Are OTR truckers restricted from speeding?
In a trip over the weekend, we spent a few hours on Sb 95 from NC, through SC, into GA. What I noticed was every single OTR truck doing the speed limit or less. While not faulting the trucks and I hav...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:
Being a Construction Superintendent I required everyone to be able to communicate in the language of English on my job sites. It was all about being able to instantly communicate in an emergency situation. Never had an issue with this policy.
One of the things I'm doing in my Facebook jail time (I got to hurry and finish) is taking the Incident Command System 100 and 200.. They talk about the use of a single plane language (American English never confuse what we speak with English. it's not, it's close, but it's not what they speak in London (The One in England) I talk to them often enough to know.
But no codes. We don't say 10-4 or QSL (Mean the same thing) We say "Acknowledged" or Confirmed.
why? Well imagine two agencies working together on an incident, One calles in oh,, let's make something up> I've got a Murphy here (Meaning I need help in a hurry) and the other says I've got a 100 here (meaning the same thing) Well the two agencies don't realize it's the same thing but "I need help fast" .... is universal. .
NOTE: no agency I've ever worked worth uses either of the codes I made up for this post.. though I suspect may know Murphy comes from "Murphy's Law and other reasons why things go wrong"
