Re: Getting old!!! Did a STUPID today!!!

Posted by Billy NY on August 20, 2015 at 18:25:23 from (104.228.35.235):

In Reply to: Getting old!!! Did a STUPID today!!! posted by JD Seller on August 20, 2015 at 17:42:25:

So you think it was the FOB/remote, probably in your pocket and you bumped a button ?

Any way to lock it out so you can't do that or some small hard case or what, I've done it with a garage door remote.

I'll have to admit to being intimidated whenever running a new or new to me truck/trailer or what have you, until you settle in and know the routine.

First thing I did when I started hauling oats from the field to the feed outfit's silo 40 miles south of here was dummy proof the sileage/grain body on the tandem Mack I was driving for the farmer I was helping out. I tried to think of all the "stupid" things possible. First was closing the valves on the hydraulic tail gate, whoever thought of putting gate valves there, must have opened a tailgate by mistake with a full load on, perfect, that eliminates that. Next worst thing was remembering to shut that hoist pto off, wrote myself a note and stuck it in plain sight.

It just gives you stress and an uneasy feeling, knowing if I ever made a mistake, its going to be all on me and costly.

My worst fear was delivering sawdust for calve bedding at a huge dairy north of here, the open end bins where the various materials or feed were stored, were 90 degrees off from where you backed in, and though I did get the truck backed up squarely to it once, to prove I could do it and not worry about being uneven, it was a real pain to do this, and you can't do it with other trucks waiting or the feed wagon operator mixing up a load of feed. So that means you had to dump off on uneven ground, the concrete apron ended in the dirt somewhere and there was this sweet spot where it was safe, off to either side it could be questionable and raising a 20' body laden with weight, someone elses truck, pure stress. Hated delivering there to that set of bins. I'll post a photo of this.

Worst one was forgetting sawdust will freeze to the bed and itself. Sawdust is hard to get around here, another outfit scarfs all of it up, so when you get a call you can get some, you have to go get it immediately. So I'd do this after the day job and if it was going to be dark, or late, just fine to run it up and deliver early the next morning.

I did just that and the whole load just stuck, same conditions as above and when that load hangs up and you have to lower that body..... stress!!!

2 hours to break it up and shovel it, I should have delivered it right after, just can't win, and I did NOT charge any time for doing this, he;d have paid me, I could not do that, load just did not pay enough as it was, he eventually stopped hauling sawdust, no money in it at all.

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