On Training

Military basic training 8 weeks? Army? Strenuous??? Really??? Just sayin

Would you rather be getting hazed and have to list off any question your trainer asks you in an instant and if not your doing some sort of physical punishment....

 

hmmm so does that mean we should be glad we werent driving during 1939-1945?

 

LOL

 

No, I don't.

 

There is no connection. In 2002 the American Automobile Association found that 80% of car-truck crashes originated with the car driver. Daniel Blower (The Relative Contribution of Truck Drivers and Passenger-Vehicle Drivers to Truck Passenger-Vehicle Traffic Crashes, UMTRI Research Review, April-June 1999, V. 30, No. 2) concluded that "passenger-vehicle drivers commit more of the driving errors in fatal [car-truck] crashes rather than the other way around." In Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation often reports similar numbers (in 1999 they came up with 71.6%). FMCSA found that "of all fatal truck-passenger vehicles crashes from 1994 to 1998, 35% had a contributing factor related to the commercial driver and 65% had a passenger-vehicle contributing factor."

And on and on. There's a pattern here.

My own truck driving taught me that AAA erred on the low side. I think Blower was right. I'd guess that most truck drivers see more dangerous moves by car drivers. And even though I no longer drive big trucks, I still see more 4-wheeler stupidity than 18-wheeler stupidity. A lot more.

All of the above is why, IMO, truck driving is a high-fatality occupation: them little people is seriously trying to kill us. In one study (a poll of 1,100 (non-CDL) American drivers), "the polling company found a widespread belief among respondents that they are not to blame for bad driving." (Everyone's a good driver, right? Just ask them.) But it's not because the trainer slept while the trainee drove.

 

Im sorry you cant compare the too,that's ridiculous..lol

How many troops are in those countries.....How many were wounded...lose of limb,traumatic brain injuries? ect...

Never mind the 24/7 paranoia that someone is going to kill you,or trying to.

I see where your coming from,yes driving is a very dangerous job,so is deep see fishing ect.With every job there comes a risk,just some more then others

 

I get what your saying,In the military to be a Lanes(combat driving course,ect) trainer you have to go to a trainers course before hand.Then you can teach the class the appropriate way.

If the trainer himself has bad habits or doesn't care,guess what, it will get passed on to the next guy.

 

1 of those people right here. Injured in combat on 10-28-09