Can you sit for 12 hours in a layover watching half the stop bump and grind? On a beautiful bright day like that swift boy should not be hitting stuff on the drivers side. It shows lack of awareness of the corners. Accident? Erm no. Yelling? Yes. Someone has to do it.
You do have a valid point. I'm on like 6 hours sleep in the last two days, and have 26 hours on the clock, 8 pick ups ( that I had to washout trailer, so had to maneuver it into the corner of the yard in the can't see your hand in front of your face dark ), Spot 8 trailers in congested space, dock all 8, 1 blind, all between 2300 & 0600. Then 5 deliveries, 2 blind ( see BLIND thread ), spot all those trailers, but now the sun is up. And then drive home through rush hour in this --- And I won't lie, there are times I hit like 75 going up 59th Ave and go around mega's in the suicide lane on the south side. " Earl all I seen was white flash."
And Swift let him loose on the road. That wasn't a tight spot. The driver made a tight spot. And the government wants to make the age limit lower. How did this driver make it to that truck stop?
Sometimes you have to break away from the pack, blaze your own path. You can't always follow the herd.
Normally I wouldn't come to his defense, but in this one, I didn't really see him trying to prove how great a driver he is. Actually, I gotta applaud him in this one, because he did something that most won't do anymore. He attempted to help the sucker out. Hell, the guy that got bumped into wouldn't even pull ahead a couple feet to limit any damage to his trailer. And just stood there like a moron while this carnival act was happening. Sure, the not so Swift guy was clearly in the wrong, and did something dumb. And I'm not defending him in any way. But I believe we gotta hand it to Scottie on this one. He actually tried to help. That's more than the others in the video did.
