I have to say the way you owned up to a mistake deserves the upmost respect, these days most people are so entitled they couldn't do that but you can, and I am so glad to see that, we are all human and any one could have made that small mistake, but you put your mouth and $$ on the line to own up to it, much respect my dude!

This video is "That's trucking" in a nutshell. That was unfortunate but crap happens. Be safe Dave!

I've been driving 18 years and I won't you to know that you really impress me with your attitude. Keep it that way, it will take you a long way. Always own your mistakes.

What a weird thing to happen, Dave. I hope everything turned out ok. Stay safe.

It's easy to screw up when you're 5 hours passed your clock

New rule for Dave: always make sure u have the right trailer!

At least you didnt bring the trailer completely across the country before figuring out lol. Thanks for the video Dave!

I just got hired to be a yard spotter. I was OTR for six years and I’m glad I won’t have to deal with stuff like this anymore.

Good for you. I like hearing you admit you screwed up. You're human. Most of us have done something similar in our careers. I hooked and hauled the wrong trailer 5 hours once. Just learn from it. Now I ALWAYS VERIFY THE TRAILER NUMBER ON THE BOL AFTER IM HOOKED.

did a similar thing. working walmart dedicated, i was given the wrong paperwork and didn't double check the addresses so i grabbed the trailer for the paperwork i was given and started heading down toward Pueblo CO only to get a call asking what trailer i had. told them and they just said "so that's where it is." Thankfully it was going going further down the road in the direction i was already going but yeah, shit sucks when that happens

You might look into split sleeper if allowed, this could really help you maximize your hours after waiting long periods. For example, instead of waiting the hour and a half you did on dispatch finding you a trailer, wait another 30 min and you will recapture that wait time after. Then, you only need an 8 hour rest to get the remaining time back

where'd the other trailer go!? PA!? lol i did the math and there's gotta be another driver who ended up in PA with the wrong trailer LOL

If you have extra money to spend get yourself a kingpin lock or a glad handle lock.

I remember watching you when you were testing at CFI, it's good to see how far you've come

Dave back again with another trucking flog love watching your videos sense I became a truck driver I fell in love with it I just love being on road and seeing different things and meeting and talking to people in different states.

I work at Walmart and I’m always asking questions about truck driving and how it was for them when they started. I can see myself in 2 years with my cdl driving the 18wheeler working as a truck driver. Currently studying for my permit once the permit is in my hands it’s up from there. Your videos give great tips and I really learn from the parking and turning you do a great job of showing how to line it up and take it back😏 I love the content keep more videos coming I feel the experience not even being in a truck before. It takes my breath when your turning with cars or next to the curb.Looks like fun. Buckle the hustle😂💪

GOT MY CDL A TODAY DAVE!! But im going Local cuz family you know.

Been there done that Dave. I was running team for R&L carriers. Co-driver hooked to a set of pups going to Charlotte nc. He woke me up in Louisiana to switch out, and he had the wrong trailers. We had to take them back to Houston and get the right ones. That caused us to get home 10 hrs late to start our two days off. When I showed him his mistake, he said, “they’re gonna take that mileage out of our checks”! I replied, You mean your check Hoss! I was asleep in the bunk when you did that boo-boo! Lol Don’t know if they docked him or not, but my check came out fine. Put’s a big sick ball of stress in your belly when that happens for sure; but THAT’S TRUCKIN!!!!

0:18 this and your story’s and laughs make the entire video for me thank you angel Dave love you be safe. It’s ok these things happen.

Always great videos Dave, thanks. Halfway thru it now , & the title is making me anxious...

I love how you watch the pedestrian sign for lights, my dad taught me that 23 years ago when he was teaching me to drive. Love the vid bud, stay safe out there see ya in the next one 👍👍

I work at Kentucky Trailer Manufacturing. I can tell by the Mansfield bar that Trailer we Built.. I do sub-base chassis so I literally build the frame with Cross members of the Semi Trailers. AKA the beginning of a semi-trailer. It's what the floors are drilled into its with the walls are attached to. I even put on the crash plates at the Mansfield bars are attached to as well as the Slide rails. We call the Semi Trailers the tandems we call a bogey. So if you look for the KTM manufacturing plate within the Last 5 years Im there..

We make bad mistakes all the time but the end of the day it’s fine

dave, don't feel bad, my dad did the same thing a few years ago.... but he was a lease op, pulled the wrong trailer from Waterloo, IA John Deere works to Perry, OK 30yrs on the job and did this.... trailer he needed was beside the one he grabbed

I thought for sure, after reading the video title, that the first trailer you picked up was going to be the wrong one. Man what an unfortunate coincidence that they dropped the same company trailer in place of yours, starting with the same trailer numbers. It's easy to see how that mistake happened, after a 20 hour day especially. Don't beat yourself up, sh1t happens and this was a really easy mistake to happen given all the circumstances

Getting called to the terminal is like getting called to the principal's office..lol...i have made so many " one time only" mistakes in trucking but learn fast not to repeat..

Navajo driver here: First time & only time thus far, I've driven the wrong trailer was from Shaw Industries distribution yard in Denver. It was supposed to be an empty because I'm going 6 hours (physically 5 hours but we leave mountain time zone to central time zone) ...away to Liberal, KS to National Beef. With that load going to Charlotte NC. My home city. I kept saying to myself as soon as I'm on the interstate like this feels loaded. I pull off to the shoulder and sure enough the trailer number was off by one digit at the end. My eyes scanned, but evidently stopped before the last digit. Luckily I had only driven about 30 minutes out on E I-70 and didn't get all the way to National Beef with a trailer full of carpets. Lol! 🤭😉

If you had 50 drivers that dropped that trailer as your situation, 50 drivers would of done the same thing. Live and learn man. Keep on truckn

25:57 right as you pull in you can see the trailer you grabbed lol. it was the next to last one. Which means someone moved yours and the knight trailer leaving that one on the end. Damn That sucks.

i drove in the midwest so in winter we ran the button snap on covers in front in winter but our feet would freeze so i would take blankets and shove them in front of brake and accerlater pedal.heater was working but never helped your feet your toes froze

Stuff happens, Dave. A valuable lesson was learned, so just shake it off and move forward.

Hey Dave god bless you mate lots of love from India

That's a bummer Dave. I guess even Ol' Dave learned a new trick. O Well. Shiat Happens Bud

I’m confident I would have done the same exact thing. Saw the same company trailer with the similar numbers dropped in the same spot I dropped the original trailer in, not expecting anybody to touch my trailer..

Ole Dave pulling an ancient Werner trailer. 😂

God i am so glad to be local now on a dedicated route. I feel for you Dave.

I know the feeling on mixing up trailer and having the right paperwork, ive done that once before myself from macon ga all the way down to Miami Florida so I had to take it all the way back that next day

We truckers are all brothers who's blood is bonded by diesel. I once had a shipper give me the wrong trailer and I only verified the trailer number but not the destination because I didn't really think it was possible for a shipper to give me a wrong trailer. It was very confusing that they put the wrong trailer on the BOL but I was supposedly supposed to have an entire different shipment/BOL. I even told them where I was going and just assumed they had the intelligence to give correct shipment based on destination. So many unexpected unintentional traps to watch out for in trucking makes my head spin till my neck breaks.

I found your channel this week. I love your personality on video. I’ve watched a bunch of your videos now. They are great!

man .. I hope you don't get fired.. that sucks though.. it is a hard lesson.. but at least it was a lesson learned :)

The water heater place is a dedicated account for averitt I used to work for them.

"Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice..." Such a fitting cliche to use earlier in the video, considering what you talked about at the end. A mistake was made. You cited details that contributed to the mistake. Now you have a first-hand experience with trucking that will make you more "seasoned". You never know when you'll end up in a similar situation again, or when an opportunity could come to pass that knowledge on to another trucker who hasn't had an experience like that before.

I did that once.I worked for RPS pulling double pups.Under strained relations with the contractor I worked for.I pulled one right one.I think the other was empty.But one wrong trailer from Buffalo,NY to Columbus,Oh.The contractor I worked for had to run the right trailer down there that night.He was supper to do pick up/delivery the next day with the one truck.I nearly got fired but we worked it out...

Jeez man; you're going to blow a gasket looking for your trailer.

I love that johnson city Tennessee line shouting out old crow medicine show. Well i hope you werent shouting out darius rucker lol.

Hey Dave, huge fan. CFI called me about coming to work for them and i used your name as the referral. The guy i spoke to was really nice and said your vlogs are great! He might be in the comments somewhere lol. Anyway, thanks for being the inspiration i needed to bite the bullet and start putting out feelers. If you have a second could you tell me what you think about PAM and Stevens Transport? Those are two other companies I'm looking at. Thanks man, peace!

New Fear Unlocked. Thanks Dave 👍

It’s like I used to tell my son when he screwed up in soccer. “If that’s the worst thing that happens today, it’s been a pretty good day.”

When I first started in trucking I was with a certain company with red trucks and a very English name(but no knighthood). Part of the training program involved forced teaming(ugh!). Well, I got teamed with a guy who was pretty confident, enough that I didn't feel the need to babysit him at least. We swap at a pick-up at a meat packing plant. I tell him we're picking up, where we're headed, had that GPS all set up, and I'd see him after my 10. Which I did. 500 miles down the road with an empty trailer because apparently I didn't specify enough that we need to pick up the product first before we, you know, start delivering it?! Mistakes happen, man. It won't be the end of the world. Hell, just the other day I had an Amazon order that, looking at the tracking, was put on a flight from Kentucky to Oregon, but then apparently someone scanned it but left it on the plane, because after getting to Oregon it turned right around and went back to Kentucky, and that's the company that prides itself with being the most efficient shippers. lol

Those aluminum trailer skirts are expensive. Good job Dave. Love your new Volvo.

I get how you feel, yes, you should have checked the number but mistakes happen, we're only human. On the flip side of that, who ever moved your tailor should have said " Hey I moved it over blah blah " or they should have checked it as well! don't beat yourself up over it man, it happens, Drive safe!

Dave u are right with what u have saide I a green with u its a mistake , robert I. Dekalb Illinois,

I found your channel through Jeff Favignano talking about your channel

I need to know what happened next! I can't concentrate pulling my trailer worrying about Dave.

You’ve got the Bills for the other load you left at the Terminal so Bristol is in route to Pennsylvania from where your at down there. Just take that trailer back to Bristol and either get your old trailer and go back down or give it to somebody else and you take that trailer to Pennsylvania, just don’t forget to swap the bills. 😊

I’m glad I don’t have that annoying backup alarm on my Volvo.

Looks like you should carry around some white spray paint guy. That Big G trailer was flexing on your preloaded 😂 lord

Everyone makes mistakes man, keep truckin!

That’s tough you always Learn a lesson from mistakes a deposit to the school of experience

We have all made mistakes Dave . Don't stress

Dude… it happens.. no one died.. lesson learned.. good luck

That's the same exact trailer down to the aluminum skirt, 7 numbers apart. What are the chances of that?

Trucking can be unpredictable sometimes. But that's Trucking. Nice video

Amazing coincidence - the saga of the "where did it go" Ormsby trailer. Something as unique as a trailer having the aluminum fairings sitting in the same spot you dropped yours at, but being a few numbers off. I wonder where the original 16103 trailer went - hmm.

Averitt has a lot of dropyards in Tennessee, their headquarters is in cookeville Tennessee

Someone did that on purpose, because why move your trailer and replace it with an identical one, and where did they move your trailer to, for what reason?

Never seen aluminum skirts either I like it looks fancy lol

The first time You Backed In The Trailer Yard In The Beginning Dave You Swung Her Right On In Dare Good Shit💪🏽‼️ Truck trucker lol🤣 I thought it was be backing up an we know people gonna hate you got a automatic but I bet they can’t back better than that a lot of space or no‼️

Man I remember I was driving teams for the holidays last year .. we were trying to get home for Xmas and then at night my partner was like “ all I have to do is pick up this loaded trailer at the yard and we’re back home overnight” but then the trailer wasn’t there then they told us to go somewhere else .. then the place was closed then back to the yard until they finally said “get the empty you had and take that one back to the yard(close to home)” 🤦🏻‍♂️ we lost like 3 hours 🤦🏻‍♂️ so stupid man ..

Dave you should come up here to mountain city one of these days❤

I went back..and seen the wrong trailer u picked up is 2nd from the end.. lol

Headed down to Savannah, you will pass my neck of the woods. Keep an eye out for TANGER outlet down I-75 about 25 miles south of Atlanta. Honk when you go by!

Hey Dave! I work for watsontown trucking company and they just happen to have a terminal next to the one you guys have in dublin. Every time I pass an online transport truck I look for ya 😂. I’m the odd duck in the company I have a black truck instead of blue lol.

Wow just wow I think you are the Why is driver have ever listened to. I've been driving for thirty four years and I think that you broke the mode for being the winiest

the company I run for Krueger Trucking they only run them aluminum side skirts on are trailers

Nothing to get upset about. It happens to the best of us.

No way Dave I missed you there 2 days ago! I drive for Averitt, and we have a contract with CLG there building 40 and 50.

I feel like if the company is having you show up at service 30 minutes before the end of your clock, they should be paying for a local hotel so that you can get your proper rest and come back the next day to pick up your truck when you are rested and maybe avoid this.

I went to pull a trailer from one of our customer sites my company goes to once. I was picking up 53659 and when i went to pick it up in the yard there. There was another driver already hooking up to it. I asked him what's going on? Turns out he was suppose to get 53656 trailer. Which was parked right next to it. Lol Thankfully i was there at that moment so both of us didn't take the wrong trailer even though they both were going to the same place. But this way neither of us had to deal with the guard check in at the designation having to explain that one lol

We have all done it bud!

The Aluminum Skirt Curse hit again… they’re conspiring against whomever dislikes their look.

Best expression i've heard so far " That really chaps my rear end " 😂

Oh my God so sorry Dave can't believe someone did that holly Jesus, someone did that to our reefer last Tuesday my brother & I in Cali lucky mulle guy move the reefer to another docking bay we got mad because they didn't told us nothing, so sorry it happen to you Dave just relax an take it easy man😉

It's alright, bruddah.

oh man Dave that sucks I can somewhat relate once you backed into that spot I'm like: bet this is where his mistake happened yea man we all make big mistakes when I was a leader at Safeway yrs ago a few times the drivers would hand me paperwork but it was for another store idk how they screwed that up so what we ended up doing was calling the other store make plans with them I'd be like OK I'll be there in 20 minutes I'd load up our supplies into my vehicle (of course give them their order first) and go back to my store and several times the drivers would be like sorry Matt here's half our pay since you physically put their load of stuff in your car then went back for your stores correct stuff I'm like nah Don't worry about it just please pay attention to the store # on the paperwork my store is 797 ok thx !!

thats an unlucky mistake, the real question should be did the other trailer have the metal skirts after making a big deal about them haha

It's a lot easier in the long run to be impeccably procedural.

The dispatcher says when you’re done with that load, you need to go to the shop…..wink…….🤪

I lost it at 15:10 when he said security I immediately thought about South Park

Hey Dave I am curious how do you like the Volvo I haven’t heard much about it from you

I’m the opposite I can’t stand the glad hand connectors that move or swivel. I like the little stationary ones 🤷🏽‍♂️

that value gas it not a gas station its a 420 shop - cole bristol resident

That's trucking Dave!

I have done the same thing dispatch sometimes does not know their ass from a hole in the ground

That end make me think what happened to 16113 if it didn't show up there in savanna is it still at the yard somewhere or did it go to Pennsylvania for another driver to find out 4 days later he had the wrong trailer

Oh oh , gulp Unfortunately the chances just enough. Bad news yeah human makes mistakes I want to be perfect too. Best David

S happens, live and learn! But out of curiosity, did the second trailer also have that aluminum side skirts?

I work in a fleet shop and Ive screwed up by grabbing a sister trailer thats 1 or 2 digits off. Its like 200 ft to the shop an it pissed me off like crazy. I cant even imagine that happening otr.

You need a trailer hitch king pin lock.

Hey hey boys!!!! Looks like you got an old Werner trailer there Dave