Skip to main content ↑ ↓
Topic: Drivers license-not (Read 466 times) previous topic - next topic
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Drivers license-not

Yahoo Message Number: 10424
Whoa...Tom. Slow down now and take a Valium.
I apologize if for obviously hitting a nerve with respect to professional truckers. How foolish of me.

My experience in trucking pales when compared to yours, but I wasn't born yesterday either.

In my first career, I spent a couple of decades as an agent writing property and casualty insurance with a specialty in transport insurance; trucking accounts to be specific.

My experience come from dealing with lots of trucking companies, owning several tractor/trailers as leased units to some of my clients and finally putting a few thousand miles on my own auto transport. This, coupled with owning nine motor homes over the past 40 plus years gives me a pretty broad perspective.

You may choose to call it arrogance, but I still maintain that driving skills are not totally gained by driving lots of miles per year.
If I took to time to report all of the unsafe driving maneuvers I see from that cadre of truckers on the freeway, I'd have to hire a full-time secretary.

I'm not about to get into a peeing contest with anyone about driving skills, but I'll stick to my personal opinion that I am as safe and responsible as the best of them and a lot better than a lot of those cowboys that run 10' off my rear bumper at 65mph and drive for hours on end with phony log books.
I suppose I should have tried to be a little more sensitive when trying to make the point that motor home drivers in the 30,000# and above class should licensed and tested because of the safety issues that go with additional weight and length. That was my point, not one of arrogance nor an attempt to diminish the professional truckers skills.

Must be my foot in mouth disease kicking in again.

Sorry to have been a burr under yer blanket. Have a nice day.

Larry
Intrigue
10762