Holy shit. Talk out of your ass more. I’ve been a trucker for almost twenty years and this is close to the dumbest uninformed speculation presented as fact that I’ve ever witnessed.
Edit: Y’all really not showing anything credible. Safety departments exist to justify their own paycheck, so of course they churn out a constant slew of ‘training materials’ that amount to saying water is dangerous because you can drown by inhaling too much of it, so be extra careful when you have a little sip.
Technically, yes. That is correct. And the world is large enough that someone, somewhere, has certainly choked to death by accidentally inhaling an entire glass of water.
That doesn’t make the statement “bobtailing can be dangerous” any less of a ridiculous overstatement.
Loaded, empty, bobtail, hell even just a different load distribution with weight shifted further forward or rearward, every possible way you can configure a truck has it’s own challenges. Picking one and saying "ooh, gosh, that can be dangerous is not wrong, its just misleading, meaningless drivel.
I’m guessing that twenty years ago you didn’t have to go through the all the training that they make us go through today which explicitly talks about things like this? It’s not uninformed, it’s making a huge deal out of a small thing to make the average idiot driver 0.2% safer, which I guess makes a difference in the math of our modern megacarriers.
I didn’t stop driving. The training never ends. And yes, my issue is with the idiotic overstatement to try to drive interest for a meaningless comment.
I was always told that there was a special braking mode that reduced the amount of breaks when they didn’t have a trailer. No idea how true this is our whether it makes a difference, or if this is a European thing only.
Holy shit. Talk out of your ass more. I’ve been a trucker for almost twenty years and this is close to the dumbest uninformed speculation presented as fact that I’ve ever witnessed.
Edit: Y’all really not showing anything credible. Safety departments exist to justify their own paycheck, so of course they churn out a constant slew of ‘training materials’ that amount to saying water is dangerous because you can drown by inhaling too much of it, so be extra careful when you have a little sip.
Technically, yes. That is correct. And the world is large enough that someone, somewhere, has certainly choked to death by accidentally inhaling an entire glass of water.
That doesn’t make the statement “bobtailing can be dangerous” any less of a ridiculous overstatement.
Loaded, empty, bobtail, hell even just a different load distribution with weight shifted further forward or rearward, every possible way you can configure a truck has it’s own challenges. Picking one and saying "ooh, gosh, that can be dangerous is not wrong, its just misleading, meaningless drivel.
I was told this by someone who worked for a trucking company.
You might also want to contact these companies and tell them they’re spreading misinformation:
https://www.freightcourse.com/bobtailing/
https://truckcrashlaw.com/blog/why-is-bobtailing-dangerous/
https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/what-is-a-bobtail-truck
…and MANY others.
They should include this guide with pick-up trucks and cargo vans because those (in rear-wheel drive) are essentially the same thing
Take it from a Canadian trucker, bobtailing in a blizzard is NOT a good time.
I’m guessing that twenty years ago you didn’t have to go through the all the training that they make us go through today which explicitly talks about things like this? It’s not uninformed, it’s making a huge deal out of a small thing to make the average idiot driver 0.2% safer, which I guess makes a difference in the math of our modern megacarriers.
I didn’t stop driving. The training never ends. And yes, my issue is with the idiotic overstatement to try to drive interest for a meaningless comment.
I was always told that there was a special braking mode that reduced the amount of breaks when they didn’t have a trailer. No idea how true this is our whether it makes a difference, or if this is a European thing only.