Today's Thoughts. By Jeff Head 12/21/14 Of Two Videos
I shared two videos today on Facebook. One was the dash cam
video of a truck driver minding his business traveling down the road when a
vehicle stopped at a stop sign decides to just pull out in front of his truck
at the last moment. The second video was
also of a vehicle pulling out in front of a truck travel down the highway at
the last moment. In both videos, the
truck being pulled in front of acted professionally and saved the life of the
person that pulled out in front of them.
What was the difference between the two videos you might ask, the driver
that messed up? In one video, it was the
driver of a car while in the second video it was the driver of a truck.
All too often, I will hear stories of how car drivers are
doing this in front of me. Then from the
other side how truck drivers are doing that.
What I have come to understand from all of this is no matter what we
drive from tricycle to super hauler, be it a man or a women, we all have one
thing in common, we are human. Each and
every one of us at some point in our driving life will eventually make a
mistake. We will run into the kitchen
table and bump our head or we might find ourselves sitting in what used to be
our vehicle wondering what in the heck just happened. Not the first one of us will ever be picture perfect
their entire driving career.
So where does that leave us, what can we do? Every day we share the highways with
thousands of drivers just as imperfect as we ourselves are and understanding
that fact is the first step to keeping our highways safe for everybody. You see if we adopt the attitude that I am
always going to be prepared for when that driver does pull out in front of me. I am not going to tailgate because that
driver in front of me might get pulled out in front of. I am going to slow down here because a child
might lose control of their tricycle and come out from those parked cars. In short, drive in such a manner that of all
the things I think could simply never happen right now, that I am prepared to
handle when they do without warning.
Then just as the professional truckers in the videos I shared this
morning, I will find that once again I saved the life of another person that
simply made a mistake and almost took mine.
It is all about attitude.
It is all about our willingness to keep those we share the highways with
safe and alive, just doing our number one jobs as truckers. At this time of year with everyone traveling
around thinking about having their Merry Christmas, keeping our minds on the
road is more important than ever.
Keep it safe folks. Have
a Merry Christmas.
God Bless America
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