New Drivers SLOW DOWN

I was at the Harrisburg, PA T/A yesterday and I watched some furniture hauler speeding through the parking lot like he was qualifying for the Daytona 500! WTF do people think that is necessary?

 

Last winter on I80 saw a couple of really bad wrecks. Both were SUVs going to fast blew the median and were finally stopped by a truck coming from the other direction.

If people would stop and consider who it involves, thier families, the other driver's families, the people that have to clean that mess up. And all for getting there a few minutes earlier?

 

Let's not forget the damage that is done to the trucking industry as a whole. Wreckless truck drivers bring down exponentially more heat than there actions alone warrant. That one time you almost wipe out a car you just made a family full of people who will dislike big trucks for years and be happy to see us suffer. I've got tons of stories of rolled over mixers and bizarre accidents but it's a slightly different animal with concrete because you are hauling a liquid load that has no bulkheads, virtually no baffles and the load itself is constantly under its own motion separate of the vehicle. I've seen guys lose the road in the sun backing up on highway jobs only to roll down the embankment when their tire leaves the pad to mixers that have pulled out of the yard without even looking and wiping out a trailer load of merchandise, to a driver who had a heart attack behind the wheel of his mixer while returning the yard. All drivers who had years of experience. Gaining confidence in your ability is good, getting to comfortable can be deadly. Most of the accidents I've seen have been off road on construction sites, but they are usually caused by the same thing, inattentive drivers. When you are driving 70,000 pounds you need to be PERFECTLY aware of how you are operating your machine because the consequences are on a different level from tooling around in your Ford.

 

couple of weeks ago I was northbound on I-65 in northern Indiana. The road was solid ice, no snow. There were a couple of trucks jackknifed, 1 laying on it's side, a bunch of 4 wheelers off the road. I was running about 40 mph and this container driver calls me out and tells me to speed up or get off the road. 2 miles up and he's jackknifed in the median. I had to bite my tongue going by him. I parked at the Hebron Pilot, next morning the roads were clean.
I know salt is really expensive this year, but I hope...

 

I ran that. Mostly I seen pick up trucks pulling trailers that were jacked. You could watch and see one 4 wheeler losing it. Everyone would lock the brakes up and there they go....

 

A couple of yrs ago, was traveling west on I-20 past FT Worth Tx. Just had a ice storm, and saw nothing put turned over trucks for miles. These are the drivers that pass you and think, just because I'm a Big Truck Driver, I can drive threw anything...

 

why bite your tounge!? i woulda called HIM out LOL seems like (no offense) that containers and daycabs are always hauling butt when they ought not be!!