Stuck semi. Stupid freight company.

[LD1]

Had to pull a semi out with the backhoe last Monday. Delivering some of my geothermal stuff.

Pics don't do it a ton of Justice, but the front was burried about a foot, and the slope of the ditch....the one side of the axle almost had daylight under it and would just freewheel. Maybe next time they will listen to me when I tell them I can't fit a full size trailer in, and will do as they are supposed to and send the pup trailer or box van.

 

[Industrial Toys]

In these days of unprecidented high speed communications, it seems that communication in such matters has never been worse. Try letting the local UPS driver know that he probably shouldn't come up your driveway, and this starts by calling a call centre a few thousand miles away. Then after pressing this and that, and being informed that those numbers have changed and you must listen carefully. Of course, there is no selection to warn a driver of possible trouble. And you finally get a recording proclaiming unusually high call volumes. So, you just hang up and wait to deal with whatever happens. So unecessary.

 

[RedNeckRacin]

Usually have to pull someone out of the driveway every year because they dont listen. Even had to pull my international out a couple times when you get off the side of the road. The wife thinks it has 4wd :confused2:

 

[DT86]

I hope you sent them a tow bill.

 

[LD1]

I should have sent them a bill. As well as a bill for unloading since he couldn't get in the drive and use the lift gate. Just don't think that would fly real well.

Neighbor was too understanding IMO. Driver went to talk to him, and he (neighbor) said don't worry about it.

 

[mapper]

I bat about .500 on getting through to folks delivering stuff in big trucks. Our land has a high water table during late fall through spring, if you pull into the field you've got about a 99 percent chance you'll get stuck. There is a nice well rocked area between the shop and driveway that is big enough to back a semi into. Invariably they try to turn around in the field, those $20-60 shipping charges don't go to far trying to cover the towing bill for a large wrecker to come and pull them out!
Of course I still have the fun of trying to clean up the ruts left afterwards.

 

[crackerjack222]

A few years ago I was pouring a slab for a house I was building. The first two cement trucks were on solid ground and had no problems. The third one had to swing around to the side. I told him he would be on deep sand and to make a sweeping turn, keep moving and DO NOT try to make sharp turns. He did not pay attention. We got him unloaded ok but he had to wait a couple of hours for their tow truck to arrive and pull him out.

 

[bdog]

I am surprised the driver tried that. I get a fair amount of stuff delivered by truck to my place and the vast majority of drivers won't come in and make me unload them at the road. I kind of laugh at them sometimes because I have a 379 with a sleeper and a 53' flatbed with a spread axle and I drive it in and out of there all the time and I am far from being an expert semi driver. Most these guys are local drivers with day cabs and shorter trailers and they are scared to come in.

 

[Qapla]

Just curious, did that mail box survive? Looks like it was in the path of the trailer on that rig.

Many years ago we used to have a propane tank that needed them to come fill. We had a really big pine tree out in front that we drove around. The root system of this tree made a good base that kept vehicles from getting stuck. We had some really soft ground between that tree and where the tank was due to vast quantities of rain. I told the office that the driver needed to stay on the drive around the tree and pull the hose to the tank.

When the driver came he tried to back his truck up to the tank We were his first stop and he was fully loaded. Needless to say, he sunk in to the rear axles and made it worse by trying to rock it out. They called a wrecker. The wrecker tried to back up to the gas truck :shocked: He buried that truck to his rear axle. They had to call another, larger wrecker. :mur:

At least this guy had enough sense to stat under the tree and pull enough cable to reach the stuck wrecker. With the stuck wrecker tied to the gas truck, the large wrecker sat still and pulled both trucks out with his winch while his tires stayed firmly sitting on hard roots. :thumbsup:

You talk about having some ruts to fill ullinghair:

 

[4570Man]

An idiot driver got a fully loaded tandem axel dump truck stuck at a neighbors. He was trying to save the bobcat operator 5 minutes of work by dumping the load closer to the swamp. If he had stopped 15 feet sooner it would have been fine. We hooked my tractor and a skid steer to it, but that was a no go. He ended up calling another loaded truck with a long chain come pull him out.