Good Night From II

No. I have a special lady there and planning to retire there. She does not want to come her accept maybe to visit.

 

Wow, what a sad story about the crash in NC. Maybe some one in PHX will wake up and reconsider trying to recruit every warm body they can get their hands on and then with a minimal of training, putting them in a trk.

I am sure we all would agree.

 

Sitting in Memphis tonight. This has been a total waste of a day, so glad I'm going home Saturday. I need some stress relief.

 

The seeing part is right, but getting accustomed to living here is a long shot.

Being in a truck is not living here, it is working here.

 

I agree.
That student was only 22, and wasn't assigned a truck yet.
Some mistake killed both student and mentor.

We could speculate as to the actual cause.

My guess would be... just that, a guess.

 

Last report I heard, just a little bit ago, was the student had fallen asleep. A terrible trajedy for sure.

 

And yet another reason not to push students too far, and to go team status way too early.
Or for another reason to train mentors better.

50 hours driving time and they go to team status.
And the mentor is usually more concerned about making more money than safety.

It is a double tragedy.
A mentor that feels they need to push things, and a student that feels the need to drive while too tired to do so.
And both die as a result.

Both deaths might have been prevented if the SYSTEM was better for both of them.

But they seem to be 'meat for the grinder' on both ends.

 

Hey, SWIFT!!!!

ARE YOU SEEING AND LISTENING??????????????

What does it take to get into your thick skulls?

You base training new people, and mentors, on a performance model - when it should be on a SAFETY model!

Scott, with all his videos...
Scott, with all of your videos trying to make like a nice guy - although somewhat ignorant...
Why don't you actually do some GOOD by revising the way training is done?
And that goes for the main Safety guy as well.

All this, 'We have to be safer out there, blah blah...'
Well, DO something about it on your end instead of just telling it is up to US!!!!

YOU are the people responsible for the training and safety aspect, because YOU are the ones in charge!

 

It happened at what I call the witching hour , that time just before sunrise when the body wants to sleep no matter how well rested . The student who died of his injuries today went straight off the road on a corner . The mentor was in the sleeper and didn't have a chance . It took the fire department 32 minutes to get them extricated.

I believe Swift needs to overhaul the mentor part of the training process and start with prohibiting students driving from midnight to sunrise . They also need to make it mandatory that if the student states he or she is too tired to drive, the truck gets parked or the mentor takes over .

As horrific as this loss is , it is exacerbated by the reporter who threw out Swift safety statistics completely out of context to sensationalize the story . Hopefully the fallout from that will cause Swift to take another look at the ttraining program . However I doubt anything will happen because Swift's entire safety program is nothing more than lip service to a concept that is foreign to them.

 

[QUOTE="A21CAV, post: 5161607, member: 72807" ] Hopefully the fallout from that will cause Swift to take another look at the ttraining program . However I doubt anything will happen because Swift's entire safety program is nothing more than lip service to a concept that is foreign to them.[/QUOTE]
I don't think it is foreign to them.
They just don't like it very much.
There is simply too much money to be made by ignoring it.

Very stupid in my view, though.
If they set up the best training program in the industry, and being the largest trucking company in the U.S. they could easily do that, they would have both the drivers flocking to their doors as well as the customers.