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[Renze]

Drivers like this should not be allowed on the roads.

Thats exactly the type of drivers employed by the lowballer firms from Eastern Europe. For professional driving you need "code 95" which is a registration of additional courses and trainings related to traffic safety, Hazmat, whatever, just to raise the bar for foreign truckers who got the same drivers license, yet passed a far lower bar in their country (or just bought it)

 

[ptsg]

Thats exactly the type of drivers employed by the lowballer firms from Eastern Europe. For professional driving you need "code 95" which is a registration of additional courses and trainings related to traffic safety, Hazmat, whatever, just to raise the bar for foreign truckers who got the same drivers license, yet passed a far lower bar in their country (or just bought it)

Here in Portugal, same thing happens but with Brazilian drivers. Just because we speak more or less the same language, the governments made some sort of deal where the driving license is valid on both countries, which makes no sense at all since there's different rules and requirements between both countries, specially in the trucking world.

 

[RandyT]

A utuber that I watch often is a heavy wrecker owner/operator. He just had a video of a trucker with two completely destroyed tires with the rims spinning in what was left of the tires wanting a tow instead of road service for tires.

Drivers like this should not be allowed on the roads.

I hate casey Ladelle

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Here in Europe, Eastern Europeans are taking over. Particularly the Hungarian Waberer is notorious, there are Facebook groups in which domestic truckers share the, sometimes plain stupid mishaps and accidents caused by Hungarian drivers that got their drivers license with the groceries.

Here in the US, they are called "Swift drivers".

 

[tacticalturnip]

Here in the US, they are called "Swift drivers".

And in the Northeast they're also Eastern European.

 

[RayIN]

Here in Portugal, same thing happens but with Brazilian drivers. Just because we speak more or less the same language, the governments made some sort of deal where the driving license is valid on both countries, which makes no sense at all since there's different rules and requirements between both countries, specially in the trucking world.

The U.S.A. made the same type agreement with Mexico. Many of them do not speak English, let alone know our OTR trucking rules.
The other side of the coin is; U.S.A. CDL holders are not allowed to drive into Mexico. They must drop their trailers in a special lot at a border crossing, where a Mexican driver picks up the trailer for the drive into Mexico. (this might have been changed)

 

[RayIN]

My wife was rear-ended by a Mexican truck driver. She survived, her Jeep did not.

 

[goeduck]

A to B pillar stayed mostly intact. Glad she was okay.

 

[bcp]

After a drunk driver totaled my new 1997 Cherokee in Nevada, and I was uninjured, the highway patrolman said he saw fewer fatalities and injuries of Cherokee occupants than any other cars.

Bruce

 

[Renze]

After a drunk driver totaled my new 1997 Cherokee in Nevada, and I was uninjured, the highway patrolman said he saw fewer fatalities and injuries of Cherokee occupants than any other cars.

Ive seen one at the wreckyard with a tree in the passenger seat. Front and rear bumper were at a 90 degree angle. Driver cannot have survived this as he will have hit the tree with his head, right next to his seat.

My neighbour said, back in the 70s and 80s you had to be wary of fingers and body parts when scrounging for parts... Cutting yourself on contaminated vehicles could lead to serious infections.

Back then, local firemen pulled the deceased from wrecks, there were no specialised body recovery and decontamination teams back then, that deliver a wreck free of blood to the wreckers.

Trauma response care was non existent either. When you witnessed people burn after a crash, nowadays youre going to talk to the trauma psychologist at the fire station, they wont let you take it home. Back then, nobody talked about what they had seen.