safer to drive... vans, tankers, or flat beds?

Theres a diferance between stupid and loaded. It wasnt stupid to wonder if there is a higher risk with a certin freight type, just gotta read back your post before uploading it. Lets see, can i make fun of this? People loooove the chance to point out obvious facts. Like, "your a driver, its your job to do that" or "if your gonna ##### about that you wont last 6 months" or my personal fav, "when you have as many miles in as me, then you can tell me how it is" basicly tell em if they just wanna make fun, then you will play hop scotch with them later, right now your waiting for adults to answer a question, so have a juice box and ill be with you in a min.

 

What the driver was pulling may not have had any effect on their deaths.

Frankly, I pull van loaded down with stuff sold at jcpenney. Pretty harmless. Yet I've got just as much chance of being hurt, or killed as they guy yanking a tanker full of propane or the driver strapping a load to his flatbed.

What you're yanking on only changes out one danger for another. What you're full of is something else.

Then again, this isn't exactly the profession that's easiest on the body. What's the average lifespan of a driver? 50? 60? It's pretty low.

 

Actually I'm still in school and my only experience was being on the road with my uncle as a teen during summer breaks & working with him in the naval yard after he retired from driving.

In a six month school and we are bombarded with defensive driving techniques. Not that it makes me better than anyone here because it doesn't; just clears that misunderstanding up.

You do know that increasing your following distance is "baiting them to go around", right? By increasing your following distance gradually you're slowing down which prompts (more times than not) the tailgating vehicle to go around you.

 

Baiting a person to move around you means a decrease in speed greater than 5mph.

It's when you go from 60 to 50 and then to 40 if they don't get the message.

Increasing your following distance doesn't involve potentially impeding traffic.

 

oh, and your uncle was a perfect little driver.>???

all any school can do is show you a few videos, discuss a few things. the REAL LEARNING comes when YOU actually get out here. I think the misunderstanding is the one YOU HAVE regarding truck driving. why don't you throw out the books they are bombarding you with, pull up your big boy pants and get out on the road. no books can teach you the real facts.

and YOU DO KNOW, that some 4 wheelers just slow down as well when they are behind you..??

some are so stupid, they think you are slowing down, because something in front of you is slowing down.

get your license, then come out here, and stop preaching what you think you know, or read or see on any fricking video in a well controlled place, like the freaking classroom.........

 

Bye, Felicia.

 

20 years strictly on the road with zero accidents. He wasn't perfect because nobody is but he took pride in his role as a professional & the mean reason I drive tractor trailers as well as I do now.

There are vets out here that are still driving like unprofessionals & making ignorant decisions.

Let them slow down. Maintain a certain speed that won't impede traffic. This isn't rocket science; stop making simple things seem so complicated.

I put in my big boy pants long ago. Any man that wears them will tell you that you don't need to haul 68 tons to do so. Been seeing it since I was 13; it's only as complicated as you make it. Cut the "being a trucker is so hard" narrative and just make due like the rest of these real men & women who do it everyday no complaints.

Lol that was so corny

 

good for you, stop preaching to us from the books you read or the videos you watched. you are in fact boring us with what you think you know.

then man up stop them and tell them off to their faces. let us know how that works for you.

I think that is all on you and your constant talking about the books and videos, good God almighty dude, get fricking life

you are the one complicating things with your constant rants of how drivers are, why don't you do something about it like stop up and speak up to their faces..?? or are you scared to do so.....??