Transportation Safety TrainingDOT Entry Level Driver Training – Advanced Operating Practices: Skid Control-Recovery, Jackknifing, and Other Emergencies

DOT Entry Level Driver Training – Advanced Operating Practices: Skid Control-Recovery, Jackknifing, and Other Emergencies

SKU: JCOM-40080
Duration: 0.45 Hrs

If you drive a commercial motor vehicle long enough, you will eventually experience an emergency. Maybe you’re driving a tractor-trailer in the mountains in winter, hit a patch of ice, apply the brakes, and your trailer starts to jackknife. Or you enter a curve a little too fast, hit the brakes, and start skidding towards the shoulder. Or you hear a “bang” and your vehicle starts pulling to the side. It’s important that you consider these situations – including how to avoid and respond to them – before they happen, as you may have only a few seconds to prevent a serious accident. This course discusses common causes of skids and jackknifes, and techniques you can use to avoid and recover from them. It describes appropriate responses when you are faced with an emergency, including evasive steering, emergency braking, and off-road recovery, as well as the proper response to brake failures, tire blowouts, hydroplaning, and rollovers. Lastly, it identifies unsafe acts and the role these acts can play in creating or worsening hazardous situations.

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the importance of directional control and the ability to stop in the shortest possible distance when operating on slippery surfaces
  • List common causes of skids and jackknifes
  • Describe techniques you can use to avoid and recover from skids and jackknifes
  • Describe emergency responses, including evasive steering, emergency braking, off-road recovery, and the proper response to brake failures, tire blowouts, hydroplaning, and rollovers
  • Identify unsafe acts and the role they play in creating or worsening hazardous situations

Specs

Course Level Fundamental
Languages English
Compatibility Audio, Video, MobileReady, Responsive

Bob Jonas

Bob Jonas began his trucking adventure in 1973, at the age of twenty-three, driving for a new company that manufactured windows. First employed to drive 20-foot straight trucks, over the next 15 years he logged over a million miles in 11 western states. Starting with 40-foot dry vans, increasing in size to 53 feet, he also pulled doubles, occasionally triples, flatbeds, and reefers (refrigerated trailers). In addition to delivering windows, he was required to back haul everything from raw glass, cereal, oyster shells, potato flakes, paper, Christmas trees, and swinging horse meat. He was also given the responsibility of testing new hires. After leaving the company he had worked for so long, Jonas's life headed in another direction, where he was still able to use his driving skills for part time work. In the next few years, he worked the Christmas rush for UPS, hostling, driving doubles and triples. He also worked for another company delivering 5,000 lbs. spools of newsprint, as well as container pick and delivery to the docks and rail yards. His final miles were logged part time for another window manufacturer. Never knowing what road he would travel next, Bob didn't give up his CDL until 2014.

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