Spud_Monkey
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Not meaning to get off topic but, I luckily live where there is no cell phone reception for 45 miles of 50 miles to get into town. Hope they never put any towers up out here which I know is inevitable with time.
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Insurance question
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Truck Shop
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A few more.
mitch504
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My non-trucking friends don't really believe it, but wrecks were just part of the business. Maybe 5% were my driver's fault. One of my trucks was running down the interstate at about 72 mph in a 70 mph zone one night, driver kinda heard/felt something, looked in the mirror, saw a car spinning down the road behind him takeout 6 other cars. He was pulling a customers trailer and a car came up behind him so fast he folded up the under ride bumper and bounced off the tires. The car driver claimed to have had a seizure, so his insurance Co declared the accident an act of God and refused to pay any claims. They said that if he had had a seizure history, they would have paid, but, since he didn't, they refused to pay. All the lawyers looked at his $50,000 liability limit to pay for 6 cars and sued me. My insurance settled and raised my rates.
Truck Shop
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The more miles one drives the odds get pretty tight on having a wreck. With the low skill/take chances type of drivers this day and age it's no wonder the price of insurance is where it's at.
We had a situation 21 years ago at a place called Wallula Junction 30 miles west of town on highway 12. Two elderly women headed to a casino {Wild Horse} ran the stop sign at the
junction. One of our trucks was headed west--------and one of our trucks was headed east and met at the same time at Wallula Junction. The west bound hit the car first sending it into
the oncoming east bound truck killing both women. So when people think {IT or THAT will never happen to them--well think again. The odds of both trucks from the same company
meeting at the same time a car runs a stop sign are astronomical. But it happened----bad things like that happen all the time.
We had a situation 21 years ago at a place called Wallula Junction 30 miles west of town on highway 12. Two elderly women headed to a casino {Wild Horse} ran the stop sign at the
junction. One of our trucks was headed west--------and one of our trucks was headed east and met at the same time at Wallula Junction. The west bound hit the car first sending it into
the oncoming east bound truck killing both women. So when people think {IT or THAT will never happen to them--well think again. The odds of both trucks from the same company
meeting at the same time a car runs a stop sign are astronomical. But it happened----bad things like that happen all the time.
petepilot
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think long &hard about leaving the phone in the trunk
terex herder
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If you leave the phone off, how will you talk to the dispatcher that gave you the wrong loading dock and the wrong load time and cost you a day? Then he is chewing your ass because you will be 8 hours late on the delivery.
Truck Shop
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First off-that's the dispatchers problem. Second there is a thing called a Qual Com which will alert you that you need to contact dispatch. Third-in this state or any other you have to have a
hands free communication. Fourth if the employer says you have to answer on the fly he is asking you to break the law in his behalf-which is against the law. Five there isn't a load or situation
that anybody should jeopardize themselves or anyone else. None of it is justifiable and if the company is that bad then the driver or leaser should find another company to work for.
Don.S
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But if i dont have my phone how will i look at nudies when i get bored at the wheel of my 90 000lbs vehicle?
The whole hands free thing is trash. It is not the fact that you have a phone in your hand that makes it dangerous it is the fact that you are thinking about the topic you are talking about and not what is going on around you. Just build a vehicle that will not move if a phone is in use and be done with it.
The whole hands free thing is trash. It is not the fact that you have a phone in your hand that makes it dangerous it is the fact that you are thinking about the topic you are talking about and not what is going on around you. Just build a vehicle that will not move if a phone is in use and be done with it.
Truck Shop
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Then you have built more crap into a vehicle that already has too much technical garbage, trying to make
it idiot proof.
it idiot proof.
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I can plug my Iphone up to my truck and use the buttons on the steering wheel to make and receive calls through Siri. One can also text that way as well.
So -What's the difference in using bluetooth or Apple carplay hands free and talking to the passenger in the seat beside you? Or the passenger in the back seat? Isn't that just as distracting?
What about eating and drinking (non-alcoholic) while driving?
So -What's the difference in using bluetooth or Apple carplay hands free and talking to the passenger in the seat beside you? Or the passenger in the back seat? Isn't that just as distracting?
What about eating and drinking (non-alcoholic) while driving?
Truck Shop
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That's always the question everyone apply's to this situation. There is a bunch of difference between a car/pickup
and 50 tons rolling down the highway. But being as you ask both of those are distracting.
and 50 tons rolling down the highway. But being as you ask both of those are distracting.
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True but as Mitch said the majority of wrecks he encountered were caused by cars and pickups. The scary thing I see ALL the time is people - men, women, young and old - constantly texting on the phone even though it's against the law. You can see their head down looking at their phone in the center of the steering wheel.
The good think about my '95 L9000 is it's too damn loud inside the cab to hear the radio much less a phone..
Raildudes dad
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My 87 LTL 9000 has the radio on the roof with itty bitty buttons. I set it on one station and leave it there. At highway speed and my 2-65 AC jacking up the volume isn't very good quality so i just keep my eyes on the road and leave lots of space in front of me. At 60-65 on the freeway, I get passed by everyone, just watch the cars go by. I haven't seen much in the way of the alleged "seat covers"
I haven't seen much in the way of the alleged "seat covers"
Truck Shop
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There are 274 million vehicles in the U.S.
Out of that there are 2 million trucks and 5.6 million trailers.
Six million cars sold in 2016.
251,000 class eights sold in 2019.
So naturally your going to have more cars and pickups causing wrecks.
Out of that there are 2 million trucks and 5.6 million trailers.
Six million cars sold in 2016.
251,000 class eights sold in 2019.
So naturally your going to have more cars and pickups causing wrecks.
Truck Shop
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