Transportation Safety TrainingDOT Entry Level Driver Training – Safe Operating Procedures: Visual Search

DOT Entry Level Driver Training – Safe Operating Procedures: Visual Search

SKU: JCOM-40072

Duration: 0.23 Hrs

To safely drive a large commercial vehicle, you must be vigilant at all times. Whether you are cruising along at highway speed, stopped at a stop light, or driving in city traffic, you must keep your eyes on the road, continually scanning your surroundings for potential hazards. Every minute behind the wheel must be used to focus attention between your mirrors and the road. In so doing, your ability to monitor the condition of your vehicle, while monitoring and maintaining the space around you, greatly increases. It also improves your ability to track vehicles entering and exiting your blind spots. This course contains suggestions on how to maintain visual alertness and awareness in order to maintain a safe environment for you, your vehicle, and others who use the road. It also contains tips on how to spot distracted pedestrians and drivers.

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Learning Objectives

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

Identify best practices to visually scan the road for potential hazards and critical objects
Identify potential signs of distracted pedestrians and drivers
List possible in-cab and outside distractions for CMV drivers

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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