Truck Driving Jobs

headborg · #11 12-21-2007, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by BigSlim

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Well...I thought the company was o.k. until I read an article where the owner stated that-- in his opinion.....hitting a deer at night is a preventable accident and any of "his" drivers would be charged as such....because in his opinion that driver must have been "overdriving" the range of his headlights.

That is nonsense. Hitting a deer is like driving on ice. You have no control over other moving obsticles, where ice is stationary, but in the presence, it takes away all control from the driver to be defensive. Now, that's what that owner is doing. He has become the deer or ice place in the path of the driver.

He has no sense of SAFETY in his business plans, ethics, or tactics. I would stay away from this owner and his business. Further more, I would leave that job as his business, but who am I?

To sum things up, on the majority of all safety review boards, their views states that if you strike a stationary object, it is preventable. This is not the case.

Yeah, I hit a deer in TN in broad daylight...and couldn't avoid it----yeah, I
agree I was almost floored(with laughter) when I read the article....it does
tell you that the owner doesn't what his equipment messed up & something about the company....though i wouldn't want my DAC messed up by working for him.

You're right; however, if he didn't want his equipment messed up, he should drive the vehicle. Wouldn't you agree?

Yep, or at least keep your mouth shut when reporters come by writing articles...and stop "Monday Morning" Quarterbacking from his office. Especially on something like this----"over driving the range of his headlights", the driver has to travel at a safe speed which will allow him to stop within the range of his headlights<<<<right there shows how completely screwed his logic is...headlights are mounted on the front of the truck. I've always came to a complete stop within the range of my headlights. But if something jumps out in front of my truck within that range---it might get splattered.