Swift manages to do it again..

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by drvrtech77, May 8, 2021.

  1. skallagrime

    skallagrime Road Train Member

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    And the cost of the skirt?

    Someone costs me 300-600 $ isnt exactly "no big deal" either ESPECIALLY when its their stupidity that did it. myself included
     
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  3. buddyd157

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    although a skirt will cost money, the savings in NOT calling out that big rotator..

    those guys get paid from the instant the call comes in, to the time they get back..

    it can easily be well over $1,000, then an accident charged to the driver, since a wrecker was called out.

    better to have an incident on ones record, rather than an accident.
     
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  4. SmallPackage

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    I love me some Ron Pratt. Lol!
    I like to see what it’s like in my family’s “old country”
     
  5. skallagrime

    skallagrime Road Train Member

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    So if i were the guy looking at the incident, i have 2 people to yell at. The driver and the guy that called the rotator.

    I dont know though, lets play devils advocate as you guys want to, assume youre the guy in charge of telling the driver what to do. Do you trust the driver not to mess up WORSE and not tear up anything more than the skirt at this point?
     
  6. jason6541

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    I have a 290 wb star car. My answer simple I don’t go to NE at all no further east than Ohio and no further north than I70. Never have a problem
     
  7. buddyd157

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    no, it is not simple, when you work for a company, under forced dispatch.

    simple for an o/o, not ever a company driver.

    i think that it tells a lot about a driver when he can't negotiate a parking lot, that he has to avoid a part of the country.

    any driver worth his salt, can thread his rig into the docks, no matter the size of that equipment.
     
  8. skallagrime

    skallagrime Road Train Member

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    Theres essentially 2 conversations going here @buddyd157 1 is the thread title, the other was god prefers deisels asking about buying and driving a longer wheelbase truck, gpd owns their truck and has his own authority, i imagine itll be pretty easy for him to not forcibly dispatch himself... :p
     
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    These mega carriers definitely give the test of us a bad name
     
  10. buddyd157

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    i know fully well what was being said, and what did i say in return..???

    "i think that it tells a lot about a driver when he can't negotiate a parking lot, that he has to avoid a part of the country.

    any driver worth his salt, can thread his rig into the docks, no matter the size of that equipment."
     
  11. buddyd157

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    although i think you meant to say..."rest of us", this is true.

    back when i started, JB Hunt, Schneider, Munson, and a few others, now out of business, took in student drivers. back in my day, we had NO cell phones, and NO GPS.

    we had to read maps. we had to stop at pay phones, or at the truck stops, they had a room, that was the "phone room", with dozens of pay phones. back then, you had to have a "long distance calling card", and dial like 4,000 numbers, on the card, THEN dial the number you wanted to call.

    and if you got a busy signal...??

    good luck, you're doing it all over again.

    we were taught how to respect the customers. the companies that hired you frowned on you and almost fired you on the spot for having an "attitude problem", if you used the words, Hell, DAM, Jesus H. Christ,.....need i say how you'd be dealt with if you said the "F" word?

    even the tone of your voice, they'd label you as a trouble maker with a HUGE attitude problem, and you'd be spoken to, warned, the fired if it ever happened again

    the past couple (or so) decades of truckers, are NO WHERE's nearly trained like many of us old timers were.

    none can read a map, none can talk with out using curse words, and nearly all cry a river of crocodile tears if they stay out more than one day..

    this is why, megas carriers suck...........

    but as long as there is money, and mergers, and everything else, they will survive......and make the rest of us look bad, and continue to give us...a bad name.
     
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