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skyhighZJ

skyhighZJ

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Almost everything we get comes from trucks one way or the other. It can be a lonely road and if a driver dies when they are no where close to home it is pretty well established that the company will recover their equipment but holds no responsibility to transport the driver back to their family.


They are a non profit that helps bring the driver home and provides help for the family in their time of loss. If you have a few extra bucks it’s a pretty good cause for the people who give so much to us without asking in return.

Thanks.
 
My Gpaw drove a truck.
Died in Oaklahoma in 1989

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Noel said:
it’s sad to think a company could be that sorry. But it’s typical now days
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I don't want to steal away from the point of this thread, but it's not just trucking companies. If you think about it very few companies would pay for a persons body to return home, almost any of of us could be out on a work trip and keel over, and its assumed your insurance or family deals with it.

Its just a lot more probable w/ drivers bc they are almost always not at home. The argument would be that they should have a good insurance policy to cover it. But of courset hey don't bc the pay isn't great and they'd rather spend $$ on higher priority things.
 
skyhighZJ said:
Almost everything we get comes from trucks one way or the other. It can be a lonely road and if a driver dies when they are no where close to home it is pretty well established that the company will recover their equipment but holds no responsibility to transport the driver back to their family.


They are a non profit that helps bring the driver home and provides help for the family in their time of loss. If you have a few extra bucks it’s a pretty good cause for the people who give so much to us without asking in return.

Thanks.
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I was trying to reply to your first sentence, but;;; Every so often, I have to drive the dump truck, in Charlotte. I Hate coming into Charlotte! I told the Boss & Dispatcher, just yesterday, "If I'm going to drive in Charlotte, I need a Dashcam!" Just 1 trip of say 10 miles, & I'm dammed near wrecked, Three Times! Damn Asshole drivers that seem to go after Trucks! :mad:
 
RatLabGuy said:
I don't want to steal away from the point of this thread, but it's not just trucking companies. If you think about it very few companies would pay for a persons body to return home, almost any of of us could be out on a work trip and keel over, and its assumed your insurance or family deals with it.

It’s just a lot more probable w/ drivers bc they are almost always not at home. The argument would be that they should have a good insurance policy to cover it. But of courset hey don't bc the pay isn't great and they'd rather spend $$ on higher priority things.
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Peoples every once in a while TDY at the convenience of a company when it more than likely could be done via remote doesn’t equal someone who lives on the road providing goods for everyone’s daily life to be comfortable at their home. I guess to me they are not the same.
 
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skyhighZJ said:
Peoples every once in a while TDY at the convenience of a company when it more than likely could be done via remote doesn’t equal someone who lives on the road providing goods for everyone’s daily life to be comfortable at their home. I guess to me they are not the same.
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I'm not saying they are the same at all. I'm just saying it's not abnormal from the cmpany's standpoint.
 
skyhighZJ said:
That’s one sweet 9k. A different class of truck and certainly a different breed of driver back then!
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They were.
I'd love to know what happened to that truck.

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He died at a truck stop in Oaklahoma.
I was 11 so don't know how much trouble it was; but getting him and his truck home was definitely a thing.
I do remember them talking about it.
 
Aeroboost said:
They were.
I'd love to know what happened to that truck.

To the point of the thread:::
He died at a truck stop in Oaklahoma.
I was 11 so don't know how much trouble it was; but getting him and his truck home was definitely a thing.
I do remember them talking about it.
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MY dad retired from OD a couple of years ago,he worked in their truck shop.There's a Pilot next door and they're both just off Int 81.Dad has said in the past that more than once he has saw them removing bodies from trucks there.
 
skyhighZJ said:
That’s one sweet 9k. A different class of truck and certainly a different breed of driver back then!
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Our old Pastors dad started out in one of those with Hennis Freight.
Managed to stay on when Pilot bought out Hennis' stuff in Winston Salem and stayed with them until they closed.
He then bought the same truck he had at Hennis , all through Pilot and became an owner/operator.
That Truck had millionS of miles on it when he retired! ....... something close to 5M I think.
 
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