Off Road, On Your Toes
Preventing accidents outside of the cab
By Jim Kneiszel
Way back when, Dave Parsons was driving a semi, pulling logs across the Pacific Northwest for a small trucking company. He remembers well the white-knuckle dangers of running narrow, rustic mountain roads, always trying to beat the clock. He also remembers that once he jumped out from behind the wheel, he still faced certain perils. Inspecting the loads of logs could easily turn ugly. “I had gloves and a hard hat and a [reflective] vest and steel-toed shoes, but this is stuff I provided …
