Some Drivers Have No Patience!

At a shipper yesterday the routine is to pull up and close doors and someone comes out to seal doors. I watched the trucks ahead of me so I knew what I was supposed to do when it was my turn. Most drivers wait for the driver to leave the dock area before pulling in to set up for the door. Well the driver waiting for my door pulled in front of the dock while I was still backed in. I pulled up enough to close my doors and dude honked at me and was waving me to get out of the way. I just waved back at him and continued to close my doors, by the time I had the doors closed the guy was walking up with the seal. Had I move out of the way I was thinking the seal guy might have been irritated by having to find me and making the walk across the parking lot. I was there about 4 hours and every truck did the same thing so I wasn't going to chance the seal guy not being able to find me. I held that guy up a total of 20 seconds, what a douch!

I watched trucks barrel past a guy trying to back into a spot this morning at a Pilot, and last night at a Love's they did it to us. They can't wait three minutes! Instead, it took the guy this morning fifteen because he couldn't pull up to straighten out. I noticed a lot of these drivers were young dudes. Do they think they're cool, because I think they're safety hazards barreling through truck stops and customer lots like that.

There is always someone driving way to fast seems like. At a shipper yesterday this guy comes barreling in off the street into the gravel parking lot and staging area just to sit and wait with the rest of us. He was kicking up dust, I rolled my windows up quick before the dust cloud rolled in. These drivers are ridiculous, I think they are showing off somehow. Who knows.

This irritates me.

As a rookie I always want to take my time backing in, whether it's into a door or at a truck stop. So the guys who are standing around watching giving dirty looks or sitting in their trucks rolling their eyes as I do yet another pull-up drive me insane.

It raises three questions for me:

1. Do these guys not remember being new to this?

2. If you are in that much of a hurry, why didn't you leave earlier?

And

3. If your truck CAN do 70, SHOULD you do 70?

Delivered at C&S in Chester NY the other day. They clear a whole section of trucks and then bring in the next group, so you have lots of people trying to back in to adjacent doors at the same time. Always a cluster&$@".

Had two people roll right behind me as I'm backing into my door. Aside from waiting for the idiots it probably didn't take me 10 seconds to back in, people are just always in a hurry with a screw everyone else attitude.

I almost got into a fight with a Stevens driver there before. A couple of us had u-turned to set up for a sight side and are waiting on a guy backing in and then he comes flying in and makes a way too fast u-turn to cut us off and back in his door, causing the guy backing grief as well. Then I bet he did 20 pull-ups to get docked. I docked next to him and he didn't like getting called out too much.

I'll take ridiculously tight backing situations over busy with trucks backing situations any day. People just have no courtesy.

People driving through the truckstops on the high side of the gearbox is quite the nuisance as well, not to mention dangerous.

Chickie, Chickie, Chickie...

This irritates me.

As a rookie I always want to take my time backing in, whether it's into a door or at a truck stop. So the guys who are standing around watching giving dirty looks or sitting in their trucks rolling their eyes as I do yet another pull-up drive me insane.

It raises three questions for me:

1. Do these guys not remember being new to this?

NO

2. If you are in that much of a hurry, why didn't you leave earlier?

They are trying to get under your skin,...they won

And

3. If your truck CAN do 70, SHOULD you do 70?

Honestly, if I could ((which I can't), and conditions permitted it (clear weather, flat road, light traffic), I would.

You gave them the power to irritate you. Do not pay attention to them,...this is all about you, and only you!!! "You" learning how to be a professional. Who cares what they think? Do you? Focus on what you are doing and not at their eye-rolling and dirty looks. If you whack something while being irritated with them, who is responsible?

It's just a pet peeve. Just like people who want to speed up right as I'm passing them. Or 4-wheelers zooming through the truck parking area.

If I see someone trying to back in at a truck stop and they are obviously struggling I will block traffic and put my four ways on to keep people from trying to speed around them. I'd want someone to do the same for me.

Whoops hit submit too early!

I get irritated but I don't let it stop me from doing my job. I don't care how long it takes me to back in. I'm not going to be the one in a huge hurry and hit something. So I just make a slightly impolite comment in the confines of my own truck and keep going. If I get to a point where I can let them go by I will wave them on. But otherwise? They can wait...

Chickie wrote:

I get irritated but I don't let it stop me from doing my job.

I understand, and I apologize for being like a "dog with a bone"; it's human nature when irritated, you can be distracted. I know these "guys" you speak of, all of them, same circus different clowns;...same guys who whine and complain in the drivers lounge, trying to get confirmation from others like me, who walk-in, get their paperwork and leave not giving them the time of day or eye contact. For yuks some day I will hand one or two of them a baby pacifier to suck on. LOL.

Try to consider the source, call an A__ Hat an A__ Hat and ignore them. Someday, soon, you will be on the ground witnessing someone struggling and instead of jeering like the rest of the peanut gallery, you my friend will probably try to help them.

I will leave it alone cause I know you get it.

Not only will I also block traffic, i'll go spot them on the blind side. I hate to watch a guy struggling, or worse me, and everyone just sits and watches. Can't drivers be helpful or are they all too cool for that. Professionalism is helping out, and understanding the other drivers problem, whether in traffic, or backing in. In traffic if your passing, and the other drivers closing in on traffic and needs to move over, let him in geez! Why does he have to slam on his brakes and wait for you to pass (Especially if its on flat ground) . If you caught up to him/her, you'll pass them again. Be courteous and professional out there. Merging traffic too, let four wheeler come on, move over. It takes less effort to move over, than to have the vehicle hit your truck, now your stuck for hours with that fiasco. Don't be impatient, it always comes back to bite you. And move over for vehicles on the side of the road, you never know what they'll do.

Oh nice response to blocking traffic....LOL.....That is courteous of you.

(Sorry for the rant) I currently drive, but i'm an ex CHP Officer, so i've seen a lot of crap on the road, from different perspectives).

It's just a pet peeve. Just like people who want to speed up right as I'm passing them. Or 4-wheelers zooming through the truck parking area.

If I see someone trying to back in at a truck stop and they are obviously struggling I will block traffic and put my four ways on to keep people from trying to speed around them. I'd want someone to do the same for me.