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FedEx Freight | Vermont-- Time for this FedEx freight Driver to get a new GPS

Let's try and be nice. If you read far enough through all the comments, you'll find one from someone that was there.
Inexperienced driver, made a wrong turn and hoping to find a place to turn around.

All of you that have never made a dumb mistake raise your hand.

Now repeat after RC.

I'm a Fing liar.
 
I tried to get around an accident on the interstate about 10 years ago and jumped off the exit onto a road that ran next it. The smug look on my face increased as I passed mile after mile of stopped traffic that I could see through trees. After about 15 minutes my hidden gem of a road turned to dirt and not long after that I came up on a ten foot high railroad bridge. A farmer 1 mile before the bridge was nice enough to let me reassemble my set in his yard after I backed each trailer a mile down a curvy road. The next morning I got put out of service for being over my 14 45 minutes from the house ! LESSON LEARNT !
 
suzy1052 said:
I tried to get around an accident on the interstate about 10 years ago and jumped off the exit onto a road that ran next it. The smug look on my face increased as I passed mile after mile of stopped traffic that I could see through trees. After about 15 minutes my hidden gem of a road turned to dirt and not long after that I came up on a ten foot high railroad bridge. A farmer 1 mile before the bridge was nice enough to let me reassemble my set in his yard after I backed each trailer a mile down a curvy road. The next morning I got put out of service for being over my 14 45 minutes from the house ! LESSON LEARNT !
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Your a brave grasshopper for admitting that. We've all done some stupid sheeeet in our careers and would be lying like Dick said if we said we didn't. I know I've said this in the past, but who the hell appointed xanl-h as our resident accident/incident reporter. Get a life turd!
 
Most likely, he was trying to deliver a "pup ONLY" stop loaded on a 53' tlr. Dispatch said "go ahead and try, we really need to avoid a return".... It happens... frequently.
 
In my city days running a peddle route had me dragging doubles around all day. Went to make a delivery at an A/C business, don't know why I didn't disconnect the dolly after leaving the back trailer at the bottom of this tall hill. About half way up it got real narrow and at the top to my dismay was the guys house and nowhere to turn around. Took me 45 mins to finally get the front trailer and unhooked dolly back down the hill. Customer told me if he hadn't seen me do it he never would have thought it could be done.


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Been there.

Outside Wheatley, Ar.
I40 flooded. They routed us north. A good 95miles off track. GPS kept telling me to go west, get out of the traffic.
Resisted the urge, as all the routes it spotted looked to go into a field.
180miles,and 9hrs later, I laid down in Hope, Ar.
That was the one time I didnt try to find a shortcut and it was long and painful, but worked out.

That was because 2 times before, I thought I was slick, tried my own way. Ended up in corn fields, dead ends, residentials, ect.
 
SwampRatt said:
Most likely, he was trying to deliver a "pup ONLY" stop loaded on a 53' tlr. Dispatch said "go ahead and try, we really need to avoid a return".... It happens... frequently.
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Been there, a lot.

Got to the point where dispatch knew not to put that garbage on a 53er.

Shreveport downtown area was designed in horse&buggy days, and really hasnt been widened much since. Some places, a 53 just wont fit.
 
And fyiw, I stopped using gps years ago.

Google maps on my phone is wayyy more reliable, as it updates itself ever few days. Construction, road closures, ect.

Gps systems need to be "updated" manually.
So, unless you stay up on that, your sucking a hind tit.
 
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