Do this to prevent 95% of the trucking accidents
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Trucking is dangerous and unfortunately not everything is preventable. But it pays to be prepared. Watch Dave's best steps to prevent 95% of the OTR accidents.
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100% way to increase your chances of not getting in an accident .. is to assume the drivers of the cars or trucks around you can't drive . Believe me it works .
Hi from BC. Here's a rule not mentioned: SLOW DOWN !. Far too often do i see heavy trucks rip by my service van on highways. There'll be cars/light trucks doing 10+kmh over the speed limit, and you can bet there'll be heavy trucks keeping up with them. They're going too fast and following too close regardless of the conditions (except when it snows, then everyone slows down). You said it yourself that 95% of accidents are preventable. I work in the forklift industry, and i can tell you that 80% of what i do is because of the operator and/or owner, not the forklift. If trucking is dangerous, then it's the drivers that make it so, not the trucks.
I graduated the MELT program a little over a month ago. Still looking for a job 😂😂😂 any tips? From B.C.
In all seriousness, I just want to share the biggest factors I took out of the program.
1. Plan ahead
2. Slow down
3. Rest when you start to feel tired
4. Do your inspections, reports, and documentations
5. No load is worth the risk for your life
6. If I see my instructors ex-wife, it is okay to run her over.
7. Familiarize yourself with the vehicle you drive
8. If I see someone looking like a penguin on the side of the road. You best bet that is a nun and you better be ready to stop.
9. Scan your surroundings every 3-6 seconds. Especially in the city.
10. Communication is key when you have a spotter. However, don't be afraid to keep exiting your cab to ensure you dont hit anything. Use as much available space you can when backing up.
I think that's everything. 😂
Nice shirt! I live 30miles from the bobcat plant
Traffic tends to bunch together...I always try to drive in-between the packs.
Thank you for watching and sharing!
I just drive a car, and small truck, and i always scan, and it just saved me the other day. I had to get close to the cement barrier, but the old guy driving a 100, and swerving didn't hit me through a construction zone. I always drive like no one around me knows how to drive. God bless.
The entire point of truck driving is to have everyone survive your drive, including yourself and getting that paycheck. There are some enjoyable aspects to the job, but without those two things there's no point. LoL the answer for 99% of all situations is slow down and watch everything.
Good point about not following to close at 60 mph that's about 100 ft. In one second 😳. So can be in trouble in very short time if you follow to close.
Alot of your information is great, even to drivers in New Zealand.
Glad u enjoy the videos
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too prevent 99% of the accidents prevent non expericenced steering wheel holders from driving highway UNTIL THEY HAVE EXPERICENCE
@Austin Gee work in the city doing p&D
There are a lot of issues at work here. Companies like to talk a good talk about safety, but they seem to place more emphasis on productivity and don't invest much in safety training. I see too many big rig drivers zipping around the interstate as if they were in sports cars.
Most pro drivers bring bad driving habits with them into the cab that they never seem to shake.
Thank you for digging into this topic!
This 100% avoidable stuff is like all the we're like family bull. Wishful thinking and marketing.
All the times rigs almost hit or crushed me could have been avoided by 1. Dont be a leadfoot or 2. tape the late show.
These are some very good advice 👍🇯🇲
If you have a cdl and anything mentioned here is a new thing for you. Please find a team job and do 6 months so you can learn from a perspective of tell me what I don't know. Make sure you respect your responsibility to not harm the public 👌
Great info!
I think you did a great job talking about it but you almost put me to sleep 😂😂👍
I agree 100% on the spotter at Bell we were only allowed to use our own trained spotters for a reason bc at the end of the day it is the drivers responsibility. That said I backed others company trucks for them many times and they acted as spotters for me. The question is do I listen to spotters not really unless the say stop. I prefer safety cones That I put out and a circle check. Just saying.
Merci!
agree 110 percent specially on tha 10-15 percent accidents are not perventable
It would be great if you could let the new guy do shutting at the your main yard with a regular tractor not shut truck.
A month or two doing that would help many new drivers and long haul drivers who need practice backing in small spaces
For one it's shunting trailers, and the big reason lots of truck drivers not being good at backing up is no experience, all new drivers should drive with in there respective city's or atlease with in a 100 mile radius of where they live for atlease for a year they would get a lot of experience that way backing up and dealing with traffic, government should make it mandatory
Excellent video.
Really enjoyed this topic;
learning from all drivers would be best not just truck drivers but motorcycles busses cops motorcycle cops.
Smith system is important and helpful.
Most spotters dont look up to check trl clearence and you'll wind up hiting a light pole, tree branch, roof overhang etc because he's signaling you "keep coming, keep coming " and guess whos fault it will be?.
It will be your fault not the spotter..
I'm A Driver Trainer 6 yrs And All You Are Saying In A 100 Percent correct Also using the Smith system Works But The New People Coming in To This The cell phones are the worst thing in anybody can have
Safety departments won't complain about you taking extra time to be safe - however, the OPERATIONS department (aka dispatchers) will, and usually very loudly! They don't seem to realize that it takes time to do a proper pre-trip (at LEAST 20 min for a tractor trailer) and if the driver finds something wrong, that issue has to be fixed before the unit leaves the yard.
At my last carrier, I'd often get told that I was to take a trailer with a flat tire - and I mean off the bead - to a shop nearby for repair (I was doing a drop and hook run). Dispatch didn't care that doing so was illegal as the trailer had failed the pre-trip inspection and couldn't leave the yard! It cost more money to have the tire guy come out to fix the tire, but so what? Better that than a huge fine, but since the dispatch didn't have to pay said fine they didn't care. Grrrrrr.........😡😡
Be sure to get you one of those magic four wheeler Four leaf clover’s with the special bracelet Says I am a Four wheeler Wizard to the 99°
Your introduction is too long, good tips for RVers too
Good tips but the reason why it is said that all accidents are preventable is because they aren't talking about you, they are talking about everyone. Someone or someone's could have done something the right way to prevent that accident. Also it is better for people to think that all accidents are preventable instead having a 5% rule in their mind that serves an excuse for their own sloppiness.
Your video is good, but the only thing that will really work is proper training, I don't believe the tax payer should pay for it but the government should implement a mandatory training for three weeks with a trainer that is qualified to train and should be payed by the employer, yes I know that probably never happened, but if there where lots of people like yourself and petition the government, we would all be safer out there, all these new trucks have these new gadgets and guess what it still dose not improve safety, since the ELD the accidents have gone up not down, a proven fact, yes I've been driving for over 28 years otr
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