Your greatest fear?

For me there is nothing left to be afraid of.

Now with that said, when something happens and that trailer is coming around, the body has a mechanism where you might get afraid. That is normal. What separates success or failure is your ability to mentally compartment this fear, put it aside and continue to make decisions in mind and execute them as best as you can without allowing the fear to take you over. People sometimes get killed when they freeze and fail to mentally work through the problems.

I can fight what I see coming. Generally. But anything I don't know about a situation or not see a threat coming to disrupt the load or what have you that can be a real problem.

Failure? Been there done that. Life and death? That too. runaways or other situations? Certainly. When you do something often enough such as doing a very high speed lane change to bypass a insurance scam car with people in it who WANT you to crash into them, it becomes something like drinking coffee or something routine. The shakes come after the situation is all over.

Some people like me bore easily on the road when there is nothing going on. I need something to wrestle with. Usually a 50% grade with 220 degree curves all the way to the bottom. Even if its a goat track over thousands of feet of nothing as happened in a recent video posted here. Something to work with. It's the way I work. It;s strange to some people but it is what it is.

If Im coming across Wyoming or something and its 10 mph in a raging blizzard on split ice about 12 to 15 more hours to safe haven then I could not be happier in life.

There is one thing I wont do in trucking, haul fuel. Im a third generation trucker potentially able to haul fuel if I choose to. The previous two survived wars being strafed by the germans while hauling gasoline, and one survived a runaway on Big Savage near Cumberland back in the 50's If you want something bigger than Big Savage, take a google maps look over Luke Maryland. There is a hill with crosses at the bottom. Nothing more needs saying with that. It's a relatively small hill in the east compared to the majestic and mighty ones out west. But the bigger they are, the happier I get.

 

Only if you take Dramamine

 

Better loving through chemistry.

 

Greatest Fear? (And my only one)
Front Axle- Not many of us think about it..But your steer axle is your lifeline-
at 55-75 mph- Anything goes (Tire,Axle Nut, Leaf spring pins, Drag Link,Tie rod Ends,Or the Steering Box itself binds the worm)... You Lose all control and are in it for whichever direction it takes you...

No matter how good you are with that steering wheel-It wont matter.

Do Your Daily Steering/axle inspections

 

"All Trucks Must Enter Scale"

 

Mine was and still is walking past other truckers who smell like ####. One would think that you'd eventually get used to the smell but you don't.

 

Can you retest?

 

How to do a Right turn. I still don't know.

 

The fear that one of my pets would die while I am on the road, only one did and it was hard to take being 2700 miles away.