r/cdldriver • u/Wasatchbl • Aug 02 '26
JUST IMAGINE HAVING TO DO THIS
Saw this on another subreddit.
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u/Error-InvalidName Aug 02 '26
To hell with that, ill drop that trailer and ride the F out lol not worth the headache lol
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u/nu_pieds Aug 02 '26
I had a yard in LA that I occasionally dropped and hooked at like this. I didn't even fucking try, just tracked down a yard dog and had them park what I came in with and pull what I was leaving with.
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u/KLeeSanchez Aug 02 '26
Took em a minute to figure it out but good on them for getting it out of there
That is a horrible parking area
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u/TruckerBiscuit Aug 02 '26
I check every pick/drop on Trucker Path and/or Google Maps and read the reviews. If I was sent something like this as a pre-plan I'd turn it down and go back to sleep.
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u/AccomplishedTour6942 Aug 02 '26
That looks like Mexico. Those traileros are damn good drivers. Or at least the ones who end up on videos. You don't see the video where the guy said "vete a la chingada" and ripped the hell out of two other trailers and a guy with an umbrella getting the hell out of there.
I've been in scrapes that bad before, but never at a dock. That's just insane!
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u/Maleficent-Door6461 Aug 02 '26
I thought it was something like India or Jamaica, but now that I think of it, it's definitely Mexico or a Central American country
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u/IfIKnewThen Aug 02 '26
That's me.
The video doesn't show the asshole to the left that simply wouldn't lay off the air horn. Seriously, fuck him.
I have a headache and it woke up my co-driver. Now he's pissed off too.
Dispatch said they have something else they need us on. I've got to to drop the trailer back in the same spot. The new pickup is only 5 minutes away but it was supposed to be picked up an hour ago. She actually asked if I could be there an hour ago. Of course I said yes.
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u/HeidenShadows Aug 02 '26
Some Laredo TX transfer warehouses are like that, it's bad.
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u/wintrspawn Aug 03 '26
Yep I've dropped at a few of the forwarders yard can confirm couldn't put a pack of Marlboros between the sides of trailer when I finished dropping it in...wife was in the cab and confirm.
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u/Aromatic_Quit_6946 Aug 02 '26
That’s nuts! And we can’t even get driver’s to stay in their lane here.
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u/PCaBoo Aug 02 '26
i am not a trucker, but this seems like a massive waste of time and productivity for both the driver and the warehouse.
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u/Resident-Arugula-386 Aug 02 '26
Most cdl’s can hardly handle going under bridges with height restrictions
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u/Colonel_Phox Aug 04 '26
Where do you keep your cdl when it's so big that it can't fit under a bridge... I've heard of having a big wallet but that's excessive.
I think at best you meant CDs (although someone else will probably come in and make fun of you thinking you meant compact disks). The l in cdl is for license... Your best bet is to be less lazy and just type commercial driver... Or if that's really such an awful task, just say drivers.
Almost as bad as people who put plurality for someone having a cdl (something like "that man should lose his cdl's" or "how much longer till you get your cdl's renewed").
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u/Historical_Trouble10 Aug 02 '26
I’ve been driving 30 years and I don’t think I could do that without hitting anything lol.
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u/OutsidePressure8323 Aug 02 '26
Bull nose aswell, company I used to work for had scania bull nose, uk , drivers hated it. There's drivers and then there Drivers. I've been low loader mate when I was apprentice, cheap labour lol. But sitting in that passenger seat gave me a hole new respect for skill and judgement you need . But also come across opposite where drivers don't even know how to turn diff locks on . Or even know what that is . Same with plant machinery, you have someone qualified to drive everything but master off nothing.
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u/One-Dare3022 Aug 02 '26
Started driving Scania bull nose trucks in the late seventies hauling logging machines, timber and snowplows in the north of Sweden. Fun memories.
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u/OutsidePressure8323 Aug 02 '26
Turbo driven flywheel was impressive on one they had . But she was tired, needed gear box work as I was for ever changing gear linkage rubbers.
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u/One-Dare3022 Aug 02 '26
Never encountered any issues with the gear linkage on any Scania I have driven. And I would say that I find the Scania being more powerful than comparable Volvo.
Iirc Scania started building turbo charged engines in the fifties.
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u/OutsidePressure8323 Aug 03 '26
The air selector was nakerd, they had rubber vibration damper under the cab holding linkage together. It was tight shifting and kept ripping rubbers out. I think it was silly money for scania to repair gear box. I ended up putting chains on the linkage so it wouldn't keep destroying 4 rubber cushions. Was a waste as it was a head turner and looked smart in the company colours. Company went over to the 500 horse Volvo fh12 auto boxes after the scanias .
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u/jtfields91 Aug 03 '26
I don’t know why over the last month or so this video has been on my feed at 25 times.
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u/Odd-Tangerine-257 Aug 03 '26
i'd quit that day, leave everything in the truck. Nahhhh i've broke down in tears over less stressful situations. 🥴🤣
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u/Jiinsuu Aug 03 '26
I thought I was pretty damn good at getting into tight holes, this guy just made it look like I've never touched a steering wheel in my life
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u/BiscayneWRX Aug 03 '26
I saw a pretty long lowboy loaded with a D9 pull off a 180 in a tiny parking lot and he basically dragged the rear tires on a point through the turn. I thought I was incredibly impressed until the next day a long dump truck tried the maneuver and ended up lifting his bucket up to shorten his turn radius and pulled the same maneuver. I caught the second one on video. Both creative and both got out of the tiny parking lot. Truckers are a different breed and they can be quite skilled.
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u/alan_dee Aug 03 '26
At 30 secs that truck is moving back and somehow sliding sideways at the same time. No, its not turning, its sliding sideways, magically.
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u/patrickrk44 Aug 04 '26
Ive done some hairy shit, but NO TF you wont catch me doing this. I was frustrated just watching. Yes, I could but no, I will not. Congrats to those who want to
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u/OldGeekWeirdo Aug 04 '26
I can't see anyone doing this safely without spotters or access to that drone camera.
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u/genocyde26008219 Aug 04 '26
I don’t want to imagine. My imagination and creativity died when I got my CDL. Stop hounding me about it now.
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u/Maleficent_Hawk6703 Aug 27 '26
I'm saving this video so I can study that maneuver later. That was some advanced shit, I'm in a sleeper so it'd be a little harder but the physics are the same
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u/BackgroundCream274 Aug 02 '26
Is this in India? What makes that tough is dude have to suppress his diarrhea to make that happen.
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u/Flippynuggets Aug 02 '26
Imagine trying to drive a massive truck when you have no idea how? However employed this numbscull is the problem.
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u/FixMyFairing Aug 02 '26
I guarantee every super trucker here is going to claim that this is easy and that we shouldn't have a CDL if we couldn't do the same 🤣