Some of the megas search the trucks when they are in the shop for maintenance or parked at the terminal. At those companies, whoever is searching the truck HAS A LOT MORE EXPERIENCE finding the "perfect hiding space" than the new driver has in thinking up which hiding space is perfect.
If a driver is going to bring a pistol into the truck, he has to treat that pistol as he would treat next week's winning lottery ticket. He can't assume people will take his word. He can't assume nobody will want that pistol if found. If the mechanic steals that pistol now you have a REAL dilemma. Do you report the stolen gun to the company, and get fired, and wander if the local cops are going to turn this event into a criminal case? Or do you ask the mechanics if they stole your gun, knowing they can say "what gun" and you can't do anything about it. Or, do you just wave goodbye to your $200-800 gun and hope it's never used in a crime?
Do you leave the gun inside the truck when you go take a shower or eat in the restaurant? It's not doing much for your security sashed somewhere in the truck while you walk to/from wherever you are going. When you have a breakdown and you get towed into a shop and spend the next 18-24 hours sitting on the shop's recliner is the gun on you, in your bag, or in the truck?
In everyone of these threads there are people thinking, if not 100% certain, that the only POSSIBLE situation they will ever face if they bring a pistol or don't is the one situation they have thought about once, but practiced their one saying about. You cannot know everything that will ever happen to you and you cannot be sure you won't be hit by some bad driver, be injured enough to be dragged away, unconscious, in an ambulance. And, after that you have know way to know if your company sends another driver to clean out your truck, how they send your stuff to you or back to the terminal, if they find your pistol, and if they find it do they fire you and you no longer have insurance paying for your very expensive hospital stay. An ambulance ride could easily be over $5,000. A medical helicopter could cost $50,000 or more. Anyone's imagination is far too limited to know or guess what will happen in the future. Having the pistol, when you are supposed to have it, could escalate a minor traffic incident that would have been a $80 ticket and embarrassment into a criminal event with some jail time or a traffic ticket AND getting fired on the same day with the rest of your day deciding how to get back home on your own.
Whether you decide to bring a pistol, knowing your company does not accept them, or you don't bring one and eventually find yourself in a violent crime with no weapon, and every situation none of us can even guess at, both choices have real important consequences and trying to sound tough doesn't protect you from any of those consequences. All the people that prefer to "be judged by 12 than carried by 6" are not forcing that future to happen by saying that phrase.
Question about firearms
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Riotside, Jul 30, 2022.
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to california? Risk it and leave it in the sleeper? I’d be afraid to go to CA with no gun. Lots of mentally ill people and criminals. It’s like a 3rd world country there. Funny how the constitution doesn’t apply to blue statesusamerica Thanks this. -
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One of my cousins that lives near Houston Texas lost a son several years ago. He was attacked somewhere on the south side and spent close to a week in the Hospital before he finally died. I don't have the exact figures. I was told his Medical Bills alone were almost $250,000. There is real money involved with being the victim of a violent crime!
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Just remember, nobody giving you advice or retelling stories about what happed in 1975, 2000, in NY, CA, anywhere else is going to bail you out or pay toward your legal defense if they are wrong.
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I'm not an Attorney. I am, however, a big supporter of the 2nd amendment and I own several firearms. I also sometimes open carry around my home, as does several of my neighbors. There is something I would love to express, but I am having to self-censor because it is highly political. I will just say this. The 2nd has some major enemies today. I will just leave it at that. Carry interstate at your own risk. That is my best and only advice!
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