Comments By Keith G.

....when both tires on the right rear axle on my trailer blew at 60 MPH westbound on I-24 in TN this morning. The 4-wheeler who was hanging out in the lane next to me was, but that's his problem. He shouldn't be hanging out there.

I sure did get scared when I saw how many so-called "professional" truck drivers made absolutely no effort to slow down and move to the left when I was sitting there waiting for the Loves service truck to arrive. And I was downright terrified after he arrived and started unloading stuff off his truck. I was almost sure he was gonna get splattered before he was done with the job.

Now I expect stupidity from 4-wheelers. Those who aren't on the cell phone while they're cruising along at 65-75 MPH have such a bad case of rectal cranial inversion they don't even see what's going on until it's too late. When they do see the pretty orange triangles 10, 100, and 200 feet behind my truck, they probably figure it's leftover Christmas decorations. The flashing red lights on my truck and the yellow ones on the service truck mean there's a clearance sale at K-Mart, right?

But I expect better from my road brothers and sisters. I know you all know exactly what is going on and what can happen. Is it really going to cost you that much to slow down and move over? Is that half a penny you may lose really more important to you than my life? Or the life of that young man from Loves who is making peanuts to change the tires on my trailer and has a young wife and a 3 year old waiting for him to come home from work tonight? Really?

Think about this: it may be YOU out there with blown tires next week, next month, or next year. How would YOU like it?

I'm an old man and it really isn't going to hurt anyone if you kill me. But if you do, I promise you I will come back and haunt you so that you never get a good night's sleep again as long as you live. And when you die, I will be the first one you meet at the gates of hell because I'll be the one kicking the snot out of you every day for the rest of eternity. Go ahead - be as stupid as you like.....

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming. Rant over.

How did BOTH tires blow at the same time? I've never heard a story like that before

Okm this really getting ridiculous, i clicked the link for the questions, one of the short quizes popped up , i answered the question s got the "yeehaw you you're the greatest thing since sliced bread you got 100%" message and then the "you got halted" how can i get halted if i didn't miss any ?

I agree that you have a very helpful program , the thing about it that completely frustrates and infuriates me is when the halt pops up and I have no idea what it's telling me i need to work on, I miss very few questions and looking up the answer before answering every question is not a test in my opinion I either know the answer or I don't , I never guess and i don't know what i should be reviewing if i can't find what was wrong. When i do the quiz/exam i always go over anything that i miss so I'm pretty much stunned when a msg pops up saying "you're 2 for 5 on question # but i have no way of knowing what question that was. I'm glad you put the link here for the questions, i want to check it out but i wanted to comment before i clicked on it because i didn't want to have to find my way back here later, thanx

I should have been more precise with my comment, my usual daily routine includes BP meds every 8 hours, when I want to be extra sure my pressure is ok for an exam I combine the morning and mid-afternoon doses in the morning then skip the mid-afternoon, that way I'm getting the same daily amount as prescribed but not exactly as prescribed. I know a healthcare professional would tell me I shouldn't do this but they would also tell me not to drive all day every day on next to no sleep, fueled by caffiene and junk food and y'all know you do that ;)

I have BP issues also,I had a stroke in 2011 and I'm starting school to get back on the road in a little over a week, what I started doing after i got rejected at a red cross blood drive last year is doubling my dose of BP meds in the morning when I have an exam coming. I know it's not right but I have every intention of continuing. just something to think about :)

I understand the concept behind the"halt" on the online study course but what good does it do to say"you have been halted because you are x for x on question number whatever, please don't guess we can read your mind and know that you are not learning anything from this program" when the questions are not numbered.

Sure, that's fine. I could have just changed your old one in the system if you had scores from the training program or wanted to keep your history from this forum - things like that. But either way is just fine.

that didn't occur to me I just jumped in, the old and new are both gmail addresses, if it might be a housecleaning issue at some point down the road I wouldn't be opposed to having them combined or switched or whatever... I'm just a little over a week away from the start of school so I need to start hitting that program harder.... to be honest that's part of the reason for the new address, my computer is a Chromebook using google's operating system and i decided it would be simpler to create a seperate user name to keep all my bookmarked pages better organised than the mishmash i have under the original. TT was the first bookmark in the CDL folder and #2 overall, after Amazon of course;)

I got a new email address for school and work stuff so i registered here again under the new one, I hope that's ok :)