Delivery truck in Colorado

That's why when backing you ALWAYS open your windows so you can hear someone yelling for you to STOP!

 

and don't forget.................LOOK

 

GOAL,,,,Get Out And Look!

 

Even if you 'got out and looked' by the time you got back in the truck, the situation could easily change behind you truck. Maybe the driver did look.

 

This the problem and why i like a quite cab when i'm backing up , one my many of reasons,getting too be more problems with younger drivers too, with that radio and deep bass pounding the door skins , they have it so loud , you get hit by train , and wouldnt hear it coming ,becuse there in there jamming and dancing in there seats with no seat belts on , i stopped a car on my way too work the other day , she and i had a green light , but becuse she was jamming and had the boom box full throttle and trunk lid vib bad ,didnt hear the ambulance coming thru , so i layed on the horn right next too her, i barly got her to stop before getting t -bone by a ambulance,last winter we lost a young girl too a t-bone with a fire truck , such a wasted life that was , just 18 and just getting started in life, Everett.

 

thats HORRIBLE...... I know that it cant always happen...(solo drivers)....but hubby and I have a rule...he has been driving over 25 yrs and 20 yrs myself...whenever either one of us backs up...the other gets out and watches...NO MATTER HOW MUCH ROOM WE HAVE...its just a standing rule....people look at us and think we are new..but we dont care....thats just how we do it....i am amazed at how many times we can be at a place and watch someone back up...and a passenger (co driver whatever) be in the jump seat and just sit there....and people outside will be trying to help....get that person out of that jump seat and have them help....esp. if it is a co driver , thats what they are there for!!!!!!

 

I, myself, have a much more difficult time backing up when I know people are walking about the area. Particularly, when there is MORE than one person. I feel like I have to see all of them at all times. And, if I cannot, I stop. Politely, ("I really appreciate all your help, but I'd prefer only one spotter, please?) ask them to disperse. I've been doing this long enough to know that when I'm not sure it's time to get out. "Set up" is the key to any backing maneuver. It's as easy as you make it. However, I don't have the conciet to withold accounts in which I was VERY appreciative for having had someone guide me into a spot. For example; some of those cross-dock warehouses in Laredo can be a bit of a challenge to blind into with a rig on either side, and a row of dropped trailers directly across. Funny how the "language barrier" is non-existent in these situations. Hand signals are, pretty much, the same in every dialect.

 

Um I don't know about you guys but if I see a truck coming toward me I tend to move.. I mean it said it had a beep while backing... was be backing in high reverse???

Granted the passenger should have gotten out but...

 

This is sad. I live in Centennial,and did not here a thing about this.