Well. But remember it's a classroom session is just the beginning.
As your driver trainer.
At each one of your recruits drive
and one by one like you put these ideas we convert into practice.
On the road while if we do so much talking about intersections.
You can forget.
Most accidents happen at intersections.
And once you get that through your head your job will be safer
and a heck of a lot more secure.
Let's keep the main points in mind
and I want to approach intersections cautiously.
On the right of way.
And never pass.
And number five. For blind corners.
The first thing tomorrow morning. I'll start with you.
Yeah well
remember that anything can happen at an intersection. And if you have brothers.
It's going to take the place of.
That quick as a way to get yourself scattered over
that landscape is there by chance I'm one of these intersections like a dame at a
bargain counter. Now take this intersection for instance that lights red.
So we stop by Does everybody know. We're going to have.
He's going through against the red if one of those cars waiting to cross had made a
jack rabbit start.
Somebody would be messed up but you gotta drive like everybody else was crazy.
Joe too many birds think
that just because they got the green nothing's going to happen.
Stop lights and stop signs and barricades.
I don't get you began trying to stop signs
and signals other guy going to stay out of trouble.
By remembering what we said yesterday. Always approach intersections cautious.
By being prepared like the Boy Scouts a slow down and be ready for anything
that doesn't the right of way mean anything.
Man cemeteries are full of guys that had a right away
and they're just as dead as if they hadn't right away is something to get not take.
Another thing that way but are not a lot of accidents are caused by threatening.
Drifting. With
that truck with anything on a wheel drifting means letting your rig roll forward
or back after you stop for the red lights.
Only reason is carelessness a red light show is a traffic control not a place to
relax while waiting at a light.
Keep your foot on the brake and your eyes on what's going on.
Watch the guy alongside especially if he's Goosen his engine.
He may be figuring to get in the best thing
that delays let him get out of your way. And speaking of traffic lights.
It never pays the play. I'm joking so the green lights are always in your favor.
Right. Where. Signals are synchronized.
It's good to get into step with the light so you don't have to stop.
But where they're not synchronized jockey to avoid stopping jockey
and mange holing off on the brake till the last second
or kicking around the tail to beat the light. Don't do it.
There are risks you run are much greater than the wear
and tear you think you save on the equipment by not stopping on a boulevard like
this you have to figure head what you're going to do
and we've got to turn left so always getting the proper length. Now.
Lane switching in heavy traffic is tricky.
Therefore turning to look at both mirrors signal and slow down
and don't forget their signal in plenty of time.
It's now when you get right up bend around the corner.
You have to give way to traffic from all directions coming towards
and from each side and that includes people on foot.
But I am the guy thought everybody knows how to make a left turn.
Trouble is people never a good things
that they wake up all of a sudden to the fact that they have to turn.
So all they turn. And speaking of turns.
And that's where you get mixed up with the pedestrian.
He always has the right away. Even when he's jaywalking.
So give him up brake
and yell never pass in an intersection unless you're going slow and pass
and he's making a turn away from crossing is a bear trap.
Believe me but take that one up ahead. It's blind.
You don't know what to expect to get up to the intersection itself.
You're going to creep up to a blind crossing
and be ready to give you the air at a moment's notice. So remember.
Watch out for blind intersections whether they're blocked by buildings robbery
hills or curves.
And Ever hear of tailgate and yell sure that's another name for a bumper. Riding.
And that's another name for following too close.
Give yourself room to stop if that guy had slams on his brakes.
By ending but that almost tire burns on the road.
What gives those brains were put down because screwball drivers barge out at
driveways in front of high speed traffic.
If you want to let there be an old hand at this business just like jobs
but driveways and especially farmland.
They're Mertz but a good driver always knows what to expect and seldom has
that dynamite is bright. Say that looks like a good spot to stop for a minute.
Let's pile in here and when I was off with a little jab.
Let's say just before we left the city and we made a right turn.
You had me make some a new word that looked kind of screwy to me. How about that.
Well
and I was trying to avoid what is known as the squeeze play Joe I'll show you what
I mean on this make our way to work and we had to turn right.
We couldn't do it from next to the curb
and it's dangerous to swing let it turn right.
So first we got within four
or five feet of the curb sell a car couldn't crowd in on our right side like this.
As you'll recall.
I tell you to watch the mirrors
and to signal then to post right out into the intersection like shell until
clearing the curb with a rear wheel.
That only been around when everything was clear out in the country.
Joe you have blind intersections the same as you have and they said it like
that one ahead. Only in the country. You don't always know where to expect them.
If you don't know the road expect to find a blind cross
and behind every clump of trees and bushes.
And you have traffic lights
and stop signs in the country just like downtown only some drivers get the feeling
that because it's open country they're safe and trying to beat up. I don't do it.
You speak into traffic signals. How about the yellow light.
For my money yellow and red are the same color. They both mean stop.
Regarded as high and makes a red and yellow yellow it never makes green.
And while I'm talking about stops as T O P spells stop not slow
at stop signs stop dead.
They are they if they give you a time that see if it's safe to go ahead.
Flyin stops are strictly for the birds.
That's not like here's a lot of cracks about warning signs.
Andy and you take any stock in them.
Well I don't want to sound like a Sunday school teacher but.
Those signs are about truckers Guardian Angels. Take a look at that sign up ahead.
That sign is your rate.
It tells you there is an intersection ahead
that you can't see without signs like thank you my drop over a hill
or swing around a bend and give yourself a bad time.
Well at twenty years I run I guess.
And I sure hope I can remember all you have said and the.
Well the let's go in the garage and go over it again just to make sure it sticks.
Now then Joe. Let's say you know that memory of yours it.
Well.
As I recall your first point was something about taking it easy.
Like it does on that poster slow down at intersections.
He wrecked come to think of it you go there's a poster on the wall for practically
everything we cover. That you see that poster over there. It says.
They ain't your lurks and blind corners.
Let's face you're the remember what we said about right away. Sure.
Never take the right away.
If you forget every other thing I told you to remember
that there is a little of the Golden Rule in that next one.
It's courteous to say you can't expect the other fella to give you a signal if you
don't give him one signal before.
And this one.
Everything I've been telling a hotspot for accidents.
I like electric power.
But I think the driver has a lot.
Remember most.