Here's your sign !

If we don't police our own, then the DOT will.

which would you rather have point out your errors?

 

Im w/Truckon on this--I give it ONE try alongside them--looking at them--no response--away I go--serious major dangerous issue--away i go as I call 911--w/every bit of info...

 

Had a flat trailer tire in Chicago at 5am this winter, couldn't see it in the mirror at all. Thanks to another driver that got a hold of me on the cb. Jumped of the next exit abd found a parking lot.
Ended up being a being worse then just the tire. But if the STP would have stopped me I definitely would have had a tow bill.

 

Doh!!

 

the problem is.

a lot of people pull us over FOR NOTHING. and that gets old.

i appreciate people telling me there's something wrong. but when there's not. which happens more then when there is.

WELL. i still stop. but 4 times out of 5. i have no idea what they're pointing about.

it's basically another stupid joke people like to play.

 

The problem with the specific load the OP is talking about, an onion load, is the driver assuredly was either not knowledgeable enough to handle the type of load or was flat out reckless. I'd guarantee he didn't have v-boards on it and wasn't doing routine load checks if it got to that point where a strap fell off. Nothing you could do to help that driver, it had been a lost cause for some time.

It drives me nuts when I see poorly secured flatbed loads because there's a million and a half things that can go wrong in your day, but load securement is really the one thing that is in your power. People are lazy and stupid. Such is life.

 

I like stupid drivers they help keep me entertained.

 

Exactly, just imagine how boring life would be without them.

 

YES driver, YES it IS JUST YOU..>!!

I call out to no one anymore, I did many years ago, but one day, driving up north from NJ to MA, I was trying in vain mind you to call out to a team (or at the very least the driver, the passenger could have been just a rider) and tell him of a smoking trailer brake on the right rear.

The driver flipped me off, AND then they BOTH laughed at me..!!

and I said to myself back then, "self, help warn no one no more"

I think that was all of about 15 years ago.

I stood by my "self conversation" since then.

So I NEED NO SIGN, so yes driver, it's JUST YOU.

If there are idiots that are behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler and they think they have all the experience they need or know everything, then let'em go, and YOU WILL live longer and happier.