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Hello! Here I am with my first sucky encounter as a dispatcher turned tow truck driver...
I was delivering a vehicle to a trailer park and the speed limit in the park was 10 mph. I was driving down one street coming up on a left turn that I needed to make when all of a sudden, I see this crazy woman come out of my left peripheral vision waving her arms and screaming at me. As she gets closer to the truck (dumb-ass!) I can hear that she's yelling for me to slow down. I looked at my speedometer and I am doing about 12 - 13 miles an hour. Putting me about 2 - 3 miles over the limit. Granted, it was speeding, but this woman acted as if I was doing 100 coming up on this corner. I ignored her and went about my business.
I turned the corner and went up the next street and found the trailer I was expected to drop the vehicle off at and pulled up out front. I jumped out of the truck and get ready to unload it and this crazy woman comes flying - YES FLYING - up behind me and parks her big ass suburban right behind my flatbed. She leans out the window and starts yelling at me - now, when you have a flatbed that's ready to unload, the PTO has been turned on and the RPMs on the truck are running higher, therefore, the truck is loud. However, I can make out that she is bitching at me about speeding.
I tell her that I was only doing about 2 - 3 miles over the limit and she yelled something like, "Oh yeah, right! You were going A LOT faster than that!" I tried to explain to her that the truck is big and probably looked as if it were moving faster, but I was not going that fast. Regardless, I told her, she needed to move her vehicle so that I could unload the car I had on the bed. She wouldn't move.
She continued to yell at me some more and I started to back the bed up repeating that she needed to move her vehicle now so that I could unload and be on my way. She started yelling at me more and then asking who I work for. Here's where I started laughing. You see, I drive a huge International flatbed that is painted all yellow with the name of the company in HUGE blue letters on both doors and the hood of the truck. I yelled "LOOK AT THE TRUCK!!!" and she DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!!!!!! When I finally convinced her what company I worked for, she said she was going to be calling my supervisor. I yelled, "FINE CALL HIM NOW MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!" and she SPED off!
Anyway, not much of a sucky story, but my first to convey here. I told my supervisor about it and he said the next time something like this happened to be sure I give the person the direct line to the shop so that they can keep it at the shop and not have it run through the channels in the company to get to the shop. All the supervisor did was have a good laugh. As long as I am not making a member angry - they don't care.
I was delivering a vehicle to a trailer park and the speed limit in the park was 10 mph. I was driving down one street coming up on a left turn that I needed to make when all of a sudden, I see this crazy woman come out of my left peripheral vision waving her arms and screaming at me. As she gets closer to the truck (dumb-ass!) I can hear that she's yelling for me to slow down. I looked at my speedometer and I am doing about 12 - 13 miles an hour. Putting me about 2 - 3 miles over the limit. Granted, it was speeding, but this woman acted as if I was doing 100 coming up on this corner. I ignored her and went about my business.
I turned the corner and went up the next street and found the trailer I was expected to drop the vehicle off at and pulled up out front. I jumped out of the truck and get ready to unload it and this crazy woman comes flying - YES FLYING - up behind me and parks her big ass suburban right behind my flatbed. She leans out the window and starts yelling at me - now, when you have a flatbed that's ready to unload, the PTO has been turned on and the RPMs on the truck are running higher, therefore, the truck is loud. However, I can make out that she is bitching at me about speeding.
I tell her that I was only doing about 2 - 3 miles over the limit and she yelled something like, "Oh yeah, right! You were going A LOT faster than that!" I tried to explain to her that the truck is big and probably looked as if it were moving faster, but I was not going that fast. Regardless, I told her, she needed to move her vehicle so that I could unload the car I had on the bed. She wouldn't move.
She continued to yell at me some more and I started to back the bed up repeating that she needed to move her vehicle now so that I could unload and be on my way. She started yelling at me more and then asking who I work for. Here's where I started laughing. You see, I drive a huge International flatbed that is painted all yellow with the name of the company in HUGE blue letters on both doors and the hood of the truck. I yelled "LOOK AT THE TRUCK!!!" and she DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!!!!!! When I finally convinced her what company I worked for, she said she was going to be calling my supervisor. I yelled, "FINE CALL HIM NOW MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!" and she SPED off!
Anyway, not much of a sucky story, but my first to convey here. I told my supervisor about it and he said the next time something like this happened to be sure I give the person the direct line to the shop so that they can keep it at the shop and not have it run through the channels in the company to get to the shop. All the supervisor did was have a good laugh. As long as I am not making a member angry - they don't care.
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