Thread: Everyone needs to read this.

Without searching,Im sure this was posted in the past.
A truck is a workplace.Unrestrained passengers in a workplace,not good????
My son worked at a hay/grains recieval plant last summer during his gap year.He saw several truckies kids ALMOST get run over by forklifts,the truckies then abused the staff over the incidents.Unrestrained children in a workplace,they were young and left to wander unsupervised.
Andrew

I drive a truck with work at times 2 thing's learnt so far that they don't teach, One is there is a alot of people with licences but few with TRUCK licences,
2 - let them hit you didn't feel the ford run into the truck, I was in the right he wrote his car off in my opinion better them then me. (But I didn't see him)

In reading that story I see fault if you have a clown bugging you slow down pull over let him go it ain't worth it I say.

Sad Story tho I feel for those impacted.
Vm

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Without searching,Im sure this was posted in the past.
A truck is a workplace.Unrestrained passengers in a workplace,not good????
My son worked at a hay/grains recieval plant last summer during his gap year.He saw several truckies kids ALMOST get run over by forklifts,the truckies then abused the staff over the incidents.Unrestrained children in a workplace,they were young and left to wander unsupervised.
Andrew

technically the truckies are right....

it sucks but the plant operator/guide has the responsability for the safety of every idiot who decides to impinge the safe operating area, its part of the reason I got out of crane driving. "whats that, you dont need a dogger, you know how to do it, ok sign this.." one accident later "sorry mate you gave the signal for the exact action I performed, your signed the indemnity that says you know what your doing and know the international hand signals, shall I review the camera footage, what do you mean you wouldnt have signed it if you knew you were going to be taped.....

Ah, but it's a workplace and kids shouldn't even be in there. (You'd think there would be the usual signs). Hopefully whoever runs the joint will start enforcing things before the otherwise inevitable happens.

Originally Posted by Davo

Will, drive over the car next time if you have to, but don't flip a tractor and kill yourself because of someone like that. That's the problem with the original story, where a loaded truck with unrestrained passengers gave way to a car doing the wrong thing. That's one time when you've got to think of yourself first.

(Now, when it's the other way around and it's the big vehicle at fault I know from experience there's not much you can do. I stay a long, long way from roadtrains because of some of the things they've done.)

I tell you what that steering wheel will be staying as still as when I'm chasing off the header next time! That was too close for me.

And Andy, that seems odd, at Graincorp over here, the driver is the only one allowed out, and must be wearing Hi-Vis. Why are kids running around?

Cheers
Will

What I get from this thread is that praying to your favourite deity is
significantly less effective than

Advanced driver skills training

restraining the kids

trusting the emergency crews

putting trust in skilled doctors and surgeons

Observing all the rules in your work place.

It's a tragedy that could have been lessened by being sensible.

Drive safely peoples.

From my point the message was of road safety; simple, stop killing each other. That poor woman's account, for me, drove home a message far stronger than any other road safety message I've ever seen. To most of us road deaths are merely a statistic; these statistics had names, toys, a mummy and daddy and circumstances to which we could all relate. It became personal.
All the hoo har about kids in trucks, religion or whose fault it was are distracting from the primary message.
I'm not religious but I didn't find the religious aspect at all overbearing, I think it would be quite authentic for many people in that circumstance.
It's so easy to sit in front of a keyboard and say that Darren (yep, like you and me he was an ordinary bloke with a name) should not have moved for the car. Those people have not been in the situation; Will has, he knows it is a reaction and dispite him saying "next time...............", he will react the same way. The only truck I ever rolled was avoiding a head-on with a car, I didn't have time to think.
Seat belts in trucks, what a waste. Many truck cabs are less structurally sound than a Series Land Rover and cab mounted belts and suspension seats are a poor combination.
Sharon Hourn, the author, is involved with Transhelp I believe, helping found it and counselling.

Back to the point of the original post....LET'S STOP CRASHING INTO EACH OTHER.

I get your point, but a big part of road safety is to do whatever you can to avoid a tragedy, not drive a truck full of unrestrained people off a road and then wonder what went wrong. What I got from the story is that you can't amble around the place not thinking about what you're doing and then hope it'll be all right.

Seatbelts, even in a Series, will at least stop you from being thrown out and having your car land on you.