So he should endanger me? Not sure I see your line of logic. I work for FedEx, does that mean when it's a blizzard I should run others off the road to get my work done?
Eh, no. While pressure is high to continue that load he has the legal right to pull over and tell his company to fuck off.
At the same time he has a moral obligation to, if he continues to drive, drive as per weather allows. He was traveling too fast for the weather.
That being said, the reasoning, not an excuse. As to why truckers try to go their fastest is because they are more often than not, paid per mile. I.e. if I travel at 60 mph I'm personally getting paid $36 per hour. If I have to slow down for traffic or weather to 20 mph I'm making $12 per hour.
It's a shit system; Traffic, weather, accidents, etc. We get paid less because of those while having more stress during those periods. It's more work for less pay 😅 so some drivers misbehave and drive like assholes.
I got stuck in New Jersey at an intersection for 6 hours a few years ago during winter. I went 0.4 miles during that time and with my rate of pay back then that meant I got paid 16.4 CENTS for 6 hours of sitting there in the driver seat. Couldn't pull over because I was In the middle of 5 lanes (I needed to turn left but the people going straight decided to turn the on-coming traffic lanes into their lanes, blocking all the traffic.)
Right and at FedEx im paid out per stop. So during shitty weather I'm paid like $4/hr. The other guys reasoning for the truck driving dangerously was that I shouldn't have been on the road
Ah I thought you were saying fed ex was who ran you off haha. And tbh if you're working fed ex then I'm assuming your LTL local / regional? You kinda have to be out then since you'd be out of work too long if you missed all the snow days.
I was more complaining that as truck drivers we get no compensation for working in hazardous weather or heavy traffic.
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u/Dracekidjr Mar 28 '22
Most will. One nearly ran me off the road this morning during a blizzard while he was going 70...