What important skills of truck driving did you learn after your first year of trucking?

In the post right above this one you said your “expert trainer” also taught people to get in the left lane going 1mph faster to pass a truck. Creating a rolling roadblock for miles wouldn’t be considered going fast enough to pass the other truck by most of the other motoring public. If he did it to other people then he doesn’t really have the right to complain when it happens to him.

 

My trainer is consistent. He thinks a truck governed at 68 should pass a truck going 67. That doesn't mean that he should expect the truck going 67 to slow down to make it easier for the 68 mph truck to pass. The 1 mph difference is enough of a difference to make the 68 mph truck pass the 67 mph truck.

 

It isn't right to keep the gas pedal down to prevent another trucker from passing. That's ignorant and rude. Let off the gas for a few seconds; you'll still get to your destination on time.

 

Think about this when another truck is struggling to pass you. He was going fast enough to catch up with you on the interstate, but now can't pass. The reason is, when he got into the passing lane beside you he's now picking up headwind, some coming from your truck. This can slow him by a couple miles per hour. Let off the gas and let him pass and soon you'll see that truck moving on ahead of you and running faster than you. Your trainer should have taught that to you.

 

This right here, it's exactly why trucking has gone swirling down the drain.

Our industry is full of trainers "held in high esteem" by people in the offices who haven't a clue. Idiots, trained by idiots, who were trained by idiots... Ad nauseum

Add to that all the drivers who went thru this training system who never bother to think things through for themselves. It's always "my trainer told me...". That marks a driver as an idiot as much as saying "I was following my GPS!"

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/NJh1Tj8Rw28?si=hMSxmiiaptuL1S5x

 

While that's a nice backing job, that's flipped, it wasn't a blind side.

 

No.

You just made that up. A semi-truck in the right lane does not cause a headwind in the hammer lane.

 

OK, whatever you say.

 

Have you ever seen the wake of a boat?