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Cost? What would it cost if a truck [or van!] lost control and crashed into a school bus [full of orphans going to serve dinner to the homeless]?

Link is to facebook - am I the only one who can't get on tonight? I keep getting a msg "Account temporarily unavailable due to a site issue. Please check back in a few minutes."

Never in a brazillion years would I have thought that disco music [gag me] could save a life, but I'm convinced now. Good one! :o

The NSC 'training courses' are simply vids & PowerPoint presentations, [maybe workbooks with tests, too], but they don't offer 'hands on' training or practice. When I first took Drivers Ed in high School [for you youngsters: it once was a part of the curriculum!] we had simulators that allowed...

That'd be my suggestion. The best way to do any job without killing [or even straining] yourself is in a supervisory capacity. [Adult beverage optional] ;) PS Moot, please tell Mrs Moot that color rocks!

"The Lord of loads"? OVM, you'll live down those shorts before you hear the end of this one, I bet. :p

Ok, twice I fixed the transposition of "distilled spirits and flavored malt beverages are not as bad as beer" , and it still reads wrong. Sorry, I meant it the other way round: "beer is not as bad as distilled spirits etc". Apparently, Bailey's is pretty bad, too....;)

You're splitting hairs [as is the NFL]: violence is violence, and "excessive" is in the eye of the beholder. When high school kids are getting brain injuries playing football, it seems excessive could certainly apply to the pros. Some of those tackles are literally bone breaking. And the...

The NFL certainly has the right to reject advertising that doesn't meet it's standards. And that ad was pretty lame in the obvious effort to hit all the hot buttons among a certain group - I'd have rejected it just for being so clearly fearmongering. And sexist, too: for not suggesting that the...

If it's business or tech you want to learn more about, there's a lot available, including EO's contributions [I mean the official ones, lol]. But for hands on, practical stuff, improving or sharpening the skills that could mean avoiding a crash, we're pretty much on our own. We could be doing...

I tried -called a place [actually, a person] in Pa, he said he had to cancel it because there weren't enough people signed up. This is an area where it surprises me that most carriers don't do more to encourage drivers to sharpen their skills. I understand that FedEx does something like a...

"Save the day"? After pointing out the lack of raiment on the ruler, I'll be lucky to save my bacon, lol. But somebody needs to say it, and to paraphrase Toby Keith: I'm just the driver to do it. :o

See, Paullud, you get it: whether one is a contract driver, a trucker, or a furniture salesman is irrelevant [except to some people], what matters is whether you know the right answer. Turtle drives a Sprinter, I drive a S/T [and have driven T/T], but the assumption that my answer would be...

Of course we should wear our seat belts - but it doesn't make anyone a safer driver. It protects the driver - and the insurance carrier, and that's the reason it's a law. The reason it's a CSA violation is as Moose described, and that, IMO, is just wrong. To assign any CSA points at all, much...

Obsess? Nah, for a driver, the coffee mug is a tool, right? It needs to be the best quality, or it doesn't do the job well. I have a Copco mug, & it doesn't leak. Doesn't keep the coffee hot, but it keeps it inside. At least, until I knock it over, which is the one drawback to a taller cup.

But it's not a sad thing when furniture salesmen can diss contract drivers on open discussion boards [for drivers] by calling them "Non Truckers" - nope, it's pretty funny, actually. ;) PS The legitimate answer is the one that can be defended by citing chapter & verse in The Book, because the...

Tomorrow, you can be thankful that you have an account to see 'whither', instead of panic mode because you don't. Good call. ;) I'm home for Thanksgiving, which is unusual. My sister is cooking, and asked me to bring dessert. I found a peppermint cream pie [with chocolate cookie crust!], and...

IRT: I am very sorry for your loss. And for your wife's - I can't even imagine living without a stomach.

I don't know what 'velocity' means, but as I read, I could hear Lawrence saying "Velocity, baby!" lol. The article confirmed one thing I've observed: expedite is often more about exclusive use than speed. I imagine that correcting the problem of freight loaded on the wrong truck or delivered to...

Maybe [just maybe], if you stop thinking of it as 'luck', and do some research on the potential owner, [esp talking to other drivers who are/were driving for him/her] and verify that what is promised verbally is stated in writing as well [aka a contract], you might find your luck improves.