The most valuable skill I learned in trucking was hearing/feeling the pressure from office people to hurry up, and ALWAYS reacting by slowing down and being 200% certain I had not forgotten or overlooked anything. NOBODY needs to be trained to rush when people say hurry. NOBODY wants their surgeon, airline pilot, dentist to be one of those people. SLOW DOWN other wise you will find yourself taking unnecessary chances on the roads because you are about to be slowed down for this or that reason. You can go too slow a thousand times but you can only go too fast once. Often in bad weather you need to go slower than necessary just to have adequate following distance behind the developing pile of idiots all in a hurry to have their wreck and get it over with.
Weather isn't under anyone's control so you can't fix the problem others MIGHT have because of it. You don't need to answer every request from the office types. When they say hurry it's OK to say nothing or to say 'believe me nobody wants to get this trip finished more than I". I think I said "I promise it will get there as quick as I can safely get it there. NOBODY wants that stuffs in a wreck and often the only way to be certain to avoid the wreck is slow down. It does no good to have a quick accident and be late. A few minutes, hour, or day late is much better for all involved than in a ditch being picked up by a wrecker driver and cops.
I'm in Minneapolis
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