5 Things Truckers Should Always Be Monitoring (One is NOT Your Cell Phone!)
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- Опубликовано: 10 мар 2024
- 5 Things Truckers Should Keep An Eye On (One is NOt YOur Cell Phone). In this video, Dave covers the vital things a trucker should be monitoring when driving.
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All great tips, Dave. Plus, scanning your mirrors, gauges, and looking up ahead, are great ways to help you stay awake if you’re tired. Just staring at white lines going by will hypnotize you in no time.
When you're in inclement weather and it's close to freezing watch the spray off your tires. You'll notice the difference between Wet Spray and almost Frozen spray skating along the asphalt.
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He basically talked about the Smith System, for those who do not know about it, do your research on it. Anyone looking into commercial vehicle driving, need to read up on this. It is very useful
I wish more drivers were like you. I have had a lot of truckers pull up very close behind me on the highway if they feel I am not going fast enough in my car, when there are other lanes they could use if they want to speed up, and it's scary.
The GPS should be explicitly programmed for big rig trucks. They should include data regarding bridge clearance and hopefully tell you to avoid paths that are not suited for big rigs.
I recall reading about a long 10(?) wheel truck in England using Google Maps that took a 'short cut' through a tiny little town with narrow streets and sharp turns that got itself so wedged in there that it had to be removed by a tractor of some sort. Or maybe a crane. I forget the details, it was about 20 years ago.
Try and raise your seat where you can see over your dash. Lol, super trucker. 😅 WE love ya, brother .😊
He's a low rider cause of sore back... helps take off the pressure of the lumbar.
100 percent agree . Just wish more would do the same .
Appreciate the video.
Because i jackknifed, twice, while slowly straightening out off a 90-degree intersection turn,
(at low road speed, twice, under 30 mph on iced compacted snow), I always anticipate an instantaneous reactive counter-steer/ taking foot off accelerator/ float a gear down (or even double down).
Those two times made me wiser by a whole lot after i felt that tonnage and rig length starting to slide away, & the feeling of the onset of jacknifing, whew!
After that, if there's ice or snow, i just creep around 90-degree intersection turning, and really low gear ,(like, in only 4th gear) creep off & away slow when straightening out the pivot.
Once on a long interstate downhill slolom, the ice way, way out ahead
(2-3 miles of straightaway stretch of interstate) loomed bad (scary bad ice I could discern way off away) and man, did i take a weird slide (lost traction). This was no snow; just really scary "black ice" situation.
There a mile or better ahead were also cars strewn along the side of the Interstate, having slid right off, scattered haphazardly here and there.
Scared the bejeezus outta me! I took my foot off the accelerator, tripled the engine brake, turned on my flashers and PRAYED.
(And, definitely looked at my best escape-least-damage contingency move to slide off the highway if i had to, because i would've still had to avoid my rig tractor-trailer length colliding with the cars that had slid off the highway stranded on the sides).
Man, when there's ice or serious snow, i don't even play the radio! I stay riveted to the whole situation until i get to my next rest stop!
I've seen witnessed an overturned car, upside down capsized with flames shooting out of the windows and exploded out trunk like torches. The occupants were burnt alive in front of my eyes. Good Samaritans were rushing around trying to get at them, and ran up to my driver's window hollering at me in desperation to give them my fire extinguisher, which i did instantly. All the people died in that car. I'd have to drive the same route every day to see their memorial of flowers put at their crash site. Five people burned to death. After getting the rig out of the way for the police on the scenes who showed up behind me, i soon later realized the odd smell i smelled was burning human flesh because the exploded capsized car was at the same intersection i was passing through (in which i was for a few minutes stopped in the chaos that occurred) - it was that close. I had arrived at the intersection only seconds after the car went out of control, turned over and exploded. There was a column of fire as tall as a telephone pole like a pillar as wide as the car towering out if the exploded open rear trunk of the car.
I had to take a whole day off the next day to force myself to fight remembering the smell, and the sight of it.
But i still had to drive past the memorial every day in my route. I think this occurrence inflicted a type of ptsd in me. I've forced myself to not have a recall of the smell, but I cannot rid the memory of the images, included the good Samaritan's terrified eyes beseeching me to habd him my fire extin. His eyes. I have never seen terror like that in a person's eyes like that. Because that man was trying to get the people out, but the flames were shooting out of the car windows like a blowtorch. I saw this all. But he saw them just feet from him being burnt alive upside down, trapped in the car. I had nightmares. If the memory happens, i have to conceal it to myself by overriding it with a different memory when it resurfaces or is triggered.
The Smith Rules…look them up.
I still use the Smith System as a school bus driver, having learned it when I was trucking. I teach it to every new bus driver as well. Because of using the Smith System, I impressed my OBI trainer because I was catching obstacles and hazards before she could point them out.
invaluable info/reminders
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A lot of this applies to all vehicles, regardless of the weather conditions.
Debree in the roads also that may cause you some problem like metal someone left on the road
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iam retired now.....but i always wonder why....the jake brake doesn t lite the break lights ?
I think it all depends on how everything is wired. I’ve seen some that do and some that don’t. My truck doesn’t but my buddy’s truck does.
Loads of Distance.
You can take that spinner knob off and throw it out the window bud if the Dot sees that they will give you a ticket and make you take it off