Driving with tow hooks still in bumper? WTH

Following distance, following distance, following distance. I'm very familiar with that area and yes it sucks but that's not an excuse. If you are close enough for a tow hook to hit EVER, you are way too ####ing close.

 

Agreed, but reality can be different.
I called them preventable however the family limits my ability to change anything.
these guys get away with things that at any carrier [we started with a warehouse] would be instant termination and, perhaps 40 years ago may have resulted in physical violence...basically I do what I can and follow around sweeping up...in 40+ years things have changed a lot. I no longer see a pickax handle underneath the dispatch desk

 

Reading through this I hope a lot of you Volvo and other short slope hood drivers never get behind the wheel of a Pete 379, especially an old California Special!!

 

I have to think, that if a truck hit a car even hard enough to mark the bumper with it's tow hook, it would have tagged it with just the bumper itself, I mean it wasn't magically going to stop in that 4 inches. I would also think if it punctured the bumper with the tow hook,it probably moved the car forward enough that without the tow hook, there would have been contact anyway.

 

^ This is the best reply.

 

@tscottme did you abandon this thread?