traffic jam question

And everyone I have had an inspection the officer saw I had elogs and just had me scroll thru the pages and they have only glanced at them. Even had some skip that part when they saw I had elogs.

 

There's no since being in a hurry,you're not going no where

 

your safety dept is promoting you to log and drive illegal..creeping along at 10 mph to get to a truckstop ,sounds safe to me...having you log off duty in a traffic jam...its not legal to go on duty while sitting in traffic let alone going off duty...sounds like you need a safety director that knows what the laws are...

 

All they care about is not getting a red light on the logs. Because any log violations will show up in a review and there CSA score is already too high. I don't work there anymore. I run deacated routes now from Florida to Atlanta and on paper logs.

 

Now you're a cause of an accident. That way is not smart at all.

The reason those trucks leave a distance is they are driving defensively by leaving some room. There's plenty of reasons why but the important one is not to run into the back of another vehicle. It's hard to prove you're not at fault and most likely you'll end up with a preventable accident. That's something a truck driver never wants. Another (and maybe the main reason) is to leave yourself an out as taught by the Smith System. They even go on to say if you're right up on the rear of someone and another slams hard into you, you're going to end up on the rear of the other vehicle and be charged. I leave a space so I can go along and relax. I was in it every day and there's no reason to be that up tight while driving.

 

Yeah, some people do that. No reason to it except not wanting to passs 2 inches the bumper of the truck next to you for 'fair game' principles. It is dumb and hurts fuel economy and also illegal and as unsafe as it gets in 10 mph traffic. But you know it is what it is . Do what the trucker does , leave a nice distance in front of you, let it roll, just dont come to a complete stop. Hard to do in a car though. There will be a pick up truck ready to jump over you to those 50ft you left in front of you.
Actually I often stay in the closed lane till the very merge, leave the nice distance, try not to pass to let both lanes rolling but definitely not going to slam my brakes beacause I ll pay for that fuel to get going again.
It is proven the logical part of the brain often quits in a traffic jam. Last time I just pulled over and had a long nap, 2 hrs later woke up and there was a car flipped over trying to speed thru congestion, must have been in a rush or something

 

I don't know why they do that but if I see a trucker riding my bumper I slow way down Because I want to Make you Go Around me
So the next time you find your self behind such a truck it could be me

I will be watching for you from now on

Wana Get under my Skin?

Get in the hammer lane when every trucker is trying to tell you that the hammer lane is closed

See What Kinda of surprise I Got for ya

You R My Sunshine.... U R My only Sunshine ...You Make us Happy.........When you turn Blue... You Never Know Dear.... ....How Much we Love U..

So Please...Please....Don't take our sunshine a way.....

Just keep riding our bumpers Tean Teaaan our Tricky Friend

 

Really, my trainer said just to log as off duty drive for this once were out from under a load, logs and saffety has never said anything about it to us either

 

Thats going to come back and haunt you driver... If they are looking at the phone,kid,or just something they dropped in floor board and run up underneath you,you know it's "always the big trucks fault"