Truck Driving Tips | Champion Truck Lines
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Becoming a truck driver is a challenging, but could be a rewarding process. Learn the steps you need to take to become a truck driver.As per Champion Truck Lines these steps are described by this video.
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- 1. Truck Driving Tips Truck Lines Commercial truck driving can be a rewarding career, especially if you really enjoy driving and don't mind spending long periods of time away from home. Becoming a truck driver doesn't often take much time, but you do need to meet a few strict requirements before you can land a job. So Champion Truck Lines Provide guidelines for become a truck driver.
- 2. 2 Objectives • Popular functions of a Defending Driver • Rental Vehicle Awareness • Types of Producing Conditions • Disaster Producing Tips • Hazardous Producing Examples • Road Rage • Summary
- 3. 3 The Defensive Driver • Makes before getting behind the wheel • Ensures all travelers use protection belts • Obeys rate limits • Considers climate conditions
- 4. 4 The Defensive Driver • Never tailgates • Eliminates distractions • Adjusts for town, road, or non-urban driving
- 5. 5 Steps to Safer Driving • Strategy your trip • Know your vehicle • Keep car gas container at least ½ full • Maintain control • Remember protecting generating techniques
- 6. 6 Rental Vehicles • Get acquainted yourself • With the vehicle • With your surroundings • Know where you are going before you keep the car automobile parking lot
- 7. 7 Driving Laws • Notice Rate limits • Drive for road conditions – Drive for traffic conditions • Follow Visitors laws • Right turn on red? • Use your turn signal
- 8. 8 Driving Conditions • Severe Weather – Know if show surging are a potential – Listen to environment forecasts – NEVER, NEVER produce through working water – Water only 1 ft powerful will provide your car away – Tornado potential
- 9. 9 Driving Conditions • Night Time driving – Time change causes motorists to go away perform after dark – Work area places still in impact until dusk • Fog – Fog and smoking from losing waste can cause restricted visibility
- 10. 10 Terrain • Know the terrain – Filter, hilly roads – Road surface – Congested town streets – RR crossings without lighting or gates
- 11. 11 Watch out for • Pedestrians • Children • Animals • Bad Drivers • Trucks
- 12. 12 • Slowly Down • Wear Chair Belts • Expect Delays • Avoid distractions Catastrophe Generating Guidelines to Live By
- 13. 13 Disaster Driving Tips to Live By • Improve the range between your car and others due to improved risks of the road – Waste, work areas, stop light harm, pressure levels Allowing Yourself Space
- 14. 14 •Cure all crossing points as 4 - way stops •Some visitors lighting may not be working •Signs may be missing Disaster Driving Tips to Live By
- 15. 15 Disaster Driving Tips to Live By • Look at horizon • Keep you sight moving • Scan on and off the road • Check your showcases frequently • Be completely conscious of what is at the front side and behind you at all times
- 16. 16 Vehicles May Pass Unexpectedly at Any Time
- 17. 17 Road Work Areas are Frequently Not Noticeable or Effectively Recognized with Symptoms, Cones, Barricades and Qualified Flaggers
- 18. 18 Flaggers in Perform Areas are Not Always Noticeable
- 19. 19 Stay Back 4 Car Measures Distance from Waste Vehicles to Avoid Traveling and Dropping Waste Identify the Hazards Heavy Equipment Movements Debris Trucks Passing Workers
- 20. 20 Be Aware of Large Automobiles, Mobile Houses, and Large Devices
- 21. 21 Road Rage Road rage (also road violence) is the informal name for deliberately dangerous and/or violent behavior under the influence of heightened, violent emotion such as anger and frustration, involving an automobile in use.
- 22. 22 Causes of Road Rage • Environment • Instructive reactions or Territorial defensiveness • Intrusive reactions
- 23. 23 10 Useful Tips 1.Don't return again. 2.Don't eye get in touch with is key with an upset car owner. 3.Before you respond to anything that is done to you please ask yourself, "Is getting back again at that snazzy jerk value my life?" 4.Be respectful and respectful, even when others are not. 5.Always ask yourself: "Could the other car owner have probably created mistake?"
- 24. 24 10 Useful Tips 6. If you are harassed by another driver and being followed, do not go home. Go to the nearest police detachment. 7. Slow down and relax! 8. Never underestimate other drivers' capacity for mayhem. 9. Reduce your driving stress by allowing enough time to get where you are going. 10. Remember that you cannot control the drivers around you, but you can control the way they affect your well-being.
- 25. 25 Drivers are Stressed, Be Patient
- 26. 26 Summary • Your protection is your responsibility • Drive very properly and carefully • Be conscious of your surroundings • Be individual with catastrophe area • Watch out for hazards
Editor's Notes
- TRAINER NOTES: Disaster Site Defensive driving is designed to heighten your awareness of everything happening around you while driving in these extremely dangerous conditions. If you start developing these habits early and realize that every time you get in a car there is risk involved, you increase your chances that you won't be involved in a collision. Start practicing NOW by checking your mirrors constantly. Always be aware of what is on your right, your left and behind you. Check the road ahead. What is on the horizon, what is happening in front of the car ahead of you. Learn to make eye to eye contact with drivers and pedestrians. That way you know they see you. Look at the front wheels of the cars parked on the side of the road. If you see a car with the wheels turned to the left, is it going to suddenly pull out? Of course you can also just drive around in a daze, fool with the radio, use the mirrors for checking your hair etc. and the rest of us will pay for it with higher insurance rates, but you may pay with your life.
- TRAINER NOTES: In this picture a debris truck impatiently passes another parked debris truck on a residential street. The result was a near miss from on-coming traffic and an escalation of driver frustration. GET INTO THIS HABIT' Before you turn the key. Fasten your seatbelt. Make sure your passengers are secure. Leave space to escape dangerous situations. Expect the unexpected and plan for escape routes.
- TRAINER NOTES: Four out of ten accidents involve rear-end collisions. This usually occurs because someone was following too closely (tailgating) Allowing yourself space can be accomplished by applying the “three second rule." Suppose you are the second car in line at a stop light. Your front bumper is three feet from the car in front of you. You look in your rearview mirror and notice that the someone is approaching you at a high speed. He is waving at some girls and doesn't see the red light until it is too late. He slams on his brakes and all you hear is the screeching of his tires followed by a loud and sickening CRUNCH. Everything suddenly fades to black. The next thing you notice is a fireman trying to take your pulse as the Jaws of Life are ripping apart your car so you can be extracted. Of course you noticed that the local moron is not hurt and you overhear him telling the police that YOU backed into him. As you slip back into unconsciousness you remembered to GIVE YOURSELF AN OUT. If only you had left a car and a half length between you and the car in front of you. You could have pulled forward or even out of the way before the impact. Pick an object like a road sign or overpass. As the vehicle in front of you passes the object begin counting "one, one thousand one, one one thousand two, one one thousand three" If you reach the object before you finish counting, you are following too closely. In the disaster site, increase your count to 3 or 5 seconds.
- TRAINER NOTES: Be cautious as traffic lights become operational again. Many drivers may forget, as they are waiting at an intersection, to forgo the recommendation to treat all intersections as 4-way stops. Stressed, emotional, and out of town drivers may not do this so you need to be careful and cautious. Don’t assume any driver will follow these guidelines. Check before you pull through any intersection.
- TRAINER NOTES: Have you ever experienced a bad day and you just didn't feel like yourself? Then, some "jerk" makes you angry on your drive home. These are conditions that are perfect for road rage, and almost everybody has experienced them. The only difference between you and a road rager is how you deal with these feelings. To protect yourself you have to get a hold of your emotions. The worst thing that you want to happen is to meet someone who is as angry as you, or possibly even more possessed by rage. This will likely cause a confrontation on the road that may lead to an exchange of gestures, dangerous driving tactics and physical violence. If you are angry at someone on the road - let it go. If you are an innocent victim of road rage by some angry driver you must protect yourself. Do not make eye contact with an angry driver. An angry look is all he/she needs to increase the level of rage. The best advice is to safely get away from an angry driver as quickly as possible. Take the next right turn and choose an alternate route to your destination. If necessary, pull over and cool off before continuing on your way. If an enraged driver attempts to follow you there is a good chance that the level of violence may increase. Do not go home. Go straight to the nearest police detachment and file a complaint/report when you arrive there. Do not endanger yourself by trying to evade a road rager. Drive the speed limit and observe all traffic control devices. Remember to be respectful while driving. Treat other people the way you would want to be treated.
- TRAINER NOTES: Road rage can be caused by a variety of events, circumstances, and environments. The three main categories used to classify what causes road rage are the environment, instructive responses or territorial defensiveness and intrusive responses. Environmental conditions are the main factors associated with road rage. These conditions can consist of traffic congestion, another’s dangerous driving habits, the weather (heat, humidity, etc.), noise levels, and time constraints. The other two causes of road rage, instructive responses and territorial defensiveness are closely related. Territorial defensiveness is the act of defending one’s personal space (the car) in response to another individuals driving. Instructive responses is the act of “teaching the other guy a lesson” (“Get off the road slow poke!”, “Use your turn signals!”). Intrusive responses are actions of retaliation to get back at another for their careless driving. Road rage is a relatively serious act; it may be seen as a violation of property rights and an endangerment of personal security.
- TRAINER NOTES: Know the roads that are under construction and listen to weather reports that may cause traffic delays. Practice patience and keep your cool. Be calm and drive safely.