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I was a professional driver for 35 years 3 million miles with my own rigs . He was driving much too fast for the road and wind conditions . Very dumb and stupid to pass another truck when being blown around like that . Fortunately the Fool ended in the ditch before he killed someone ! Just another example of some of the idiot steering wheel holders out there that think they are truckers!
 
Congratulations on your long, safe and successful career jacknife. I share your sentiments completely about the steering wheel holders on the roads now days. To compensate a lot of these companies, mine included, have these annoying lane alert systems and the collision avoidance radar in the bumper. Lane alert gets our of alignment and it will annoy you all day, or if snow is blowing across the road since it can't see the lines anymore. The collision avoidance is flat our dangerous, most of ours go off at the shadow of an underpass, makes your stomach drop and rear put the seat cushion in a death grip when you are going down the highway, see a brief spot of ice on the road at said underpass and hear that system beep and know a brake lock is coming next. I really wish the idiots in charge would realize more worthless gadgets in the trucks can't replace a decent to good driver. But they don't want to deal with weeding out the bad from the rest anymore.
 
That is one of the reasons that I sold my trucks and got out of it. Didn’t like some of the dangerous untrained truck drivers back then I had to work around...

Unpleasant then, I know it is an epidemic now...

You never told me that you had your own company. :oops:
 
Makes me glad I mainly haul beer one way, and beer making stuff and hardware freight the other way. Both are heavy and low in the trailer. Wind doesn't get me too bad. I've sat out wind events with empty trailers dead heading home. I just park and wait. Not worth going on my side or hurting someone.
 
I just want to say one thing to defend the guy on the video.

The possibility that he was pressed to be "there" in time is very likely.
Everyone that did CDL driving for sure had it at least once that a dispatcher said "do it! or look for another job!"

Thats what i think looking that video.
It's not an excus that he did what he did but maybe a reason for it.
 
I just want to say one thing to defend the guy on the video.

The possibility that he was pressed to be "there" in time is very likely.
Everyone that did CDL driving for sure had it at least once that a dispatcher said "do it! or look for another job!"

Thats what i think looking that video.
It's not an excus that he did what he did but maybe a reason for it.
Excellent point.
 
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Sure has me wondering about going through Wyoming with the 5th wheel. We have been there at Cheyenne traveling North and crossing over to South Dakota with no incidents.
 
I just want to say one thing to defend the guy on the video.

The possibility that he was pressed to be "there" in time is very likely.
Everyone that did CDL driving for sure had it at least once that a dispatcher said "do it! or look for another job!"

Thats what i think looking that video.
It's not an excus that he did what he did but maybe a reason for it.


In the 35+ years of driving (27 of which was for someone other than me) I had a dispatcher once tell me that I needed to move a little faster, I asked him if he was talking about my Load times OR unload times? When I showed him the times of my last months loads and told him IN FRONT OF EVERYONE at a safety meeting that I ONLY HOPE THAT YOUR NOT SUGGESTING THAT I SPEED If so I think YOU AND THE COMPANY are going to be in for a rude awaking when the DOT comes down on the both of you faster than a Hooker earning $20 dollars.

Two days later the dispatcher was unemployed and I had an apology from the company.
 
In the 35+ years of driving (27 of which was for someone other than me) I had a dispatcher once tell me that I needed to move a little faster, I asked him if he was talking about my Load times OR unload times? When I showed him the times of my last months loads and told him IN FRONT OF EVERYONE at a safety meeting that I ONLY HOPE THAT YOUR NOT SUGGESTING THAT I SPEED If so I think YOU AND THE COMPANY are going to be in for a rude awaking when the DOT comes down on the both of you faster than a Hooker earning $20 dollars.

Two days later the dispatcher was unemployed and I had an apology from the company.

Yep but not everyone has the balls to do so.
 
Yep but not everyone has the balls to do so.

Just another form of EARLY RETIREMENT, What would they do Fire Me? That would be a way of EARLY RETIREMENT especially in Sue Happy Ca

I didn't take hauling gas haphazardly as some of the ones that didn't make to retirement did. Going to my share of fellow drivers funerals where an Urn was used instead of a casket KIND OF MADE A GUY THINK about what he was doing
 
Ozy we had a problem at work with a few drivers that we're a LITTLE LITE in the loafers (if you know what I'm saying) we couldn't use obscene language, some were easily offended or AROUSED as I seen it when one of them was told to suck a certain body part in a heated conversation. So not having Balls was then referred to as "Not Having" Testicular fortitude it was a favorite expression of company drivers & management alike it circulated for decades as a playful anatomical euphemism—for balls, stones, cojones, or what have you.

Eat Guano and other colorful phrases emerged from the MOST DEVIANT of drivers, Of which I was PROUD to named the king of Deviant Drivers by my fellow drivers that expressed themselves in other than appropriate ways.
 
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