

My bet is the driver was sent packing as well.

 

[Dftodd]

And in the Northeast they're also Eastern European.

That ain't just the northeast. I've had serious communication issues with some drivers who have come to our yard for a load.

 

[Dftodd]

That likely illustrates the principle of Fired On His Very First Day!

Probably claimed he had 20 years experience as well

 

[Dftodd]

A guy I know has a small business with a warehouse.
He was having a trailer load of stuff delivered.
Truck shows up and stops in the parking lot.
Driver comes in ( a recent immigrant and holder of a driver's license ) and says they can unload their delivery.
Friend says not from the parking lot, back it into the loading dock.
The driver spent the afternoon trying.
Friend can drive 18 wheelers but made the guy try.
Ended up taking the load back and sending another driver the next day.

We had a guy pull into our yard at work. He was in the wrong place and needed one of the locations behind us that is accessed by a side road.

He asked how to turn around in our yard

This greatly confused me since we have 7 acres of asphalt. The yard is set up so you literally drive in a circle to exit.

After some back and forth the guy still couldn't figure out how to turn around

At this point I completely lost my cool with him and said "Look..... I'm not a CDL driver, but I can guarantee you that even i can drive your truck around this whole yard with out hitting anything!!!"

"Drive down past the end of the hose racks, swing wide to the left, don't hit them, drive back this way again and exit the yard!!!!"

 

[QRTRHRS]

When I was running doubles, I had dropped my trailers and dolly in the street, pulled my loaded trailer from the dock, dropped that one then grabbed one of my empties to drop it at our reserved dock. The lot was just big enough that I could pull in with a pup then back in to the dock. That left one door open.

Another truck with a 53' had pulled up. The driver had seen me pull in so he tried it. Failing that, he asked me to dock his truck. He looked like Bob Marley, lol, you know where I am going.

I was not going anywhere with him in my way so I said that I would help him. No 4-ways, he backed into the busy street, it was dark. I pulled my truck out and parked it. I got him lined up about 30 feet from the dock and told him that he was on his own.

I had hooked up my dolly and second trailer and headed out. He was still trying to get within the posts when I left.

 

[WinterDeere]

No 4-ways, he backed into the busy street, it was dark.

It's going to sound like an over-reaction, but stuff like that can kill someone. Glad that didn't happen, here.

One of my grandmother's was taken out that way. She drove into the side of, and basically under, a semi trailer that was backing across the street with no lights in the dark. It didn't kill her, but she was basically immobilized after that. It ended her independent living, probably 10 - 15 years prematurely.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I used to know a businessman who hit an unlit trailer killing his girlfriend and almost him. The driver was backing into a motel off of a busy three way road. This accident was at least one that led to the reflective strips that you see on trailers today.

I may be wrong but I think that the DOT bumper came about after Jayne Mansfield was killed when the car that she was in hit the rear of a semi in Louisiana?

 

[Runner]

That's how Jayne Mansfield bought it.

 

[LD48750]

Just wondering how many here don't even know who Jayne Mansfield was?