To the truck driver who entirely blocked Pepperell Street for over 15 minutes while delivering to the bakery plant – could you be any more inconsiderate? Other delivery trucks manage to leave enough room for a car to squeeze by but you didn’t even try. It’s a long way from Vernon down Pepperell only to find you can’t get to Preston because of some roadblocking jerk. Go back to truck-driver school and learn how to back in your truck.
—Taking the long way home
This article appears in Feb 4-10, 2010.
Hot cross buns.
why the fuck would they even have the truck stops there when there’s not enough room for them to get off the road entirely?
or is there and this jerk just really sucks at his j o b
Everyone expects commercial drivers to back their rigs up but often times you can’t be 100% sure that a pedestrian or impatient car driver isn’t in your blind spots so to reduce liability many companies prohibit backing of trucks and buses unless its the absolute last resort. The truck driver would still be responsable for hitting the pedestrian or car who was too stupid to figure out what the reverse lights and back up alarm mean.
Now out of curiosity how far ahead was the OP looking? I first learned to drive motorcoaches when I turned 18, never learned on a car. Best lesson I learned was to look far, far ahead to see what was in the road or might present a hazard by the time I got there. Could be someone trying to change lanes two lights ahead or perhaps someone sitting in a car and the driver’s door might open in my lane. In the city I try to look ahead at least a block, often two, on the highway its as far as I can see. I can’t imagine coming up on a truck blocking the street, especially on a straight road and being surprised after driving towards it.
But that also brings up the topic of people who don’t know the width/length of their little car or SUV. I love taking a coach down Gottingen or SGR and watching people slam to a stop because they don’t think their 6′ wide car will fit in the 8 – 10′ I’ve left open. Don’t they teach you to know your vehicle size as part of the course these days?
you are so right vor, you have to plan ahead and i find myself saying ” you could fit a tank through there” and its not like the truck just mysteriously appeared out of the mist
if you have never driven a tracker trailor truck,you don’t realize how fucking had it is too even back one up.so,mouthpiece,sorry for your fucking 15 minute inconvience,but that is all you get.you are lucky the driver didn’t get out and pound the fuck out of you,i would have.so douchebag,if you think you could do better,tell the guy driving next time that you can.i will come and visit you in the e.r.
I work in the truck and transport trade.
It is far easier to back up a larger truck such as your delivery truck because of larger mirrors that can see more, and the amount of mirrors that can be placed so you can see your blind spots. anybody else here who is going defend this guy for parking in the middle of the road, you are just as much an arrogant prick as the driver of the delivery truck.
ninja, what kind of truck you drive, a cube van?when you get behind thewheel of a semi trailor,get back to me how fucking easy it is.i don’t drive one, for a living, but have moved a friend’s, and it ain’t fucking easy, and i have driven everything on wheels at least once. show us all how it’s done big mouth.
uh, something tells me being able to reverse is in the job description of ‘truck driver’…
so they either
a. suck at their job or
b. don’t give a fuck.
either are bad….
Hi…arrogant prick here. If you don’t like the way I park on the street…drive on the sidewalk !
you fucken tell them, more.
I doubt the trucker deliberately blocked the street OP. And might I suggest getting behind the wheel of one and backing it on a side street? Trust me, it’s something that should be avoided if at all possible. Unless I had a spotter, I wouldn’t try it unless I was 110% sure. When I used to work for 4 Circled Logo grocery chain in Clayton Park, I’d watch the delivery trucks back into our driveway from the Lacewood/Willett intersection. There was plenty of room there, but it still took mad skillz. I was impressed. Pepperell is far narrower.
hahaha…. “learn how to back in your truck…” – THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID”