{"id":17427,"date":"2024-12-24T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/heres-what-ive-learned-from-6-months-as-cdl-a-driver-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:01:11","slug":"heres-what-ive-learned-from-6-months-as-cdl-a-driver-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/heres-what-ive-learned-from-6-months-as-cdl-a-driver-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve learned from 6 months as CDL A driver | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThere are 5 types of pedestrians on the roadway<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; 50-60% &#8211; drug addicts . People who will risk anything and everything to get what they want instantly<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; 10-20% angry\/teens . They\u2019re not quite willing to risk it all but they\u2019re a danger to themselves and others<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; 5-15% Gramps\/ granny -almost normal but a bit slow and can become grumpy\/ angry with little provocation<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; 3-9%Cops &#8211; they want to produce revenue and know they can legally shoot but you can\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>5 -1-3% friendly\/ happy &#8211; allow merging, create distance, don\u2019t cause stress<\/p>\n<p>my solution-<br \/>Since they want to put cameras everywhere, my truck has at least 3 outwards facing cameras I know of, let truckers use them\u2026. To their advantage<\/p>\n<p>truckers should be able to submit any video evidence from their cam, straight to law enforcement and the evidence should be able to be used to produce tickets.<\/p>\n<p>this would over time severely cut down on the amount of drug addicts and angry drivers on the roads.<\/p>\n<p>truckers would essentially be turned into a roaming mobile police force with camera-only powers.<\/p>\n<p>the amount of tickets produced from the drug addicts\/angry drivers would pay for road improvements, and create safer roads for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>merry Christmas<\/p>\n<p>Chi Town\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/here%E2%80%99s-what-i%E2%80%99ve-learned-from-6-months-as-cdl-a-driver.2518131\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 5 types of pedestrians on the roadway 1 &#8211; 50-60% &#8211; drug addicts . People who will risk anything and everything to get what they want instantly 2 &#8211; 10-20% angry\/teens . They\u2019re not quite willing to risk it all but they\u2019re a danger to themselves and others 3 &#8211; 5-15% Gramps\/ granny&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}