I'm going to quit swift

While i do agree with what you are saying I believe the companies bare the greater responsibility for all these accidents.
If they would have never lowered their hiring requirements and training procedures we would not see all this.

Also, the majority of the drivers who commit these accidents usually end up fired leaving the responsible drivers paying the price...

The biggest reason companies want all these controls on trucks is to enable them to continue to hire incompetent "cheap" drivers.

 

Truckers have been crashing trucks since the begining of trucking. These big companies get all these saftey features to keep the insurance companies happy and to cover they're butt in an accident.

 

the company I drive for has trucks utilizing said safety features. I manage to drive 600 miles a night without the trucks crash avoidance system activating. came back in rush hour traffic 4x this week, no events. the lane alert is quite the pain because it is not very accurate and still buzzes even when the turn signal is in use. they aren't terrible systems and certainly not 100% reliable yet. learn to drive the truck accordingly. I don't work for a huge company nor is my labor cheap, this is simply the future.

 

GOOD! I'm sick and tired of seeing big trucks making lane changes without using a turn signal. It is illegal, dangerous, and rude.

 

When i use turn signals the 4 wheelers use that as a signal to hurry up and cut me off.

 

All I can say is I'm glad I'm 64 years old because the future sucks. There is always going to be accidents no matter how much safety junk they put in the trucks. What I would like to know is, how does a person get a CDL that can only speak 4 or 5 words of English.

 

Affirmative hiring laws they are special
Doesn't matter they can't read or speak english
It's a warm body

 

Good Luck driver.