Game: Stupid Things You Have Done On The Road
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I had been waiting for a trailer washout from a parking lot washer who was clearly too busy. He told me 20 minutes. I waited 20 minutes. He was still washing the same tanker truck, and there was another tanker in line that had been there before me. I was driving on my 14 and couldn't wait, so I walked to the back of the truck, saw that the doors were closed with no hoses hanging out, and drove off. A quarter mile later, a guy in a pickup truck is behind me flashing his lights and honking his horn at me. I slow down, he pulls up next to me and yells that my trailer door is swinging open. Apparently the washout guy opened the door, and closed it again, but didn't latch it, and I missed it. Fortunately no harm done to anything but my pride.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
I drive a transfer truck.
Think of taking a dolly and a trailer on the back of your rig only.
It's like half of a doubles. Anyways you can back them up with practice. I can back it up around the block now. But when I first started dude it's a task to learn. To go left you turn left and follow or steer the dolly and try not to get all tied up in a knot.
At any rate. I pulled into a job site (existing track homes) they were cutting out the intersections and putting in pavers. Welllll. I turned left I should have turned right. I drove alllll the way down to the guys. It was around a long curve and downhill to them.
And I had to back out. Up hill around a long curve the first day solo from my trainer. It took me 45 minutes. Hahahaha. Awe man. What a day that was.
Go for a walk if you don't know what's around the other side lol. My map showed I could go through but they had a big hole dug where Inwas going to dump...
Lesson Learned! Lol
Doubles:
Refers to pulling two trailers at the same time, otherwise known as "pups" or "pup trailers" because they're only about 28 feet long. However there are some states that allow doubles that are each 48 feet in length.
I forgot to lock my tandems once. They slid as I was coming to a stop. The result was a sound and a feeling of impact that had me thinking someone hit me.
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
I forgot to lock my tandems once. They slid as I was coming to a stop. The result was a sound and a feeling of impact that had me thinking someone hit me.
The Swift main office put out a short safety video about driver cams recently. At the end, the announcer, in all seriousness said here is a series of videos of a mysterious event that is happening to drivers. Watch this.
You saw several drivers "minding their own business", then WHAM! They seem to have been rear ended! (Somebody forgot to lock those tandems!)
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
I have a few of these but I'll just share one.
At a reciever I was having trouble opening the doors and set my trailer lock with the keys still in it on my icc bumper. Once I docked I realized my error but someone had already scooped it up and it wasn't to turn it in to the shipper.
Had to buy a new abloy lock and get another spare truck key made... at least I have a spare inspection door lock now.
Shipper:
The customer who is shipping the freight. This is where the driver will pick up a load and then deliver it to the receiver or consignee.
I did this today. I had to slide the fifth wheel forward. I've only moved it one other time so I was carefully going through the steps. Set the trailer brakes. Lower the landing gear. Release the air from the bags. Unlock the fifth wheel. Put it in reverse. It's not moving. As I was getting out to see why I reached to set the parking brake. Oops, brakes were on the whole time. As I laughed at myself, this topic popped into my head.
Kansas City KS on a Sunday afternoon. Receiver is closed weekends, so drop and hook. However, the road in front of the place is being used for street rod drag races. People all along the sidewalk on lawn chairs, drinking beer and grilling out. I got in line and took a turn slowly passing by with my windows down, waving, a few pulls on the air horn, and my dog hanging out the window. The crowd cheered and waved back, and I went on to swap my trailers. Felt like we were in a parade! Technically, not "stupid or funny", but definitely fun!
That's freaking hysterical and something I would do hahbab
Drop And Hook:
Drop and hook means the driver will drop one trailer and hook to another one.
In order to speed up the pickup and delivery process a driver may be instructed to drop their empty trailer and hook to one that is already loaded, or drop their loaded trailer and hook to one that is already empty. That way the driver will not have to wait for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.
Couldn't tell youh how many times I've went to drive and back up with parking brake still set. I mean a lot .
I forgot to lock my tandems once. They slid as I was coming to a stop. The result was a sound and a feeling of impact that had me thinking someone hit me.
The Swift main office put out a short safety video about driver cams recently. At the end, the announcer, in all seriousness said here is a series of videos of a mysterious event that is happening to drivers. Watch this.
You saw several drivers "minding their own business", then WHAM! They seem to have been rear ended! (Somebody forgot to lock those tandems!)
Is it as common for "truckstop terrorists" to unlock the tandems, as it is for the random idiot to pull the kingpin locks?
Most of this is probably driver forgetfulness, but still...
Rick
Tandems:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
Tandem:
Tandem Axles
A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.New Reply:
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Kansas City KS on a Sunday afternoon. Receiver is closed weekends, so drop and hook. However, the road in front of the place is being used for street rod drag races. People all along the sidewalk on lawn chairs, drinking beer and grilling out. I got in line and took a turn slowly passing by with my windows down, waving, a few pulls on the air horn, and my dog hanging out the window. The crowd cheered and waved back, and I went on to swap my trailers. Felt like we were in a parade! Technically, not "stupid or funny", but definitely fun!
Drop And Hook:
Drop and hook means the driver will drop one trailer and hook to another one.
In order to speed up the pickup and delivery process a driver may be instructed to drop their empty trailer and hook to one that is already loaded, or drop their loaded trailer and hook to one that is already empty. That way the driver will not have to wait for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.