Backed into in the parking lot

Again we made it into and out of Canada safely. This time there was no load for us in Canada to bring out. Instead, our next load picked up in Millersburg, Oh. Another super fun place to drive thru. This load was being delivered to Fredricksburg, Virginia.

We got caught up in a major traffic jam when we were about 20 miles out from the consignee. I called into dispatch and let them know that we would probably not be able to make our delivery time and they were able to pull up the traffic report for our area and could see that we were not lying about the traffic situation. They called the customer and bumped our delivery time back.

We got our delivery completed routinely and proceeded to the nearest truckstop to wait for the next load. The truckstop was a zoo. Too many trucks and not enough parking spaces. We were lucky that our truck is so much smaller than a semi. We were able to  nose in to a parking space that the big trucks didn't have enough room to get into.

We ate, and headed back to the truck to get some rest. A few hours later, we were laying in the sleeper and felt the truck move. We knew it wasn't windy out, so we jumped up and looked outside to see what was going on. John opened the door and ran to the back of the truck just in time to see another truck pulling away.

Because of the size of our truck, we don't take up a full parking space. We usually pull in pretty far to try and keep ourselves out of the way of the trucks next to us so when they're pulling in or leaving they have a little more room to work with without having to worry about hitting our truck.

This time though, it worked against us because the truck driver didn't look closely enough to see our truck in the spot and assumed it was empty and he began backing in and actually hit our truck. At that point, he put it in gear and took off. Fortunately because we were nosed in he only hit the back dock bumper and scuffed it up a bit so no harm done.