Critical Event

What account did they hire you for?

 

What’s a critical event.....?


Did you hit someone.....? Answer no.

I’m too old I guess because I don’t think I could handle driving like that......

 

Chizek rolled himself this morning on I894 just after the I43 junction. This is not a bad curve, road conditions were fine, traffic was light. How and why did it happen and could it have been prevented?

My guess is he entered the curve at 60 mph (55 mph road), then tried to brake in the curve, and then lost control.

As to could it have been prevented? No one really knows, but if the last 12 times he went thru there too quick and ALMOST rolled the truck and his manager got an alert, maybe the driver could have been advised not to drive like a jackwad.

People love to rag on the megas for bad driving that leads to accidents.

They also love to rag on all the steps the megas take to try and address the issue.

Y'all know my stance on training philosophy and know I think the entire industry needs to do better. We also need to call drivers on their BS. Critical Events are a way to do this.

With most drivers if they have a hard brake the response is "what happened? .... alrighty then, have a nice day, drive safe" and nothing more is said. Its only when there is a pattern that there is an actual response. The op has had 3 or 4 CEs in two days. That is more than I have had in the last 9 years. Something in his driving style needs to be addressed.

From a trainers perspective CEs can be a nice teaching tool "See, even the truck thinks you are driving like a jackwad".

 

Maybe the driver manager should just control the truck from his cubicle.......

I’ll assume the truck has some kind of crash mitigation system.....?

 

Get your 6 months in with your Nanny Company and then PM me. I will set you up with with a Big Boy/Girl company making 1.5k a week.. In the mean time..eyes wide open.