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This is like alot of things, it would be nice to make it better but there really isn't much of an answer. Adding an endorsment to your drivers license is the best idea, and I think a good one, but the cost to implement it would be high. You would have to train the test takers. And the adm cost would make it hard to keep the cost down. And just cause you can pass the test don't make you safe. Look at all the truck drivers that no business being out there or regular drivers that shouldn't be allowed on a bike let alone a car. I'm not against there being something, in fact me and my brother were talking about it on Fri, but I just don't know what would work(short of shooting the idiots).

In some states there is a ratio you have to maintain. And if you are exceeding a certain GVW stopping at weight stations is mandatory. I dont think there should be a ton of laws or tests on trailors, authorities just need to look for the obvious.
If there was a "squat" law that said the rear of the pulling vehicle couldnt squat more that X'' that would help. More than anything people just need to use their heads before taking off. Before we go anywhere i spend a good 10 mins checking straps, tires, lights, ect. Then once we leave i like to stop anout 10-20miles into the trip and go back to re-tighten everything again that may have shifted. Out of all the trips i took this year the only casualty was throwing the serpintine belt going to loatp.

but I just don't know what would work(short of shooting the idiots).[/quote]

I think we found our answer!!!! Make it legal to shoot the idiots...i would vote for that.

About 12 or 13 years ago i worked for an air freight company. I was hauling a jet engine that was being adapted for a jet car or something like that. I was going down the steepest hill in the Detroit area (Rochester road going into downtown Rochester for low95xlt) when the light at the bottom of the hill turned yellow. Of course at the same time the teeny-bopper in the Ford Probe beside me decided she just had to get in front of me. I laid on the horn, revved and crunched down a gear and started looking for the best way not to go over top of her. To my amazement i was able to stop about 10 feet short of hitting her...but...then theres this problem of an 8,000 pound crate in the back of the truck. It was sitting on the tail end of the truck cause the place i was delivering to didnt have a dock, just a huge hi-lo and chains. As the truck was coming to a stop i popped the air brakes and DOVE out the door onto the road. About half a second later, the jet engine came tearing through the back of the cab. It tore through the box, the back of the cab, and pushed the drivers seat and steering wheel up and over the dash on a Ford Cargo 8000 cab over truck. The girl thought it was funny til i showed her where i had been sitting a few moments earlier. I sure hope she learned her lesson.

there would be some dead mofo's in my town!

MAN!!! dont ya love the idiots out there!?!

yea i know where your talking bout
yea but if we shoot al lthe idiots it might be taken the wrong way and alot of innocent idiot people would die, but would that be a bad thing?

she would have been one of the idiots I would shoot....

there are alot of those up here

EXACTLY!!!!!

I second all your opinions…but what I look out for are Uhaul trucks + amateur truck driver = accident waiting to happen.
I steer clear from them …