From my experience with common carriers, I can say that without reservation. These drivers cannot carry on this record, however, without your help. Being alert to the trucks and using common sense are imperative for a continued perfect record. Violation of these rules can result in disciplinary actions including having your supervisor called or your car taken. Employees can brush up on defensive driving by contacting any state drivers-license issuing facility for manuals, usually at no cost.
Literature also is available at any police station or sheriff's office.
Check with your division training officer to enroll in a training course through the Center for Continuing Education. If you'd like some hands-on driver training, there also are a number of commercial driver training services available. At somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000 pounds, Heth's tanker truck weighs so much that he can't feel any objects that come into his path as he backs it up. Anyone or anything that might be behind the truck could be crushed, and that concerns him. Heth and his fellow Energy Systems drivers are worried that employees and subcontractors are taking undo risks by driving or walking around a moving truck.