No Surprise with Swift.

There seems to be a lot of people that get into the industry now days who just want to be prepaid for the entire year and not put in any of the work and have no responsibility.... I was speaking with a couple of people at the driving school, and one of them was complaining about how stupid it is for his actions off the job behind the wheel to affect his professional driving record. The kid is about 25 or less and looks like a guy you'd expect to crash into you in a sports car.

I'm learning to drive right now, getting my license the 23rd of this month, but I am nagging the hell out of my instructor for all the help and advice I can get and all the people on these boards for help and advice and looking at lots of videos and stuff all to make sure I DO NOT mess up! I'm even going back to training after I get my license because the CA DMV requires I do crap that are real bad habits that make driving much harder and much easier to crash.

I doubt a guy like that would notice if he was missing half his lug nuts on one wheel.

 

I've rarely seen drivers at the truckstops doing their pre-trips. I've had drivers mock me while doing mine.

The Vast Majority of drivers out there are not doing their inspections.

 

I hear ya. I've gotten my share of kaka while doing pre/post trips. I always told 'em "I'm running 100k lbs here, and I wanna be sure". 1 guy actually bought me breakfast for that response. He realized he was being a jerk to a new driver doing it right and wanted to make up for it. My kinda guy.

 

we've all seen that guy..heres the news, DON'T BE HIM...EVER...noone driver is ever in so much of a hurry to properly pretrip his wagon..forget traffic,forget that funny book, simply save your own life, and if you find a mjor issue, what better place than where you are???...no,i'm not a religeous freak or Company Man, I'm just a regular joe with common sense.bg