Originally Posted by HWD

Drew10,

You critical analysis of my story was exceptional.

To be more specific, he was on a winding 2 lane road. drainage ditches on both sides, no shoulders. The construction entrance was gravel, about 50' wide, but the gravel ended less than 60' in and turned to red mushy mud due to our recent rains. On one side was a pile of 5' diameter culverts 20' long, on the other side a deep ditch and an old tree. The deep ditch and the old trees were on his blind side. He said he'd rather knock the pile of culverts over than to put the trailer off in the ditch past the lone tree. After talking about it, he decided he'd better let me try!

You people can still call it what you want. I could have headed up the road, not helped, and the poor dude could have continued up and put himself in a position from which he would NOT have been able to extract himself without the help of a large wrecker and local law enforcement. I decided that would have been too painful to watch so I stopped to help him. This is a road that NO trucks ever go on, except dump trucks driven by locals...since they are now building giant luxury golf course number seven for the county out there, there are now trucks going out there and the place they are supposed to be going ain't all that well marked. Anyhoo...

I too had problems starting out and I was grateful for the help I received. I remember a large distribution facility in north Florida where I couldn't get it backed to the dock door between two other trailers for the life of me. An older, more experienced driver helped me then...I will continue to "pay it forward" in the future, whenever the opportunity presents itself, whether I'm currently a truck driver or not; I just won't come on here and tell anybody about it. Sorry for wasting your time.