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Post by concretejoe on Apr 30, 2008 21:30:40 GMT -5
Well, a couple of days ago we had a driver roll his truck over. Did about $30,000 in damage. He was going too fast and tried to take a 90 degree turn at 43 M.P.H. with 9 yards of stiff flowable fill on. He said he felt the tires come off the ground and then over corrected and ended up laying it down on the "passenger" side. That intersection is normally busy. Thank God that there wasn't anyone there. He crossed both lanes of oncoming traffic. He is sooo lucky. All he did was scratch his finger. He had a good chance of killing someone or himself. How can we get through to these guys that this is a dangerous job and you have to keep your head in the game at all times? Tommorrow, we are having a drivers meeting. I'm supposed to get up in front of everyone and talk about some of the causes and ways to prevent accidents like this, but I'm afraid it's all going to fall on deaf ears. "It will never happen to me." is the prevailing attitude. Put aside losing your job, costing the company money, costing the customer money while they wait to replace the load and wasting everyones time to respond to and clean up from the accident, forget about all that. What about the real possibility that you could kill someone or yourself? I have a friend who was involved in a fatal accident, believe me, you don't want to go there. It will haunt you for the rest of your life. My buddy's dead now. Keeled over of a heart attack. He never got over it and I think the stress got him. So guys, drive safe. That load is not more important than a human life. It will get there, when it get's there. Sorry, had to vent a little.
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Post by dwfnga on May 1, 2008 12:42:09 GMT -5
I know what your your saying I rolled one when I was a rookie, Drifted off the road onto a soft shoulder, slowed down to bring it back on but hit a raised gravel driveway first and after that it was all over but the crying. Fortunately I didn't get hurt or hurt anybody. It 3:30 in the afternoon going into a blind curve I came back across the road and all I could think about was what if a school bus came around the curve and hit me. It sad but I have heard of many roll over that where preventable, company I used to work for had 3 in one week all preventable. 2 where drivers trying to make turns to quick. My thoughts I'll go by the turn and come back from the other way If I got to much speed up. The other was to fast to close and the driver swerved off the roll to keep from hit the cars ahead of him and rolled it. Keep distance and speed down. I get paid by the hour so I don't get in to much of a hurry. We had a safety meeting yesterday and our company has not had an accident in 13 months, and that one was not driver error road gave out under him and rolled him he was only bruised up a little.
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Post by cfconcrete on May 1, 2008 18:16:55 GMT -5
In 1980, I was speeding through a yellow, then red light and I tee-boned a city street sweeper and killed the guy. I I told them that I couldnt see the traffic light because the dust cloud the sweeper was stirring up, which was of course a lie. Back then, that stuff was never investigated, and no one knew any better. It was awful, and the older I get the more I feel like s&@i*t about it.
We need to slow the freak down with these vehicles, That's the God#$!Damn truth
Why would you ever do above 25 or 30 in a city or 40-50 on a highway is beyond me.
Whatever.
DRIVE SAFE!
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Post by mixedupdiesel on May 1, 2008 20:16:59 GMT -5
I came close to rolling it once during my training. There is this on ramp to get on I-85 that is a standard L shape, the _ of the L being the slow down lane, and the I of the L being the on ramp to the highway. There is a bump on the right side in middle of the turn to get on, that I didn't know was there, and normally you would take this turn at about 15-20 with 9 yards on, if it won't for the bump. Well, I went in there at 15, and my trainer goes "OMFG" cause we were talking and he had forgotten it was there, and he screamed "BRAKES!!" and before i even touched the pedal, we hit the bump and the truck leaned HARD left, and I straightened out some and got in the gravel on the side, and got back on the pavement andf the truck was still leaning, and the truck didn't straighten out for another 50 ft, and we stopped,a nd we were just looking at each other with this look  on our faces. IN city, if the speed limit says 35 i run 30, if it says 45 i run 40, and if it says 55 i run 45. No excpetions. I run 55-60 (Although the truck i have now will do about 73) on the interstates. Empty, it's speed limit/balls to the wall. |
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Post by gant on May 1, 2008 21:00:27 GMT -5
I almost turned mine over yesterday.. was doing a foundation with the chutes.. ramp gave away truck leaned I stuck to the seat.. had to get another truck down there loaded with rock as an anchor as i drove out of it.. talk about pucker
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Post by Mort on May 2, 2008 12:15:00 GMT -5
I haven't rolled one, and I don't think I've come very close (at least, I'd like to think so), but I almost saw one.
Our old recycle area was kinda up a dirt hill. Well, it was getting full and it was pitch dark, so my trainer just told me to dump it down the hill. I was out back wetting it up, when another driver/trainer started backing up the hill. He got too close to the side, and the hill gave way on the driver's side. He had to get all 10 yards off right then and there, so he dumped it where he sat. Luckily, he just locked all his axles in and drove out, but it was looking really iffy there for a second.
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Post by concretejoe on May 2, 2008 16:03:52 GMT -5
In 1980, I was speeding through a yellow, then red light and I tee-boned a city street sweeper and killed the guy. I I told them that I couldnt see the traffic light because the dust cloud the sweeper was stirring up, which was of course a lie. Back then, that stuff was never investigated, and no one knew any better. It was awful, and the older I get the more I feel like s&@i*t about it. We need to slow the freak down with these vehicles, That's the God#$!Damn truth Why would you ever do above 25 or 30 in a city or 40-50 on a highway is beyond me. Whatever. DRIVE SAFE! At least you learned from it. You're a better man than me. I don't think I would have been able to get back behind the wheel. I agree. There is absolutely no reason to go fast in these trucks. |
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Post by LEAD DOG on May 3, 2008 20:22:21 GMT -5
HECK FELLAS, 99% OF FLEET MIXERS ARE POWERED & GEARED FROM THE FACTORY FOR HIGH END TORQUE (for off road driving) AND JUST ENOUGH SPEED TO GET OUT OF IT'S OWN WAY. SO WHY TRY TO THROTTLE JOCKEY SOMETHING THAT WON'T? AND LOADED THE DAMN THINGS ARE AS TOP HEAVY AS MY WIFE  !
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Post by gant on May 3, 2008 21:51:52 GMT -5
^^^my truck isnt worth a damn offroad.. with the automatic it takes forever to get enough torque to get it to move if i'm off in soft dirt, or sand or something like that.. it sucks in mud too..but it runs amazing on the road..i run the speed limit most of the time.. except when i'm on the interstate.. speed limit is 70 and my truck will run 75
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Post by mixedupdiesel on May 4, 2008 0:01:20 GMT -5
gant, i want to say
but... don't quote me..
I wanna say if you hit the mode button and put the trans into 1 it changes the programming of the trans and it locks up the tc sooner, giving you more power off the line. The reason it takes so long to spool up is torque management (it doesn't pour the fuel on immediately)
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Post by gant on May 4, 2008 8:39:10 GMT -5
yeah i put it in first when i'm offroad.. still doesnt help.. gotta wait till it gets to about 1500 rpm and then it will go..
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Post by LEAD DOG on May 4, 2008 14:24:23 GMT -5
automatic transmissions ain't worth a plug nickle off road. but it definately is less wear & tear on the IMPORTANT part.....the DRIVER  !
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Post by gant on May 5, 2008 16:52:34 GMT -5
I ran all over the place today I put over 300 miles on my truck today and only hauled one load lol.. went to 3 different plants today.. 4 counting my own..and that auto makes it like drivin a caddillac..
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Post by LEAD DOG on May 6, 2008 20:52:12 GMT -5
COOL! ;D SHOW ME THE MONEY BIG DOG GANT  !
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Post by gant on May 7, 2008 6:04:33 GMT -5
^^^ i was makin big money yesterday.. since they sent me to the City first I got paid almost 27 all day..
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Post by LEAD DOG on May 9, 2008 19:52:17 GMT -5
CHAAAAAAA-CHING$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ;D
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on May 18, 2008 15:54:46 GMT -5
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Post by Mort on May 19, 2008 10:32:01 GMT -5
A trainee did that? Ouch. Short career.
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on May 19, 2008 18:37:14 GMT -5
He was my trainee 2 days before this, but this guy was too much of an idiot. Explaining how the truck works and everything invloved is like explaning it to an infant. Did'nt help that I was his 3rd trainer. The guy could'nt even pre-trip the truck, adjust loads when loaded on the dry batch. It was a night mare. This guy took me to my breaking point which is I refuse to train anymore. I was leaving this job as he was coming and told him to stay to the left which as you can see he didnt. He was too close to the ledge and it gave away and them BAM!
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Post by mixedupdiesel on May 21, 2008 19:04:03 GMT -5
i about f'd up today myself.
There's this road that's 55mph, and I was empty coming back down it, and running late, and knowing the big boss was back at the plant, I wanted to try to make up a little time, so I was doing a teeny bit over the limit, anyway, something told me to back it down, get there in one piece, instead of flying.... and I did, came up to a blind corner, only a few seconds later and a freaking rural postal carrier was doing a u-turn in the middle of the corner. I was doing 40ish at this point, I put my foot down and the rears locked and the ass end started skidding left hard, and my right front went off the road and caught a bump in the shoulder or something,a nd it just kicked the rear of the truck around even harder. I ended up a little more than 90 degrees spun out, only about 2 ft from the guy's olds cutlass ciera. Both front tires down in the ditch, couldn't believe it, but the truck never even tried to tip, guy got out, and said "OMG YOU DIDN'T ROLL OVER" I just looked at him, and said "the only reason it didn't is devine intervention, and you wouldn't like me if i got out of this truck right now..." and with that he got in his car and left, and I locked in the axles and backed out, and got back on my way. Much humbler than I was 5 minutes before. Truck none the worse for wear.. except for 8 flat spotted tires... sigh.
These trucks are not a joke drivers... I know it's easy to get complacent and start driving the truck more like a car than a big rig, because when you're empty they handle very car-like (or at least f-350-like), and it's easy to forget sometimes just what you are driving, especially with a low body Mack like I drive.
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Post by dwfnga on May 21, 2008 20:03:53 GMT -5
I know what you mean mixedup, We have all been there and most have learned from it. I came up to a T intersection one time a little hot, and started to turn left, well it started to tip I cut back right came off the gas and bounced over the curb and into the parking lot, safe but shaken. You all keep the shiny side up and enjoy the holiday.
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Post by gant on Jun 7, 2008 10:01:19 GMT -5
we had one go over lastweek.. I dont know the details on it but he did $50,000 worth of damage to the truck and when it was upside down he left it running so if the motor is shot thats another $25k they said and that was an 06 Volvo with a Kimble mixer on it..
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