call in

It's not a "What if" scenario. It's a "When" scenario. Unless your truck is solar powered. I've made that call 3 times in about 2 months. State Po Po doesn't take long to show up. Yeah, the driver may have gotten a ticket. But it could have saved his life and possibly the life of others. And you wouldn't make that call? That is totally assinine.

Are you new to driving a truck? Or are you driving in a mythical world? Use the CB? Ha! What, one in twenty trucks have their radio on. And the guy all over the road probably doesn't. He's trying to nap.

Yeah, we're going to be reading about you some day. I can see the little back and forth thing here is rather pointless. So, I have said all I am going to on it. You take care RW.

 

I'm not going to waste my time proving anything to you, so I don't give a rats of you think I'm a dangerous driver because I don't snitch on people.

Being a snitch doesn't make you a safe driver.

 

Remember this when someone takes off your hood trying to back in.

 

There's a difference between making an insurance claim for damages and snitching on a driver because you think they aren't being safe.

Smh

I'm trying really hard to bite my tongue, because I don't play well with stupidity.

 

I'm done with this thread and this forum. It's full of know-it-all idiots that make 6 figures plus driving for mega fleets and who think it's their responsibility to role play as DOT.

Go ahead and snitch. I view snitches as cowards because they're too afraid to confront someone.

 

The o/p had at least one purpose in mind when he started this thread.

The definition of the word "snitch" that you first used in posting number 16, "I'm not a snitch, as I'd be a hypocrite if I was"

By it's very nature of the word, Snitch means to "inform" which is what some are doing if they "drop a dime" on a driver that is perceivably driving in an unsafe manner. If no safety dept wanted to hear "information" regarding their trucks, and drivers, then the toll free number or even the company name would not be spread all across the rig.

No one is Snitching, but merely Informing as per the definition of the word snitch,.

You personally may not wish to "inform", that is YOUR right to not get involved. But others here do not feel like DOT cops, but only that of concerned drivers that want the roads we travel on as trouble free as possible. The more we POLICE ourselves, the LESS the government will bother us, when THEY listen to the general public.

The more we police ourselves from unsafe drivers, the better we will look to the general public, as we show an interest in highway safety, and clean up the unsafe steering wheel holders. Who should have never been given a CDL in the first place. We are supposed to be professionals, not a bunch of morons.

 

Put in this same situation, I believe I'd get on the CB and make the phone call. But following and confronting face to face... I dunno. I've never been one to "back down" and that has lead to a few too many fist fights that fortunately (perhaps luckily) ended w/out anyone being shot or cut.

I'm not going to go on the offensive and chase someone down so that I can tell him how to behave.

 

Police our own or the Government will. Even more than they do already!

Mikeeee

 

Goodbye, you won't be missed.

 

How are you going to confront someone on the cb nowadays? I was on a 2 lane state highway the other day and had another driver riding my ###. I tried to ask him on the cb if he wanted to pass and I could back off the throttle on a good straight away. Of course his cb wasn't on and he ended up riding my ### another 10 miles or so. When we hit a town and got another lane he passed me and I let him know he was number 1 in my book. Suddenly he wants to know what my problem was. I told him and apparently his cb was off because he was on the phone. Claimed he wasn't tailgating but when all I can see is your trailer in my mirrors, you're tailgating.