Learn to say NO

Burky's last post brought this to mind. Shippers, receivers dispatchers, and God knows who else are going to ask you to do screwed up unsafe stuff. It could be running too fast, over hours, backing into a bad place, backing blind into traffic, hauling something improperly loaded, too heavy, or whatever. You have to learn to say no and mean it.

While not a typical truck accident. The pictures below are something I said no to. It was about a year and a half ago and I was operating a boom truck. I knew what they wanted me to do was unsafe. I said no way. It almost got to fists. So anyway this is what happened when the guy who wouldn't say no attempted to make the lift.