I too used to drive trucks. Still do on occasion. One time this kid had me follow him to a jobsite. I was hauling a load of landscape rock. I was able to drive in barely but to get out the ground I would have had to drive on was too soft. I asked the forman if I could borrow the excavator, hooked a chain to my flatbeds frame and used the excavator to swing my trailer around.
Then there's the pototo barn story but that's another time.
Aaron