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FedEx does have a reputation and it was earned. Granted, there are a ton of trucks and drivers out there, but there are still quite a few that can drive for ****. That statement in no way reflects on the CA accident. I am just going off what I have observed while working at FedEx and after.

The company is partly to blame for this. They put green horns behind the wheel that have little or no respect for the equipment and the carnage it can cause. They also foster an attitude of hurry, hurry, hurry. Gotta' hit the numbers, gotta' make the gate. Someone new in the industry can't separate the bull**** and just do it right and safe.

Remember, every action you make is a reflection on you, your company and the industry.

Guardrail

Every single company out there has drivers that cannot drive for ****. Yeah fedex has a lot as they have a TON of drivers on the road. The reputation is basically bull****. Sorry but the numbers don't lie. Fedex is pretty safe when compared to the rest of the industry out there.

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The info is hard to dig up even the FMCSA has dead links. Here is the gist of it. It is part of the "Stability Control System". I linked the DOT mandate and Volvo page outlining how the system worked a few years ago after I discovered how the Gov't was mandating self wrecking trucks. The theory is by applying the brakes it slows the vehicle making it safer. The fact it wrecks the vehicle in the process is apparently irrelevant. It was originally designed for liquid hauling trucks on ramps and the bureaucracy spiraled out of control.
http://www.bendix.com/media/documents/products_1/absstability/truckstractors/StabilityFAQ.pdf


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What computer override tractor braking system? I drive a 2012 Mack, has no such system.
 
Every single company out there has drivers that cannot drive for ****. Yeah fedex has a lot as they have a TON of drivers on the road. The reputation is basically bull****. Sorry but the numbers don't lie. Fedex is pretty safe when compared to the rest of the industry out there.

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Would these be the numbers they use to measure productivity?
 
While I do not always see eye to eye with you hit the nail squarely on the head, It's sad that this happened and all the number posting and bragging about how safe fx is not going to change a thing. IMo it sounds like everybody is making excuses for what happened , it's an accident they happen no matter how much training or how many safety meetings you are required to attended they happen .

Sure it does anyone saying anything about FedEx safety record should be totally ignored...

As in no response...

I'm starting it from this post on.

FedEx safety record is one of the highest in the nation.

Especially being that they are number 2 in the nation...
 
Here is the flyer on the 2007 both I and this driver both appear to have totaled. Use your firsthand knowledge as a driver to figure out what will really happen when the brakes are applied in these situations and you have a single wheel tractor brake malfunction to create the initial wheel slip that triggers the system.

http://www.volvotrucks.com/SiteColl...about_us/VEST_highwayvocational_factsheet.pdf

Thanks Vwaggs, Finally a very good post and response. All this technology can fail at one time or another. Everything from engines shutting down to you name it. I have to believe it's more about economics than safety... Good information...
 
I am probably one of the few experienced drivers who has lived through this type of accident.


Thanks Vwaggs, Finally a very good post and response. All this technology can fail at one time or another. Everything from engines shutting down to you name it. I have to believe it's more about economics than safety... Good information...
 
FedEx does have a reputation and it was earned. Granted, there are a ton of trucks and drivers out there, but there are still quite a few that can drive for ****. That statement in no way reflects on the CA accident. I am just going off what I have observed while working at FedEx and after.

The company is partly to blame for this. They put green horns behind the wheel that have little or no respect for the equipment and the carnage it can cause. They also foster an attitude of hurry, hurry, hurry. Gotta' hit the numbers, gotta' make the gate. Someone new in the industry can't separate the bull**** and just do it right and safe.

Remember, every action you make is a reflection on you, your company and the industry.

Guardrail

Don't get me wrong because I haven't seen what it is like at any other yard. Here they have made it mandatory to put the lunch in the wand and I have seen where drivers have over extend there nap and got back late. Never is any one told not to do that or got a write up.. I have shut down early and central never did he try to push me down the road, btw the road closed less than 15 mins after I stopped. I have never agreed that FedEx trains new drivers during the winter months but that will never change.
 
Sure it does anyone saying anything about FedEx safety record should be totally ignored...

As in no response...

I'm starting it from this post on.

FedEx safety record is one of the highest in the nation.

Especially being that they are number 2 in the nation...

Who is number one Skeeter?
 
Sure it does anyone saying anything about FedEx safety record should be totally ignored...

As in no response...

I'm starting it from this post on.

FedEx safety record is one of the highest in the nation.

Especially being that they are number 2 in the nation...
Show where I posted anything negative about the driver or fx
 
Sure it does anyone saying anything about FedEx safety record should be totally ignored...

As in no response...

I'm starting it from this post on.

FedEx safety record is one of the highest in the nation.

Especially being that they are number 2 in the nation...
Look again freight is 17 on the list that everybody seems to be quoting
 
I don't buy its the built it stability control systems in the trucks either. That is as big of a pile of dung as blaming the xda energy tires for wrecks.

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I don't buy its the built it stability control systems in the trucks either. That is as big of a pile of dung as blaming the xda energy tires for wrecks.

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Now that you know it exists, wait for winter to have it happen on a low speed scale. Based on my experience that driver did everything, including having the skill to determine not hitting the brake pedal was the correct response, that he could have done under the circumstances. He likely spent the last 5 seconds of his life holding the clutch in, furiously trying to regain steering control, wondering if he would ever see his wife and kids again. I almost went through a guardrail, off a bridge, into a 250 yard deep ravine.
 
Diesel fuel won't ignite spraying on a hot muffler that easily. It doesn't have as low of a flash point as gasoline.

Must disagree with you. We had a brand new tractor melt to the ground due to the heat of the Def system and the fuel coming into contact. Also, if you have seen the flying flatbed video, what do you think the fireball is from?
 
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