I don’t know why this was an issue, it’s happened to me; even worse, my windshield still has cracks from flying stones…as for your comment: “It’s physically impossible and equally impractical to expect a big rig driver to to clear the top of a trailer of snow & ice.”…I have to differ with you. I have a good friend who makes it a point to pull his rig up to a low roof in the truck yard and he steps onto the trailer roof to sweep the snow and ice off. It’s not an everyday practice but if you want to be on the safe side, it can and should be done, to protect others and especially the driver from a suit, which I suspect will be filed shortly, as soon as she hears from an attorney..
that the driver was following too closely and probably thinks she’s got grounds for cashing in….oops, I mean, file a lawsuit for cleaning the crap out of her pants!
This is my third post for this…..I know you can get this service at the Petro; hell, they can pipe in a TV and HBO, can’t they? I worked at a truck stop on I-80 in college and would do this exact service for a couple of bucks…I had a big step ladder which made it easy to get to the roof of the trailer…
Please excuse my ignorance. Our company only deals primarily with commercial trucks and I have long assumed it was not “common” because we often have insureds ask if we know of some place where they can obtain this service. Granted I don’t always know if those who ask are new to the industry. Plus, any time I’ve been to a truck stop, I’ve never seen anyone atop their trailers removing ice or snow.
Do you know of other Petros or TAs who do offer this on a regular basis through the winter months? It would be great to have this information on hand; especially with the pending legislation in PA right now pertaining to stiffer fines and penalties for big rigs if ice from their trailers causes accidents.
I worked for a SOHIO owned truck stop; it was operated as a franchise so when we did clean truck roofs it was as an accommodation approved by the manager and the truck stop president and not necessarily a company wide offering. In 1975 we had a blizzard on I-80 and so demand was high. I doubt if anyone gave another thought to doing this on a regular basis but I’d bet there could be some kind of safety credit for doing this in the midwest where blizzards are more common; it probably would help on I-80 today given those pile-ups due to white outs in Centre, Lycoming and Columbia counties, maybe this should be mentioned in the hearings on that legislation…. (I know Stop 64 would be a good place to start, if some entreprenuer wanted to try).
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I don’t know why this was an issue, it’s happened to me; even worse, my windshield still has cracks from flying stones…as for your comment: “It’s physically impossible and equally impractical to expect a big rig driver to to clear the top of a trailer of snow & ice.”…I have to differ with you. I have a good friend who makes it a point to pull his rig up to a low roof in the truck yard and he steps onto the trailer roof to sweep the snow and ice off. It’s not an everyday practice but if you want to be on the safe side, it can and should be done, to protect others and especially the driver from a suit, which I suspect will be filed shortly, as soon as she hears from an attorney..
that the driver was following too closely and probably thinks she’s got grounds for cashing in….oops, I mean, file a lawsuit for cleaning the crap out of her pants!
This is my third post for this…..I know you can get this service at the Petro; hell, they can pipe in a TV and HBO, can’t they? I worked at a truck stop on I-80 in college and would do this exact service for a couple of bucks…I had a big step ladder which made it easy to get to the roof of the trailer…
Please excuse my ignorance. Our company only deals primarily with commercial trucks and I have long assumed it was not “common” because we often have insureds ask if we know of some place where they can obtain this service. Granted I don’t always know if those who ask are new to the industry. Plus, any time I’ve been to a truck stop, I’ve never seen anyone atop their trailers removing ice or snow.
Do you know of other Petros or TAs who do offer this on a regular basis through the winter months? It would be great to have this information on hand; especially with the pending legislation in PA right now pertaining to stiffer fines and penalties for big rigs if ice from their trailers causes accidents.
Thanks!
I worked for a SOHIO owned truck stop; it was operated as a franchise so when we did clean truck roofs it was as an accommodation approved by the manager and the truck stop president and not necessarily a company wide offering. In 1975 we had a blizzard on I-80 and so demand was high. I doubt if anyone gave another thought to doing this on a regular basis but I’d bet there could be some kind of safety credit for doing this in the midwest where blizzards are more common; it probably would help on I-80 today given those pile-ups due to white outs in Centre, Lycoming and Columbia counties, maybe this should be mentioned in the hearings on that legislation…. (I know Stop 64 would be a good place to start, if some entreprenuer wanted to try).
Thanks for the info, StatGuy.
Sounds like there may be an untapped market for this sort of service… It is certainly needed.