02-25-2008, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by golfhobo
I applaud YOUR efforts, ChickinTrucka! The only comment I would make is that a good time to TAKE a BREAK is during the 30 minutes of the setting or rising sun! We need breaks anyways..... why not take them at a time when our ability to see "down the road" is at its lowest point?
But, if you ARE going to be on the road at these times..... I would add THIS:
If the sun is setting OR rising BEHIND you, it is EASY for you/us to see ahead, right? So.... why bother with headlights? Because the traffic coming towards us is looking INTO the sun, and can't see us as well WITHOUT them!
And, in the opposite case.... our headlights won't HELP us much will they? NO..... but they'll help us to see the truck BEHIIND US... and the one ahead of us to see US!!! Almost as bad as the sun in our eyes.... is the sun in our MIRRORS!!
And 4wheelers have the SAME problem!!!
Yes.... Virginia.... MOST accidents ARE preventable!! And many MORE would be if EVERY driver on the road (especially truckers) would recognize THEIR part in doing so!
It is not enough (IMHO) to just tell each other to "be safe." It is imperative that we ALL "pay attention" to those things that will MAKE us "safe!" And we cannot slack off for even ONE moment! The stakes are just TOO high!
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Great advice Hobo, to be sure! Thanks. I never thought of taking a break. I'm pretty stubborn, and once in motion, like a spaceship, I don't like to stop unless I MUST! I don't stop as often as I should. And, yes indeedy, we must all pay attention. I'm guilty of using the phone, but I try to keep in the right lane, out of the way, and pay ATTENTION! I hate it when I pass a truck that's in the middle lane holding up traffic and when I go by I see he's on the phone. Same goes for 4-wheelers. I have daytime running lights, but I might start running all the lights just to be sure. That's another thing that really annoys me; when people don't turn on their lights in inclement weather. It just makes sense to turn them on when it's hard to see. I saw 3 more truck wrecks this week. One on I-81 in W.V. that had traffic completely stopped for 4 hours and another that was on it's side on a get-on ramp in MA. That one looked like a load of paper rolls, that probably shifted. I have hauled them, and they are never properly secured unless you do it yourself. I had 6 rolls, 8 feet high in the middle of the trailer, about 44,000 lbs. I had to tell the shipper to tie them together, like it says right on their loading chart on the wall, and he said "they'll be fine, we never tie them together", I pointed to the chart and wouldn't leave until they were strapped!
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