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[CADplans]

I saw a guy was asking for advice about adding a hitch plate to the rear of a commercial truck,,
Would you add a hitch to the rear of an air brake type dump truck?

 

[CADplans]

The newest in hitching accessories,,

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

Not a problem, I keep my vehicles up and if something were to slip by I'd be glad to be informed about it, though I wouldn't like the inconvenience of being randomly stopped. MI is the first state I've lived that doesn't have any passenger vehicle inspections what so ever. Other states have mandatory safety and /or emissions inspections annually. I have no problem with the ones where you get to pick a repair shop to do the inspection at your convenience. The state run inspection places where you have to wait in line are a bit of a pain.

3 Horse Ranch, for the sake of discussion, let's assume it was all driver error. Putting a driver that can't understand English or read the road signs is a problem! Unless the guy stole the truck, then someone knowingly allowed an unqualified driver to take the truck out. Again, there are more people at fault for this "accident" than just that truck driver. It's a small company so it's likely everyone in the company knew what was going on, meaning the even if the owner didn't make the decision directly, he certainly knew about it and allowed it. That the trucking company can just switch names and continue business as usual is not good.

Of course there were other factors, the truck driving school teaching in Spanish. The state doing written and skills tests in Spanish. The company hiring him not checking his language skills etc. The company sending him to a mountainous state without being sure he was trained well enough.
The company was small, five trucks, (the owner is likely also a driver) the really don't have the luxury of picking and choosing which load for which driver. In all honesty the company should not have hired him until he had a few years local work under his belt. The problem is, there has been a driver shortage for the past decade, partly because most experienced drivers prefer local or regional carriers and the need is in long haulers.

What wasn't a factor was his brakes failing due to mechanical deficiencies, if that were so the owner would likely also have been charged criminally. They failed because of his numerous bad decisions that were the result of bad training, and a state that is so PC that it gives tests in Spanish for a license that requires the driver to read, write and communicate in English.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

In Canada there are no language restrictions to get a CDL. It's not legislated that you speak one or the other of our 2 official languages.
I have seen receivers at warehouses who have to draw a door number on a piece of paper so the driver can match it with what is on the wall at the dock.
Makes me wonder how they pass the CDL tests. English and French are the 2 official languages in Canada and all gov info is available in those two. In certain
areas of Canada most speak both, or in rare cases they might have to get a co-worker to step in that does speak one or the other.
What we're seeing is a lot of East Asian (India) and middle eastern drivers who speak neither.
Makes me wonder about reading road signs, addresses, directions... all that.

Living just south of the border for a long time, I found that often a company would send non-English speaking drivers with another truck with a bi-lingual English speaking driver who would act as guide and translator. The following non-English speaking driver would sometimes do some very dangerous moves to keep from losing his leader.

 

[sea2summit]

I saw this on Facebook. View attachment 727147

Yeah, chained down! Wreck waiting to happen!

 

[civilian]

The newest in hitching accessories,,

Looks ok to me, chains are there, they moved the license plate light when they moved the plate. Weld might hold that little trailer shown somewhere behind that F150. LOL, Jon

 

[Travelover]

The newest in hitching accessories,,

At least the ball was installed by an obviously skilled welder.

 

[Jstpssng]

At least the ball was installed by an obviously skilled welder.

I had to stop and think if I'd done it... some of my early welds looked like that.

 

[CADplans]

Looks ok to me, chains are there, they moved the license plate light when they moved the plate. Weld might hold that little trailer shown somewhere behind that F150. LOL, Jon

At least the ball was installed by an obviously skilled welder.

and, from the trunk sticker, he also practices motorcycle safety!!

 

[civilian]

and, from the trunk sticker, he also practices motorcycle safety!!

Maybe that ball is how he transports his motorcycle! Jon