Truckie
Senior Member
Today I was at work and was threatened by a customer.
I was un loading one of our flat beds that had old truck axels with rims on them when a customer backed his 1ton flat bed next to our flat bed I was unloading. I told him not to park there and un load and asked him to please move as he was to close to our bed and I told him I did not want anything to fall and hit him or his truck or get splashed with mud as it is really muddy at out place. He got a bit huffy and moved about 8 feet away from where he was. I told him to just wait 5 minutes and let me finish and then I would pull the cast iron pipe off his truck. He said OK and I started to un load our flat bed again and low and behold a rim fell off one of the axels I was picking up and fell in the mud. It splashed him and his truck really good.
The guy picked up a piece of pipe and was swinging it and jumped up on my track and was headed for me.
I told him to stop and get off my machine before he got hurt. He proceeded to reach in to the cab and grabbed my arm and that is when I hit the peddles to jerk the machine Fwd and turn to the right to knock him off.
It worked and he was on the ground in a flash. One of the other operators saw what was going on and headed over to see what was all going on.
Some of the guys say I should have just left him grab my arm and beat the crap out of him, or just left it go and call for help. Well I don’t know about you but when someone climbs on my machine and has a piece of pipe and is out raged and grabbing my arm I’m not going to just sit there I’m going to react.
I’m stuck in a cab and have nowhere to go, and I sure am not in the position to fist fight in a machine. I had a flat bed and a tractor that could have been wiped out along with a pick up flat bed and damage my machine if someone got caught on a control.
I look at it like this some one was going to get hurt and pushed off a track and it sure was not going to be me. I warned the guy several times to move his vehicle and he did not. He threaten me came after me and grabbed me and invaded my space and I acted.
The guy was not hurt but was muddy.
So my question is what would you guys have done?
I was un loading one of our flat beds that had old truck axels with rims on them when a customer backed his 1ton flat bed next to our flat bed I was unloading. I told him not to park there and un load and asked him to please move as he was to close to our bed and I told him I did not want anything to fall and hit him or his truck or get splashed with mud as it is really muddy at out place. He got a bit huffy and moved about 8 feet away from where he was. I told him to just wait 5 minutes and let me finish and then I would pull the cast iron pipe off his truck. He said OK and I started to un load our flat bed again and low and behold a rim fell off one of the axels I was picking up and fell in the mud. It splashed him and his truck really good.
The guy picked up a piece of pipe and was swinging it and jumped up on my track and was headed for me.
I told him to stop and get off my machine before he got hurt. He proceeded to reach in to the cab and grabbed my arm and that is when I hit the peddles to jerk the machine Fwd and turn to the right to knock him off.
It worked and he was on the ground in a flash. One of the other operators saw what was going on and headed over to see what was all going on.
Some of the guys say I should have just left him grab my arm and beat the crap out of him, or just left it go and call for help. Well I don’t know about you but when someone climbs on my machine and has a piece of pipe and is out raged and grabbing my arm I’m not going to just sit there I’m going to react.
I’m stuck in a cab and have nowhere to go, and I sure am not in the position to fist fight in a machine. I had a flat bed and a tractor that could have been wiped out along with a pick up flat bed and damage my machine if someone got caught on a control.
I look at it like this some one was going to get hurt and pushed off a track and it sure was not going to be me. I warned the guy several times to move his vehicle and he did not. He threaten me came after me and grabbed me and invaded my space and I acted.
The guy was not hurt but was muddy.
So my question is what would you guys have done?