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.

 

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.

 

: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.

 

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.

 

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 ?....