"Safety" is absolutely superior to any other factor in the transportation industry, as well as in every truck driver who makes up this huge industry. It can be said that without safety, no matter how skilled you are at driving and how good a source of goods you have, even if you learn the legendary martial arts of the river and the lake and succeed in achieving zero fuel consumption, it is no use. Because safety = life, life is gone, making money will not have any meaning.

Everyone attaches great importance to safety, especially the driving safety closely related to our truck drivers. But if I want to ask you a question, how can we drive safely? It's true that most cardholders are quick to confuse themselves and then answer questions like "Slow down, don't overspeed, don't drive tiredly." It's an important part of safe driving, but as a professional driver, it's far from enough to know only these "superficial" safe driving knowledge.

How long is the safe distance between trcuk trailers? You can't imagine the answer.

"Defensive Driving," I believe many drivers have heard of, but really understand and strictly follow this method of driving, compared with the entire truck driver group, the proportion is not high.

Today, I'm going to share with you one of the most important "defensive driving" skills that I hope you can master to make your driving safer.

First of all, I'd like to ask you a question about this technique. How far is it safe to drive from the car in front of you?

This seems like a simple question. If you follow the old driving habits, most drivers will probably answer units of length such as XX meters.

But in defensive driving, the safe distance from the front car is not measured by meters, but by time. The widely accepted safe time is about 3-5 seconds. Of course, everyone's reaction speed, the performance of the vehicle can not be exactly the same, so this is only an average. For most of the time, 4 seconds is enough to reduce security risk to a very low level.

Maybe some friends ask questions. How can time be used to control the distance from the front truck trailer? The question is simple. Whatever your speed is, find a fixed reference near your front truck trailer , such as a sign, a tree, a building, and so on. Drive forward at the current speed. It takes four seconds to reach the reference. If it takes less than four seconds to reach, it proves you and the front trailer. The safety distance is insufficient.

The same method of keeping the road safe with time can also be used to observe the road in front of the road during daily driving. Most people drive in front of the road to observe the general 5 seconds, but for long-term driving heavy card friends, this time is not up to the requirements of defensive driving. To ensure adequate safety, at least increase the range of vision to more than 15 seconds of driving distance, in order to ensure that there is no mistake.

The essence of "defensive driving" is more than that, because driving seems simple, but it is a job that requires a lot of skill. I hope these contents will help us to have a safe journey in the future transportation career.