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Driving's just the fun part of being a trucker. Securing and balancing loads, verifying manifests, preventative maintenance and safety inspections... Still, p

• ryanmarsh 11y ago
  Exactly, truck safety is the most important part of being a driver and it is the biggest risk to the company of course. The problem is safety inspections and securing a load properly apparently are harder to do than drive (from my experience shadowing a safety officer). Perhaps if we have less drivers we could transfer the responsibility of certifying the truck/load as "safe" to a surrogate safety officer better trained for that task than your typical driver who frankly doesn't care and will say things like "it's not my trailer" "I didn't load that pallet" or "running the scales"