Trucker Stories: New York City

Now I have heard this one before and it was always a friend of a friend, or I heard it from this driver from another driver. Last week I actually talked to a person in the Romulus Falcon terminal that had done it and another that had his trainer do it. Both of the experiences happened several years ago, so how current this information is unknown.

Now the story always starts the same the driver, sometimes with another truck following, is in New York City somewhere and has to make a right turn. A tight right, and a car is illegally parked against a yellow curb.

Sometimes a police officer is there writing the car a parking ticket, and sometimes they come later.

In the version with the officer there, the driver is told to complete his turn or he will get a ticket for impeding traffic. The reason the driver stopped was because his trailer would hit, run over, or otherwise take out the illegally parked car. So after being told to keep moving the rear tandems do damage to the car, by ripping off the bumper, rolling over the hood, or some other expensive repair.

The officer then finishes writing the ticket and puts it on the window of the now destroyed car. While the truck goes on to make its delivery.

The version when the officer comes after the damage was the one told to me by the driver that had it actually happen to him. According to him they came up to the turn and the driver of the car was just getting out after illegally parking it. When they asked her to move the car she flipped them the bird and went on her merry way. So they did what any driver would do, tried the turn and ended up tearing off her front end. The woman then came tearing back and called the police about the accident. When the policeman arrived and looked at the car, looked at the truck and saw where the car was parked. He then proceed to write the irate woman a ticket and hand it to her for parking illegally and told the truck driver to move along before they got a ticket for impeding.

The whole moral here is don't park illegally or at the very end of a street in New York City.

One thing I never understood was how the trailer always escaped damage, I feel if I tried to do something like that, I would end up blowing at least one and possibly two tires on the trailer. That is if I didn't roll the entire thing as it climbed the car.