Doing a "good job"....
#51
02-18-2010, 10:53 PM
With that many rollovers this year, you aren't likely to catch any flack for parking it. However, there are companies out there that will give a driver a whole bunch of flack if he parks the rig in bad weather. There are drivers that are pressured into running regardless of weather.
There was one company I drove for (out of business today) that did start giving me flack about parking the truck and load. That is, until I informed them what kind of hazmat I had on. When I asked them if they wanted the liability, they got very quiet. But if you do not have hazmat, they'll reem you a new rump for parking it. And, after that, they can starve out a driver too. I know of one driver that lost his house, his car, and his wife divorced him because he could not seem to get over 1200 miles a week. That makes for an incentive to try to keep dispatch happy, and it can get costly. But, dispatch is safe in the office while everything comes down on the driver.
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#52
02-18-2010, 11:11 PM
That Pilot, actually the Arbys, is where I stop for a coffee and a biscuit most mornings. It was fun again last night. Freezing drizzle all night and a sheet of ice between the 170 and the 150. I was spinning out trying to get up the hill at the 169, cars wrecked all over, a big truck spun around backwards. I got off at the 165 and waited for the salt trucks. They must have been caught off guard. The pucker meter has been pegged for 4-5 weeks now. Every nite's an adventure.
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#54
02-19-2010, 01:07 PM
With that many rollovers this year, you aren't likely to catch any flack for parking it. However, there are companies out there that will give a driver a whole bunch of flack if he parks the rig in bad weather. There are drivers that are pressured into running regardless of weather.
There was one company I drove for (out of business today) that did start giving me flack about parking the truck and load. That is, until I informed them what kind of hazmat I had on. When I asked them if they wanted the liability, they got very quiet. But if you do not have hazmat, they'll reem you a new rump for parking it. And, after that, they can starve out a driver too. I know of one driver that lost his house, his car, and his wife divorced him because he could not seem to get over 1200 miles a week. That makes for an incentive to try to keep dispatch happy, and it can get costly. But, dispatch is safe in the office while everything comes down on the driver. funny how they think they can tell you what to do from the comfy confines sitting in an armchair.
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#55
02-19-2010, 01:17 PM
got stuck at the Pilot at exit 140 on I-71 from 4 pm Monday until 10 am Tuesday, then had to go down 61 because they had I-71 all screwed up trying to pull all the trucks out of the ditch
THEN, I had to wait on 61 while they pulled a rolled over reefer out of the ditch.. the driver was talking to us and I asked him if they had told him what the wrecker bill was going to be, (it took 3 wreckers) he said they hadn't told him yet, but the LAST TIME this happened, it only took one wrecker and it was 600 bucks.. that is cheap compared to a story i heard. I don't know the make, but the guy had it painted puke green/purple with a big "batman" logo on the back of the sleeper and had "the joker" on the side. Good lookin' truck. Was pulling a lowboy, and had 2ft of snow on the right side of the trailer from nose to tail. Talked on the CB to other drivers, and said he had a big boat on the back, and laid it over. Said it rolled over ever so slowly, and the boat didnt come off. got the wreckers out there....3 of them...and said the cost was $1,000 a wrecker...and $365 for travel/fuel costs. So that little off roading trip cost him almost $3,400.
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#56
02-19-2010, 04:43 PM
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that is cheap compared to a story i heard. I don't know the make, but the guy had it painted puke green/purple with a big "batman" logo on the back of the sleeper and had "the joker" on the side. Good lookin' truck. Was pulling a lowboy, and had 2ft of snow on the right side of the trailer from nose to tail. Talked on the CB to other drivers, and said he had a big boat on the back, and laid it over. Said it rolled over ever so slowly, and the boat didnt come off.
got the wreckers out there....3 of them...and said the cost was $1,000 a wrecker...and $365 for travel/fuel costs. So that little off roading trip cost him almost $3,400.
#57
02-19-2010, 07:58 PM
actually, there wasnt much damage done to the paint of the truck. He passed me after i heard the story, and didnt look like there was a scratch. He said the only damage was the passenger side mirror was folded flat (one of those break-away mirrors) and took off a marker light. And bent in the chrome fender slightly. really got lucky not to really damage to the body.
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#58
02-20-2010, 03:45 AM
The guy in Baltimore lives in the worst city for truck drivers!! at least for the cities that i've driven in.. Those damn Container and Dump drivers are f-ing crazy up there.. I run Baltimore up to 4 days a week in and between the beltway along 95 can be eye opening.. i mean think about it, its a reason way Jessup is one of the worst truck stops in America!!
#60
03-01-2010, 01:46 AM
Dammit Boy!! That top pic...easy to see what and where!! Sucked if you were on the westbound(southbound) side of that............mess!!!
But that bottom pic....coulda been....... NM....CO....WY....TX...OK........but what was it??
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