RE: Nachbarschaftsnews - Geschichten über'n Gartenzaun / Neighbourhood news - Stories over the garden fence
Yes, I did not get stuck in this one: I was up in a tractor refer trailer in Washington State southeast of Seattle about 150 miles. The navigator did the same thing to me. I was driving down the highway and it said turn left in 200 yards. So I did it. I drove down a country road for five miles. I get to the end of the one lane road and I see the egg farm where I supposed to arrive on the other of a field maybe 300 yards away. This is still in the coast of Washington State where it rains/snows about 4 meters 120 inches a year.
So I had to back the truck up in reverse all five miles. Back out blind onto the highway because there were a lot trees on each side of the road. I made it but I hate navigator devices!
In another one, I was delivering potatoes to a Walmart Distribution Center in Kissimmee, Florida or next to it which is where Disney World and Universal World is. I turned where the navigator told me to and it was a dead end. And I could see the Walmart Distribution Center on the other side of the road on top of a hill.
I back up a bit and there is room to turn the truck around. All I had to do was go off the road and follow a set of big truck tracks. So that is what I did. The truck sank into the dirt/sand almost up to driver window so I had to crawl out the window to get out of truck. The trailer also sank to where the dirt/sand was about a foot up from the bottom of the trailer, the whole thing.
What happened next was one of the nicest things ever done. There was chain link fence about 12 feet high and the other side were hundreds of citrus hauling trucks. The kind with big dump tubs. Three truckers came out with their trucks, chains, and shovels. The dirt was loose and was not muddy. I had a broom. We dug out under the truck. Then, their three trucks pulled me out.
I tried to give them money and they would take it because they said, "We work in the orange fields and pull out each other's stuck trucks every day."
I was so thankful. I even made it on time to drop the load.
OMG - and I thought this would never happen to a trucker in his life! It's good that you stuck together.