June 5, 2007: Dumb truck

[BrianR]

Originally Posted by fargon

While I have never dunit I know people who have. Most companies, topping out a load, or trailer is grounds for termination.

My company is the same. Wreck something expensive and you're gone!

Originally Posted by fargon

I pulled flatbeds most of my time trucking.

Sorry.

Originally Posted by fargon

That driver was distracted by directions, or 4 wheelers in his way.

No excuse. There are signs banning trucks in the tunnels all the way out to I-287! If he can't get the "big picture", he doesn't belong in a truck.

Originally Posted by fargon

I can't tell the company from that angle, but it is an over the road truck. That looks like a Peterbilt sleeper.

It's USA Carriers.

Originally Posted by fargon

If words like Hunts Point Market makes you all giddy, You might be a CHIKEN HAULER!!!

Say what?

[TexJeff87]

Once many years ago when I was on tour, we were coming out of Manhattan on our way to Atlantic City...the bus driver had never driven in the city before, and decided to take whatever tunnel it was going that way. We got down into the entrance before he realized we were too tall. He let all the air out of the suspension and went for it. He drove the whole way with the tour manager yelling in his ear about what an idiot he was while the rest of us sat in the rear lounge and stared at the ceiling of the bus, listening to the antennas on the roof going "whack-whack-whack"...it was right out of a WWII submarine movie, ya know, when they are being depth charged and they are all looking at the ceiling waiting for something to happen.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by fargon

While I have never dunit I know people who have. Most companies, topping out a load, or trailer is grounds for termination. I pulled flatbeds most of my time trucking.
That driver was distracted by directions, or 4 wheelers in his way.
I can't tell the company from that angle, but it is an over the road truck. That looks like a Peterbilt sleeper.

If words like Hunts Point Market makes you all giddy, You might be a CHIKEN HAULER!!!

So do you think he lost his job? And who is going to pay for all of those lights he ripped off the ceiling?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Sell all that scrap aluminum to pay for the lights.

[Snapple]

C'mon. Four years. Spotless driving record til this. Suspend him or something for a week but let the guy keep his job. Accidents happen. And no, I'm not related.

[glatt]

I can understand hitting the entrance of the tunnel. But he continued to drive through. It's not a short tunnel.

[Elysande]

i love how they include the welcome to manhattan sign

[LennyNero]

As long as you aren't a Feather Pluckin' Chicken Trucker...

[milkfish]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

But he somehow managed to ignore lights and a set of cops with bullhorns, and not only drove into the tunnel but all the way through it, destroying his own truck and ripping off decorative ceiling tiles.

Doesn't seem as if he really did that much damage to the truck itself, just the containerload of bathtubs and toilets that bore the brunt.

I think he might have been driving at the early hour with the radio turned way up and failed to notice the can opener action. Speed metal, perhaps.

[Happy Monkey]

Maybe his last load was six inches heavier, and he forgot that he had a lighter load.

It doesn't explain ignoring the stoplights and cops, though.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The red lights came on and the cop on the bullhorn said, "You can't go through the tunnel".
The trucker replied, "Cantu".

Welcome to the Cellar, Elysande and LennyNero.

[busterb]

I knew a guy that ripped the top from a load of lettuce. Seems they put down a few inches of overlay since last time he'd been under bridge and didn't change the signs.

[fargon]

Brian, Real men pull flat beds.
If you talk on a road king, listen on a audio king, and sleep with a Thermo-king. You might be a chiken hauler

[LennyNero]

Thanks for the welcome...I'm a long time lurker. Dunno why it says just one post, I'm positive I've posted before...

But, just to add to this even more, I work at a truck & bus repair company in Brooklyn, and one of the largest heavy duty tow outfits in NYC is just down the block from me (Mike's Heavy Duty Towing) and I see at least two peeled back van trailers and straight trucks a week come back to their yard every single week. Most of the time it is inattentive out of town drivers, but I've heard several stories of roads in NYC where clearances are totally different from the signs posted, and in those cases, the city foots the insane bill that usually accompanies a peelback job (typically around 20-30 THOUSAND dollars for the recovery, unload, transfer, reload onto a new trailer, and the tow.) Strangely enough, one location has had many accidents, many city payouts, and yet they still havent changed the clearance sign...

-Dan

[xoxoxoBruce]

Somebody's getting kickbacks.