Got Swept This Morning
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PJ's Comment
1 year ago
Ouch!!! At least the yard jockey got the driver!!
PackRat's Comment
1 year ago
Good grief! Glad there wasn't a sleeper behind your cab.
BK's Comment
1 year ago
Great warning and reminder about this type of accident.
It’s one of those situational awareness issues.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
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I was a victim of the infamous “tail sweep “ today. At my regular morning customer parked next to a Penske driver on the same account.
Got hooked up and walked back on drivers side to check load and suddenly heard a loud bang and the trailer shook. Immediately followed by a bunch of air horns going off. Ran back to front of truck to see this mess. Penske was almost to the exit with my friend the yard spotter in hot pursuit.
Driver had tandems all the way forward and could not comprehend how he hit me.
FYI. That little tool box under the passenger door is $5k from Peterbilt.
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".