He should of secured that load of logs

Was he drunk? Shut em down!

 

He should have his CDL permanently revoked. That is attempted murder times how many drivers he passed

 

WTF is a 19 year old doing behind the wheel of a log truck??

 

Seeing more and more young lads cut corners and run without the cables to secure the logs ... too much of a rush and lucky till things go bad

 

What I find funny. I cant get work hauling logs because my turned miles of 5 months driven means nothing to the logging industry. Yet they will go hire a 19 year old with no wheel time.

As to the lack of binders? Some of the drivers I have seen / listened too will run a load loose for a mile or two before tightening them. The logs will settle better, then tighten them down.

 

19 is too #### young for that kind of trucking.

Even Me would need a stiff drink before tackling a log load. (I'll do it.. but aint happy with all sorts of tippy loosey things that can go wrong...)

Revoke that boy's CDL each log off that truck is essentially vehicular manslaughter if you ask me waiting to happen to the poor cars coming up on them.

 

Normally once the loader is done, the truck will pull away and drive between 500 feet and up to 2 kilometers to the first wide spot in the bush before throwing wrappers. Tighten them as much as you want but by the time you travel 15-30km through the bush to get to the main highway they're loose. So before heading out on public roads they get re-tightened. On pole trailers the load doesn't even get secured to the trailer/truck. Driver throws 3x 3/8" cables with cheater chains crimped onto the ends over the load and cinches the bundle together with snap binders. On hayracks and wagons it looks like they get cinched down to the trailer. Not 100% sure on that since I've never been up close to that kind of equipment.

 

It seems like most of the log and chip haulers are in a big hurry to try and cram as many loads in as they can for the day and don't care who they may endanger, in trying to do so. It doesn't surprise me that some fool didn't secure his load. Look at all the idiots that come and go every year, because they think they can be a truck driver. This guy is just another one that has failed miserably. I would love to see his license revoked for what he did.

I see a lot of young guys hauling logs. Not much else to do in a lot of Maine towns. You either work in the woods or a paper mill.

 

Most log haulers out here have a worse safety record then this company.

At the same time when I was growing up, 19 years old would be a senior citizen if starting your career in log hauling.

I should have started out doing that but I believed all the BS heaped on me about 'school' being more important. How wrong were those folks.

And logs almost never get strapped to the trailer (pole trailer, mule train, hay rack) ; three wrappers and your off. Kind of crazy to think about it, only bunks and friction holding all those logs on.