Co-worker forgot to do something before dropping his trailer.

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MarkK455@reddit

you hook up to your new pal - pin, air, legs when you drop, you remove it from your lap - legs, air, pin

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HFolb23@reddit

Hope he apologized to the back of that cab Forgetting those can be extra fun in a day cab when your back window suddenly explodes

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APizzaWithEverything@reddit

Happened to me my third week of training, brand new international day cab Surprised they didn’t fire me

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Specific_Effort_5528@reddit

It's *always* the new trucks. Never fails.

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Trucking has a high failure rate. People that can't cut it drop out early in their careers. People that have been around a while get accustomed to their truck and just want some consistency, so when a new truck comes in, they don't care about getting the fancy new thing. New drivers want the fancy new thing to show off their fancy new career. Fancy new things have more newbies that may or may not be competent.

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egeorgak12@reddit

You'd be amazed the kind of mistakes that happen daily in trucking. They can't possibly fire everyone for every single (relatively little) mistake. Nobody is perfect. We've all done stupid shit.

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Legitimate_Sir6904@reddit

It was an international bro, it was going to the shop anyway.

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glassboxghost@reddit

My man drives an international an YEP

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1_shade_off@reddit

Eh I'd say that's on your trainer just as much as on you

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ahundreddayoff@reddit

I’ve cut my eye from the tempered glass getting into my eye from doing that before. It was also the end of my shift (local driver). What a way to end a night lol

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foamers@reddit

My coworker did this. We are yard drivers tho and his back door was open. Fucker blew out his windshield hahaha

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Zealousideal_War1237@reddit

I'm still green. I'm just over 6 months in on my first diving gig. I've made sure to show down and triple check everything so nothing like this happens again.

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SkinnyG80@reddit

I always do everything in the same order, and if you are on the phone then call them back, if someone is talking to you tell them to wait, no distractions, lastly whenever I drop or hook a trailer I sit in the seat and before I touch or do ANYTHING I think did I do the 3 things? Landing gear, 5th wheel, air lines/electrical, if I don't specifically remember then I just get back out and look

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emdefmek@reddit (OP)

The best advice I can give you in terms of drop and hook is to never enter your cab until everything is disconnected/connected. Going in the cab to rest or whatever means you forget shit.

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12InchPickle@reddit

The snap of death is how we call it. As another commentator said. You only get one. Same with dragging your landing gear or high hooking.

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Rhetoric9119@reddit

I definitely high hooked before then forgot to let air out and bent the damn hook 😅🤣. Now my ass gets outside before I hook up if it even slightly looks too high

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C9Midnite@reddit

I high hooked in a spotter truck with no side door had to radio for help once lol. Never doing that again.

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12InchPickle@reddit

This is why I liked driving autocars. They have a side door. The Ottawa’s didn’t. I don’t recall how the capacity were.

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Cool_Algae4265@reddit

I’ve dragged my landing gear far more than once lol

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hi_im_Bob34@reddit

Is he a rookie or did he get distracted in the middle of unhooking?

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emdefmek@reddit (OP)

Nah he is a pretty old guy, I pulled into the yard to drop my trailer and his truck was already parked with the landing gear down. While I was dropping my landing gear there was a loud POP and loud his and yeah he forgot the lines. I guess he was packing his stuff up to head home in between his dropping of the trailer and just forgot.

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CryptoTruther95@reddit

Well that ruined his weekend. Gonna be on his mind the whole time

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chrisjayyyy@reddit

It’s like forgetting to release the air before disconnecting your gladhands…you only ever do it ONCE.

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notbannd4cussingmods@reddit

Huh? I do it all the time. Wakes me right up.

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HarryBallzonya6969@reddit

I also do this all the time. I use a landoll trailer and I need the brakes released to move the wheels and tilt the bed.

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911coldiesel@reddit

My technique is to look away when disconnecting...... Yeah I know when it is charged that it is stiffer.

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Laffenor@reddit

You guys over there release the air before disconnecting the gladhands?

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P3tr0@reddit

Once a month yeah

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DumatRising@reddit

Yeah once a fucking month more like

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emdefmek@reddit (OP)

“Why is it stuck? God da-“ POW!!! “Ohh”

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Mediocre_george@reddit

Lol I probably do it once a week. It is as close to a mistake without consequences as we get in this industry.

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HarryBallzonya6969@reddit

I did this my 2nd time disconnecting the neck from a Cozad trailer. Only I ripped all the lines off the trailer with the neck

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eitsew@reddit

😔

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Subject-Leg7422@reddit

Did this a couple times as a rookie. No shattered back windows on the day cab but it sure does scare the piss out of you

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Holiday_Ad126@reddit

I’m confused , can someone explain ??? In Minecraft plz 🥺🥺🥺

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JakeJascob@reddit

Lol I've done that quiet a few times.

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Getz3m@reddit

Haha!! What an idiot!…He AND I have been 😌 Definitely a lesson that is only truly learned after it happens to you.

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IEatCouch@reddit

Ive done it a few times, but the trailer drops on the frame and the tires. Smushing the tires slamms the truck to a stop. I just cranked the trailer back up and good to go, if no one sees it and nothings damaged it never happened...

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robs104@reddit

If you’re forgetting to lower your landing gear multiple times then maybe you should reconsider some things. Maybe make yourself a checklist or something. That’s not good.

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IEatCouch@reddit

I work nights, my brain is dead most of the time. Its only happened like 3 times.

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InvestigatorBroad114@reddit

Only do that once

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Sad-Damage2019@reddit

Well he's having a bad day

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Zealousideal_War1237@reddit

I recently did something close but I think I did a bit more damage. I drive a pneumatic tanker and I removed my air and electric lines and forgot to remove the hose that goes from the blower to the trailer. I broke the top of the blower, tore the hose, bent the deck plates on my truck, and broke the main air supply pipe on my trailer. I thought I was going to get fired for it and my manager just laughed and said "well fuck... I bet you won't do that again" filled out an incident report and that was it. I was in an extra truck and trailer we have on the lot for 2 weeks while waiting on my truck to be fixed. This happened 4 months in on the job, at my 6 month review last week it was brought up and all they asked is if I learned how to prevent it in the future.

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emdefmek@reddit (OP)

Yeah something I learned the hard way in my career is that as long as you don't hurt anyone or cause major damage then you get one chance.

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TrucksAndSports@reddit

This is why everyone needs an exact system they follow every time when dropping/hooking…

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emdefmek@reddit (OP)

We have in cab 5th pin disconnect so when I drop a trailer I do a walk around and disconnect hoses and drop landing gear before I get into the truck.

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dingdingdredgen@reddit

Drop the gear, pull the pin... count to three, and throw?

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TrucksAndSports@reddit

Lol not quite

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tvieno@reddit

Yeah, he forgot to fix it before signing out for the day.

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Terrible_Try3832@reddit

Those dot fittings tell me it's not the first time. Those are oops I fucked up fittings.

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JerewB@reddit

That must have made an amazing sound as it snapped into the back of the cab!

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Long_Tilly_Ben@reddit

He didn’t take the whatchamacallit of the thingamajig

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2005focus@reddit

I gotta hand it to him I bet he’s glad

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Nomad2k@reddit

Haha, what a moron. *Remember's time that I did this*

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romeoo_must_lie@reddit

I did this but only one line electric line for tailgate. It didn’t break the line just the cap on the switch. I was lucky 😀

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Opposite-Swim6040@reddit

Ahh, that’ll buff right out

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LadyLohse@reddit

Ive done that twice, didnt damage anything tho, good ole headache rack

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xarzilla@reddit

Wait, how do y'all disconnect in a hurry?

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TrucksAndSports@reddit

Practice

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lord_nuker@reddit

It have happend once or twice when i have been stressed as well. No big deal, just unhock damaged lines and hock on new ones

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Luigi_Dagger@reddit

I know I did that once. Gave it a little too much full send.

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hooligan-6318@reddit

I got in a hurry during a trailer swap, got distracted, and did that.... once. That's a perfect example of something only being a fuckup if you do it again.

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xYEET_LORDx@reddit

Same. First time is a product of being in a rush. Second time… shouldn’t be a second time

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Kkalemauser@reddit

I’ve done it years ago. Broke the back window (daycab). Shattered glass everywhere. Last night, my truck was in the shop. I asked why. Boss said, “New guy busted the back window.” Great. Now I have to drive around with blue tape on the windshield. I thought about putting up a sign saying, “Not me this time.”

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