setting a driver up to fail

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  1. Dieselgeek

    Dieselgeek Medium Load Member

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    I think this needs to be posted in the new drivers thread for ALL drivers to see...
     
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  3. critters

    critters <b>Late For Dinner</b>

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    triplesix we oversize Haulers Will never turn a driver who really needs and wants the help and knowledge,we were new at one time also and have seen the bad side of things first hand more than once.I for one truly believe the only Dumb Question is the one not asked.
     
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  4. critters

    critters <b>Late For Dinner</b>

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    Diesel geek,no offence but to us you are still new, LOL. even on a day I would rather help than watch some one fail.
     
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  5. Dieselgeek

    Dieselgeek Medium Load Member

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    No offense at all... I have a lot to learn, and continue to learn everyday. Just reaffirming that attitude goes a long way in becoming a safe, productive old timer...
     
  6. cpape

    cpape Desk Jockey

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    That is insane. Who would send a driver that had never operated an RGN to pick up a 75K lb excavator?

    Passingthru--did the company name begin with W?
     
  7. critters

    critters <b>Late For Dinner</b>

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    good answer,if you could just pass that attitude to more drivers we may have some of the commrodery we used to have out here.we all have more to learn.and go starting any rumors that im productive, LOL
     
  8. Dieselgeek

    Dieselgeek Medium Load Member

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    Mums the word!
     
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  9. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Sometimes we even find ourselves helping those who are too stupid to realize that they need help.

    A year ago, I was at that TA in Cartersville,Ga stuck for the weekend. I come up on a 7 axle with an escavator on the wagon. I get out and start talking with the guy.

    Six: How tall is your load?

    Driver: I am permitted. For 14 feet.

    Six: You didn't measure your load? Do you have a height stick?

    Driver: No, this truck didn't have one in it.

    (Okay guys, I have never been to a place to pick up a piece of equipment, like a dozer, tractor, sprayer, escavator...whatever where there wasn't a height stick among the drivers. In fact JD at the Warren yard in Waterloo have a height stick on site. So the 'this truck didn't have one on it' excuse is lame. So I went back to my truck, got my height stick and measured his load.)

    Six: You're 14'11.

    Driver: OH SHEET! I gotta get the height down!

    14'11. There's a huge difference between 14ft and 14'11. I didn't pay attention to the brand, but my guess is that since he didn't crack an overpass, he had to have come out of Calhoun.
     
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    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    After 3 million plus miles I am still learning.We had one of our driver been with the company 9+years, I saw him bottom dumping in too tight of circle, told him on the radio, he told me to mind my own business, as I was driving away he flipped the rear trailer from turning it to tight... Go figure.
     
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  11. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    that was my first question. If something goes wrong, those fines have the potential to be astronomical.
     
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