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<blockquote data-quote="Shiftless" data-source="post: 3361928" data-attributes="member: 47472"><p>One night I am at an off site trailer holding area for a railroad. Its 1980 or so. Trailer conditions were bad. You might have to back under 3 or 4 before one would work right after you walked the lot looking for one. So after walking the lot I back up to one that is at angle with the other one. Meaning the front is 6 feet apart and the back is 18 inches apart. Engine at idle (1968 fat cab Pete), I walk down the narrowing path between the two trailers as I had earlier because this time I see something shiny like a piece of glass in front of the rear tires as my flashlight scans by. SHEET!</p><p></p><p>So as I go back and get with in 2 feet of the tires and I smell this gawd awfull smell of urine or death almost made me gag, when all of a sudden I hear someone screaming at the top their lungs for me to give him "CIGARETTES" "I want your smokes" WTF? I'm about a foot away from the trailer wheels now of this 40 foot trailer and I turn around and here is a guy just passing the nose of the trailer coming towards me screaming his lungs out. And his odor has already reached me! He is probably 6 foot three and aggressive as heck! And he keeps coming! So do I fight? Dive into the rocks and crawl under a trailer? These bums run in packs. So I said</p><p>"friend it" game on. I start swing my tire bar side to side smacking the trailers sides and start charging him cussing at him the whole may about his mother to get to more open space so we dont wind up under these trailer's if it goes to the ground.</p><p></p><p>He stops in his tracks, and apparently a flashlight flashing in and out of eye's as I am now coming at him with me beating this tire bar on empty trailer which makes one hell of a noise he starts to retreat and takes off running towards the only entrance and exit gate to the yard and I loose sight of him. Great! Now when I drive out I am gonna get a rock or something thru my windshield I figured.</p><p></p><p>At this point in time I said SCREW the trailer! No trailer for you Mr dispatcher! Back in the comfort of my fat cab I pull away from the trailer and head down the rows to get to the gate. Here the dude is with 2 other guys at the back of a trailer where someone threw all the pallets out and on the ground as I see this tall lanky figure all animated describing to his buddies probably what just happened. Or maybe, lets go get this driver? As I drive down the street I see a Railroad employee in his truck and tell him what happened. He said 2nd time tonite and police are coming back, Cool! Still left with no trailer!</p><p></p><p>Next day. Drop off my loaded at the same yard go to get and empty again as I saw all kinds of Rail people over there coming in and it looked under control. Once again walking to the back of the first trailer MORE NOISES! This time its bullets ricocheting of trailer from a semi automatic firing! WTF! Scrambling back to the tractor I damn near didn't climb in I think I jumped in. Not only I was getting the friend out of there so were the Rail employees and everyone else!</p><p></p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>WAD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiftless, post: 3361928, member: 47472"] One night I am at an off site trailer holding area for a railroad. Its 1980 or so. Trailer conditions were bad. You might have to back under 3 or 4 before one would work right after you walked the lot looking for one. So after walking the lot I back up to one that is at angle with the other one. Meaning the front is 6 feet apart and the back is 18 inches apart. Engine at idle (1968 fat cab Pete), I walk down the narrowing path between the two trailers as I had earlier because this time I see something shiny like a piece of glass in front of the rear tires as my flashlight scans by. SHEET! So as I go back and get with in 2 feet of the tires and I smell this gawd awfull smell of urine or death almost made me gag, when all of a sudden I hear someone screaming at the top their lungs for me to give him "CIGARETTES" "I want your smokes" WTF? I'm about a foot away from the trailer wheels now of this 40 foot trailer and I turn around and here is a guy just passing the nose of the trailer coming towards me screaming his lungs out. And his odor has already reached me! He is probably 6 foot three and aggressive as heck! And he keeps coming! So do I fight? Dive into the rocks and crawl under a trailer? These bums run in packs. So I said "friend it" game on. I start swing my tire bar side to side smacking the trailers sides and start charging him cussing at him the whole may about his mother to get to more open space so we dont wind up under these trailer's if it goes to the ground. He stops in his tracks, and apparently a flashlight flashing in and out of eye's as I am now coming at him with me beating this tire bar on empty trailer which makes one hell of a noise he starts to retreat and takes off running towards the only entrance and exit gate to the yard and I loose sight of him. Great! Now when I drive out I am gonna get a rock or something thru my windshield I figured. At this point in time I said SCREW the trailer! No trailer for you Mr dispatcher! Back in the comfort of my fat cab I pull away from the trailer and head down the rows to get to the gate. Here the dude is with 2 other guys at the back of a trailer where someone threw all the pallets out and on the ground as I see this tall lanky figure all animated describing to his buddies probably what just happened. Or maybe, lets go get this driver? As I drive down the street I see a Railroad employee in his truck and tell him what happened. He said 2nd time tonite and police are coming back, Cool! Still left with no trailer! Next day. Drop off my loaded at the same yard go to get and empty again as I saw all kinds of Rail people over there coming in and it looked under control. Once again walking to the back of the first trailer MORE NOISES! This time its bullets ricocheting of trailer from a semi automatic firing! WTF! Scrambling back to the tractor I damn near didn't climb in I think I jumped in. Not only I was getting the friend out of there so were the Rail employees and everyone else! Sincerely, WAD [/QUOTE]
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