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  1. I would strongly suggest that you develop a strong business plan before you leap into a truck payment. I would have savings in excess of six months to cover your living expenses as well. Know your cost per mile, cost per day, cost per week, cost per month. Your biggest expenses will be labor and fuel. Fuel is very volatile and unpredictable. Here in S. Texas you need about 10k a month to keep a truck on the road. One needs to generate about 334. dollars each and everyday to accomplish this. Knowing your costs allows you to add in a profit margin so that you turn a profit on every call you make. There are no free miles in the real world. Every mile wears out tires, clogs fuel and air filters, breaks down brake, oil, diff fluid, and trans fluid. There is no free. I would strongly suggest that you develop a strong business plan before you leap into a truck payment. I would have savings in excess of six months to cover your living expenses as well. Know your cost per mile, cost per day, cost per week, cost per month. Your biggest expenses will be labor and fuel. Fuel is very volatile and unpredictable. Here in S. Texas you need about 10k a month to keep a truck on the road. One needs to generate about 334. dollars each and everyday to accomplish this. Knowing your costs allows you to add in a profit margin so that you turn a profit on every call you make. There are no free miles in the real world. Every mile wears out tires, clogs fuel and air filters, breaks down brake, oil, diff fluid, and trans fluid. There is no free.
  2. I do not follow stats, but just hw many operators were killed roadside in 22 as well as 23? 60 deaths nationwide seems very conservative.
  3. People want to know why insurance is so excruciatingly high, can look no further than this company. Mind you I do not blame the operator. I do blame the owner, the agency who allows him to work their with lax safety protocol.
  4. People I do not know the particulars, so I am not passing judgement, but ensure that you as a driver are well rested. As a manager or owner use due diligence to ensure your staff is well rested. There is no shame in refusing a call because you need rest. There is remorse and regret if you kill somebody because you wanted to get in, "one more call" I speak from experience. I fell asleep driving down the interstate. By God's grace I did not kill anyone, or hurt anyone. I suffered a compression fracture in my back, and destroyed a 96 F450 with a Vulcan 882, a road sign, and about 20' of guardrail.
  5. Geoff is a stand up guy who built his business from hard work, grit, and determination. I wish there was an easy answer. A small majority of people are just self centered and selfish. They have zero consideration for others. IH 35 is a circus on a good day. It is extremely dangerous to navigate in a a vehicle let alone having to focus on a casualty on the side of the road!
  6. goodmichael

    HB 898

    What is the gist of HB 898?
  7. That is a bold statement. Factors contributing to many crashes today are inattention, talking on the phone, texting, excessive speed, and driver inattention. A small majority of people are just too selfish to care about other drivers safety. They just do not care.
  8. And that somebody needs to be you. Do not be complacent. Something as mundane as placing cones at a scene could take your life.
  9. Great job. One never knows when those skills will save a life. You guys have an awesome culture in safe practices. I always enjoy reading your narratives and stories. Your narratives definitely show a person, they do not tell a person what occurred.
  10. A brake job would have been far less expensive than the increase in insurance, loss of use to repair the hood, increase in insurance or out of pocket expense to fix the damage to the casualty, as well as expense to fix the road. Luckily nobody driving by was killed or injured by the runaway truck. Luckily the operator was unscathed as well. Costly mistake, totally preventable.
  11. Caught between is one of the so called "fatal four"
  12. I have long advocated for the use, implementation, as well as well as passing the cost of safety equipment on to the end user, be it the private pay customer, or motor club. I always consider the fact that extra equipment, properly used, properly billed out as a line item, only needs to save one life to prove itself worthy. We as an industry are our own worst enemy. Many cut corners on safety, both employers as well as employees. We look the other way when safe operating procedures are ignored, as long as that operator is bringing in the revenue that allows that unit to turn a profit. Many companies do very little or nothing at all to promote a safe working environment. Some are excellent, some outstanding, at promoting a safety first attitude. 👏 Here I San Antonio, Texas an operator can call the HERO program and they will make the scene of a breakdown on the side of a highway and provide a blocker for you to safely do their job. Free of charge. It boggles my mind to see operators hooking up roadside taking a chance they will be one of the sixty that will die roadside due to a distracted or impaired driver. Your company sells a great product. It saddens me that you have not received the response you deserve. No amount of money can replace a life lost.
  13. 0300 hours speaks volumes. If you watch the first part of the video the operator as well as the deputy were very complacent as they exchanged documents. The subject was on a mission to get home, and was hell bent on getting home. Very easily could have been a double fatality. Even on a country road one cannot let their guard down.
  14. I presume all people are mentally impaired until proven otherwise. That frame of mind does not expose me to surprises.
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