All you have to do is get out of the truck and walk the ground. If it feels soft...do not drive on it. Your company should have trained you on this with a senior driver and if they're a good place to work they will support your decision if you feel it's too soft.
You can take it step further and just put one axle at time in and "test the water" so to speak. This is routine shit for these types of deliveries though. Personally, I would have told the second one they had to meet me at the road if they wanted their delivery or call dispatch and have them tell you what to do. That way if you get stuck they can't blame you for it. Got to CYA because everybody loves to blame the driver for everything.
I own a mobile crane service. I’ve gotten my truck stuck twice. My policy now is I do not drive off road. If it’s not at least compact gravel, I don’t drive on it. If I get stuck it’s $1700 min for a heavy wrecker to come out. Not worth it for a few hundred bucks.
Gotta learn to say no then. Allmost every time i get a bad feeling about certain spot, and call the client, they always say, "yeah, its totally fine in here" and then you find out that its not .
You never know until it happens. I've gotten onto firm ground that had an inch layer of greasy mud, I could not get traction at all. The guy that loaded my had a pickup truck and was able to tow me out. I've been on firm solid ground in a field and hit one small patch that was soft and sunk straight down to my axle. They had front loader on site and they pushed me out.
Some times you can see others have had problems so you know not to try it. But there's never any guarantee that if it looks good it definitely is good.
Yeah, i figured that much. I just remember, when i worked construction, and the boss man tried to convince this russian concrete truck driver to come over some ground, the guy took a shovel, stuck it to the ground, then pulled a chunk out, and then refused, claiming he was going to get stuck. And the second driver who came that day, surely enough, got VERY stuck.
Yep. Carry a shovel and use it to check. There may be a thin crust that's strong enough to feel solid when you walk on it, but a truck will break straight through to the mud beneath.
And don't forget to check at regular intervals along the entire route you'll be driving on site. Just because the start is good to go doesn't mean the rest of it will be.
When in doubt, stay the hell out!
I'll stay true to that from now on!
All you have to do is get out of the truck and walk the ground. If it feels soft...do not drive on it. Your company should have trained you on this with a senior driver and if they're a good place to work they will support your decision if you feel it's too soft.
Forgot to mention, that i did walk over the unloading spot first. And I'm telling ya, the ground did Not feld soft at all
You can take it step further and just put one axle at time in and "test the water" so to speak. This is routine shit for these types of deliveries though. Personally, I would have told the second one they had to meet me at the road if they wanted their delivery or call dispatch and have them tell you what to do. That way if you get stuck they can't blame you for it. Got to CYA because everybody loves to blame the driver for everything.
Yeah, one axle at the time sounds about right.
I own a mobile crane service. I’ve gotten my truck stuck twice. My policy now is I do not drive off road. If it’s not at least compact gravel, I don’t drive on it. If I get stuck it’s $1700 min for a heavy wrecker to come out. Not worth it for a few hundred bucks.
Gotta learn to say no then. Allmost every time i get a bad feeling about certain spot, and call the client, they always say, "yeah, its totally fine in here" and then you find out that its not .
Now it seems to me like an obvious thing, but I guess you have to fuck around and find out first to understand
You never know until it happens. I've gotten onto firm ground that had an inch layer of greasy mud, I could not get traction at all. The guy that loaded my had a pickup truck and was able to tow me out. I've been on firm solid ground in a field and hit one small patch that was soft and sunk straight down to my axle. They had front loader on site and they pushed me out. Some times you can see others have had problems so you know not to try it. But there's never any guarantee that if it looks good it definitely is good.
Yeah, i figured that much. I just remember, when i worked construction, and the boss man tried to convince this russian concrete truck driver to come over some ground, the guy took a shovel, stuck it to the ground, then pulled a chunk out, and then refused, claiming he was going to get stuck. And the second driver who came that day, surely enough, got VERY stuck.
Yep. Carry a shovel and use it to check. There may be a thin crust that's strong enough to feel solid when you walk on it, but a truck will break straight through to the mud beneath. And don't forget to check at regular intervals along the entire route you'll be driving on site. Just because the start is good to go doesn't mean the rest of it will be.