I forgot to say,leave a lot of distance between you and the car or truck in front of you.7 car lengths and more if its raining and half a 1/4 mile if its ice and that can be too close.Following too close in a big truck can and does kill people.Its alright to close the gap and pass,but dont set for hours one car length off the guy in front of you or you will be running over him and wondering what just happened.I have pulled up on a car with a conventional and the car disappeared because of the hood,had to stop for road construction and forgot he was there and nearly run over one,more than once.Dont let anybody push you.If you need sleep,sleep.Running without sleep kills more drivers than about anything else.I dont take being chewed out very well,usually not at all because I chew back.If you work usually it doesnt matter.However if It takes me 4 hours later than the appointment time to get somewhere,you dont chew on me because I took a nap.You have to get that stuff stopped before it gets started.I usually worked harder than most truck drivers so I didnt have trouble with that,but I have seen guys get all shook up because they need to be 1200 miles away in the morning.The way I handled that was once I got loaded I called and told them where I probably would be in the morning.A legal distance,not 1200 miles.That dispatcher is not going to pay your logbook fine,probably wont go to your funeral if you die because you went to sleep at the wheel.Dont bite off more than you can chew,dont take no crap off of them,but work hard and they will like you.If you dont get it there as soon as they want it they should have put it on a jet plane instead of a truck.Ive told them and told them that my truck doesnt have wings and only goes where the road does.If they have some creative way to figure how many miles it is,like as the crow flies,then you need to add at least 100 miles to it and that might not be enough.Also there is the 10% of miles that they take off of trips when they tell you,so always add more time when they ask how long it will take you.6 hours by their miles,at least 8 hours.Bad weather,10 hours.Big city,12 hours.If they say a driver logged it last week in 10 hours,12 hours.Log books have very little to do with the truth.
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