Seat belt and shoulder belt...?

For all the big tough guys that don’t use seatbelts, do you at least have your kids put on theirs? I know some of you wouldn’t bat an eye. Heck, you’ll probably tell your son, what the f...are you doing? Take off that sh... You need to learn how to be a real tuff man.

 

Dont have kids and my dad has never told me to put my seat belt on, does that make him an idiot?

 

What do all these have in common?

Super trucker, trailer with tons of chicken lights, drives a Volvo or a classic model Peterbilt/Kenworth, hauls a livestock trailer, has an LED panel on their front bumper, and drives with their fog lights on at night.

They don’t buckle up! It’s a joke. Relax.

 

If the cap fits...

 

Why do you have such a problem with people deciding how to live their own life? I do agree with people with fog lights being dumb as a rock and I'll extend that to everybody with LED headlights too.

 

here is a scenario for you.
First off if you are in control of a modern truck when a steer tire blows, like you should always be, it really is no big deal belive it or not power steering mad e a huge difference.
Now I picked up a loaded truck in new mexico one morning early. Some one had left he drivers door open and the wind had sprung it bad enough that it would not latch.
I ran holding the door with my elbow, 90 miles in on my run, still before daylight I blew the right steer tire.
The truck was in the ditch before I heard the noise, both hands straining on the wheel, forget the fricken door, let it slam back and forth, hitting the bumps at highway speed.
This was a 73, spring ride K100 cabover with no power steering, the far side of the ditch held it in check, no man alive would have over powered it and got it back under control, it just don't work that way and never did until power steering became common.

Now we can address mechanical failure, on an old spring ride spread, with fruehauf axles, the springs is what holds them under it. I hit a ditch across the highway at meade KS I did not know about and it broke both springs. I was on highway 23 and that was my first time on that road, a couple of miles before I got to beaver Ok, the front axle twisted and got the rubber under the frame. It had been a might squirrely, but I thought it was a combination of the truck and the old 2 lane highway. It felt like the jolly green giant took a pry bar andd turned me on my side. It had chirped and bucked a second first and I backed out of it and told the boss I was going to stop and see what was up, then he said all he heard was aaaaah. as she was going over, this was a 74 A model with no power steering, but having it would have made no difference.

And as far as the one talking about big and tuff for not wearing one, you don't need to be big and tuff till you try and tell someone else what to do, then it helps.

I have kicked around in these old rigs since the 70's and have never had to take a day off because I was hurt, at best if I am very lucky, I have 2 years left, I reckon I will run them the way I always have.

 

Every once in a while we all like to rough up people. Some people won’t learn until they are given a heavy dose of logic. By the way, to your surprise my 2014 truck doesn’t have LED headlights, but most of my other lights are LED. They’re very expensive, but they do last a long time.

 

I had a second cousin who got in a pretty minor accident, he had his seat belt on and girlfriend didn't, guess who died on the ambulance steps because their aorta was ripped and bleeding out into their chest cavity?

 

The rest of them can be LEDs, they're never shining directly into your eyes while coming at you, bright ### headlights is the dumbest thing anybody has come up with.

 

It happens, unfortunately, but I’m hoping you’re not claiming that case undoes all the research that already has been done.