well what a fng day …
The company just started one o the ive been ,done ,seen everything type of driver
Well the young boy that drives a artic tipper for us has had an attitude at work (woman probs)sooooo the boss put him back on a redi mix truck for a wk or 2 till he calms down.
that left super trucker a chance . well after showing him the quarry yesterday and what piles we load at .this morning we left as normal at 5.30 into quarry about 7 ,he flew by me if i was standing still on the rd in mmmm i thought hes out to make me look bad by getting an extra load in …anyway i pull up behind him in the loading area (about 5-6ft behind him),i got out to roll my tarps back and the f d bd shot backwards and moved my b train about 2 ft .
he then drove forwards ,the loader is laying on his horn but supertrucker just pulls up to loading point
the old macks like a fn steamtrain ,i shut her down and give him a mouthfull on our net …he walks back and says
and i kid you not …YOU RAN INTO MY TRAILER…
by now the loader is out talking to me and he tells supertrucker YOU never even looked in the mirror ,you were talking on the phone.
I have my boss on the phone telling him what happened ,passed it to NRC loader driver who told him what happened.
so i drop my train …loader pulls me to weighbridge to wait on Steinbach towing.
ST has to drop his trailer and take mine to our dpt at st.agathe.
im at quarry office talking to H&S man…
ST stops and compains that i never helped him hook up
well back to yard …need new hood,radiator,oil cooler,fan…
grrrrr.
lucky they have a yard dog to strip down,but now i will have a maroon truck wi a bright red /stripes hood.
lol…ST is now off the sand/stone and back on redi mix and i now drive the young boys artic till mines ready.
…well does aanyone else have probs wi th supertrucker type.■■?
had and seen my fair share of them super dooper lads , theres always one in every yard / fleet…i have a latin name for them …MAXIMUS-CRAWLIEST-UPBOSS-ARSEADUS
We don’t have that kind of problem Jimmy, but we do seem to have a revolving door of supertruckers. My place is one of those jobs where you stay for a long time…or you don’t last 5mins, the supertruckers stay for a while telling everyone how good they are…then they disappear, usually after making a proper balls up or getting put out of service
Sorry to hear you’ll be driving in a multicoloured motor now, I hate that, everyone thinks you wrecked the old front end. I took one of ours out while mine was in the long term sick bay and the cab extenders were all caved in where one of the supertruckers had mangled it on the trailer while turing, it made me feel embarrassed when I was out in it
I used to drive a blue fl10 with a red door a a yellow corner panel and a red and green striped grille. Looked ■■■■■■■ awful.
We had a super trucker from stobart bio mass turn up at my old firm. All frilly curtains i earn 550 a week your mugs not working for stobart. Forgot to wind the sheet back shovel driver came tearing out droped a bucket of woodchip straight on top of it.
kr79:
I used to drive a blue fl10 with a red door a a yellow corner panel and a red and green striped grille. Looked [zb] awful.
We had a super trucker from stobart bio mass turn up at my old firm. All frilly curtains i earn 550 a week your mugs not working for stobart. Forgot to wind the sheet back shovel driver came tearing out droped a bucket of woodchip straight on top of it.
I’m quite lucky in that most of the guys I have worked with in the past have all been pretty mellow and down to earth and luicky enough not to come across the said ‘Super Trucker’ YET!!!
Our ‘Supertrucker’ has the only brand new truck, even though he has been on the company a few months, has destroyed two tankers and insists he has to use the newest tanker available so I asign the oldest wreck I can find for him I sometimes set a trap for him by dropping a nice shinny new trailer in a spot thats very difficult to get at and see how hard he tries to get it out Thursday I was using such a nice new trailer and dropped it in the tightes corner of our Lake ave yard adjacent to Rich Browns Volvo, I put it in the spot very carefully with about an inch to spare and unhooked, I got a call at 03.00 that woke me up, caller ID said the twonks name so I ignored it but another driver said they saw him drive in, drop his older trailer then try and pick up the new one and couldn’t get at it, so I guess he was calling me to vent his anger … Who cares ? I’m his supervisor anyway
We have a couple of drivers like that at our place, the ‘my sh*t do’nt stink’ type, well one of them started shouting at a store manager so that manager complained to our transport manager with the result that Mr high and mighty got a days suspension
Pat Hasler:
Our ‘Supertrucker’ has the only brand new truck, even though he has been on the company a few months, has destroyed two tankers and insists he has to use the newest tanker available so I asign the oldest wreck I can find for him I sometimes set a trap for him by dropping a nice shinny new trailer in a spot thats very difficult to get at and see how hard he tries to get it out Thursday I was using such a nice new trailer and dropped it in the tightes corner of our Lake ave yard adjacent to Rich Browns Volvo, I put it in the spot very carefully with about an inch to spare and unhooked, I got a call at 03.00 that woke me up, caller ID said the twonks name so I ignored it but another driver said they saw him drive in, drop his older trailer then try and pick up the new one and couldn’t get at it, so I guess he was calling me to vent his anger … Who cares ? I’m his supervisor anyway
remy:
We have a couple of drivers like that at our place, the ‘my sh*t do’nt stink’ type, well one of them started shouting at a store manager so that manager complained to our transport manager with the result that Mr high and mighty got a days suspension
If that’s Karma then i like it
One of your guy’s was collecting from Domino’s one evening a few months back, he stopped in the street about 3 truck lengths from the gate so one of our drivers who had pulled behind him waited about 3 minutes then pulled round him to the gate … Mr ■■■■■■ from Wally world came storming over and started having a go at our man who was very polite and said sorry but he thought the man had arrived too early and decided to wait. The walmart driver then ranted on about how he earns a hundred grand a year and nobody jumps in front of him… I interviened and said “Is that all ? maybe we could get you a job here so you can earn more ?”
The bloke went red and never said another word
Now I know he wouldn’t earn a hundred grand here but it was nice to see the look on his face.
remy:
We have a couple of drivers like that at our place, the ‘my sh*t do’nt stink’ type, well one of them started shouting at a store manager so that manager complained to our transport manager with the result that Mr high and mighty got a days suspension
If that’s Karma then i like it
One of your guy’s was collecting from Domino’s one evening a few months back, he stopped in the street about 3 truck lengths from the gate so one of our drivers who had pulled behind him waited about 3 minutes then pulled round him to the gate … Mr ■■■■■■ from Wally world came storming over and started having a go at our man who was very polite and said sorry but he thought the man had arrived too early and decided to wait. The walmart driver then ranted on about how he earns a hundred grand a year and nobody jumps in front of him… I interviened and said “Is that all ? maybe we could get you a job here so you can earn more ?”
The bloke went red and never said another word
Now I know he wouldn’t earn a hundred grand here but it was nice to see the look on his face.
Your right Pat, the wally driver was a ■■■■■■, there’s no need for that kind of crap. Some of them beiieve the b/s the company tells them
The patch on the wally drivers sleeve says what DC he’s from, i hope that wasn’t a NH driver being a ■■■■
Good answer though, he sounds like one of them guys that busts his balls to make every minute pay and dosn’t want to hear that someone’s making more money
Hate to admit it, but we had a night trunk ‘super trucker’ where I worked a few years back who used to bring our full boxes up on a wag and drag, demount them both in the yard and load our empties on the skelly and go back south. I ALWAYS parked our wag drag with a bend in it, never a straight line as I demounted the empties, so he could never get straight under them when he was skelly.
I met one today, coming out of my place heading down to the main road and as I approached the junction I saw a low loader with a 360 on the back waiting to turn left into the road I was on, knowing how much road the driver was going to need to make the turn, I hung back.
Not good enough for supertrucker, he cut the corner and came right up to the front of my car, stopping abruptly a few inches from my bumper, good job I’m on my best behaviour now, because that kind of thing used to warrant a right hander The ■■■■■■ turned that corner with the sole intention of making me reverse up, he hardly went to the right at all, just aimed for the front of my car
Worst of all in my book, when I did back up to allow for his bad driving, the ■■■■ never even thanked me
I have made a mental note of the lorry in question, my time will come…
