S-consepts

This is for all you truck drivers that pull a van. I agree with some of the things that you guys say pertaining to safety but you pull the easiest thing on the road. Try pulling a 48,000 lbs coil loaded suicide there is a hell of a lot more danger in what flatbed drivers do everyday that what you guys do. 1st you get loaded and maybe put 1 load lock on that doesn’t really do anything, them you leave. 2nd if you have a load shift oh well it cant go anywhere. now for me a flat bedder. 1st I secure the load to the trailer, if I don’t do my job right people can die. 2nd a load shift on a flat bed will cause major problems, people getting hurt, damaged cargo, roll over, death. I started with a van company, but i never pulled a load for them I got the training and left.  Flat bedding is not for everyone, just the same can be said for types of trucking though.Yes there are safety hazards in all of trucking but every time I sit in a truck stop I hear drivers bitching and moaning about various things and I can about 95% of the time pick out the van drivers in the group just by the way they talk.

Another thing; Haz-mat loads 90% of the loads are products that we all use on a regular basis so this whole argument about student drivers pulling Haz-mat is a load of crap. The only real danger is explosives and radioactive material. There still isn’t the hazard to the motoring public around these loads as there are around flat bed loads.

My point is that if you are bitching and don’t do anything about it shut the hell up.