Are you a good driver
- Thread starter skyraider
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danthewolf00
Veteran Expediter
If someone is in such a hurry to pass me ill just stay in the right lane!
moose
Veteran Expediter
Won't help yah wolfy : Drive Carefully - YouTube
(well, maybe in a tincan)
(well, maybe in a tincan)
paullud
Veteran Expediter
The video was passed around my company and basically it seems pretty scary that you can be involved in a presumably fatal accident with no control to at least try and avoid it. Everything happened to fast for anyone to react to the SUV.
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Difficult to tell from the video, I did think maybe the suv bobbled a bit, before getting into the ice in the center. I will admit wondering if the lanes of traffic had a light glazing of ice.
jimmy
guido4475
Not a Member
A great video for anyone to watch.Thank you for posting this.
What a great idea it would be, with winter driving approaching, to have trucking companies make it mandatory to have a refresher class with a clips such as this and a questionaire afterwards to refresh drivers before the driving season starts.
I know, from past experience, that I never let other drivers intimidate me, if I have a slower "Comfort zone" than others in bad weather.(speed in bad weather in which you feel comfortable in driving).There will always be the "Billy big rigger" who thinks being grossed out at 80k will keep him from sliding in the snow and ice.How wrong they are, unfortunately.Take you're time, and be patient.I park it when either it gets too bad to see, or if it gets the slightest bit icy. There is absolutely no load worth anyone's life, including you're own.I'd rather arrive late than not at all.
What a great idea it would be, with winter driving approaching, to have trucking companies make it mandatory to have a refresher class with a clips such as this and a questionaire afterwards to refresh drivers before the driving season starts.
I know, from past experience, that I never let other drivers intimidate me, if I have a slower "Comfort zone" than others in bad weather.(speed in bad weather in which you feel comfortable in driving).There will always be the "Billy big rigger" who thinks being grossed out at 80k will keep him from sliding in the snow and ice.How wrong they are, unfortunately.Take you're time, and be patient.I park it when either it gets too bad to see, or if it gets the slightest bit icy. There is absolutely no load worth anyone's life, including you're own.I'd rather arrive late than not at all.
moose
Veteran Expediter
the FMCSA will shortly file a comment stating that the big truck carrier is more likely to be involved in an accident.
CVSA will blame the trucker for driving more then 8 hours a day.
CARB will state that intermodle trucks needs to be replaced not only for air quality, but also because they are old and dangerous.
truck manufacturers will be forced to build trucks with shorter breaking distance.
BENDIX & DANA will have a press relishes stating the needs for a mandatory stability control
& the morning news paper headline will read "black suv driver killed by an oncoming truck"
moose
Veteran Expediter
yha, yhay, yha, i hear you. lets regulate the crap out of anyone else but me.
because those so called professional truckers have no idea how to drive on ice.
but hey, as long as that mandatory word is not by any way even remotely related to my name then it's all nice & dicy.
here's a news brake for you. the gov. have no requirement what so ever to have ANY CDL holder take ANY basic course at ANY traffic conditions despite the fact that the DOT was specifically ordered to do so by congress as early as 1992. & 2 times since.
but hey, they are from the gov. so they needs to protect us from those seasoned truckers, the heck with revolving doors feeders, teens, or drivers that can afford an black SUV.
objections your honor !
guard rails in the center would stop many of those crossover wrecks. An exploding car like that suv is someones dead mom or dad or child.................
guido4475
Not a Member
Making a refresher course class within a company about the winter time driving would not be regulating from a government level, but moreso educating and hopefully saving a life. Maybe I should of used a different term than "Trucking companies". Maybe "whole expediting companies? non-cdl vehicles included?"
I think you have a good point about the winter time driving refresher course. If nothing else it might serve as an aid in concentrating even veteran drivers attention, who might have grown a little complacent about winter time driving.
Skyraider made a good point about guard rails. Lack of money and just to much highway system ?
jimmy
guido4475
Not a Member
You are saying exactly how I was wanting it to come out...lol..sometimes we get too comfortable with our driving, the older we get.Guard rails would work, but yes, expensive.I believe the money is there for them, but the gov't mis-uses the road money for other things within their system.