17-vehicle Crash Leaves 5 Dead In Austin - "fly By Night" Poor Training?

Nick I got a big issue with your statement it’s the little guys pulled in why the big ones are passed through.

I’m as small as it gets. 1 truck, 1,driver. I get bypassed or spoken to briefly and 99.9 percent of the time sent on my way. It’s all about how you appear and carry yourself. If you look and act proffessional you get treated as a proffessional.

I have rolled through plenty of scale houses and Prime, Crete, Convent, or other large carriers were being throughly inspected.

I keep my equipment well maintained and looking good all the time. It tells DOT I care and they probably are wasting their time on me if they really want to find violations. I’ve seen more big company trucks that look crappy, even though they are much newer than my old relic get pulled in. I can find something wrong on a brand new truck if I look hard enough.

Always look and act proffessional!!!!

Nick I got a big issue with your statement it’s the little guys pulled in why the big ones are passed through.

I’m as small as it gets. 1 truck, 1,driver. I get bypassed or spoken to briefly and 99.9 percent of the time sent on my way. It’s all about how you appear and carry yourself. If you look and act proffessional you get treated as a proffessional.

I have rolled through plenty of scale houses and Prime, Crete, Convent, or other large carriers were being throughly inspected.

I keep my equipment well maintained and looking good all the time. It tells DOT I care and they probably are wasting their time on me if they really want to find violations. I’ve seen more big company trucks that look crappy, even though they are much newer than my old relic get pulled in. I can find something wrong on a brand new truck if I look hard enough.

Always look and act proffessional!!!!

I think my words were misunderstood… I meant it more in the way of the small, fly by night carriers who don’t care… clearly you DO care and this is not you and my comment was not referring to someone like you. I think we can both agree there are plenty of drivers on the road right now who make a joke of the license and the profession. Safety and doing things right is about the last thing on their mind. It’s all about keeping the wheels turning 24/7. “1800 miles a night.” - this is who I was referring to, without pointing any specific fingers. Not someone like you. Why do I say that? Because I see it on a chronic daily basis.

I worked very hard to get my license and get to where I’m at and take my job extremely seriously. I keep it professional 100% of the time even to the point of keeping a portable pressure washer with me to clean the truck once a week. It’s no secret there are those out there who are making a joke of the industry and making all of us good, hard working guys doing it the right way with the upmost professionalism look bad… the whole point of this thread was to highlight an accident where the driver killed 5 people for driving under the influence. This is all I meant by my comment and certainly didn’t mean it as any kind of personal attack against small operators like you who are obviously doing everything the right way. I’m sorry if my words came across anything other than that but that’s certainly not how I meant it.

Nick I do understand your point. I also do not take things personal. Problem with written words, they are just that, written. No emotion or context can be gleaned, only what is written for someone to come up with there own understanding. Mis understanding can happen.

I too see junk on the road daily. Junk being both the equipment and/or the driver. There are very complex reasons from top to bottom on how we as an industry have gotten here.

We all have to make the best decisions we can for ourself and be aware of our surroundings too stay as safe as possible.