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Let's Be Careful Out There

ATeam

ATeam

Senior Member
Retired Expediter
From a report recently issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

"A total of 1.4 million injuries and illnesses in private industry required recuperation beyond the day of the incident in 2002...."

Truck drivers and nursing aides were the professions with the greatest number of such injuries and illnesses.

"Of the 112,200 injured truck drivers [in 2002], 93% were men. Half of their injuries were sprains or strains, often to the trunk or lower extremities, stemming from overexertion, contacts with objects or equipment, or falls."

The full report can be read at:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/osh2.pdf
 
silverdollar

silverdollar

Expert Expediter
My God,is this the direction that trucking is going? when I started
driving I was told to keep my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut and I might learn something,it seemed to work pretty good since I have been doing pretty good since I started in 1959.now we have hobby truckers out here with less then a years experience giving advice and telling us how to spec trucks.come on A-team,stay in the newbie forum for awhile.:(
 
cat can do

cat can do

Veteran Expediter
I dont think that it is Advice that they are giving, seems to me they are just passing along an article that might help others.
 
silverdollar

silverdollar

Expert Expediter
Cat can do, how do they know that any information that they pass on is any good? they haven`t been driving long enough to know what works and what doesn`t,I don`t mean to knock them,but it seems to me that they should try some of their ideas on a truck that they own before passing it on as a good idea.
 
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RichM

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
Nothing beats experience.Amen Silverdollar, Hope you are thick skinned as you will catching some flack.LOL
 
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teacel

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
As most of you older members know I’ve been busy doing life the hard way. I really haven’t had much time to post lately for there comes a time in every guys life when he must prioritize but when 12 of my pears called me with “concerns”, to “hurl the news of a potential post war”, or to “laugh over someone thinking he has all the answers”, I thought it best to log on and check it out for myself.

Most of the people that called me called to laugh & joke with one another over this post and a couple of others from certain users and the personal history behind them. I see things haven’t changed much on that side of the fence. The few that called with concerns was about not posting because of certain members … I’ll leave that one alone!!!

I really do have to commend silverdollar for calling things as he sees them. To Cat-can-do, it is okay to like what others write about, but it isn’t a very wise thing to go against experience for if we didn’t have the old timers around to learn from we would really be in a hot water. I know for me the old timers have saved me lots of money over the years by passing on their knowledge and me using it. Now that is "ADVICE" not an article out of a newspaper that isn’t even good reading for most new people in this business or wanting to get into this business, as they are still learning there ABC’s and this type of reading may just run them off.

I see the user rating issue still isn’t resolved. Rich the best thing you could do as to not have another mud slinging word war on your hands or someone screaming lawsuit is to lock this thread ASAP!!!
 
Dreamer

Dreamer

Administrator Emeritus
Charter Member
OK folks.. I'm confused...

I've been around here for a "while".. and yes, I know the history.. but all this fuss over a post on being 'careful out there'? This is factual information being passed along...no 'newbie opinion'..

It's a fact that truckers are more prone to injury! People need to know the risks and learn proper ways to move in and around trucks, and how to properly handle freight if they have to move it. Noone told me... they just said, 'hey Dale..move those barrels to the back!"

I for one think Ateam was just being helpful?

Come on people... don't LOOK for an excuse to jump someone. I thought this forum was more professional than that.
 
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