Sinister
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This thread is where we'll post pictures of people doing all the things that make the trucking industry suck. Stupid, rude, obnoxious, or just plain dumb and lazy.
Oh, and I've done this sort of thing before, so if anyone wants to get all offended, and make excuses for stupidity and rationalize crap like this, just save it, and go back to the What's For Supper thread. Criticism like this should be used for two things: 1- to improve awareness of safety, and 2- improve the industry overall. If that happens by making stupid people feel stupid well...isn't the betterment of the industry as a whole worth some hurt feelings? Stupid should be treated as such. Political correctness and "tolerance" have made us forget that.
Now, that said, I was going to get on the radio and tell Swifty here what the issue was, but the two fat...and and I do mean fat women in the cab looked way too engaged in their conversation about something that I'm sure was MUCH more important to care...so I just blew the doors off and went on.
It's not up to me to do their periodic walk arounds for them.
Plus had they done their OWN damn walk around, they'd have noticed this, and honestly, even if you're a useless steering wheel holding van driver, with your automatic transmission and drop and hook only abilities -- what does it take to buy a few tail lights, and throw them in to save your CSA score a bit? I've already been dinked by CSA a bit, but I'm pretty high-profile a lot. And still in retrospect, there's things I could have done to prevent whats happened to me. Mostly. I'll eat that.
That's the thing about CSA. A driver CAN prevent a LOT of the dumb crap just by putting forth a little more effort. I guess that's too much for some. I hope idiots like this are all gone soon.
Oh, and I've done this sort of thing before, so if anyone wants to get all offended, and make excuses for stupidity and rationalize crap like this, just save it, and go back to the What's For Supper thread. Criticism like this should be used for two things: 1- to improve awareness of safety, and 2- improve the industry overall. If that happens by making stupid people feel stupid well...isn't the betterment of the industry as a whole worth some hurt feelings? Stupid should be treated as such. Political correctness and "tolerance" have made us forget that.
Now, that said, I was going to get on the radio and tell Swifty here what the issue was, but the two fat...and and I do mean fat women in the cab looked way too engaged in their conversation about something that I'm sure was MUCH more important to care...so I just blew the doors off and went on.
It's not up to me to do their periodic walk arounds for them.
Plus had they done their OWN damn walk around, they'd have noticed this, and honestly, even if you're a useless steering wheel holding van driver, with your automatic transmission and drop and hook only abilities -- what does it take to buy a few tail lights, and throw them in to save your CSA score a bit? I've already been dinked by CSA a bit, but I'm pretty high-profile a lot. And still in retrospect, there's things I could have done to prevent whats happened to me. Mostly. I'll eat that.
That's the thing about CSA. A driver CAN prevent a LOT of the dumb crap just by putting forth a little more effort. I guess that's too much for some. I hope idiots like this are all gone soon.