Truck driving schools

Discussion in 'Questions To Truckers From The General Public' started by Tao4mind123, May 15, 2017.

  1. UsualSuspect

    UsualSuspect Road Train Member

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    There are fatalities everywhere, everyday. Statistically, the most dangerous place to drive, near your house. Do schools tell their students, I would imagine it depends on your school.
    I am a destiny person, my date of death is already figured out, I just don't know it, don't need to. When the man upstairs pulls my number on the day it expires, does not matter where I am, or what I am doing, my number is up. Live your life the best you can, most won't remember you a year later, and those that do will think of you often, but as the days, weeks, and years go on, you will be a distant memory.
     
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  3. mitrucker

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    Most of these schools exist strictly to prepare you for your state exam, nothing more.
     
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  4. tinytim

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    Why the heck would they teach that? What you're describing is your own perception but it certainly hasn't been my reality.

    There is far too much death on the highways, you don't need truck driving school to know that. I see it on the news and read about it online all the time but I've only seen it up close one time.

    And being over the road for years isn't 'the' reality of driving a commercial vehicle. Many stay local or don't stray far from home base.

    Deadliest profession? It's not though it does rank up there.

    Do you know what the deadliest job in your Country is? You have had 4 Presidents assassinated. That's the deadliest job in the US historically I would wager.
     
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  5. JReding

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    While your questions and comments may be acceptable albeit odd in their nature, your apparent obsession with dark and morbid imagery tells far more about your mindset. And the fact that you find others not wanting to be subjected to them as offensive to yourself is slightly detached from reality. Everyone has a different level of sensitivity to these kinds of things. I've been to an accident scene that was at least, if not more gruesome than the photo you posted, but I would never even consider that everyone be subjected to something like that. I would wish that none of us ever have to.
     
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  6. x1Heavy

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    Don't forget the coins for the ferryman and remember thee by the stories they will tell by the fireplace.

    For those of us saved, death is itself defeated. At the end of the day there is a promise of life enternal and thus hope. But all must die there can be no other way which is one of the biggest reasons why we take care out of love to save one another from the darkness that is most assuredly coming.

    Training can only go so far. It's when you have either experienced it or accepted it as part of life with a hope for the future then you have essentially managed to defeat same. This world will surely pass away, it must. But consider what is coming. And the Glory waiting for you to see and behold.
     
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  7. x1Heavy

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    I never really thought about profession or chosen employment. Much. Im going to point at the gas station clerk or convenience store worker/owner etc. However in this world there are ten thousand different jobs that can kill you or hurt you in at least a thousand interesting ways.

    Some of my 8 of 9 lives have been consumed by the most ordinary of tasks to start that potentially my last day on earth, a pot of coffee is assembled and then brewing started. And then we will see what is next on the things to do today. Most ordinary of beginnings, but you cannot ever imagine in your most wildest of fantasy driven creative story telling the potential ending of this life which you call your own.
     
  8. Tao4mind123

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    Crashes result in the very real cost of human life. But there are also millions more who are seriously injured—an estimated 4.6 million in 2016. Statistics show Canada per 100,000 population 6 traffic fatalities; where USA is over 20 fatalities per 100,000 population. Strange because Canada has eight months of winter driving with under 3% accidents caused by weather conditions. Environments and driving on black ice throughout your life where air conditioning is roll down the windows seems to increase your awareness and control when the trailer passes the tractor. These white knuckle experiences do wake you up to the hazards of driving not explained or taught in trucking schools. Only seeing one dead deer on the side of the road doesn't remove the fact in the United States an estimated 1.23 million deer related accidents occurred in a one-year period. deer semi.jpg
     
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    As "professional drivers" are you totally unaware of passenger vehicles unsafe driving habits? My questions are simple; do these trucking schools even go over the possibility of death on the highways 24/7 or do they avoid the subject matter in training to justify pennies per mile. Do the corporations trainers tell the newbies: Oregon is beautiful and not to worry because the trees will catch you on the way down? semi-truck123.jpg
     
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    Is swimming a requirement. semi truck 12345.jpg
     
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