Wasn't a good week at work, not that it ever is, but bumping into cars is real high on the list of bad things.
I've been brooding a lot about a video they showed us a truck driving school about an incident where a driver was charged with a preventable accident in a situation similar to mine. The driver was just about to back into a dock, he opened his back doors and walked up to the front of his truck, right as he was getting into his truck a kid in a pizza delivery car pulled up and parked right behind him where he couldn't see it and he hit the car.
He had just been right there and seen nothing behind him, but he was just basically told that he should have looked again. Right there is the exact point where truck drivers are made into second class citizens. The driver could have prevented that accident if he had had OCD and gotten out and looked again after he had just gotten out and looked the first time. But because he didn't have ocd he didn't prevent the accident and therefore he was at fault. Kangaroo court.
Other people have done extremely stupid things right near me and I was lucky enough to see them. But someone else at some point is going to do something extremely stupid out of my field of vision and I'm going to be held responsible for it again. This trucking thing has turned out to be a gamble that I am about 99% certain to lose I think. There are other trucking companies right around where I live. The only disadvantages there are fun things like entering NYC, living by the phone calling asking for loads, or going over the road and having no other existence besides the job.
I should be out looking for photographs I guess, but It's really not a photographic day, glaring sunlight, grey trees and dirty snow.
I can see why noone comments on my journals any more. My life basically a drag. I could almost have been a remarkable person, but I've basically fizzled.
I've been brooding a lot about a video they showed us a truck driving school about an incident where a driver was charged with a preventable accident in a situation similar to mine. The driver was just about to back into a dock, he opened his back doors and walked up to the front of his truck, right as he was getting into his truck a kid in a pizza delivery car pulled up and parked right behind him where he couldn't see it and he hit the car.
He had just been right there and seen nothing behind him, but he was just basically told that he should have looked again. Right there is the exact point where truck drivers are made into second class citizens. The driver could have prevented that accident if he had had OCD and gotten out and looked again after he had just gotten out and looked the first time. But because he didn't have ocd he didn't prevent the accident and therefore he was at fault. Kangaroo court.
Other people have done extremely stupid things right near me and I was lucky enough to see them. But someone else at some point is going to do something extremely stupid out of my field of vision and I'm going to be held responsible for it again. This trucking thing has turned out to be a gamble that I am about 99% certain to lose I think. There are other trucking companies right around where I live. The only disadvantages there are fun things like entering NYC, living by the phone calling asking for loads, or going over the road and having no other existence besides the job.
I should be out looking for photographs I guess, but It's really not a photographic day, glaring sunlight, grey trees and dirty snow.
I can see why noone comments on my journals any more. My life basically a drag. I could almost have been a remarkable person, but I've basically fizzled.
If you go back and look a second time, or a third time or a fourth time, they can still sneak up behind you after that, can't they?