Well, it's good to see that you look at the bright side of things!

But...he's probably still employed....

Just sayin'

 

Once he got pulled out (I'm surprised nobody lost an ICC bumper in that escapade), he managed to get himself turned around and backed in, after someone told him exactly how to do it. It wasn't easy though, even though there were two empty spots next to each other.

He'll be a trainer next week.

 

Those pics remind me of a Swift truck I had come in to pick up a load when I was managing a Dist. Dept. Was a trainer and a trainee in the truck.

When you pulled into our lot you parked in front off door 1. There were 18 dock doors all in a row. They came in and checked in and were told to back in door 3 (2 doors from where they parked)

This was a big building 450,000sq ft warehouse and a 400,000sq ft production floor all in 1 building (BIG BUILDING) The docks had about 40yds of open concrete in front of them.

My shipping clerk came in and told me they told a Swift driver to back in door 3 and it had been over a hour and they hadn't backed in yet. I went out front looking for them, I checked the road out front and the ditches and checked all the doors for the swift truck and it was no where to be found.

So I go back in and get on the CB and yell for the Swift truck and they answered so I asked where they were and they said they were stuck and couldn't get out. I asked where they were and they said not sure. I get on my golf cart and go looking, I figured they tried to back into Receiving which right around the corner of the building from the shipping docks. No Swift truck there and I couldn't find them so I went back inside and yelled at them on the CB again. I asked them what could they see and they said railroad tracks and big tall round things.

On the back of the building on the production side there were 80' silos that the plastic resin was unloaded into off the rail cars There was also a gravel drive with a good base that we used for tanker trucks bringing in the resin. The end of the drive was clearly marked with "NO Trucks Past This Point" 2 Big signs on each side of the drive.

I get back there and there is the Swift truck about 20 feet past the signs sunk down to the frame. I asked them what they were doing back here and they said looking for a place to turn around. The trainee said I'm glad the trainer was driving and not me LOL I asked them wouldn't it of been easier just to make a U turn from where they were parked and back straight in to the door? The trainee said yeah I told him that. They were a 1/4 mile around the building from where they started to go down 2 dock doors and back in.

I took pics of the truck buried in the mud with the signs in the pics. I emailed them to my contact at Swift and they said they would hang them in the drivers lounge. I also kept a good supply of pics copied off to give to other Swift drivers when they came in.

So if there are any Swift drivers on here that have seen the pics hanging in a drivers lounge you now know the rest of the story.

We did get them pulled out with our yard truck so it probably went unreported.

 

once when I was just south of Farmington, NM , I came across a dumb***** who tried to mafe a u-turn on a 2 lane road and buried the steers in the ditch. Of course of all the trucks out there that night it had to be a knight transportation, who I was driving for at the time. He had been stuck there 2 hours and had refused to call breakdown. The only reason a tow truck showed to get him out was a trooper came across and called it. After I got done glaring at him and refusing to talk to him, I called breakdown myself and handed the driver the phone when the breakdown person answered.

To make it even more irritating, there was a huge lot that was well lit with a huge parking lot about 200 feet away. I could see it past his truck. I asked why he didn't turn there and my answer was him staring at his shoes.

We have all taken wrong turns, you just have have patience and take things easy and don't panic. My first time in Jersey was during rush hour. I missed my exit and made the mistake of trying to turn around by exiting an off ramp and getting back on. Not going to happen as it was a one way exit that had no way back on. So 2 hours later of running back roads in the dark, not knowing where the hell I was, I finally got back on and made it to a truckstop and bawled myself to sleep.

 

If you're going to hook onto some rig and pull, never, NEVER, NEVER hook it too the ICC bumper. ALWAYS hook it to the center of the tandems. Loop the chain around twice, or even three times, to make sure it won't slide into the slack adjusters. Done that a number of times with no problem.

 

The ICC bar can be used to pull a vehicle if only mildly stuck ...you just need 2 use common sense .

YouTube - WERNER

 

YouTube - Prostitute Picked Up By Werner Enterprises Truck!!?

look at the fourth comment... FUNNIEST COMMENT OF THE YEAR HANDS DOWN!!

 

They way they were dragging it, I am truly shocked it didn't tear off. The flatbed ended up sliding the Swift trailer sideways (as you can see by the angle, there wasn't enough room for him to get right behind the Swift trailer, so he had to sit at an angle). It was worth waiting around to watch.

 

Just because you saw someone got lucky and not break something doesn't mean it's the right way to do it.

 

I no an ICC bar is pretty sturdy ,but it's not sturdy enough to pull from if stuck hard ,but for a tug from a mild stuck it's fine ...mild is not burried to the running boards in soft soil.