trucking safety

We ran over weight loads around the scales and run 3 log books at a time and still drove safely! Fact is when you are breaking the law with your actions you drive more carefully not to get noticed by law enforcement!

 

Trucking is inherently dangerous, that said the only unsafe thing about trucking is people behind the wheel that shouldn't be.

 

Much of the really unsafe acts were stopped after 1995 or so once the computers took hold. I was one of those once upon a time. coming up on you in the far left at 130+ at times. Put PA away in 3 hours instead of 8. Logs? Bordering on Fantasy and Insanity at times. Logs as in Plural. two or three of them to reconcile everything. Fuel? Twice a day. 600 gallons. Pof. All gone. Burnt. Spent. Moar please. Slamming trailers across ditches that are carefully engineers to prevent semis from crossing over certain interchange and junctions. Badabump. Leaning like a bezjesus coming off the Cross Bronx at 80 daring anyone to set up a insurance scam. Cutting holes in the truly aggressive DC Beltway traffic before the cameras really took hold. The only thing we moved for and sometimes not even at 110 was Presidental Motorcades that bull their way down the middle. Being told or actually ordered to finish the right turn through a illegally parked vehicle. Crunch. And told to get out of here or start taking citations. Bye. Prior to 1994, bad roads were soothed with alcohol, preferably hard cider or schnapps sipped slowly so you stayed in the what pain zone for 500 miles.

And what is truly unsafe? Using highways that have been bulldozed to bare dirt in massive rebuilding programmes. Then crossing replacement bridges not yet decked using the bottom concrete girders that happen to be exactly as wide as your steers carefully. Dispatch? You were going to be where you are told to when you are told to be at or someone will have your job next week. Sleeping gets you fired. Stopping to eat also got you fired. If you were working daycab local and stopped at the 76 5 miles down the road at 4 am for a hour to eat breakfast, someone going into work at the office will write your unit number, place, and time for future counseling that may or may not be your last day in that particular company. You are not paid to sit in the truckstop with a morning meal under a load due downtown in a hour. Taking day cabs and container loads ignoring container weights and gross weights. Break a state scale once or twice. KABOOM. Turn in multi thousand dollar citations later that evening.

Shoving cars out of the way gently with the fuel tank to let them know it's your lane during rush hour and literally who the eff are they to complain? They are nobodies who got in the way. They got zip in way of compenstation for that huge dent in the door. Parking tickets? HA. Write all you want copper. As long my name aint anywhere on the citations. (Ive paid my fair share, after making 10 local jersey policemen wait at my tractor for 2 hours as I ate my dinner slowly and properly all the way from coffee through the main courses to desert and had a smoke before going out to recieve the obligatory ### chewing and stack of tickets for which you paid on the spot knowing there is no penalty.

If you got run down by the forklift hauling a 4 ton pallet of stuff falling onto your head, don't whine. Suck it up mister, you still have 45000 pounds to unstack and get that crap off the floor now. No damages allowed. Oh and you are out of here in 4 hours or not. Not our problem. Get it empty #####. And reload onto the floor another 48000 pounds in a few hours for a 1000 mile over night delivery due at 8 am, that is why you have a dollar truck so you can get it there no problem. We don't wanna hear your objections. In fact you are fired for complaining, we will put someone else in that truck.

Outlaw? Ha. Wait until you meet the true Parasites preying upon you. If you make one friend with smokes and dollar bills, make sure you have enough for 10 newfound friends by lunch. If you cannot? Then they will take something out of you that has value to you. And will be pawned off for a hit of Opium or something. Who are you gonna call? Not the Law... they are too busy protecting and serving those who can pay. The rest will sit in jail a year till court. To the Parasite Jail is a Hotel Holiday, Party central, and graduate crime school to hone more skills to prey upon you and your family when they get out. Or are let out because property taxes did not cover the beds this year. Another few thousand added to your house bill will cover it for another year. Until they raise it again. It's your fault that the parasites have to go out and prey upon you the upright and law abiding prissy citizen. And a trucker no less. Show the money. No money? Aww so solly, turn around and bend over. You will provide something to the parasite.

I can go on. But I think Ive scared some of you enough.

 

We are plauged with not just unsafe and unwilling drivers but the companies - which are not just megas - hiring them.

The problem stems from crackerjack authorities and CDLs. Training standards don't exist, there is no real assurance that the person sitting in the seat knows what they are doing and can fool a company while at the same time we have owners (and owner operators) who run their company in such thin margins that we are stick with crap drivers driving very crappy trucks.

 

So, running over weight and over hours is driving safely?

 

Come on now, theres a difference between running illegal, and running unsafe...

 

If you train a monkey, he's still a monkey. If a monkey follows the rules, he's still a monkey.

Rules are about enforcement, compliance, and revenue. To be safe requires a driver.

 

There's more accidents now then was back then. And the gooberment idiots with more regulation will be increasing that rate. When I first started. I never saw an accident. Today. I see one truck a day laying on its side. How are we safer today then yesterday? We're in worse shape now then 15 years ago. And tomorrow. You can enjoy the increased accident rate. As for me. I started with the old rules. Today. I still follow those rules. They work for me. NOT you. You won't see ME laying on my side. I have absolutely ZERO respect for today's rules. Yes. I'm an outlaw. I do my job my way. Not the gooberment way.

Us outlaws are safer then all the recent rookies running under the leash. We're not stupid enough to follow the stupid rules.

Safety. WWWW TTTT FFFFF EVER.