2012 Truck Driving Championships What A Waste, yes it is; nothing but a big waste! Just propaganda for the public and companies just patting themselves on the back. It is a ton of corporate waste!!! walken 1414, if you want to go to these fixed festivities I really think a guy should pay his own way! A true Championship Driver, is someone that can run through Chicago,Detriot, or Cleveland during rush-hour with a set at night during a blinding snow-storm with blowing winds at 35m.p.h and not scrap paint! Doing all of this night after night and NOT expecting anything more then the paycheck! No pats on the back, just money for time spent... Man those were the good old days before we got all these new crying truckers that want everything given to them...
You say that now,BUT how many times when you worked for Con-Way did you call central and tell them you were not running because of the snow????????Exactly..Theres nothing Cowboy about driving in the snow,ice or any other condition...Just part of doing this job..It comes with the territory and if drivers cannot handle it,then im sure McDonalds would be willing to hire them....
Its called living in the Midwest and Great Lakes area. If you lived up here you would spend a lot of time parked on the side of the road hoping for dry roads and sunny skies.
35 mph winds in a blinding snow storm...that qualifies as a blizzard.
BLIZZARDS
Driving in a blizzard during rush in any one of the above named cities (or any other for that matter) is pure lunacy and downright dangerous. Any company putting their drivers and the motoring public in a such a potentially devastating position doesn't belong in any business that operates any type of commercial vehicle.
I stand by my assessment.
Times are changing...the government and the anti-truck driver crowd are out to regulate this industry and reign these 'killer' truck drivers. It is politically popular and makes for good news copy. When an accident occurs involving a commercial motor vehicle the driver is always scrutinized...by the law...the media...and the public. There are always pictures of the large truck and the small passenger vehicle...Jack and the Giant of the Beanstalk...and they believe the giant must be tamed.
Any company not getting a firm understanding of this mentality is just looking for difficulty. It will be just a matter of time before it gets out of hand. The peeps in LH cannot adequately judge the local weather conditions from hundreds of miles away...thus the recent changes allowing the local management to make the call.
And to answer the post regarding living 'here'...I do live 'here'...right smack in the middle of the Great Lakes area. I have had my share of any type of winter weather you can think of and don't care for any of it. Like the post said, it is part of the job. I simply prefer to put my family's future and the safety of others ahead of any company's directive given by people who can't perform the job...go home every night in their personal vehicles having no clue as to the dynamics of operating a commercial motor vehicle...but are more than willing to hand out ridiculous punitive measures when things go awry. Willing to ruin the career of any driver at any time for the sake of avoiding government intervention as per the directives of the CSA.
Times are changing.
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