WHAT DID I DOOO????
Posted by Content_Shoulder_635@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 63 comments
I GET IT, YOU HATE WESTERN EXPRESS. THAT'S FINE. WHY MAKE A DRIVER SUFFER???? CRAZY PARTIES I'M LITERALLY BROKEN DOWN RIGHT NOW AND IF YOU HAD JUST BANGED ON MY DOOR AND ASKED ME IF YOU COULD DO THIS I WOULD HAVE SAID YES!!!! (Even though I'm not doing too bad myself, they've been taking good care of me pretty decently these past few weeks, even if it has been a little slow moving)
Bottom line is, I don't know why this has happened. Don't know what I did, or who I did it to. The worst I did today and yesterday was stepping out of my truck to take a piss from the top step. I didn't do it recklessly though, I angled my trailer and away so that people behind me saw as little as I can make them, and I had a trailer parked next to me. You had to actually work to look around my trailer to see me doing it. Maybe somebody did that and got offended.
Wise-Way8510@reddit
Were your lines hanging low? This happened to me. My lines got caught up on the catwalk and broke my electrical connection while making a sharp turn.
Wu-Tang_Panda@reddit
Bingo this is probably the right answer. How I've seen the catwalk take countless lines š®āšØ
Mountainear99@reddit
I watched a former coworker (or co driver if thatās the technical term) do that with his red airline as i followed him to our receiver. It was quite interesting
ExtentAggravating733@reddit
Did they wobble to and fro?
RebelTvshka@reddit
Yep, I've seen it happen in the yard a few times.
FundsWhale@reddit
This is not vandalism, this looks like you took a tight jackknife turn.
Could be one of two problems:
1 Your lines are too short try letting some more slack out on the hangers
2 Your lines drag on the deck and got caught on a mud flap or something on the frame. Use a 2-3ā long bungee cord and hang it from the keeper the holds your lines attached to the spring hanger, and then wrap the bungee cord mid way down your lines between the truck and trailer. This will pick the lines up off the deck but still allow you to fully stretch the lines if you jackknife the trailer.
The company I work for uses many different trailers (some rentals, some company owned) that all have their electrical and air connections in different spots. Centered and up high, centered and down low, driver side down low, driver side up high, and my favorite (sarcasm) chassis centered, or chassis driver side. If youāre a driver whose company uses multiple trailer styles I highly recommend using the bungee technique. Once you figure out the mounting itās really easy to slide the bungee up and down on the lines to get that perfect hang. Center chassis plug/airline trailers are notorious at my job for ripping out the lines because the lines sit so low. I wish we could add pictures in the comments section I would share a picture of what Iām talking about. Hopefully I explained it well enough.
Currently I shift trailers in the yard for a major trucking company, I use a regular tractor though not a shifter. I deal with a lot of different hookup styles on a daily basis, and have to do a lot of jackknifing. This is by far the best and easiest solution Iāve come up with for dealing with multiple location styles of hookups. If you have a dedicated trailer, back under it in the jackknife position and adjust your lines enough so that they donāt rip out, then straighten it out. If they drag once youāre straight get a bungee to lift them off the deck if not youāre good to go.
Content_Shoulder_635@reddit (OP)
I ain readin allat but you're 100% right lol I had to retrace my steps and realize that I was indecisive about which side of a truck I wanted to park on, didn't think about it in the moment because I was just waking up
Largofarburn@reddit
Iām pretty sure you just made a tight turn and ripped it off given the way the red flash and is positioned.
No oneās gonna gonna he-man your light socket off the trailer.
Mar_Reddit@reddit
"He-man" being verbed is fuggin' great lol. What an image.
ScaryfatkidGT@reddit
BY THE POWER OF FLYING J!!!!
Content_Shoulder_635@reddit (OP)
Unless it was with a blunt object...still takes a lot of effort to do so you're probably right
Largofarburn@reddit
If you can sleep through someone wailng on the front of your trailer with a hammer then youāre a better trucker than I am lol.
Outlaw_Trucker@reddit
Had a welfare express lady parked in the middle of a drop yard one night. I needed to grab my load and go so she had to get up. I would say she just didn't bother answering for the 30 minutes it took to wake her but she looked pretty ragged and sleepy rolling the windows down. Maybe it's a prison thing, they learn to sleep through anything.
8Devilz1ReJecT8@reddit
Its actually the opposite
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
Nah, I've done 2 bids and you don't sleep heavy unless medicated.. gotta be ready for action at all times...
pingus3233@reddit
Iāve had it happen when the electric line was hanging too low and got caught on the fender/mudflap during a turn.
DangerDane90@reddit
Guessing you're a newer driver being at felon express and all but if somebody wanted to fuck with you they wouldn't be taking a hammer to shit. They'd throw a coin in a glad hand or pull your kingpin open. This had to have been a snag on something.
Shit happens. I ripped my landing gear off once with a weird downhill turn. Snagged the pintle hook. Real beans above the frank type of situation.
driver004@reddit
I dunno was a private anywhere nearby
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
Driver, you're the reason our truck stop parking lots smell like urine
Lesson learned, right. Piss in a bottle, get a bucket, or go inside...
twenafeesh@reddit
I'm sure people pouring out their bottles and buckets in the parking lot contributes more to the smell than OP
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
And your point is??? Both nasty asf and contributing to the fact that drivers like these are why some places won't let trucks park at their establishments. No class, respect, or common sense... these people make the rest of us look bad...
twenafeesh@reddit
My point is that you offered a piss bottle as an alternative. But we both know it's not an alternative.Ā
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
Are you mental or just plain special??
It absolutely is an alternative to pissing out of the door of your truck ... I use a bottle all of the time instead of urinating on the parking lot... and then I throw them away..
Ignorant
twenafeesh@reddit
You just said the same thing two different ways.Ā
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
You're mental... I'm done with you
twenafeesh@reddit
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WHODUNNITT303@reddit
How is pissing in a bottle and throwing it out the same as pissing on the ground? The fact you said people dump it out on the ground makes me think that person is you
twenafeesh@reddit
Because most people don't throw it out. They dump it out. I am not one of those people, but I have seen it many times. Also do you get a bucket to throw it out every time? If so, how is that better? There's just shit sitting in the garbage making everything smell like shit. And where is the garbage located? By the door, usually. Or by the pump.Ā
Stop acting like throwing your waste in the garbage is somehow better. SMH.Ā
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
It šÆšÆšÆ is way better than throwing it on the ground! You apparently are just here to show ignorance and baiting folks...
One is disposal of trash. The other is littering and just plain nasty...
You definitely have to be one of the ones dumping your piss jugs on the ground
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
Actually I have a bucket, with a bag, do my business, dump kitty litter in it to absorb, tie it, double bag, then dispose... does that help?
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
This person is going off of assumptions not realizing that there are those of us that take pride and care in and of our surroundings and places we park...
iiHartMemphisii@reddit
Push the red air line all the way down š
GoodGoodGoody@reddit
You donāt know what youāre doing or even what youāre looking at but AT LEAST YOUāRE ANGRY.
WHODUNNITT303@reddit
Are you proud to be a liberal boot licker
GoodGoodGoody@reddit
These āliberal bootsā are they in the room with you now?
But, are you proud to be a flip flopper or MAGA?
Flyguytruckguy@reddit
Yeah, those short little mud flaps in front of the drives are notorious for grabbing hoses and cables. Did it a few times backing jacknife cranked left and pulling out hard right.
musicalmadness1@reddit
Yep have had that before. Had my mechanics cut my springs alittle short holding the lines on my w990 so the cables are held higher
Deep-Opportunity-170@reddit
I'm a truck mechanic. I see there's a big hole there. It took me a while to figure it out. I didn't know what was wrong, kept reading the text. It not obvious until one zooms in. I use to do transmission replacements, radiator replacements, fan clutches, .turbos, axles, but I don't know what is suppose to be in that hole. Anyway you all have a good day.
FundsWhale@reddit
Itās not a hole itās a plug. Thatās where the electrical plugs in from the tractor to the trailer.
RaphealWannabe@reddit
Every institution has a sub culture, and right or wrong blue collar industries are particularly infamous for their very, very toxic culture, and then have the gall to wonder why so many people don't want to work blue collar jobs.
At least they didn't try to assault you, or something! I saw a video of a guy who got out of his truck with a hand axe and going towards another trucker just because he was in his way at the parking lot. Too bad for him the other guy had a gun.
possibly_lost45@reddit
Fucked up
seeder33@reddit
The fact he by now realizes it was most likely his fault, and still left this post up is quite respectable. Hate when people get embarrassed and take stuff down, let other people learn from your mistake.
GoodGoodGoody@reddit
I mean youāre absolutely right. A bit of respect where itās due. Unlike the here people a few weeks ago who blamed the spike in fuel prices on anything and everything but Trumpās American-paid Israeli war. Those cowards deleted and scurried away faaaast and at a $1.2 billion daily war cost they aināt cominā back anytime soon.
It was cute that as a last gasp they tried, āFor the last 47 years Iāve been really concerned about Iran and am just so thankful somethingās finally being doneā but thatās laughable even for MAGA and those comments are long-deleted too.
masterofallvillainy@reddit
Most likely the plug was already cracked. And it looks like you made a tight right turn and it pulled it out.
Nothingboy6_6_6@reddit
That's a sad hand
LongLiveSirPickles@reddit
how far up is your fifth wheel?
lord_nuker@reddit
Iām so glad every cable and airline between the trailer and tractor is on quick release
Southern-Action454@reddit
Lols like your cables are hanging a bit low, makes them not like to catch and break shit.
Disastrous-East-1143@reddit
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Responsible_CDN_Duck@reddit
People seeing you pee, and peeing where others are likely to encounter the pee are seperate issues to be addressed..
Jamo3306@reddit
This doesn't look much like sabotage, it looks like the plug got pulled out and drug the ground. Chalk it up to short hoses, and turning too tight.
Dabnbf@reddit
Enhance your calm, Spartan
Spiritual-Pen-1976@reddit
Leave it and take a nap
BrattySubSam@reddit
That looks like your hose got tangled when you turned or some shit and it broke loose. It happens. No one did it to you.
Remote-Climate-135@reddit
Go to fleet pride and buy all u need. Its easy to replace it
AostaV@reddit
You donāt have an extra 7-way on your cab? Let this be your lesson to always have one
amazingmaple@reddit
You did this to yourself. Nobody did this but you..
howaboutclark@reddit
Hey dumbass he didnāt say or blame anyone else⦠dude asked a simple question⦠Lolol
howaboutclark@reddit
Returned too tight. I almost pulled mine off last week doing the same thing. Just dropped the trailer and hoped nobody would notice. Knock on wood got away Scott free Lolol but no it didnāt come off like yours but it def ALMOST did
toosoon-jr@reddit
Send it
Thegrandestpoo@reddit
This was more likely, self-inflicted my man
T_Track210@reddit
I mean your a company driver just call break down. Unless you want to pay out of pocket to get it fixed faster boss
IBringTheHeat2@reddit
Your red lines about to pop off the next hard turn you make.