Team Driving - Safety Question

If you're not operating, it's not your ticket. If teammate isn't safe, what do you do? There's more to safety than just the driving part. But what do you do? Simple: GO SOLO.

"What are some good ways to make a team driving situation work with ANY problems for you, Six?"

Clone me 3 times. 1 dispatcher, 2 drivers, 1 page in the playbook

 

I don't know, maybe you are more stable than I am, but I would still be complaining about myself! Lol

 

In the case of an accident it is best to just stay quiet and let the authorities do the investigation. If you are the lead driver you might be the one contacting the company but otherwise your not going to be part of the situation. In the case of a minor fenderbender resist the temptation to move from line 2 to line 4 because it will screw up your 10 hour break. As to your last question there is no right answer. I would never get in the truck with another driver I felt was unsafe. I would quit first. However I have been around a while and I am sensitive to a new drivers in this situation. This is what I would do, what you do just depends on how job scared you are.

 

You first of all will NOT ride with a unsafe driver for more than 10 minutes. You would quit first. Ive done team several times in my time out there and every time it's a good driver. If you are on the wheel and you hit something it's on you. Ive hit things and spouse was left alone, except that the costs etc bites into our household anyhow.

If someone is not safe and I figure it, that person is gone within the hour. It's not hard. Hell I was not safe myself a few times. But you learn.

It's important there is no fear you cannot manage out there in the truck, situations will come up that will scare you really badly but being able to make decisions and work through it without killing anyone or hurting them or yourself is a good thing.

For example a 4 wheeler trying to commit insurance fraud slams on brakes in front of the rig. Whoa mule!! whoa.. Your team mate will fly across the cab and get hurt if you horse the rig around too hard. Just part of part and parcel of risks. See em before they cause a problem. That is risk management.

Things have come up when spouse and I was teamed several times and when it did, I will swear a bad word followed by mule! then order spouse to grab hold of something. She would already know something is up at that point and not bother me with pecking questions or a hard time until the problem is resolved or the smash. Believe me she learned what a big truck can do when properly manhandled. Such as

The video presented is a trucker who took action best as possible on I295 in virginia NB at route Ten when someone cut him off really close and got a love tap at a minimum.

http://ustd.site/3978-2/

This subject does not come up very often at all. If you are afraid there is going to be a problem in trucking or team... then you will want to go Solo. When two people is in that cab, and it does not work well... it's like a cat and a dog stuck inside a very small space. Howl Hiss, grrr snarl.. you get the picture.

 

When teaming never ever for a moment let your co-driver drive when youre logged into qualcom.

If youre not logged in the only way you can really get in trouble is if you knowningly didnt report something and make an attempt to stop it. (



If by chance your on paper you honestly should take a good hard look at your life

 

Exactly this. If someone commits insurance fraud, you should detect it is about to happen and yell to your sleeping partner and they will wake up and prepare for hard braking and/or collision.

 

No there is no preparing for a hard impact from sleeping. What we have in those trucks is a crash net. It should be up. It's a little bit of a pain but prevents the sleeping person from being catapulted into the cab area where it will interfere and break bones on the dash etc.

Wife and I were in crash situations before and frankly there is no time to do a #### thing. Even the time spent in yelling, thinking or anything that is not strictly collision avoidiance on the part of the driver in the last few moments of time and space left is a waste.

People who are asleep, will have a giant Huh? when waking early... they will probably die with that huh on the mind... or get really hurt.

 

This type of #### happens all the time. I've been on the road only 8 days and have had a couple of people who I almost completely obliterated when they cut me off and then brake checked me, and a guy who swerved into my lane and I almost hit him head on. That was with my mentor in the passenger seat and on duty.

It happens every day.