Truck Driving Jobs

inmate1577 · #1 03-02-2007, 09:45 PM

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 · #2 03-02-2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by inmate1577

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

:shock: :shock: :shock: :roll:

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Originally Posted by inmate1577

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.... :lol:

One · #3 03-02-2007, 09:55 PM

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 · #4 03-02-2007, 10:04 PM

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. :roll:

GMAN · #5 03-02-2007, 10:16 PM

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

tdriver1959 · #6 03-02-2007, 10:21 PM

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

GMAN · #7 03-02-2007, 10:24 PM

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

Arizona · #8 03-02-2007, 11:22 PM

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

WildK9 · #9 03-02-2007, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Arizona

From where I sit,.....driver#2 :roll: 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: :roll:

millersod215 · #10 03-03-2007, 12:14 AM

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