Bonehead Mistakes In My First Week Solo OTR

Banks, wouldn't it have been easier to just refuse the loads?

I get delay pay for breaking down. It's my hourly rate and from my experience, a trailer fire takes about 4 hours to get cleared up.

Not sure if it hit, but I was cracking a dumb joke that you set the fires to avoid the loads. Obviously I don't think you actually did that.

That is financial incentive.

I know, I responded with a joke of my own.

Banks, wouldn't it have been easier to just refuse the loads?

I get delay pay for breaking down. It's my hourly rate and from my experience, a trailer fire takes about 4 hours to get cleared up.

Not sure if it hit, but I was cracking a dumb joke that you set the fires to avoid the loads. Obviously I don't think you actually did that.

That is financial incentive.

I know, I responded with a joke of my own.

Here I was thinking you missed my joke but it's me who didn't catch yours. In it's context, it was funny. Totally on me for not seeing it.

I almost made a boneheaded mistake yesterday. (Key word: Almost)

I had to drop an empty trailer at a yard. Got out to disconnect and was distracted by what turned out to be a very minor visual anomaly. Anyway, I disconnected the lines, pulled the 5th wheel pin but forgot to crank down the landing gear. Yeah, ouch. Got back in the cab and thankfully I went through my mental checklist before it was too late. Scary.

forgot to crank down the landing gear

Good catch! 👍

I can tell you all too well, the noise they make, if you pull out with out the legs down.

Suddenly, I feel completely seen! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄