Wasn't any current weather, just the leftover **** on the ground- 1 was trying to back into a spot in Limon, CO off 70, and it was so slick the trailer wasn't turning. Kept worrying I was gonna hit another truck, then I just pulled out and went on down the highway, found a rest stop with one pull through open.
The other was a month and a half later in Greeley, coming down off the highway towards the Pepsi DC with a trainer (I was a bit of a remedial student), came down too fast for the left turn and if the truck waiting to exit the DC hadn't backed up I would have taken off the front of their truck because of a patch of ice. That's probably my closest call w/ class A, haven't had really anything with class B driving yet.
Earlier this week we were headed to Camden, TN. There were wind advisories and we only had 12k in the box. We were trying to get to the pilot at exit 3 in West Paducah KY to shut down when a gust caught our trailer and we came real close to flipping. . Too close. My codriver was at the wheel and very experienced, so he was able to get it back under control. We shut down until the weather advisory lifted since we were too light to run.
Another time, last spring, I was driving bobtail in Salsbury, NC headed about 50 miles away to grab an empty trailer when we got caught in a tornado. Let me tell you I was petrified. Trees were coming down all around us and one landed on a car right beside us. I was dodging fallen trees, power lines, road construction barrels, etc. as he was watching the funnel cloud and telling me which way to go to avoid it. I managed to get on the back side of it and get into a truck stop between several full rigs. That time we shut down about 4 hours to make sure the storm was passed through highpoint where I was to get my empty. Scary stuff. There were several deaths in that storm.
"Bobtailing" means you are driving a tractor without a trailer attached.
Also while in Detroit about a month ago on I96 I think.. I was on an overpass that had frozen and was sloping. I was empty and heading to a shipper and traffic slowed and stopped finally. Next thing I knew everyone was sliding down the slope including me and I was moving maybe 3mph when a slide... I didn't hit anything and made it to the hammer lane which was the bottom of the slope and road on the rumble straps to have something for traction. While I was stopped I watched the other direction of traffic and seen probably 30 accidents of cars and trucks running into each other and the jersey walls. The next day an airplane slid off the runway.
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.
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I was driving through TN or KY in a nasty little storm popped up. My co-driver was in the passenger seat when the lightning struck. It popped right in front of the truck towards the passenger side and maybe 3-5 ft from the hood and 1-2ft above the hood.
This happened 5-6 months ago and I bet the bite marks are still in the seats.
So what are some of yours?