Calling in other drivers to their safety dept

I wont call on stupid because I have a job to do and only so many minutes on my cell phone . I will however call in and dangerous in a heart beat ! If you are endangering myself or the public in general I will call your company and the cops because you don't need to be driving at all let alone a CMV.

This is not a game it serious as a heart attack and to many people in cars and trucks alike don't take it serious enough in my book ! Call me an old fart or what ever but there is someone every day that didn't take it serious and died for it . People can and do die driving and it don't have to be their fault to do it .

I don't feel that just because you drive a truck that I have to cover for your stupidity and ignorance ! The days of me feeling safe around trucks has been over for along time . I have come to believe that every truck I see has got a under trained person behind the wheel . I find that now expect the guy in the other truck to do something stupid and not the guy in the car . The guy in the car has been driving the car longer than the average truck driver anymore in my book.

I am not happy to feel this way but it has become a its me or him job in my opinion . I wish that it was like the old days but it is not and I have accepted that . We have become the welfare system if you can not get a job anywhere else you can always drive a truck after all even a monkey can drive a truck.

To me it is a sad thing to feel that way about the job that I love but I see it everyday . I will admit I have just been wore down and I am to the point that I am just going to keep my head down do my job and stay as far away from truck drivers as I can .

Ok so if you have made it this far through my rambling I will say I am done ranting and rambling for now I will back to gumming my breakfast for now .

 

Lotta people here worried about the wrong thing.

 

I'm worried about bears.

 

there was a vidoe on here where a driver did lose his trailer going down the highway. he got lucky . the trailer followed him on to the shoulder...it was pretty wild to watch

 

That's where you are wrong bigdogpile!! It''l took no more than 11 seconds to pass him up, when he saw me coming up in the left lane, I slowed down cause I saw him straddling the the center line, I flashed my lights @ him, called for him on the radio, before I approached him, that's when he started fish tailing in the middle of the interstate. That's when I realized he was all about playing around, which is one thing I don't do out here. I don't have time for it. and with 3 miles before the lane ended, there's no way I would had to to cut him off to get around him.

 

It just dont make sense to do that, that far out..even to be playing games ..and now for the rest of the story,,,

 

Thanks for agreeing with me, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO DO THAT, That's why I called in, and that IS the rest of the story. Look, I'm an O/O out here hauling auto parts for a living. I've been out a long time, I've seen a lot of mishaps, crashes, drivers going to sleep hitting bridges, etc,etc. I get out here, do my job,I don't bother nobody, I get along with any & everybody, but don't play games with me out here in a vehicle, especially in these BIG TRUCKS. At the end of the week, I just want to go home, and I'll play games with the wife, kids, & the grandkids. I don't call in on drivers, but if your intentionally doing something in these trucks that could potentially cause harm to someone, especially ME, I'll be calling your company, because like you said, bigdogpile: It just don't make sense to do that, Thank You

 

Sorry, but I'm not going to 'stick up' for a driver that makes a foolish move that has the potential to kill someone. If you drive like a idiot, you shouldn't even be in a 4-wheeler. Let alone a Semi.

 

I pretty much feel the same way. It shouldn't have to take a ticket or an accident to get a point across. By then, it will be too late.

 

Thank you for this Post Ghost Ryder; That's the way I see it. We DO need to stick together, but for the RIGHT THINGS, that's one of the reasons D.O.T. have their way with us, because we don't, and there are a lot people out in these trucks doing any & everything and it's causing problems for ALL OF US!!