Comments By andhe78

For me, when half of the first page of topics is about drug testing, it's hard to have any interest in the site.

Fuel hauler here, we're very busy. In fact, my terminal has hired more new guys in the last five months than were hired in the previous five years.

You picked up on what I was getting at. I was hoping someone in school or just out of it would be able to pick up on it. But oh well

Yeah, sorry, the thread immediately ran off the rails, so was trying to bring it back to what you were looking for without actually giving away the answer.

My favorite, though I wasn't there for it, but it caused an uproar:

We load at only a dozen or so places, so everyone is very familiar with all the safety rules. At one of the refineries (gas refinery, by the way), they would let you smoke outside the gates, but once inside the fence, there was no smoking for obvious reasons. One night, guess a guy had been waiting too long, so as he's actually at the rack, loading, he opens the passenger door and sneaks a smoke. Might of gotten away with it except he unthinkingly flicks away the butt when done. The loader happened to looking at the cameras and sees the flick, instant shutdown of the entire rack, the driver is instantly banned from the property for life, they wouldn't even let him drive his truck out of the rack. He lost his job that night, and drivers who smoke lost the privilege to smoke anywhere within a mile of the place. So dumb.

This is normal.

Not every "two to three minutes." If this is normal for you, you need a better maintenance program.

These trucks couldn’t stop due to traffic flow?

What exactly does that mean? If traffic flow made it impossible for me to stop, then I would be doing something terribly wrong.

I don't know, the op said they witnessed accidents, not caused them. I've witnessed several accidents I've never stopped for.

They do have a teflon plate that doesn’t require grease. I highly recommend not greasing it.

Yeah, since most of our rigs stay hooked together for months at a time, we've got the fifth wheel inserts. They're great, but have got to be checked on pretrips, the bolts holding them on, once in a while can shear off and the insert will slide right out. Just a couple hours of making turns with a missing insert will completely destroy the fifth wheel.

Playing devil's advocate here, can you really blame a company for thinking driver facing cameras are a good idea? Drivers have proven over they years that they can't be trusted. Seriously, how many times have you passed a driver holding a cell phone-it blows my mind. Talking about companies wanting experienced drivers, we had to fire a 30 year driver last year for a cell phone ticket-if a company can't trust him, what makes you think they'd trust any one else? I say make driver facing cameras mandatory, we can't seem to police ourselves, so maybe someone else should.

Was probably the unmarked left turn enforcement unit checking up on you. I know several times a week those guys will follow me for miles and turn into a station right behind me-so glad I have 911 on speed dial.

Unless it’s a niche like fuel hauling or transferring trash to landfills seems everybody is extremely slow.

Yep, been great for us. My terminal has a hard time finding drivers to meet all our requirements (no manual restriction, x endorsement, passport/enhanced license, and twic), but with so many drivers looking for work, the pool has grown, and we've hired four new guys since the start of the year. (Only two guys hired in the three years previous.)