Amusing factual stories - real life experiences in trucking

[Doctor Who]

Hey Doc. Everyone has to be told they are #1 every once in awhile.

Yeah, if I didn't get told at least twice a day I feel unwanted!!!

OH WOW!!!!!

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[Lady18wheels]

Wow! :shock: I missed all this great stuff????
I hadn't even thought to catch up on this category until today.

It is a long read. But well worth the effort. Doc has some great storys to tell.

Just make sure you go to the potty before you start reading!!!!!

[Doctor Who]

An interesting week so far:

Monday found two of the trailer drivers running rocks into an upscale subdivision for the new phase of construction. On the third trip in a dark silver Lexus pulled across the street in front of me and a rather attractive "older" woman jumped out and started raising a bunch of Hate and Discontent. I locked the brakes up, rolled the window down to hear the tirade.
All I could make out was she was a high ranking member of the Neighbourhood Association and she objected to all the trucks running into the subdivision. I did ask if she was from some place other than NC. She was shocked that I had noticed and asked how I knew. I just said to her "No one from NC would be that damn stupid to jump in front of a loaded dump truck."

She proceeded to say that she called the police, I laughed and asked her how she planned on getting the rocks to their destination, helicopter???
The law did show up and issued the woman a ticket for blocking traffic and told her to leave the trucks alone cause of the job we had to do...

Yes a fun Monday!!

How come all the good stuff happens to you Doc?

[Doctor Who]

How come all the good stuff happens to you Doc?

Just lucky I guess....

Tuesday was rather boring hauling broken highway pieces from one asphalt plant to another... First load weighed in at 40 tons gross, grab the calculators and ye shall find how much the truck actually weighed, I thought something was wrong when the Mack wouldn't pull like it should!!!

Now on to Wednesday; Hauling rocks and sand to the two company concrete plants. On one trip hauling sand my cell phone blurted out "Blitzkreig Bop" a great Ramones song. This ring tone I use for all other phone calls. I checked the caller ID but didn't recognize the number. Since we are not allowed to carry cell phones on the trucks I was a bit hesitant to answer the call but I did and found my daughter on the other end asking me for some money for a dog kennel. I asked why and she said her dog, Sky a Husky-Shepard-Wolf mix, tore the house up again. No money!!!

Then she asked if I would check on her dog if I was in the area, this I could do since her house is on the way back to the quarry.
I dumped the sand, took the old 264 towards the daughters house, drove up the road she lives on and found the dog running loose. I parked the truck at an intersection and chased the dog down. While this was going on a woman, driving a mini-van, watched what I was doing and then drove off, I really didn't pay much attention to her as I dragged the dog into the back yard and tried to chain her up. I walked back to the truck only to find the damn dog right next to me, she broke the harness!
This really pissed me off so, I picked the dog up and placed her in the cab and drove off towards the quarry.

I loaded the rocks, stopped at the scale house and ask the young lady if she knew anyone that would want a dog and showed her Sky. Of course the ladies in the office came to the window to see Sky and all commented on the dogs blue eyes.. Not helping my situation one bit!!!

I pulled back onto the highway totally unaware of what was going to transpire next. I started gaining speed when I noticed a lot of flashing blue lights behind me, first thing I thought was "Loaded truck leaving quarry... OVERWEIGHT!!!"

I was wrong, when I pulled over a deputy walked up to the truck and asked about the dog and of course I explained the scene to her. At first she didn't believe me so, I called my daughter on the cell phone and had her explain to the deputy what was going on and why the dog was in the truck.

Sky rode with me for the rest of the day, I did catch Hell when I got back to the yard but after a fast song and dance the supervisor understood, I guess...

Today (Thursday);

Heading up a NC state highway I came up behind a POS pickup and noticed the passenger holding something out of the window. As I got closer the passenger dropped the object and the pickup roared off in a cloud of blue smoke. I slammed on the brakes when I saw it was a grey tiger striped kitten. I didn't hit it, I jumped out of the truck picked the poor cat up and placed it in the truck. I did notice one front paw was injured, I wrapped it in a cloth that I had and drove on towards the concrete plant. The first 10 miles the kitten was a handful but after that it made itself at home claiming the dashboard as a great spot to observe all the goings on. I did stop at a store and bought a small can of food, I also knew no one at the concrete plant would want the cat!
One other thing, one of the folks from the main office passed me and I could read the persons lips as we passed "W... T.. F...??"
Never a dull moment...

As I weighed out from the quarry the scale lady saw the kitten and that's all it took... I gave her the kitten and she took it to the vet, had the paw taken care of, and now the kitten has a good home. Lord knows I couldn't bring it here since I already have three cats and a dog!!!

The scale lady said I should join Animal Rescue Force!!!
I did tell her that I can't stand cruelty to animals and some obnoxious Republicans.....

[Doctor Who]

And to think 0630 Friday is not that far away... Oh what does the Trucking Humour Gods have in store???

Oh, by the way Magician my friend it's your turn!!

[trckndadsangel]

You just got to love the 4 wheelers that don't know how or just don't want to read the signs at rest stops.

I was out with my husband for 7 weeks. On our way to Kentucky we stopped at a rest area. There were two other trucks pulling in behind us. There were 5 spots taken with 4 wheelers parked in them. A man pulling a fifth wheel pull camper was telling these people to move so that the truckers could have a place to park. Well they would not listen so I got out of the truck and point blank told them they had a choice either move there cars to where the sign says they are to park or the trucks that were pulling in would move their cars. They stood there dumb founded and started walking away from their cars when I signaled for the drivers to start pulling into the spots. I had never seen someone move so fast to get their car out of the way. One of the other drivers approached my husband and said that I had alot of guts. My husbands reply was yep she might be 5 foot and weigh less than a 100 pounds but she puts up with no BS. The other driver said yep point taken.

Oh and what really ticked me off was not one of them would tell us we were number one

[Doctor Who]

Oh and what really ticked me off was not one of them would tell us we were number one

Kinda makes you feel unwanted doesn't it!!!

Well Friday came and went... The Humour Gods were not in a very good mood yesterday as ye shall find in the Current Events topic "Most Dangerous Occupation"

Sanchez should appreciate this; After running three loads of sand to the asphalt plant the foreperson told me to load the trailer with asphalt and run it to the US 117 project. OK, Asphalt in a trailer??? I do love challenges but this was a whole new ordeal!!! I will admit running on a newly constructed highway sans traffic at full speed is a lot of fun.
The fun ended when I had to back the dump trailer up to the paver and then trying to keep the truck straight as the paver pushed it along..

The second trip we sat in one place as the asphalt slid out of the trailer. I'm guessing I upset the paving crew, when I got back to the plant the foreperson told me to start sanding again, which was fine, I had more fun irritating the travellers on US 70!!!

All i can say is better you than me. Never done that in an end dump and dont want to either.

[Doctor Who]

Oh c'mon where's your sense of adventure???

Oh by the way Magician..... It's now over 18,000

[Doctor Who]

IT'S AN OSTRICH Part Deux!!!

On the second trip to the sand pit today the trailer driver in front of me slammed on his brakes, which caught me by surprise, I stepped out of my truck to ask him what his problem was. I didn't get the chance as he came running back to my truck yelling about something in the road. We both walked to the front of his Mack and sure enough there was a big ugly bird standing in the road. I said "Oh **** not again!"
The other driver was not sure what I had meant till I explained to him about the big ugly bird and the horse in Sanford.

He asked me what kind of bird it was, I told him it was an Emu and judging by the hole in the fence that's where it came from! The driver then asked me what do Emu's eat and I told him humans.... Didn't make him any more comfortable. As luck would have it a Johnston County Deputy pulled up and told us that the ugly bird had escaped three times this day. It was funny just watching the deputy herding the bird back into the pasture from which it came..
Meanwhile I explained to the distraught driver that Emu's, Ostriches, and Penguins were left off the evolutionary map and were left to their own devices but only the penguin was smart enough to figure out that wearing "formal dinner wear" would gain them much popularity.. The other two were just flightless, some what useless, occupants amongst the members of the food chain!!!

I don't think I made him feel any better!!!
This afternoon the foreman asked him about his "mirage"!!!

Doc your mean.

[Twilight Flyer]

Doc your mean

Sure is, but this is funny.

The driver then asked me what do Emu's eat and I told him humans....

[Lady18wheels]

The other two were just flightless, some what useless, occupants amongst the members of the food chain!!

And they can kick the hell out of a coyote - humans too!

[Ironturkey]

And they're tasty

Doc Wrote

only the penguin was smart enough to figure out that wearing "formal dinner wear" would gain them much popularity..

You forgot to mention BIKINI'S !!!!!

[Doctor Who]

You forgot to mention BIKINI'S !!!!!

Actually I didn't... I really didn't want to traumatize the poor driver any more than he already was!!! :shock:

[Doctor Who]

LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS__________ fill in the blank.......

AH, a fine Thursday morning found a few of the beleaguered dump wagon drivers in New Bern NC to help finish a road project. On the ride to this fine city by the sound there is a sign on US 70 which states "Watch for bears next 20 miles" No it is not a warning to look out for LEOs!!!

When the 6 of us arrived at the asphalt plant, the youngest of the drivers came to me asking about the sign and what kind of bears were there. I was going to tell him "polar" but I doubt he would have appreciated the humour. I did tell him there were black bears wandering the woods along 70. His bewilderment was comical in itself, cause he asked where did they come from, I just couldn't resist "Momma Bears!!!"
He didn't laugh then asked if they escaped from a circus, all this time I thought this guy was kidding but soon realized he was dead serious...
I did try to explain that Eastern NC was a natural habitat for black bears and if he looked real close at some of the city signs in New Bern he would see that the bear is the citys mascot....
I'm not sure if he was satisfied with the answers but I do know that for the rest of the day he could be seen riding along US 17 and NC 43 staring out into the fields and woods looking for bears.

Maybe it was a good thing I didn't tell him there were sharks in the sound in Washington(NC) he may have never come out of the truck!!!