What the hell are some of these companies thinking?

[inmate1577]

When they train new guys? I'm sitting at a loading dock today getting loaded and trucks are staging themselves to get into their docks. Like most docks you have to slide the tandems prior to loading.

So directly in front of me, across the parking lot is a a "blue colored truck" from a major company, I'm not saying which company. Next to truck #1 is another truck #2 from similar major blue colored truck carrier.

Driver from #1 is having a problem sliding his tandems, it happens to all of us from time to time, bad lock handle wont stay put. So driver #1 asks Driver #2 for help.

And I sat there in shock as Driver #2 actually crawled underneath the trailer of Driver #1 as #1 starts the truck and drives forward to slide the tandem. This wasnt a case of Driver #1 not knowing #2 was there, these two idiots actually planned it this way.

Everyone within visual contact sat there absolutely amazed and we all expected the worse to happen and its happened before,usually with tragic results. I tried not to look but my eyes got stuck on what was happening.

It was one of those situations were you want to stop it from happening but still aren't comprehending what you are seeing in time to react.

All I see in front of me is those wheels rolling over driver #2, fortunately it didnt happen.

When Driver #1 was walking to the shipping office, I said to him "Just a couple bits of advice. First buy a good pair of Vice grips to hold that handle in place and NEVER under any circumstances ever do what you just did because you could have killed your co-worker pulling that sh*t"

He kind of looked at me with that ..."uhhhh I've done it before look" and just nodded and walked off.

[WildK9]

He kind of looked at me with that ..."uhhhh I've done it before look" and just nodded and walked off.

:shock: :shock: :shock:

First buy a good pair of Vice grips to hold that handle in place and NEVER under any circumstances ever do what you just did because you could have killed your co-worker pulling that sh*t"

always works for me! vice grips, that is....

[One]

Good job of telling him, he will at least think about what he did and surely ask someone how to do it right.
Most people just watch someone screwing up and wont say a word in advise.
Good job!

[inmate1577]

I hope the advice sunk in with this guy........but I doubt it.

I'd rather see this guy get fired than flattened, but the way he's going only his Timex will keep on working.

Really had to bite my tongue because the first thing I wanted to do was to call him a big dumb motherf*cker, first.

[GMAN]

I am amazed at the stupidity of some people. Common sense seems to have gone out the window.

[tdriver1959]

didn't you here common sense died a long time ago

[GMAN]

From what I have seen the last few years, I am inclined to believe you, tdriver.

[Arizona]

From where I sit,.....driver#2 was the idiot.

[WildK9]

From where I sit,.....driver#2 was the idiot.

i disagree, somewhat. yes, driver#2 was very idiotic to agree to crawling under there,(actually border suicidal) but driver #1 should never have been willing to move the truck with someone under it AND he's admitted to doing it before. what idiot would chance it, not once, but multiple times? :shock:

[millersod215]

As i like to say "common sense ain't so common anymore"

[spencerian]

i disagree, somewhat. yes, driver#2 was very idiotic to agree to crawling under there,(actually border suicidal) but driver #1 should never have been willing to move the truck with someone under it AND he's admitted to doing it before. what idiot would chance it, not once, but multiple times?

Just my 2 coppers... If it were me sitting there I would have been compelled to get out and offer advice and help.

You have used terms "suicidal", "expected the worse", and "tragic".

Would you let a baby play with a knife? Would you stop a toddler with a gun?

I for one would have jumped out of my cab and stopped it BEFORE it got "tragic".

[Trucker4Life]

i disagree, somewhat. yes, driver#2 was very idiotic to agree to crawling under there,(actually border suicidal) but driver #1 should never have been willing to move the truck with someone under it AND he's admitted to doing it before. what idiot would chance it, not once, but multiple times?

Just my 2 coppers... If it were me sitting there I would have been compelled to get out and offer advice and help.

You have used terms "suicidal", "expected the worse", and "tragic".

Would you let a baby play with a knife? Would you stop a toddler with a gun?

I for one would have jumped out of my cab and stopped it BEFORE it got "tragic".

I thought it was just me thinking like that! Not sure what would run through my mind for the rest of my life if I just sat there and watched it happen knowing I could have stopped it. Just my $.02.

[wrangler69]

Well I don't think the big blue company is at fault, its the idiodic drivers. They do not teach that at the big blue.

[groovemachine]

:shock:

I have never driven a truck larger than a UHAUL in my life and I would never have done a stunt like that.

Those are two people with no common sense whatsoever.

[inmate1577]

i disagree, somewhat. yes, driver#2 was very idiotic to agree to crawling under there,(actually border suicidal) but driver #1 should never have been willing to move the truck with someone under it AND he's admitted to doing it before. what idiot would chance it, not once, but multiple times?

Just my 2 coppers... If it were me sitting there I would have been compelled to get out and offer advice and help.

You have used terms "suicidal", "expected the worse", and "tragic".

Would you let a baby play with a knife? Would you stop a toddler with a gun?

I for one would have jumped out of my cab and stopped it BEFORE it got "tragic".

I would have as well. But when I'm sitting there doing my paperwork, occasionally glancing at two drivers talking about something and then go back to my work and then look up to see some doof underneath trailer while another doof is driving, there isnt time to jump out of the cab and stop it before it happens.

I cant be the world's babysitter. And by the time you get across the parking lot and yell "STOP" you have no just increased the risk of someone getting killed because the doof in the cab is not watching behind him because now he's watching someone running at him yelling "STOP"

Not saying, dont do it. But you have weigh the consequences from both your actions and the doof behind the wheel. Its like when I was towing
and when I worked graveyard occasionally I would come across a car stopped at a light and the driver is sound aslleep at the wheel with the foot on the brake. How do you approach that person without risking them freaking out and going out into the intersection and killing someone else.

Its like trying to difuse a bomb.

[BIG JEEP on 44's]

the release lever on those blue trailers are at frame height between the trailer tandems or in front of the 4 axle and and easily grabbed and pulled while standing along side the trailer with only your hand reaching under the side of the trailer to pull the handle...i've pulled many a handle for a driver from many companies and never did anything more than reach slightly under the side of the trailer grab and pull while the driver pulled forward or backward no part of my body was in a position that could cause me to become pinned under the truck ...

is this what you mean by crawling under the trailer ...reaching under and pulling the handle...or did this driver actuially disappear under the trailer ?....