Jkloc420
Do you need an air compressor or tire gauge
Gumby dont like this
Going into feeder in progression.
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Coldworld
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Having a boom too high in his ass??
Jkloc420
Do you need an air compressor or tire gauge
you mean a broom
Coldworld
Well-Known Member
Yes that’s what I meant....a baseball bat
Rick Ross
I'm into distribution!!
They must train our shifters the opposite way. They keep em low so they can rub the landing gear on the ground and make us break a sweat cranking them up.
What'dyabringmetoday???
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I heard it was Saddlebrook driver. I also heard it was due to forgetting to set brakes and got out of tractor. Also heard he jumped onto step and hung on while this occurred. Of course- you know how stories can change. Thankfully, from what I heard, nobody was injured.It was either in PA or NJ. Supposedly.... didn't flip them.
Now the yard guys want in on the action.
If it actually occurred the way I was told, it is unfortunate he wasn't able to remove emergency air line. I suppose by that point, he wasn't really thinking about that.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
That's one of the biggest misnomers of feeders. I work nights, and see my family way more than I did in package car. And I don't have to struggle to go to a doctor's appointment or get something done during the day.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Be careful.
Things can happen quickly.
If you're that stupid, definitely.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Of course you work nights! You are Dracula!
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Yep. You never know who is, or was watching, damage or not. Accidents are easier to deal with than failing to report one.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Haha. I love working nights. No traffic. And the sunlight doesn't burn me.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
You give the keys to someone who wouldn't do this, and he/she will put in reverse to undo this mess.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
I'll be charitable, and hope this was a new driver. I'll tell you exactly what happened here. The driver, for whatever reason, decided he needed to do a U-turn in an impossible angle. It's one thing to go down a road of no return. It's another to think you can simply drive out of it.
If this guy couldn't turn a set around, he has to do it the hard way: breaking up his set to get going the other way. Yes, it costs him an extra half-hour, and is embarrassing, but that's how you avoid the wall of shame, which now includes the internet.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
And, it's not "blood money"! (Although Dracula might like if it were?)
How have you been a driver for 1.5 years and still at 18.xx (18.75)?? File a grievance immediately because you’re getting screwed.
Coldworld
Well-Known Member
you think they could have just backed up then went on their way without causing any damage or would the equipment have been jacked some way...?
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Pretty tasty...
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Yes. You can clearly see what the driver did. He got himself in a tight spot, and thought he could U-Turn his way out of it. As the picture shows, he didn't have room for it, and when he tried, he was so tight, he tipped the back ends off the wheels.
Simple solution, really. Crank the wheel all the way to the left and back up. That would put the wheels back down.
After that, you have a few solutions. If you can't drive down the road the driver was heading, you could either drive up that wrong way road (if it was quick and got you out of this fix, or, you could drop your back box, and turn around the front box and dolly, and park them in the direction you need to go, and disconnect them. Then, you would have to go back, hook up to the back box, and drop that behind the front box and dolly and disconnect it. Then, hook back up to the front box and dolly, and snap them back together, and be heading in the right direction.
This whole thing is going to cost you you 45-60 minutes, which, yes, is gonna cost you time. Time that may seem to put you in a deep hole. But it keeps you from calling in an accident, and is a lot quicker than waiting for management to come out, taking pictures and raking you over the coals. And in the end, that is what they're going to have to do anyway.
Worst case scenario, if you haven't damaged the equipment, is you can call dispatch and say you got off on the wrong road, and had to take a big detour to get back on route. Say you're gonna be late, and there's nothing you can do about it. In most ways, you wouldn't be lying, even if they pulled up your telemetry. Breaking down, and hooking back up to prevent damage is your best bet. They could whine about the wrong turn, but they could say nothing about taking the big precautions to prevent damaging the trailers.
Feeders isn't rocket surgery, but it does take a little awareness of your surroundings. This looks like a residential road. And in feeders, you better be damn sure you know where you're going if you're driving on a small road. If you don't know where you're at, and you're on some narrow, perhaps residential road, you're best bet is to stop, and pull up Google maps and figure out where you're at, and how you can get out.
Like I said, awareness. You're not driving a package car. Backing up a set of doubles is only for the most experienced drivers. Drivers more experienced than me. So you need to know your drive route before you keep driving.
Like I said a few posts earlier, I don't want to beat up on this driver because this has ROOKIE written all of it. I can't even remember all of the rookie mistakes I made. I'll say this, since there are pictures, at least this guy stopped and called it in. And that was absolutely the right thing to do. Hopefully the more experienced drivers can talk to this driver and iron out where his mistakes were, and how to avoid it in the future.
That's what the rest of us are here for.
