Whats Swift policies for U-turns???

Well, KH,

you could look in your company handbook.

YOU worked at Swift a few times, didn't you..........

 

Calling me on my cel phone and waking me up only to leave a message fussing at me for not backing your position is not a great way to influence my opinion.

The fact is, according to you, the driver made a U-turn at an intersection without hitting anything or inconveniencing you. So what's the big deal?

And I don't care about "drag-racing" Werners. Probably a couple of guys governed at roughly the same speed and one trying to pass another. Typical day at the elephant races.

 

I am not going to comment on professionalism or lack thereof.


I like being on this forum. I'm done with this thread.

 

Making a safe, legal U turn is not unprofessional if you ask me. I wasn't there to see this U turn so it very well could have been unsafe or illegal. Personally I wouldn't make a U unless I could see for miles each way, no one is around and I have the room to do it without jacking it back. The odds of that happening at the exact time I need to make a U turn, well I'd win the lotto first.

Anyways who cares unless this driver put your life or someone else's' in immeadiate danger why bother with this and if he did make you have to lock the brakes up or something, well then call him in i could care less, he probably shouldn't be on the road then.

 

KH, I've read and followed your (mis)adventures in trucking as you have tried time and time again to become a truck driver. You may have a CDL now, but you have much to learn before you can call yourself a truck driver. Time on this forum can not be considered experience!

I have bit my tongue over and over, but I have had enough. I don't know what your issues are and I really don't care! Watching you over the years it is easy to see that you are not cut out for this line of work. The simple fact that you have to ask this question bothers me, and I would not be comfortable on the road any where near you.

Your call to Injun and then response to her post about it clearly shows everyone on this forum that you do not understand life on the road, nor do you have any goal other than to bring attention to yourself. I don't know if you want pity or support, but it chaps my arse to see someone acting in such a childish manner.

Either get in a truck over the road or quit ######## about it already! Either way, I am tired of reading your drivel!

Block me, suspend me, I really don't care! I know there are others that feel the same way I do.

 

Sometimes a u-turn is the only way out of a bad situation. It sounds like the driver may have chosen a poor location to turn around.
Part of our job as a professional driver is to map stuff out before ya get there so you know where you are going, and how to get back out. Unfortunately, construction and traffic can screw up the plan! The important thing is to make good, safe choices at that moment.