Another worker freed from job lock.
OOPS.
I know FedEX uses automatic trans trucks so must not have gotten all the way into park.
I almost had that happen to me a few days ago. I drive a vehicle with a manual transmission and left the car in gear when I pulled up to a gas pump with a slight incline. Even though the ignition was turned off, my car started to roll forward as I was swiping my card at the pump. Fortunately the incline was slight and I was able to run around the car and set the parking brake.
At the office building one day, a car slipped out of gear totally and went backwards, I just happened to witness it. There was damage but could have been a lot more. The car was originally parked on a slight incline. I don’t know why it happened in that case. What a pain in the neck if that happened to one personally.
The driver was lucky that the open door caught the tree so that the truck’s path was altered just enough to miss that house!
So that’s why UPS trucks don’t make left turns. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3141405/posts
My daughter’s best friend parked her new car with a standard on the hill my daughter lives on. (You see where this is going.) Fortunately, she had head in parking, so when the car rolled, it did a looping turn, ran over the curb and came to rest on a soft grassy rise, no harm, except to the landscape.
When I park there, I put the car in neutral, engage the parking brake, take my foot off the break pedal to ensure that it is engaged, and then put it in neutral. (My wife doesn’t drive standard, so I have automatic.)
A long time ago I stopped and exited my car in a parking lot to give directions to a friend that was following in the car behind me. I quickly realized that I didn’t put the transmission in park. Fortunately, I was able to get back and hit the brake before anything bad happened.
For me, the most interesting part about the video was watching how the dogs in the yard reacted. “Those silly humans” must have been racing through their doggie minds.
Being retired in south Louisiana and going fishing every week, I could write a book on what I have seen at the various boat launches: trucks and boat trailers rolling back into the bayous, canals and bays.