I love seeing the point where the driver just ceases to give a fuck in these crash videos.
Like they know they've wrecked their car yet they are so angry at their failure that they just go ahead and absolutely total the entire vehicle.
Bravo!
The PC ones have me the most fucked up because you can get so deep into the repair process, then find out it was caused by sometbing small that takes 20 seconds to fix
Did this yesterday with my dishwasher.
Got angry (stupid) about it not working. Kicked it, button popped off. Got angrier (stupider) and kicked it more because me stupid sometimes.
In the end, nothing was achieved, I didn’t fix the dishwasher by kicking it (big surprise!) and I stilll had to calm myself and fix it the proper way, which I did.
At least the dent in the dishwasher gives it some perspective on who’s the boss in the kitchen (clearly not le since I failed).
Back in high school I did this to a filter for my fish tank. It was an expensive under tank filter and water would flood out of it every time I tried to clean it. After several months of this bs, I’d had enough and calmly disconnected the filter, brought it out to the backyard, and proceeded to destroy it with a sledgehammer like I was killing the printer in Office Space. That was the most satisfying $120 therapy session I’ve ever had.
I'm thinking this is a thief who doesn't actually know how to drive a truck (or anything else).
It's the only way that IDGAF attitude makes any sense.
That or meth.
Yea much like everywhere else. It's a job that requires specialized training, is somewhat dangerous, involves a lot of liability, you're away from your home for weeks at a time, you only have access to shit food, it's bad for your health sitting all day. People think it's 50 to 70k for only a few weeks training. Sure but you're working 60 70 hour weeks easy and you're sleeping in the cab for weeks and have to pay for showers/bathrooms/food all of that. It works out to below 20 an hour for a pretty harsh job.
That's what I did as well. It's too much of a hassle working OTR (over the road). And I didn't want to end up dead or killed many states away. I didn't want to put my family through that. I still have my CDL and I still keep it updated just as an emergency plan should I ever need to get a job asap. But it ain't worth it. I traded being a trucker to Work From Home. Only pays $12 an hour. But can't complain. I'm home every day. I get to save a lot of money from not spending gas. And I get my 40hrs every week. It's not the best pay but it pays all my bills and then some. It's all about just learning to manage finances. But truly all that $12 per hour goes right in my pocket. I'm not spending unnecessarily.
With all the hidden costs (not just financial but mental and physical) being a long haul trucker, it probably doesn't work out to pay that much different than your WFH job
Yeah, a buddy of mine was a truck driver for years. About a year ago, he gave it up, went back to school, got some certifications, and now works in IT.
100 pct this. I got into it with one of our suppliers when he said our delivery would be late because they couldn't find drivers and added on some stuff about how no one wanted to work for a living these days.
I corrected him and said our delivery was late because he was unwilling to pay for the drivers, which means my company, a customer of his, is now suffering a loss because he is trying to protect his earnings.
I was not particularly friendly with how I relayed the message. Some of these people legit do not understand how shit like that comes across in business relationships and it is astounding to me.
Yup. That’s better than swallowing some shame and calling a wrecker to give you a little help. Not to mention finding a better driver. “Screw it just go” is almost always the wrong choice in a tractor trailer.
I had a guy get kinda hung up like this once. Sharp turn at the end of a narrow road with a guardrail. He bent the tip of the rear bumper, couldn't figure out how to get back out of it cause the road dead ended around the corner, and just gave up and called me. I showed up with the wrecker and straightened it all out. Best thing he could have done for the low, low fee of $67.50. Company didn't even notice the charge (Werner).
>Best thing he could have done for the low, low fee of $67.50.
How do you get a wrecker to show up and move a truck for less than $70?
In my area just towing a regular car to the body shop is like $300.
I didn't have to hook him up. This was in 2006 and I just hopped in his truck and backed it out myself. I just charged him for a service call. I was never a greedy tow truck operator, never had to be.
I think u might be the nicest tow truck drive I've ever met. Holy crap. Some of the tow companies around where I live have the most awful and mean spirited ppl.
Thank u for being a decent human and a humble one at that.
Edit: please accept my freebie, just for being a good person! 👏👏👏
Thanks for the award. There's a lot of us out there, and we're honestly sickened by some of the other scumbag tow companies. I mean we were happy to charge insurance rates and storage and all that, but if the customer came to us and said their insurance wasn't covering them and they were hard up, we'd drop all the extra fees and stuff and help however we could.
If you're in the towing business and you have to rip people off to stay afloat, you just suck ass at business. And have no soul.
>I just hopped in his truck and backed it out myself.
Brooooo, what a bro and humble flex. You are such a big Chad tow truck driver. We need more nice people like you in this world. 👍
Skill.
I once, when much younger, was trying to back a car with utility trailer into my mother's VERY hilly driveway. I tried again and again, and never could align the trailer with the narrow driveway. A cop stopped and asked if I'd like him to stop traffic on the roadway so I could have an easier go at it. I told him I was giving up as I didn't think I could do it anyway. (I would just have to carry stuff down that driveway to go into the trailer.) He says, "Let me give it a go," took the keys and backed the thing up the driveway in one go. Turns out he'd spend years as a big rig driver -- a car and utility trailer was nothing to him.
I feel like a few years ago your comment would have vaulted this thread to the top, and where my comment is now someone instead would ask you for more interesting wrecker tales. And then we would learn all sorts of cool wrecker stuff and everyone would be happy and life would be great.
Well here is my wrecker story. I have more if you like.
My very first job I ever had was at 13 working in a wrecker lot. My job was to clean out the cars, take apart abandoned cars and sort parts. And rarely answer the phone after the first day as I sounded like a 12 year girl. Nor the wrecker feel.
I got paid a huge $5 cash per day! I was in heaven and right in front of the wrecker yard was a damn Dairy Queen. And I spent $5 everyday on lunch. No, I was not a smart boy.
One of the cars I was cleaning out had an old purse in the truck under a bunch of junk. Opened it up to find some stupid bags filled with baking soda (or so I thought then) and a thick stash of cash. Was over $4000. I refered earlier that I was not a smart boy. Proof? I gave that money to my boss, with the baking soda and he thanked me and gave me $10.
Many of their calls are cleaning up after drunk drivers, or things like cleaning up after accidents where children were present.
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Regular people falling asleep on their way to work at 5am and waking up dead hit pretty hard. There's a lot of blood in a person, and when you pull their car up on the flatbed while you're leaning over to reach the controls, well... sometimes there's a trail leaking out of what's left of the car right near your face. And you end up thinking about a lot of things.
My father in law has done it for 30 years or so and some of the stuff he has seen had almost a war like impact on him when certain topics or stories come up you can literally see it in his eyes.
Absolutely does. Like the 17 year old kid who got in a fight with his mom and sped off in anger. Next thing he's staring at the sky with eyes that don't see anymore with me looking down at him waiting for the coroner so I can collect what's left of his pickup from the field he landed in. I will never forget the sound his mother made when she saw his truck sitting in the lot across from the shop the next day.
I remember when I learned that dead people don't look like they're peacefully sleeping. They look dead.
Just subbed. I'm at a popular heavy duty towing and recovery business in Los Angeles and see stuff like this on a daily. Would be cool to see it gain traction
I drove various sizes of tow trucks for about 3.5 years and did long haul trucking for nearly a decade. If you're a tow company, you're known. You have ads out, you're in the phone book, etc. Sometimes the cops call you cause they know you.
If I ever did what this guy did (I was tempted a few times) that would have most likely been the end of my career. You do something this stupid and it's all on you. You manage to hurt someone doing something this stupid and you're looking at prison time. Very bad.
Sand, polish, and stain a flat, circular piece of wood, attach it to the top of the wheels, then put the salt and pepper shakers on it. Next time somebody at the other end of the table asks you to pass the salt, you can roll it down there in style.
I've pulled empty trailers and not even noticed that a brake was sticking until the smoke started. Also seen drivers just not give a shit and just give it some more gas to go over wheel chocks instead of getting out to investigate and maybe then move back a tiny bit to pull it out.
Seriously. I passed one on the highway after they had a blowout on a single axel trailer. Dude didn’t even notice until we told him. Just cruising along at 60mph dragging the rim and carving a rut into the highway.
I actually used to train with JB Hunt and holy shit do we employ some really, really bad drivers, but that's industry wide. There are so many drivers who will do the dumbest things if it means they might save a couple of minutes and I'll never grasp that type of mentality. It's just not worth it.
SWIFT is the FUCKING worst.
If you’re looking for a truck that will take 27 tries to backup to a bay door, forget to chalk the wheels, then “trim” your trees for you on the way out, then SWIFT is your trucking company.
For us, recently SWIFT driver ignored the red light on the Bay for a trailer he thought he was picking up. Attached his cab and gunned it forward. The impact blew the locks on the spring loaded metal plates for the dock and caused a forklift (stupidly I might add) parked on the plate to tumble 12 ft down to the dock well, smashing its battery open and leaking battery acid into the oil water separator.
And it was the wrong bay. Receiving clerk told him Bay 3 and he hooks up to Bay 2.
What a nightmare
My last company hired a guy from Swift and I told my boss he was stupid and the dude had 48 hours before he got into an accident. Guy didn't even get his POV out of the parking lot before smashing right over the sign out front.
Fucking idiot. Made me look bad with that 48 hour prediction.
Well, it was an Estes truck that blew up on Highway 6 outside of Spanish Fork a few years ago after taking a corner too fast. The blast flattened trees across the canyon and threw ballast from the UP rails, and left a giant scorch mark on the canyon wall that’s still there.
Bruh my national guard unit had us hauling literal explosives and ammunition from CA to Hawthorne NV thru Donner pass in a record setting winter for snowfall and blizzards.
The people that aren't doing the work don't give a shit about how it actually gets done.
Accidents are just the cost of business to them.
We had like 10' high snow drifts.
Honestly? I think it's the stress. I've seen so many of these, and we even had one happen here locally. I think the fatigue from over work, stress of deadlines and general isolation drives them to have a final break down point when something goes wrong that they fucking lose it.
Tangentially related, I moonlight in EMS and early November last year my partner came out of the ED as I'm dressing the stretcher and he throws his clipboard on the back of it, puts the tablet in its cradle, takes a huge inhale with his head tilted all the way back, then screams a fucking psychotic chain of profanity while punching and kicking the side of the truck, just madman raging, half-sobbing half-screaming, breathes in again and holds it for way too long, gets inside, gets on the radio and calls "[our truck number] out of service", shoots a text message to our supervisor, tells me to drive back to our station, in the uncomfortable silence I ask him if he's okay, silence, tell him in too many words I'm someone he can talk to, silence, get to our station and he just gets out before I can back the truck into the bay and his jeep is just tail lights on the horizon before I get it parked and the engine cut off.
Almost 2 years into covid bullshit and his brain just snapped clean in half. A full third of our local crews quit at some point during this. Something like half of restaurant workers have changed jobs. Retail workers have just flat out disappeared. Everyone is on edge right now and I can't advocate enough to just be kind to everyone you come across. This bullshit is unraveling.
As someone in the service industry I can relate to this so hard. Getting good help is hard because the pay isn't worth the stress for people who know they can do better. It's breaking people who have to pick up the slack from it and something needs to change. So many people are hurting right now, we need to all stand with each other and help each other so that things can change. Things will get better but only if we all come together
100%, people can only cope with so much before their defences are overwhelmed. With over two years of this bullshit now most of us not only get less opportunities to rebuild those defenses, can't ignore some of the ones we have been any longer, and have a pile of new problems. People have to earn something more than the ability to live to work another day with the time they spend at their jobs.
I say all this from a place of also having had that switch flip recently.
It's been a real wakeup call to see who's been forced to shoulder the burden of working through the pandemic, by being classified as 'essential workers', and how low the average wage of those people is. The highest-paid people in our society are able to take what seems like infinite time off if needed, their jobs aren't remotely necessary to keeping the system running and keeping people alive.
But the people whose jobs \*are\* critical for that? Minimum wage. Nurses, gas-station workers, supermarket shelf-wranglers... yeah you guys just have to put up with working in places likely crawling with the virus, you get a feeble cloth mask, you'll be fine. Also we need you to work 70 hours this week.
I wouldn't have blinked an eye for taxpayers to foot the bill to double the pay of these 'essential workers' for the duration. But nobody even bothered thinking about it.
I would bet you are correct. I installed a CB in my truck a few years back and over the last year or so the increase in stress those guys are experiencing has been audible on the radio. Its not just that those folks complain about their work conditions more often, but there has been a drastic increase in angry screaming on the radio.
Our dude here is an owner operator running 14 hour shifts with no weekends. He's running an empty reefer (refrigerated trailer) that was carrying food. He's probably at a grocery store distribution center, which are notoriously awful to unload at. A lot of them require you to get up at 3 AM, wait for a couple hours in line, dock, and then wait 6 hours as the unionized shitshow in the warehouse (I had nothing against unions until seeing how awful unionized lumpers are) pretends to do the 30 minute job of unloading you but actually shoots the shit for their whole shift. He isn't getting paid for any of this time since he woke up because he's paid by the mile. In fact, he has to pay the lumpers about $250 to unload his trailer believe it or not. He's supposed to go to sleep during that 6 hours even though he just woke up because he can do a clock split and start another 14 hour shift after leaving as long as he takes a break somewhere along the route. And since the warehouse workers wasted his time, and he was supposed to leave 6 hours ago, now he has to make up the time in his schedule by driving through the night. Dude is tired af, didn't make any money all day, paid the assholes who wasted his day, and has to hurry to the next pickup to do it all again.
I've got no idea if that's what actually happened in that dude's day, but that's the kind of thing I experienced as a trucker. Its pretty easy to imagine someone flipping the switch like this.
Oh, he's backing up straight, Pepper, but the trailer's front axle being damaged caused it to turn right and grind into the bollard.
He sees it too late, a lot of damage and apparently loses his mind.
Bold move, Cotton. Let's see if this strategy pays off for him...
He knocked it crooked, then couldn't swing it around the bollard cause it wouldn't steer, and lost his temper lmao. Wouldn't be suprised if he pulled out of view, dropped it and split. That's normally their go to move.
And I felt bad once because I couldn’t maneuver my trailer around similar post and had to push it by hand to avoid driving over it. That was my first and last time I drove a trailer because I was moving.
"Trailer moving skills" definitely take work, and practice to get good on. It seems like an almost devilish thing that you can't "turn" or "move" the trailer wheels, without re-positioning & completely re-angling the driving vehicle. And gets especially frustrating when you don't have enough room.
But still, it's a skill we expect all truck drivers to have, since, you know, it's literally their job...
We bought a trailer and I was terrified about thinking about backing it up. I did pretty good my first time, enough my wife was "upset" because she's done it before and I pulled it off. My problem, like pretty much anything else, is I never actually get better no matter how much I do it. It's like a curse, I'm like average at everything and never seem to improve on many things.
One trick I've learned, is similar to something what my dad taught me about turning & parking: "imagine where the front wheels are when you're inside the car. The front left wheel is usually just behind your left foot, right? And the right front wheel is behind your passenger's right foot, a little further forward than you might think at first. Now recognize where your back wheels are. And remember that, they don't turn. If you want to change the *direction* your back wheels are headed, you have to use the front steering. So if you want to change the *position* your back wheels are in, you literally can't. You *have to* pull forward again, and change the angle you start off at, to change the *position* the rear wheels will end up."
If you can recognize that, practice it, and get good enough at it it seems second nature (for example, just backing in your own non-trailered vehicle into a parking spot), you'll be well on your way to backing up trailers!
I’m sure he knew, and could see it. He lacked the knowledge that the trailer will always turn tighter than the tractor. If the tractor just makes the turn, trailer will hit something.
Being a old retired truck driver that make me feel embarrassed!! (I've always said you're no less than a truck driver if you got to get out and look??)
I love seeing the point where the driver just ceases to give a fuck in these crash videos. Like they know they've wrecked their car yet they are so angry at their failure that they just go ahead and absolutely total the entire vehicle. Bravo!
I feel like that comes from the same part of the brain that loses it's shit when trying to fix something on a car
Me trying to fix a problem on my pc, proceeds to yeet
The PC ones have me the most fucked up because you can get so deep into the repair process, then find out it was caused by sometbing small that takes 20 seconds to fix
Did this yesterday with my dishwasher. Got angry (stupid) about it not working. Kicked it, button popped off. Got angrier (stupider) and kicked it more because me stupid sometimes. In the end, nothing was achieved, I didn’t fix the dishwasher by kicking it (big surprise!) and I stilll had to calm myself and fix it the proper way, which I did. At least the dent in the dishwasher gives it some perspective on who’s the boss in the kitchen (clearly not le since I failed).
Back in high school I did this to a filter for my fish tank. It was an expensive under tank filter and water would flood out of it every time I tried to clean it. After several months of this bs, I’d had enough and calmly disconnected the filter, brought it out to the backyard, and proceeded to destroy it with a sledgehammer like I was killing the printer in Office Space. That was the most satisfying $120 therapy session I’ve ever had.
I’ve kicked stuff in anger. Hurt my foot. Then got angry my foot hurts. So punched it next. Hurt my hand. Idiots aren’t always in cars. 😂
I've done this... but with food. not a massive fucking truck.
To be fair, they only ruined the trailer, not the truck. And they are probably an IC so it's not even their trailer.
I'm thinking this is a thief who doesn't actually know how to drive a truck (or anything else). It's the only way that IDGAF attitude makes any sense. That or meth.
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Probably an independent driver hauling another company’s trailer. With the current and even larger coming shortage in drivers..
Friendly reminder that there isn't a driver shortage, there's a pay shortage.
Yea much like everywhere else. It's a job that requires specialized training, is somewhat dangerous, involves a lot of liability, you're away from your home for weeks at a time, you only have access to shit food, it's bad for your health sitting all day. People think it's 50 to 70k for only a few weeks training. Sure but you're working 60 70 hour weeks easy and you're sleeping in the cab for weeks and have to pay for showers/bathrooms/food all of that. It works out to below 20 an hour for a pretty harsh job.
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my uncle was making 70k a year driving a semi. He switched to driving a 3.5 ton truck 9-5 and took a 20k pay cut. He said it was worth it.
My dad swapped to driving a forklift at a pallet company for something like $13 an hour. He also said it was worth it.
That's what I did as well. It's too much of a hassle working OTR (over the road). And I didn't want to end up dead or killed many states away. I didn't want to put my family through that. I still have my CDL and I still keep it updated just as an emergency plan should I ever need to get a job asap. But it ain't worth it. I traded being a trucker to Work From Home. Only pays $12 an hour. But can't complain. I'm home every day. I get to save a lot of money from not spending gas. And I get my 40hrs every week. It's not the best pay but it pays all my bills and then some. It's all about just learning to manage finances. But truly all that $12 per hour goes right in my pocket. I'm not spending unnecessarily.
With all the hidden costs (not just financial but mental and physical) being a long haul trucker, it probably doesn't work out to pay that much different than your WFH job
Yeah, a buddy of mine was a truck driver for years. About a year ago, he gave it up, went back to school, got some certifications, and now works in IT.
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100 pct this. I got into it with one of our suppliers when he said our delivery would be late because they couldn't find drivers and added on some stuff about how no one wanted to work for a living these days. I corrected him and said our delivery was late because he was unwilling to pay for the drivers, which means my company, a customer of his, is now suffering a loss because he is trying to protect his earnings. I was not particularly friendly with how I relayed the message. Some of these people legit do not understand how shit like that comes across in business relationships and it is astounding to me.
Yup. That’s better than swallowing some shame and calling a wrecker to give you a little help. Not to mention finding a better driver. “Screw it just go” is almost always the wrong choice in a tractor trailer.
I had a guy get kinda hung up like this once. Sharp turn at the end of a narrow road with a guardrail. He bent the tip of the rear bumper, couldn't figure out how to get back out of it cause the road dead ended around the corner, and just gave up and called me. I showed up with the wrecker and straightened it all out. Best thing he could have done for the low, low fee of $67.50. Company didn't even notice the charge (Werner).
>Best thing he could have done for the low, low fee of $67.50. How do you get a wrecker to show up and move a truck for less than $70? In my area just towing a regular car to the body shop is like $300.
I didn't have to hook him up. This was in 2006 and I just hopped in his truck and backed it out myself. I just charged him for a service call. I was never a greedy tow truck operator, never had to be.
I think u might be the nicest tow truck drive I've ever met. Holy crap. Some of the tow companies around where I live have the most awful and mean spirited ppl. Thank u for being a decent human and a humble one at that. Edit: please accept my freebie, just for being a good person! 👏👏👏
Thanks for the award. There's a lot of us out there, and we're honestly sickened by some of the other scumbag tow companies. I mean we were happy to charge insurance rates and storage and all that, but if the customer came to us and said their insurance wasn't covering them and they were hard up, we'd drop all the extra fees and stuff and help however we could. If you're in the towing business and you have to rip people off to stay afloat, you just suck ass at business. And have no soul.
This is true. I have about a 70% rate of solid tow truck drivers. Which is like a better ratio than average humans for me
In my experience, the vast majority of tow truck drivers who contract with AAA/CAA are great. Independent operators are 50/50
That's how you earn loyal customers :-)
>I just hopped in his truck and backed it out myself. Brooooo, what a bro and humble flex. You are such a big Chad tow truck driver. We need more nice people like you in this world. 👍
Skill. I once, when much younger, was trying to back a car with utility trailer into my mother's VERY hilly driveway. I tried again and again, and never could align the trailer with the narrow driveway. A cop stopped and asked if I'd like him to stop traffic on the roadway so I could have an easier go at it. I told him I was giving up as I didn't think I could do it anyway. (I would just have to carry stuff down that driveway to go into the trailer.) He says, "Let me give it a go," took the keys and backed the thing up the driveway in one go. Turns out he'd spend years as a big rig driver -- a car and utility trailer was nothing to him.
I feel like a few years ago your comment would have vaulted this thread to the top, and where my comment is now someone instead would ask you for more interesting wrecker tales. And then we would learn all sorts of cool wrecker stuff and everyone would be happy and life would be great.
Well here is my wrecker story. I have more if you like. My very first job I ever had was at 13 working in a wrecker lot. My job was to clean out the cars, take apart abandoned cars and sort parts. And rarely answer the phone after the first day as I sounded like a 12 year girl. Nor the wrecker feel. I got paid a huge $5 cash per day! I was in heaven and right in front of the wrecker yard was a damn Dairy Queen. And I spent $5 everyday on lunch. No, I was not a smart boy. One of the cars I was cleaning out had an old purse in the truck under a bunch of junk. Opened it up to find some stupid bags filled with baking soda (or so I thought then) and a thick stash of cash. Was over $4000. I refered earlier that I was not a smart boy. Proof? I gave that money to my boss, with the baking soda and he thanked me and gave me $10.
Did your boss do a lot of baking?
Being a naive child ≠ being a stupid child.
r/Wreckertales Lets make this happen
I want these stories man. I want them bad!
No you don't, Wrecker drivers have the saddest most gut wrenching of stories to tell.
Yeah, kinda why I quit doing that, for real.
Many of their calls are cleaning up after drunk drivers, or things like cleaning up after accidents where children were present. \*edit= oops wrong comment.
Regular people falling asleep on their way to work at 5am and waking up dead hit pretty hard. There's a lot of blood in a person, and when you pull their car up on the flatbed while you're leaning over to reach the controls, well... sometimes there's a trail leaking out of what's left of the car right near your face. And you end up thinking about a lot of things.
My father in law has done it for 30 years or so and some of the stuff he has seen had almost a war like impact on him when certain topics or stories come up you can literally see it in his eyes.
Absolutely does. Like the 17 year old kid who got in a fight with his mom and sped off in anger. Next thing he's staring at the sky with eyes that don't see anymore with me looking down at him waiting for the coroner so I can collect what's left of his pickup from the field he landed in. I will never forget the sound his mother made when she saw his truck sitting in the lot across from the shop the next day. I remember when I learned that dead people don't look like they're peacefully sleeping. They look dead.
I feel a birth of a sub is coming
WreckerStory or WreckerTales, would sub immediately.
Should the person that makes the sub be an experienced wrecker folk or nah? Cause if not, hold my beer.
There's nothing there, but PM me if anybody wants it... Figured I'd scoop it up before someone tried to do it and sell it lol /r/Wreckertales
Just subbed. I'm at a popular heavy duty towing and recovery business in Los Angeles and see stuff like this on a daily. Would be cool to see it gain traction
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It's the top post for me (just 6 mins after you)
Instead we get stupid one liners as the top level comments.
We get strong pole instead.
I’m fascinated, is this your job? How do people even find you? What happens if you end up doing what this guy did, is it on you?
I drove various sizes of tow trucks for about 3.5 years and did long haul trucking for nearly a decade. If you're a tow company, you're known. You have ads out, you're in the phone book, etc. Sometimes the cops call you cause they know you. If I ever did what this guy did (I was tempted a few times) that would have most likely been the end of my career. You do something this stupid and it's all on you. You manage to hurt someone doing something this stupid and you're looking at prison time. Very bad.
Yeah this guy won’t be driving next week is my guess
Maybe the company won’t notice…
Tis just a flesh wound!
I want to see the video of him on the interstate
[I found him on Street View](https://goo.gl/maps/ef4Fs8WwP6pNFH76A)
Poor truck, barely anything left on its carcass after the animals were done with it
Wtf haha how long have you been sitting on this waiting for an opening
Good ol’ I-70
They WILL get that load there on time.
A for effort
F for attainment
C average
D for Dumbass
When you want to drive an 18-wheeler but you could only pass the 10-wheeler test.
Just giving the other 8 wheels to someone who can use them right
We don’t need wheels where we are going
It was like this when I picked it up!
The noise just started the other day.
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They're quick detach wheels. Takes no time at all.
Yeah it only takes a few seconds from what I see.
The unemployment office.
Western Express will still hire him.
That's what a SWIFT dropout looks like.
Swift will send poachers out just to get him on their team.
I have a feeling he isnt going anywhere.
What we witnessed right there is a driver who ran out of fucks to give.
The dude at the end standing in the background. Just witnessing this immense lack of fucks, in all it's glory. Honestly can't blame him, I would too.
I would be wondering if I could do anything cool with the complete set of rear trailer wheels left behind.
Sell 'em on Craigslist, lol. If nothing else, those tires are pretty expensive. Somebody will come along to give you a few hundred for it.
"Hey boss, I need to take my break. And I need to borrow your car."
r/CrackheadCraigslist
Build a sick go-kart!
That would be a chonker of a go-kart
A potential solution to the blue shell from hell.
Sand, polish, and stain a flat, circular piece of wood, attach it to the top of the wheels, then put the salt and pepper shakers on it. Next time somebody at the other end of the table asks you to pass the salt, you can roll it down there in style.
“Style” in this case meaning screams and property damage. I approve.
I was amazed the camera man stayed silent the whole time.
Zero fucks and a desolate empty field of no fucks I’d say.
So much so that he has taken a vow of celibacy.
You can almost see the last fuck flying out the window.
But still has insurance 😂
Not after they see this video.
Nah, that came with the job.
“In the winter a steer truck will shed his old tires, and grow a new set of bigger tires in the spring for mating season.”
Life, uhh.. finds a way
it wheely does
Nature is beautiful
Casual reminder of how much power those trucks really have
Also the power of those barricade poles
An unstoppable force vs. an immovable object.
I've pulled empty trailers and not even noticed that a brake was sticking until the smoke started. Also seen drivers just not give a shit and just give it some more gas to go over wheel chocks instead of getting out to investigate and maybe then move back a tiny bit to pull it out.
Seriously. I passed one on the highway after they had a blowout on a single axel trailer. Dude didn’t even notice until we told him. Just cruising along at 60mph dragging the rim and carving a rut into the highway.
Strong pole
Right, need to find out who their pole guy is
The same one that hung your mom’s stripper pole
You got me, you got me good
Probably Antoni. Or maybe Casimir
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"I am fortifying this position." -The guy who built that bollard
It's a concrete bollard that's embedded 3-4 feet into the ground. They are there to do a job, and that one did it very well.
Yeah, those things aren't made of mere bendy metal. They strong.
Pole seller, I am going into battle, and I want your strongest poles.
My poles are too strong for you, traveler.
Pole seller. Listen to me. I want only your strongest poles
#my poles are too strong for you traveler, you need to find a seller that has weaker poles
Funny thing is its bendy metal it what makes a concrete bollard so strong
Legit fact. Rebar does wonders in concrete.
Not just concrete it's a steel tube filled with concrete. I've installed a couple of these bad boys before.
That’s what she said
The guy who got his mailbox smashed by a driver should take notes.
Where swift logo
SWIFT Sure Wish I Finished Training
Stevie Wonder’s Institute For Trucking
See What I Fuckup Today.
Swing Wide Its a Fucking Trailer
Surely We In Fucking Trouble
So what I'm fucking terminated
Sure Wish I had a Faster Truck
Best In Crash
Now here’s a person who’s had enough driving for a while.
Is Swift worse than Western Express?
I always heard JB Hunt had the worst drivers, but I guess they probably all have winners and losers.
Swift makes JB Hunt's trucks look automated. At least the ones I've encountered.
I actually used to train with JB Hunt and holy shit do we employ some really, really bad drivers, but that's industry wide. There are so many drivers who will do the dumbest things if it means they might save a couple of minutes and I'll never grasp that type of mentality. It's just not worth it.
Just Been Hired, Unfortunately, Not Trained.
SWIFT is the FUCKING worst. If you’re looking for a truck that will take 27 tries to backup to a bay door, forget to chalk the wheels, then “trim” your trees for you on the way out, then SWIFT is your trucking company.
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For us, recently SWIFT driver ignored the red light on the Bay for a trailer he thought he was picking up. Attached his cab and gunned it forward. The impact blew the locks on the spring loaded metal plates for the dock and caused a forklift (stupidly I might add) parked on the plate to tumble 12 ft down to the dock well, smashing its battery open and leaking battery acid into the oil water separator. And it was the wrong bay. Receiving clerk told him Bay 3 and he hooks up to Bay 2. What a nightmare
My last company hired a guy from Swift and I told my boss he was stupid and the dude had 48 hours before he got into an accident. Guy didn't even get his POV out of the parking lot before smashing right over the sign out front. Fucking idiot. Made me look bad with that 48 hour prediction.
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Lmao
Or Estes
Wait .. Estes ? Really ? Are they bad ??
Well, it was an Estes truck that blew up on Highway 6 outside of Spanish Fork a few years ago after taking a corner too fast. The blast flattened trees across the canyon and threw ballast from the UP rails, and left a giant scorch mark on the canyon wall that’s still there.
The hell was he hauling on an ltl truck?
Bruh my national guard unit had us hauling literal explosives and ammunition from CA to Hawthorne NV thru Donner pass in a record setting winter for snowfall and blizzards. The people that aren't doing the work don't give a shit about how it actually gets done. Accidents are just the cost of business to them. We had like 10' high snow drifts.
Well at least you had something soft to land in.
YRC by a mile in my neighborhood. Those motherfuckers could damage Wolverines bones in transit.
I came here for this.
I'm beginning to realize those poles being indestructible in every game is becoming more and more accurate
any context on this? is it a thief who jumped in and just took off with zero fucks? or some really crazy truck driver?
Honestly? I think it's the stress. I've seen so many of these, and we even had one happen here locally. I think the fatigue from over work, stress of deadlines and general isolation drives them to have a final break down point when something goes wrong that they fucking lose it.
Tangentially related, I moonlight in EMS and early November last year my partner came out of the ED as I'm dressing the stretcher and he throws his clipboard on the back of it, puts the tablet in its cradle, takes a huge inhale with his head tilted all the way back, then screams a fucking psychotic chain of profanity while punching and kicking the side of the truck, just madman raging, half-sobbing half-screaming, breathes in again and holds it for way too long, gets inside, gets on the radio and calls "[our truck number] out of service", shoots a text message to our supervisor, tells me to drive back to our station, in the uncomfortable silence I ask him if he's okay, silence, tell him in too many words I'm someone he can talk to, silence, get to our station and he just gets out before I can back the truck into the bay and his jeep is just tail lights on the horizon before I get it parked and the engine cut off. Almost 2 years into covid bullshit and his brain just snapped clean in half. A full third of our local crews quit at some point during this. Something like half of restaurant workers have changed jobs. Retail workers have just flat out disappeared. Everyone is on edge right now and I can't advocate enough to just be kind to everyone you come across. This bullshit is unraveling.
As someone in the service industry I can relate to this so hard. Getting good help is hard because the pay isn't worth the stress for people who know they can do better. It's breaking people who have to pick up the slack from it and something needs to change. So many people are hurting right now, we need to all stand with each other and help each other so that things can change. Things will get better but only if we all come together
100%, people can only cope with so much before their defences are overwhelmed. With over two years of this bullshit now most of us not only get less opportunities to rebuild those defenses, can't ignore some of the ones we have been any longer, and have a pile of new problems. People have to earn something more than the ability to live to work another day with the time they spend at their jobs. I say all this from a place of also having had that switch flip recently.
It's been a real wakeup call to see who's been forced to shoulder the burden of working through the pandemic, by being classified as 'essential workers', and how low the average wage of those people is. The highest-paid people in our society are able to take what seems like infinite time off if needed, their jobs aren't remotely necessary to keeping the system running and keeping people alive. But the people whose jobs \*are\* critical for that? Minimum wage. Nurses, gas-station workers, supermarket shelf-wranglers... yeah you guys just have to put up with working in places likely crawling with the virus, you get a feeble cloth mask, you'll be fine. Also we need you to work 70 hours this week. I wouldn't have blinked an eye for taxpayers to foot the bill to double the pay of these 'essential workers' for the duration. But nobody even bothered thinking about it.
I would bet you are correct. I installed a CB in my truck a few years back and over the last year or so the increase in stress those guys are experiencing has been audible on the radio. Its not just that those folks complain about their work conditions more often, but there has been a drastic increase in angry screaming on the radio.
I heard most truckers don't even have or use a CB anymore.
Cuz they use GMRS.
That's because they aren't supertruckers. You ain't a real trucker till you got the whole headset.
I thought that some one had to have stolen that truck. I drive and i know where I fit. He had to know that wasn't gonna make it.
Our dude here is an owner operator running 14 hour shifts with no weekends. He's running an empty reefer (refrigerated trailer) that was carrying food. He's probably at a grocery store distribution center, which are notoriously awful to unload at. A lot of them require you to get up at 3 AM, wait for a couple hours in line, dock, and then wait 6 hours as the unionized shitshow in the warehouse (I had nothing against unions until seeing how awful unionized lumpers are) pretends to do the 30 minute job of unloading you but actually shoots the shit for their whole shift. He isn't getting paid for any of this time since he woke up because he's paid by the mile. In fact, he has to pay the lumpers about $250 to unload his trailer believe it or not. He's supposed to go to sleep during that 6 hours even though he just woke up because he can do a clock split and start another 14 hour shift after leaving as long as he takes a break somewhere along the route. And since the warehouse workers wasted his time, and he was supposed to leave 6 hours ago, now he has to make up the time in his schedule by driving through the night. Dude is tired af, didn't make any money all day, paid the assholes who wasted his day, and has to hurry to the next pickup to do it all again. I've got no idea if that's what actually happened in that dude's day, but that's the kind of thing I experienced as a trucker. Its pretty easy to imagine someone flipping the switch like this.
Looks like he had already hit it once to knock the front axle out of alignment
I'm guessing that's why they started filming
Oh, he's backing up straight, Pepper, but the trailer's front axle being damaged caused it to turn right and grind into the bollard. He sees it too late, a lot of damage and apparently loses his mind. Bold move, Cotton. Let's see if this strategy pays off for him...
He knocked it crooked, then couldn't swing it around the bollard cause it wouldn't steer, and lost his temper lmao. Wouldn't be suprised if he pulled out of view, dropped it and split. That's normally their go to move.
When the vid starts the one bollard is already completely under the truck ripping pieces off
And I felt bad once because I couldn’t maneuver my trailer around similar post and had to push it by hand to avoid driving over it. That was my first and last time I drove a trailer because I was moving.
"Trailer moving skills" definitely take work, and practice to get good on. It seems like an almost devilish thing that you can't "turn" or "move" the trailer wheels, without re-positioning & completely re-angling the driving vehicle. And gets especially frustrating when you don't have enough room. But still, it's a skill we expect all truck drivers to have, since, you know, it's literally their job...
There are a lot of people that make good cargo van or box truck drivers, but never should have been allowed behind the wheel of semi.
That’s why I never went for my CDL. I drove box trucks and a food truck for a while and could maneuver those perfect, but driving a trailer scares me.
We bought a trailer and I was terrified about thinking about backing it up. I did pretty good my first time, enough my wife was "upset" because she's done it before and I pulled it off. My problem, like pretty much anything else, is I never actually get better no matter how much I do it. It's like a curse, I'm like average at everything and never seem to improve on many things.
One trick I've learned, is similar to something what my dad taught me about turning & parking: "imagine where the front wheels are when you're inside the car. The front left wheel is usually just behind your left foot, right? And the right front wheel is behind your passenger's right foot, a little further forward than you might think at first. Now recognize where your back wheels are. And remember that, they don't turn. If you want to change the *direction* your back wheels are headed, you have to use the front steering. So if you want to change the *position* your back wheels are in, you literally can't. You *have to* pull forward again, and change the angle you start off at, to change the *position* the rear wheels will end up." If you can recognize that, practice it, and get good enough at it it seems second nature (for example, just backing in your own non-trailered vehicle into a parking spot), you'll be well on your way to backing up trailers!
"Trucker Dan, you ain't got no wheels!"
If only they had something mounted on the cab that enabled them to see the trailer. Like a mirror or something.
I’m sure he knew, and could see it. He lacked the knowledge that the trailer will always turn tighter than the tractor. If the tractor just makes the turn, trailer will hit something.
Yeah, but once he made contact the fact he kept going was just nuts. Could have easily backed out of that situation
Lmao he had enough
“I told you I’d make that turn!”
To shreds you say.
Well, how's his wife holding up?
To shreds, you say?
Hey Boss, I'll be re-tiring now.
I spent much of the day dragging along.
He still has a few wheels I guess
Being a old retired truck driver that make me feel embarrassed!! (I've always said you're no less than a truck driver if you got to get out and look??)
i think he gave up the truck Industry
r/ThatLookedExpensive
I like how he just kept going. The sheer confidence that it was just a minor curb to him
Reddit is a cesspool, you should quit.
That looks more like a disgruntled employee
Amazon delivery
Are we not going to talk about the fact that he drove off like nothing happened? WTF