Forklift operator killed when driver pulls away from dock

Really, I mean I have been driving for quite some time now and I have never seen this happen and rarely hear of it happening. So to say to many have been KIA is a little much.
When Im being unloaded/loaded and sometimes that takes hours and I sometimes take that time to take a little nap. According to you I should be forced to sit in a "drivers lounge" aka a few foldup chairs that are uncomfortable for hours with other drivers and having to smell them because they haven't showered in 3 weeks.
Sure there life is valuable but why should I suffer so they can have a sense of safety? This can be fixed if these companies spent the money to install dock-locks, put glad hand locks or do what Wal-Mart does which is drop, disconnect and go park in the bobtail parking area.

 

I have on many occasions gave the clerk just one of my keys and then went back out to my truck and took a nap. Pretty much everyone has multiple keys.

 

It won't.
It will really only prevent something from falling on his head.

 

I would never give up all of my keys to my truck. It's basically my house. All I do when asked is give them the one out of my ignition, the one that's in my pocket, and always is, stays right there.

 

I like the idea putting a stop sign in front of truck.

 

Out of all of the places I've dropped at with stop and go lights, they are only used properly about 10% of the time.

 

if they even work at all.....

 

Yeah, that is the question. And then you have the dock lock that malfunctions while it has your trailer locked in. That is always good for a few giggles.

 

Only problem with dock locks is they don't play well with liftgate trailers. I wish loaders would come out and talk to me about how to proceed instead of pushing a button then giving up.

I even got rejected by a facility because they couldn't engage the dock lock. Never even came out to see why, just rejected when they couldn't get a green light. (Also, that facility expected ALL trucks to drop the trailer at the door. Sure, remove the 8 ton boat anchor from the front of the trailer then wonder why trailers slide out from the dock!)