tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58131082011-04-21T21:09:50.686-07:00trucksafety.blogspot.comKeeping tabs on Truck Safety issues from a Biblical moral perspective
email Gene/ Editor: GKCCMLTD@AOL.comGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1163443820306466192006-11-13T10:50:00.000-08:002006-11-13T10:50:20.316-08:00ChapmanForPresident08.comGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1088912363586187992004-07-03T20:35:00.000-07:002004-07-03T20:39:23.586-07:00Today, I met a flat bed driver making $0.46 per mile. I'm gonna be looking for a pay raise. The new hours of service regulations are making pay go up, it appears.
On another note, I had a turbo hose clamp blow off the engine, while going up a mountian out of Raton, New Mexico, on I-25 today. The hose clamp is $16, but the mechanic on July 3rd cost $260.00. What a good thing is would be to Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1085315880954829462004-05-23T05:35:00.000-07:002004-05-23T05:38:00.953-07:00It appears that the new hours of service regulations work. My loads have gotten longer in miles than in the past before the change. This actually makes me more money, as I'm paid by the mile. It also keeps me from working so much on tarps each day and strapping and unstrapping. More time for driving means more money. Gene. Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1075680447473169662004-02-01T16:07:00.000-08:002004-02-01T16:09:05.903-08:00Today, I wrote to President Bush to congratulate him on the new hours of service regulations for trucks. The new 14 hour rule "RULES!!!!" Gene Chapman.
The 11 hours of driving is not really needed in my view. Now we just need to all be paid a buck ($1.00) a mile for company drivers.
Satellite tracking is needed by Government in order to keep company owners from pushing drivers, but I really Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1074997387075576012004-01-24T18:23:00.000-08:002004-01-24T18:24:37.373-08:00The new hours of service regulations seem to be working well.
Here is a sermon on changing problems:
"Be Thou Cast Into The Sea"
As I sit here in my motel room in Deming, New Mexico this evening, I am informed that the mayor of Bogota, Columbia reports that Fidel Castro looked very sick in December, 2003. It is no great thing to hear this for me, as I fully expected such after I began Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1073709187881023862004-01-09T20:33:00.000-08:002004-01-09T20:34:23.310-08:00Well, the new hours of service (HOS) regulations are in effect, but freight has been so slow that I really can't comment on their impact. Generally, the corporate part of the HOS issue seems to be on a work slowdown to protest the Government's new HOS regulations, but I probably can't prove it. I met a Heartland Express Driver who told me that the company that fired me in 2000 because I refusedGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1070148670869036372003-11-29T15:31:00.000-08:002003-11-29T15:31:45.590-08:00Well, I just ran the numbers on this job I got to pay off my personal bills, and it's averaging $1,093 per week since September 17th thru last Saturday, take home. But don't expect me to keep this up past next April. I'm going into the poverty side of ministry then. I feel God will be better served with me in the trenches, sleeping in ditches if I have to. I'm just trying to get my bills in orderGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1070058378106377522003-11-28T14:26:00.000-08:002003-11-28T14:26:51.983-08:00The news on tv just shared that there have been 10 shootings on the loop around Columbus, Ohio in recent weeks. Yes, I'm for bullet proof windshields on trucks and cars. If I had a trucking company, one of the ways I'd think to retain drivers is to have bullet proof trucks. Gene.Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1069451555545234162003-11-21T13:52:00.000-08:002003-11-21T13:53:01.903-08:00I busted myself in the eye with the metal end of a stap this week. It just gave me a small black eye.
Sometimes we get loads that are loaded to the center of the top of the trailer in flatbed work. Then we have to tarp these loads. When you put the strap on the outside of the tarp and begin throwing the straps off at the receiver, the strap doesn't go all the way over the truck. It restes Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1067835827937144852003-11-02T21:03:00.000-08:002003-11-02T21:03:46.780-08:00I had a wooden pallet break on a load I was pulling out of the San Bernadino, Cal. area last week or so. We had some metal fall on the right lane of I-15. Boy, this over-the-road flat bed stuff is dangerous. Things can happen that can kill on a flatbed that would be nothing in a van.
The guys who loaded the truck were not supposed to put the material on pallets, I found later at the Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1067835584023803312003-11-02T20:59:00.000-08:002003-11-02T20:59:42.910-08:00The new tarps are not getting much use, but I like them when they are large enough for the load I have on the truck. Usually, I need 8' drops instead of my 5' drops, I find. Gene.Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1065315210199490812003-10-04T17:53:00.000-07:002003-10-04T17:53:29.576-07:00I bought some new tarps this week ($475) that weigh about 70 lbs. each, I'm told. My old flat bed tarps are about 120 lbs. each, dry, so I'm feeling that these lighter tarps will be a tremendous advantage to my work on the road. They are 5 foot drops and black in color. The one problem I had the first time I used them was that the tallest and widest part of the load did not cover all the way Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1063749476757275272003-09-16T14:57:00.000-07:002003-09-16T14:57:56.216-07:00Gene's Safest Carriers Listing: J. B. Hunt, Schnieder National.
Gene's Dangerous Company Listing: Sears, Ford, GM, U.S. Xpress, Heartland ExpressGenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1063748851456841472003-09-16T14:47:00.000-07:002003-09-16T14:47:31.043-07:00One of the regulatory changes I like, on first examination, is the 10 hour off duty time each day and 14 hour on duty time each day. This will enable drivers to keep sleep times more consistent than in the past. We used to work all over the clock. Disturbing this natural sleep pattern results in shortened lives and driving careers. I anticipate driver turnover rates among legal operations to Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1063748528403694792003-09-16T14:42:00.000-07:002003-09-16T14:43:31.246-07:00On January 4, 2004, new hours of service regulations are planned to go into effect throughout America. While I will reserve judgement on these new regulations until I experience them for myself, I want to congratulate the US Dept. of Transportation for finally breaking the log jam in truck safety.
The American Trucking Assn., and major trucking companies like Heartland Express and U. S. Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813108.post-1063577800755427052003-09-14T15:16:00.000-07:002003-09-14T15:16:40.820-07:00Hello, I've been in a struggle to improve truck safety for many years, and felt now would be a good time to get set up. Gene Chapman, Minister of Christ.Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570521592383080761noreply@blogger.com