Keep your head up and level !!. Look straight ahead .. Very very important

@Humblepie I’ve been telling you this for how long? Leaning over the steering wheel looking down in that Transtar cabover is bad on your back and unsafe.

@snowman_w900 maybe now you will air up your lowrider Boston seat to see past the hood.

Thank you for this post, Mike.

 

How am I supposed to catch the hooter shot if I’m looking straight ahead?

 

I was told in truck driving academy that you set where your eye focus should be just level with the very top of the hood looking outward.

I bought this old square hood Kenworthington or Kernewerts? (I think that's how its spelled) and the hood it way bigger on it than the semi I had in trucking academy. I think it was called a Freightrunner or FreighterLining?(again not sure on the spelling) and the hood was way shorter.

The only way I can do what I was told to do in trucking academy is lower my seat all the way down so my eyesight looking out is exactly level. I can see real far out, I just can't see close to the hood which makes me nervous, but I just stay 5 or 6 tractor trailer lengths back from whatever is in front of me. I stopped at a toll booth in WV once on the turnpike and I didnt see the car in front of me when i paid my toll, i took off and was pushing his car so far that the car tires caught fire. I seen smoke and thought I blowed my radiator so I stopped.

I learned a good lesson that day. So I went to Lowes and bought a laser level that I set on the hood and I put a sensor on my hat. If I raise my head up to far, it beeps and I know I have to set back down to keep my eye site level with the hood.

 

That level is a smart idea. The IT department is developing magnifying scopes/LED lights for some drivers to test at my company. You use them to see down the road with a gyrometer built in. Then at night, flip them up, turn the lights on and pre trip hands free.

You get the idea.

 

The Smith System
All...Aim high in steering
Good....Get the big picture
Kids.....Keep your eyes moving
Like....Leave yourself an out
Milk....Make sure they see you

 

These new lactose intolerant kids are gonna think you're bullying them

 

If you keep your seat low enough, you can look through the steering wheel. lol

 

Our instructors called that the TAGKLK for short. Made it real simple. We also had this one UYETLA

Use
Your
Eyes
To
Look
Ahead

 

Actually, you need to keep your head on a swivel. You got to keep an eye on them mirrors, you know how them bears like to sneak up on you from behind.
Sneaky basteers.