The roads are a dangerous place. I was reminded of this fact on the way to work this morning. I was happily driving along in the sun, doing the speed limit I might add, when some old giffer and his even older and giffery in the passenger seat decided he didn’t want to stop at the junction and nearly careered into the side of my car. Luckily I was aware enough to slam on the brakes. I let him know what I thought of him of course!
This got me to thinking, as I usually do. Are the people in our industry more likely to be involved in a traffic accident? Think about it. If you’re a salesman you’re going to be out on the road most of the day, if you have 3 leads that’s possibly 6 journeys there are and back to the office. Then you have to get to work and go home. You may also have some PR calls to make to customers. In all, you can quite easily make 10 journeys a day – that’s 10 chances in which another car could hit you or at least be of hindrance to you.
If you’re a fitter it won’t be as many. But you may have more than one job to do in a day so again, 6 journeys is easily possible. Surveyors may also have the same amount of journeys as a sales person if business is brisk. Other professions don’t do nearly as much driving. So through my basic logic that my brain is capable of, I think those in the double glazing industry are more at risk of a traffic accident than most!
So, if you’re reading this and you’re not in windows, please leave us alone and stay a good 50 yards away! Also, please leave a comment if you have been involved in an accident on the way to a lead, installation or survey. The biggest accident wins. You don’t win anything, just bragging rights!
i hit a drunk driver in a car with 4 passengers on the A1 at 6am in the morning going to a commercial survey in london. his car ended up on top the central reservation minus a back wheel and stoved in side mine ended up on the side of the road with engine in the cab the steering wheel hit my knees as i pulled up my legs at the impact which stopped the pedals from breaking my ankles and that was it vehicle was a right off they guys in the other car were soldiers and had been… Read more »
Bloody hell Phil, how was no one killed?
One of our sales folk was coming back from a call on a back road hit a patch of oil skidded all over the road took out two embankments rolled the van and had to climb out the passenger window, when the police arrived they said this is the 3rd write off this morning!!!! How hard would it be to put some sand down or a sign warning people
Wow! Hope he was OK in the end! Like you say, how hard would it have been for them to put down some sand to dry the oil up. Massive lack of common sense there!
Sounds like he was going way to fast to be honest.
The back roads are the most dangerous roads in this country.
Got annoyed with a ‘random’ (middle aged) driver the other night who was all over the road and on his hand held mobile! Got the chance to pass…. and sound my horn at him…. and was surprised to glance across as I passed to see that in his other hand he had a bag of chips!
What! And he didn’t even offer you any as you went past?! How rude!
Seriously though, I get so angry at people when they do things like that! I honk my horn whenever I see anyone on their phone. You just can’t have the same level of concentration. So dangerous.
one of my drivers was off on a delivery when a car stopped on the opposite carridge way with the intention of turning right, a fully loaded scaffold lorry was traveling along behind it, didnt see the car in front had stopped and swerved around it straight into my oncoming delivery vehicle who was innocently travelling along the road, my van was obviously written off, my man was cut out after 3 hours with broken knees, tibias, disclocated hips, broken back and ribs as well as numerous cuts where glass came through the webbing into the cab, my man has… Read more »