Why are we so mean to each other?
I think this forum is a prime example of it constantly posting pictures of drivers making mistakes then berating them. I know it’s not just on here because I’ve seen it while at work as well.
I’m genuinely curious BTW because I know with other professions they often back each other to a fault.
Ye it’s easy to mock someone who hit a bridge but maybe the guy has just passed his test has zero experience driving a truck and has a million things going through his head. E.g. for me I got thrown in at the deep end and I never once got told how to use a tacho card I even paid for
1 days of cpc which covered tacho training and it was 75% about paper disk and 25% about digital without ever actually using one just looking at printouts of it.
As a new driver Cpc should of benefited me the most yet all it did is confuse me and ye maybe I had a bad teacher but if I as a new driver find it useless and old timers find it useless what’s the point of it?
FYI my first class 1 job was delivering A-frame trailers to customers for loading and Collections they are a pig to reverse and unfortunately the guy that was meant to show me them didn’t know how to reverse them and refused to so he just showed me how to hook it up and wished me good luck. So off I went on the road never driven an a frame trailer before and no idea how to reverse them.
I got it all done in the end but I could of easily messed up and I expect a lot of people have similar experiences when they are new.
So long story short.
Cpc is crap and should be replaced by something effective.
It’s easy to blame a driver but it’s not always his fault because new drivers don’t always know better. Or are so out of their depth they just need a responsible employer to step in and train them I.e start putting more of the blame on the employer.
/Rant over
I wrote this on my phone so sorry for the poor structure.