• Johnnypneumoniac
    9·
    3 年前

    Whoa… TruckBC. Now my feed feels like home.

    This is pretty nuts! I’ve been in the dark all day so this is the first I’m hearing of it. That’s some epic damage.

    • TruckBC@lemmy.caOPM
      4·
      3 年前

      My theory is that since COVID, the bar for how shitty/unprofessional a driver can be and continue to be employed has gone down significantly due to a severe and worsening shortage of drivers.

      I know of one driver with 11 points on their license and zero class 1 driving experience that was hired by a reputable company recently. Another one with a rather fresh 2 month suspension and bunch of points got hired by a very reputable company too. Most companies used to want clean record, shady ones would be ok with 6-9 points. Now it’s a free for all.

      Industry is fucked.

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 年前

      I don’t think truck drivers are getting the same caliber of training these days and there are lots of newbies. Too many trucking companies out there, if one goes bankrupt because of a accident like this a new one just pops up right in its place.

    • TruckBC@lemmy.caOPM
      4·
      3 年前

      Accidentally leaving your PTO on and accidentally hitting the switch to raise the dump box, and not paying attention and not noticing your box is going up.

      • mycatiskai
        3·
        3 年前

        When I am dropping the air out of a tractor to decouple from a trailer the truck alarms to tell me the air is blowing out of the suspension.

        Why don’t these trucks have a warning system like that?

        • TruckBC@lemmy.caOPM
          3·
          3 年前

          They are supposed to. But I’ve heard from drivers in the dump truck industry that the alarms are often disabled by drivers because “they are annoying”.

          My tractor I can’t dump the airbags if I’m going over 10km/h, can’t release the 5th wheel slider if trailer parking brakes are released, and tons of other safety features.