mountains and bad conditions on the roads

Nervous is good. Snow is easy, ice and freezing rain are the enemy. Do you know what their policy is regarding shutting down?

 

Are you going with a trainer for a few weeks?

 

Well don't get yourself in a situation you can't handle. Sometimes that means telling people what they don't want to hear. YOU are ultimately responsible. Be safe!!

 

Driver, In bad conditions always stay well inside YOUR comfort level....remember that for AS LONG as you are a driver. Never ever let another driver , a dispatcher , a fleet manager (as they're called nowadays) , a boss or ANYBODY tell you any different. Remember "if" you make the call to keep moving in bad conditions it's on you....those folks will throw you UNDER the bus once you are involved in an accident.... There is no load , going no where , worth risking your life over...let them threaten to or even fire you...no job is worth dying for....or killing what may be an innocent family or kid , remember we all have family using the same highways as you....experience will come..it just takes time....always think that way , if YOU don't feel safe , get off the road in as safe a way as is possible...let all of the "concrete cowboys" have at it.

 

Right on!...wait to you see what you are hauling and where, believe me your just taking dogfood/paper/gummy bears from one warehouse to the next...basically.

 

Oh you guys are so wrong!!!!

If that load doesn't get there....ON SCHEDULE.....the plant will shut down, all the employees will have to go on food stamps and Obamacare, the town will collapse, the county will be severly damaged, and the state will ... will.......MOVE TO CANADA!







HEH HEH...I'd make such a great dispatcher!!!!

 

WAIT A MINUTE!!!!

He said "NE".....they don't have mountains over there.....what the highest point is like 800 some feet above sea level!

They have overpasses in DFW higher than that!!!!