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Post by jackwilby on May 3, 2009 2:29:16 GMT -6
Well one day me and my old man are driving back to Melbourne from sydney and we passed a shell truck stop up on top of a hill and just around the right hand bend at the bottom of the hill was one of Dollans heavy haulage's Trucks and trailers with a excurvator on. Mick is a good mate to my old man He is the owner of the company. Anyway dad pulls over and sees what is the matter. Jimbo who is the driver for Mick who use to actully drive for my old man The old guy who use to play the detective in Water Rats ( Australian cop series ) well. Jimbo cleaned up this old actors Mercedes Benz witch he was going to trade in for a newer car the car was in mint condition well. After five minutes to calm down Jimbo recalls tightening the chains at the Shell truckstop. And taking off and going down the hill he is four meters wide grossing about 70-80 tonnes and trucks were passing him on the right lane so he had to use the fog lane ( the little bit on the outside of the road ) and he was going around the right hand corner and the side of the trailer. Hit the Mercedes and fliped it about four times over the armco railing on its roof. T here was nothing left of it the family and dog were a hundred meters up the road when it happened. Work it out 70-80 tonnes at 90-100kph hitting a stationary 1-1.5 tonne car Ouch !!
Sorry I could not fill out a lot of the infomation as it was about 4-5 years ago.
Jack
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Post by Chris on May 3, 2009 2:33:42 GMT -6
Good story dude, if you got anymore post em. Actually if you can just rename the thread to trucking stories or something.
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Post by jackwilby on May 3, 2009 2:35:31 GMT -6
Years and years back when dad was 21 22 he just finished cleaning and polishing his kenworth took him all day he was headed down main steet in dandenong and some stupid pig pulls him over he pulled him over for some stupid reason i dont rember and he puts his foot on dads fule tank and dad said can you please get your foot of my gas tank the copper didnt listen dad siad can you get your fucking foot of my fule tank the copper said you have no right to tell me what i can and cant do so dad puts his foot on the qurter panel on the coppers car and the copper said get you foot off my car dad said you have to right to tell me what i can and cant do so the copper puts his foot on dads tail lights and smashes it so dad kicks the coppers qurter panel in lol and they had a massive argument and dad was taken to court and then next day dad admitted that he kicked the coppers qurter panel the copper admited and he was banned from the job for 2 weeks on the way out the copper said to dad did you learn anything today he said yes next time it happens i want hesitate to belt the fuck out of you
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Post by Rowboat on May 3, 2009 5:59:57 GMT -6
ROFL!
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 13:56:09 GMT -6
my dad once told me a story about a time he was hauling gravel trains up in michigan. he said that he used to get in trouble for wearing down the lift axle tires so quickly. my dad never told him that for fun my dad would get loaded, then get up to 50-60mph and drop the axles. he said it looked like an airplane hitting the runway in his mirrors. then one day i went with him and we would go flying down suburbs close to the edge of the road and suck trash cans out into the road.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 14:15:08 GMT -6
Well here goes last year me and dad were truckin it up back to Houston from Austin back when we ran containers so on the shoulder theres the police and then up ahead theres a lil car and there go the pigs running to see wtf was up so the guy in the w900l next to us says on the cb you seen anything were they screwin around and my dad asks me you seen anything im like nahh we had a good laugh lol.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 19:53:38 GMT -6
We were coming down from New Hampshire and there was a cop on the side of road that pulled a 379 over. We were going past and the cop was climbing up the step and we were in passing lane so we got over. We went past him doing 70-80MPH and when we passed, I looked in the mirror and the cop almost got blown off and he had one foot on step and one hand on the mirror and he was dangling off.
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Post by Tyler on May 3, 2009 20:13:27 GMT -6
thats quite the riveting tail there dusty
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Post by Jacob on May 3, 2009 20:56:53 GMT -6
me and my dad were coming out of vanouver with idk what lol and we were drving behind this ablulance and there was a corner and we couldn't see what was coming then we seen this cloud of dust in the shoulder and a car came around the corner 2 fast flipped like 3 or 4 times and the amblunace was the first vehicle there we pull over my dad goes out and help get the door open when we got it open this 2 guys come out lookin like they shit there pants holding there phones and keys i thought it was funny they weren't hurt or nothing the ambulance was the first vehicle there after it all happened and nobody was hurt we all started to laugh
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Post by mondo on May 3, 2009 21:41:42 GMT -6
thats quite the riveting tail there dusty LMAO!
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 23:24:03 GMT -6
I was riding along with my Dad early one morning in Northern Wyoming in a straight fuel truck with a 28' or so pup on the back. It was a pretty misty, foggy morning. As we were going around a bend, and we see a car coming around all sorts of outa shape all over the road so Dad Hits the breaks hard and the car goes past the truck and then vears off into the ditch behind the trailer. We stopped and got out to see if the driver was okay, he said "I fell asleep at the wheel."
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 0:24:13 GMT -6
well i was haulin 2 john deere 8000 tractors and i had my oversize load sign so i have to stop at night cuz wide load law well it was dusk and i stopped well then D.O.T. pulls up and tells me i was getting a ticket for drivin wide load at night n isaid WTF its dusk he saiod he didnt care well i went to court and the judge said ticket dropped
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Post by jackwilby on May 4, 2009 4:05:36 GMT -6
Well me and dad was hauling a big encloser to Mt Isa 29 meters long 4.5 meters wide 5.1 meters high we headed to the other side of Melbourne city to pick this load up the guys there said yeah we will have it out of the work shop already so we can just load it when you get here. Anyway we get there and its still inside the workshop so they had to use two big forklifts to skidsteer it out of the work shop. Long storie short ment to leave at 9am we left at 2:30pm. It was easter in a weeks time so in Queensland you can not drive a day before or after a special event and of course this ment stay in Queensland for a week if we did not make it on time. We were making good progress and then a day before we get to Mt Isa we hit a big bump in the road sitting on 105kph and the idiots that made the encloser made the cross memebers out of C chanel steel and of course the back of the encloser was sagging like a mofo. So we pulled over that night had a look the rear of cross memeber had snapped one side and the second last bent over the coming rails of the trailer. Brand new extendable 48ft HaulMark drop deck. So the following morning we get a new one welded up and four hours later. We made it into the town just before Mt Isa so had to get a police escort as well but made it on time.
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Post by danny on May 4, 2009 18:44:37 GMT -6
a short one well this one time my dad was backing in a truckstop for the night (hes 55 btw) and this guy had his lights on and it was blinding my dad so he said on the cb ''turn your lights off driver'' then the guy reply(i dunno what he said but whatever it was,it offended my my dad ) so he got out of the truck and came up to the guys door and he hurryeeeeeeeed up and locked the door and pulled the curtains forward.............wimp....
lol if wants to talk tough then he better make sure he can defend himself..........without a lock..............lol
AND HE DID TURN HIS LIGHTS OFF AFTER THAT.
hes prolly in his 20s
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 20:44:55 GMT -6
My dad drives a Dodge Ram Dually with a 28 ft double deck livestock trailer, so yea not a semi trucker but he does just as much driving. Anyway, one night he was running his normal route through P.A and doing about 70 MPH when outa nowhere a huge bullrack full of pigs came flying by him, must of bein doing like 80-85. My dad didn't see anything else of him for awile, untill when he was coming around a sharp corner on the highway he saw a big black shadow over the hill, just sort of an outline. He relized it was an over turned semi with a black container trailer, and the lights were all out, with it laying across the road. Bad News.
He slammed the brakes to the floor, the tires all locked and he went sliding and fishing-tailing from one lane to the other as he slowed down, still heading straight for the container trailer. Finally though just inches to spare he skidded to a halt infront of it. He was probably shaking like crazy lol (he didn't tell me that though). Anyways, he thought about that he had seen the bullrack full of pigs at a truckstop and it was coming up fast behind them now. (a mile or two behind) He tried the CB to warn him but no response, now all he could do was wait. All of a sudden the semi came flying around the corner and about that quick the brakes and the jake flipped on, he slid even farther than my dad and all the pigs piled up in the trailer and he went onto the shoulder and past the container, and stopped. He was about to have a heart attack lol.
My dad met him at the next truck stop, if i remember right these are the words he used. "Man i was about to shit my pants when i saw that heap in my way" LOL! Maybe he learned not to fly around like that anymore? Anyways, hope you liked this "riveting" story. I know its not that great but its not something that happens all the time....
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Post by ModelJT on May 4, 2009 23:52:28 GMT -6
shit man. he was lucky that he could stop without crashing.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 8:44:41 GMT -6
shit man. he was lucky that he could stop without crashing. I know, my dad is a lucky guy..he gets through more scrapes than anybody.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 14:53:50 GMT -6
LOL. My dad had the 53' Dryvan going through Emmaus P.A. and this cop pulled him over for the trailer being too long. So the cop gave him a ticket and he paid it off..
Heres another one. My Mom is a trucker. She was in New Jersey and She had her turn signal on and she was changing lanes. This guy in an SUV came up the side of her when she was going over and the lugnuts ripped and door and dented his fender.
The cop wrote her up for illegal lane change AND instead of FEMALE he wrote her up as a MALE!!!
It was only $85.00. Gay cop.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 19:05:08 GMT -6
i have a good one a gibson truck was on the road and was pulled over by a LTO officer the officer looks around the truck and finds some thing that little lite over the lisens plate (it has a name but i cant remember) so wat does he do, he pulled the plates and wouldnt let him take the truck anywhere till it was fixed
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 19:08:27 GMT -6
LOL. My dad had the 53' Dryvan going through Emmaus P.A. and this cop pulled him over for the trailer being too long. So the cop gave him a ticket and he paid it off.. Heres another one. My Mom is a trucker. She was in New Jersey and She had her turn signal on and she was changing lanes. This guy in an SUV came up the side of her when she was going over and the lugnuts ripped and door and dented his fender. The cop wrote her up for illegal lane change AND instead of FEMALE he wrote her up as a MALE!!! It was only $85.00. Gay cop. did she appeal that cuz it sounds like the S.U.V. was speeding
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 8:12:27 GMT -6
well it was 2003..me and my dad did some runs for east west out of black hawk, sd now western distribution, we had a 99 kenworth w900l sittin in grand rapids michigan with a van trailer empty waiting to be loaded..at the sysco facility, i was 10 at the time and was sitting in the driver seat it was about 11:30 at night, my dad was out back checkin the trailer and etc. when all of a sudden the truck just jerked ahead..and i got out and there was a car that rear ended our trailer...a buick lesabre..the guy who drove it worked at sysco..so i fell asleep in the sleeper while the cops came and the wreck was cleaned up only a slightly bent the that bumper bar on the trailer...not even that lol the dude was ok just shook up. then we loaded and headed out!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2009 13:56:27 GMT -6
LOL. My dad had the 53' Dryvan going through Emmaus P.A. and this cop pulled him over for the trailer being too long. So the cop gave him a ticket and he paid it off.. Heres another one. My Mom is a trucker. She was in New Jersey and She had her turn signal on and she was changing lanes. This guy in an SUV came up the side of her when she was going over and the lugnuts ripped and door and dented his fender. The cop wrote her up for illegal lane change AND instead of FEMALE he wrote her up as a MALE!!! It was only $85.00. Gay cop. did she appeal that cuz it sounds like the S.U.V. was speeding Idk. She didn't want to go to court because it would cost more than the ticket.
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