Let’s say you’re getting fuel and notice on a neighboring truck an issue that could cause an issue (up to death) for the driver and or others on the road.
What would you do?
Why?
What would you do?
Why?
What would you do? Why?
- Thread starter Slowpoke KW
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I have and will go up to them and let them know.
I would want someone to do the same for me,
I would want someone to do the same for me,
Uncle Birchy
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Chose #3 because that's what we usually do around here.
So you wouldn’t say anything to them at all?
Are you afraid of them?
Three of your four options are kind of an escalating scale.
First thing is you approache the driver and point it out, and his response dictates what happens next.
If he blows you off? Shaming is fair game, unless it's something that is an obvious threat to life and limb, say an obviously failed bearing, a severely broken wheel, or freight that's going to fail off, etc. In that case, he deserves a dime dropped on him. And screw him for not giving a crap about those of us around him.
If it's obvious the driver didn't know, and is going to take steps to rectify, they're generally getting a pass. No post, no dime, a helping hand if needed (within reason. )
First thing is you approache the driver and point it out, and his response dictates what happens next.
If he blows you off? Shaming is fair game, unless it's something that is an obvious threat to life and limb, say an obviously failed bearing, a severely broken wheel, or freight that's going to fail off, etc. In that case, he deserves a dime dropped on him. And screw him for not giving a crap about those of us around him.
If it's obvious the driver didn't know, and is going to take steps to rectify, they're generally getting a pass. No post, no dime, a helping hand if needed (within reason. )
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Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
I would let them know because I am a good fucking person. (I know the F-word was not required)
I would like someone to do the same for me and they have.
When I was a rookie I got a temp job at a dairy products plant. So of course it was a reefer (straight truck) the fuel line for the reefer came loose and was on the exhaust pipe. Some nice driver pointed it out to me and even zip-tied it up. I will never forget that!
I would like someone to do the same for me and they have.
When I was a rookie I got a temp job at a dairy products plant. So of course it was a reefer (straight truck) the fuel line for the reefer came loose and was on the exhaust pipe. Some nice driver pointed it out to me and even zip-tied it up. I will never forget that!
They weren’t meant as an escalating scale but as what action do you take.
mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
Uncle Birchy
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I was being a "smart-ass" okay.
Nah I would probably try to point it out to the driver.
I've pointed out things several times to other drivers like tires and leaks and once a young driver lost his fuel cap and I told him that scale up the road can put ya outta service for that.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
That is the thing these days, Ya never know what kind of reaction you are going to get.
Uncle Birchy
Well-Known Member
I suppose an extra option could've been take a picture and notify the companys safety office with unit number and location let them talk to the driver
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Years ago, guy passed me with pallet rack frames. I hollered on the radio that one was on the verge of slipping out of the stack.
"I'm getting off in a 20 miles, I'll check it then."
"it won't make it that far..."
... Dead silence.
He was but maybe a 1/4 mile passed me when I heard the bang and watched the sparks fly as it spun into the median. He never even slowed down.
Duck
Sarcastic remark goes here
I was stuck in an orange barrel induced backup on I-65 north of Indy once.
White Volvo Mafia had his trailer's underbelly air lines dragging on the ground because his tandems were all the way forward and that spring was broken.
When I got next to him I set the brakes & leaned out the passenger window and told him.
He said "Yeesh Yeesh, I feex, thank you" " and he got out right there in the right lane and put zip ties on it.
Traffic never moved an inch until he was done and back in the can.
White Volvo Mafia had his trailer's underbelly air lines dragging on the ground because his tandems were all the way forward and that spring was broken.
When I got next to him I set the brakes & leaned out the passenger window and told him.
He said "Yeesh Yeesh, I feex, thank you" " and he got out right there in the right lane and put zip ties on it.
Traffic never moved an inch until he was done and back in the can.
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This is the Way...
at least 3 times in my entire career, i had seen something and made the driver(s) aware. each damned time, i was told to don't worry about it, or mind my own business.
and to this day, that's what i do.......
Play stupid and act like you never seen it
it's on each driver, and if HE'S so damned stupid to notice or care?
screw him, i ain't got no time, i gotta go.
Uncle Birchy
Well-Known Member
I'd tell the drivers Ma & Dad then they'd be in really big trouble when they got home
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Hillbilly Canuck
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This.
Although I did 1 and 3 when that kid wrecked that rim and tire last week.
That one was more frustration with the practices of megas in general than any ill will toward him as far as I'm concerned.
I've offered a lot of people help getting into places and most turn it down. A few days after I helped that greenhorn somebody helped me in a really hairy blindside after he saw me jump out 3 or 4 times. I had a few help me when I was green as baby shit. What goes around I guess......
Electric Chicken
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There was a driver some time back that I was passing (don't ask me how) as a Schneider so I did everything I could think of to let him know his brakes were smoking.
He obviously got the message because as soon as he looked in his mirror he pulled onto the shoulder.
I'm thinking he got on at the exit I had just passed and wasn't up to speed yet, hence me passing and him not knowing his brakes were jacked up.
It was an empty flatbed, and an old junky one so he was probably cursing me for not letting him let it catch fire and be destroyed.
He obviously got the message because as soon as he looked in his mirror he pulled onto the shoulder.
I'm thinking he got on at the exit I had just passed and wasn't up to speed yet, hence me passing and him not knowing his brakes were jacked up.
It was an empty flatbed, and an old junky one so he was probably cursing me for not letting him let it catch fire and be destroyed.
Canadian Eh
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I would go over and nicely let them know.
Saw a logging truck this past winter, his chain hangar had slid out, he probably just forgot the lock pin.
Driver wasn't at the truck when I went to tell them.
So I slid it in, and inserted the locking pin.
Another person saw me doing it, and yelled over to me " That was kind of you. Happy new year." I hadn't seen him till he spoke up. Saw the same company name on the door of both trucks.
We should be helping each other, we have all made a mistake, learned from others, or needed a hand sometime in our lives.
I was going to drive right past a guy oneday many years ago, who obviously didn't know how to chain up, but was trying to figure it out. I stopped, backed up, parked, and helped him. 20 minutes later he was off, and now knew how. Well he thanked me about 5 times, and was smiling away.
One day about 3 years later I was out for dinner with my girlfriend, and the waitress says to us, no bill tonight, that gentlemen (as she pointed at him) is getting your meal. He also asked me to say thanks again for stopping in a snow storm to give him a lesson on tire chains. That felt really nice, not just the free meal, but knowing it meant that much to him. On our way out I stopped by his table to say hello, and thank him for dinner. He then told me he will never forget my kindness that day, and he has since stopped to help teach 2 rookies how to chain up, passing it forward. Well oneday again a couple years later he saw me, we got to talking, and one thing turned into another, and he now works for me. I hired a new driver last year, asked her if she was good at chaining up, she said no. I said well you ask Craig for a lesson right here in the yard before you go anywhere, he is my expert at teaching rookies how to chain up. Craig laughed, and said he learned from the best many years ago on the side of the road in a storm.
Doing the right thing is always best.
I've been helped more times than I can count by others, and appreciate everyone of those fine people.
Saw a logging truck this past winter, his chain hangar had slid out, he probably just forgot the lock pin.
Driver wasn't at the truck when I went to tell them.
So I slid it in, and inserted the locking pin.
Another person saw me doing it, and yelled over to me " That was kind of you. Happy new year." I hadn't seen him till he spoke up. Saw the same company name on the door of both trucks.
We should be helping each other, we have all made a mistake, learned from others, or needed a hand sometime in our lives.
I was going to drive right past a guy oneday many years ago, who obviously didn't know how to chain up, but was trying to figure it out. I stopped, backed up, parked, and helped him. 20 minutes later he was off, and now knew how. Well he thanked me about 5 times, and was smiling away.
One day about 3 years later I was out for dinner with my girlfriend, and the waitress says to us, no bill tonight, that gentlemen (as she pointed at him) is getting your meal. He also asked me to say thanks again for stopping in a snow storm to give him a lesson on tire chains. That felt really nice, not just the free meal, but knowing it meant that much to him. On our way out I stopped by his table to say hello, and thank him for dinner. He then told me he will never forget my kindness that day, and he has since stopped to help teach 2 rookies how to chain up, passing it forward. Well oneday again a couple years later he saw me, we got to talking, and one thing turned into another, and he now works for me. I hired a new driver last year, asked her if she was good at chaining up, she said no. I said well you ask Craig for a lesson right here in the yard before you go anywhere, he is my expert at teaching rookies how to chain up. Craig laughed, and said he learned from the best many years ago on the side of the road in a storm.
Doing the right thing is always best.
I've been helped more times than I can count by others, and appreciate everyone of those fine people.
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