 From the time you leave home until you get back home, usually around 12, 14 hour days, you just have to watch for other people. There's a lot of pumpers out here in the oil field, and you have to watch for them pulling out on the highway. We're in such wide open spaces, everybody's in a hurry to get there because they've got a lot of places to go in a day. You've got to really understand, there's a lot of accidents out here in the oil field coming around blind corners and nighttime, and roads aren't built for four lane traffic. Driving is one of the biggest hazards in the oil field. We have oncoming traffic, animals. We work out in the open. We have cows, we have deer, all kinds of animals. And there's a lot of oil field traffic. I go into a location the other day, there's five different rigs on that location, and I pass 10 different trucks. Trucks moving rigs, trucks moving water tanks. Transport trucks, roustabouts, pumpers. Come to work early, sometimes you stay late and then drive in, so it is one of our biggest hazards that we have. 24-7, the oil field never shuts down. We travel on these roads day and night. It's not unusual to travel two or three hours a day back and forth to the rig. People traveling up and down the highway after being up 24, 36 hours, all they want is to get home. Inattentiveness, there's just a myriad of things that are involved when you're on the highway. You see lots of accidents on the road. Seat belts need to be worn. I mean, they save lives. One of the leading causes of fatalities is highway crashes and been a lot of fatalities happen because we're not wearing seat belts in the beehive. And it is a state law. And all these guys know if they are caught without a seat belt and that pickup's moving, they're terminated. That's the end of it. It's that big a deal. And it don't take five seconds to buckle up and be safe. Yeah, the seat belts is one of our main tools. I mean, if you ain't wearing it, you're ain't working here. Simple. We're talking about seat belts. Seat belts play a very important safety in our lives because about three months ago, I fell asleep on the wheel and if it hadn't been for the seat belt, I wouldn't be standing here right now today talking to y'all. Involving a car accident that could have killed us, but it couldn't hurt. In fact, on this road right here and we were using our seat belt and thank God nothing bad happened to us. And if I can say that I lost a couple of my family members here not too long ago in an accident and they were thrown from the car. So that's one of the reasons why I wear my seat belt and I want everyone else in my truck to wear the seat belt. I can speak from personal experience that they do help. I have rolled a vehicle and walked away from it because I was wearing a seat belt. The impact of any accident, even five or 10 miles per hour is pretty amazing. You know, a lot of people don't think about it, but it is, no matter what speed you're going, a sudden stop can be pretty dramatic. Went through a pod hole. Everyone went through it very fast. They would have threw me out of the seat because they seat their air ride and you hit a bump very hard and it will throw you through the ceiling and rough 40 roads. You're having to swerve and miss a lot of pod holes and that way you don't, if you have your seat belt you wear it at all times. You don't have to worry about sliding out of the seat or losing control of the vehicle. Big truck that's just more room to get thrown around in if you're not wearing a seat belt and if you're on a dirt road, then you think you're safe and you're more apt to have an accident. Roads are very narrow paved roads. Out here, they're mostly county roads. For the most part, they're real narrow. It's hard for two trucks to pass on a road like this. A lot of the roads you'll find have drop offs and stuff like that. And if you slid off it and you've been doing two miles per hour, you go tumbling down the side of a hill and you're gonna be better off with that seat belt on, keeping you snug down to that seat. You know, with the vehicle rolled upside down, if you can get the pressure off of that seat belt, you can push that button and it'll come undone. I mean, it comes undone right then. So no, I don't see that being a problem. You can see the shoulders drop off so you have to be very careful because those shoulders are soft. So if you accidentally pull off the side of the road, it's just gonna pull you into the bar ditch. And if you're not buckled up, then you take a chance of being ejected from your vehicle. I've seen several big trucks roll over and when they didn't have their seat belt on them, they throw them out and then the truck roll right over the top of them. People take the big trucks for granted. Almost every day when I'm driving one of these big trucks down the road, there's that little car that wants to get out in front of that big truck so they don't have to go behind them. I've had people pull right out in front of me before. You know, you're going down a highway and you ain't gotta stop sign or stop light. And they'll just pull right out in front of you. Sometimes, you know, on these lease roads, you don't, in intersections, sometimes they forget that there's other vehicles coming from the other direction. There's no stop signs out there, so they gotta be really careful. Some people think, well, I'm just driving from here to there and why do we have to put it on? I know a lot of people use a lot of excuses and basically all it is is excuses. Forklifts, there's been a lot of accidents throughout the oil field with not wearing seat belts and the forklift getting turned over. The employee thinks he can jump out, beat it from falling over. Many times, they don't. Well, that's very important. You know, you could be, you don't have to actually tip over for you to fall out. You know, you might be driving too fast and, you know, turn too sharp and, you know, you could fall out and run you over. Forklifts are one of the most dangerous pieces of equipment we have out here. If they're not buckled in and not inside that cage secure, they're at extreme risk. And if you pick up a heavy load, you could tip it over and fall out. So if you're not wearing your seat belt, then, you know, you ain't gonna be making it home that day. You know, you leave the yard, you make sure everybody has their seat belts, just part of an operator's job. As part of their job, to make sure everybody else is wearing theirs too. One thing I do any time I have passengers, I make sure that they do wear their seat belt. It's something that hits home whenever you take that risk of not using a seat belt. Yeah, they need to encourage all the time. You know, the passengers should always be wearing theirs. And that's another thing in these crew cab pickups. You know, there's four men in one of the pickups. And just the driver having on the seat belt is not sufficient. The riders in the back seat, they need to have theirs on because if they were to run into something, those passengers will come flying over the seat and hit the driver. So that's why it's very mandatory for everyone in the vehicle to wear a seat belt. When I'm driving, somebody gets in a truck, I won't leave until they put their seat belt on. You have to be responsible enough and liable for yourself to say, hey, I need to put this on for my own protection. I've had to remind people to wear their seat belt, but nobody's had a problem with it. Exactly. And at the same time, they kind of keep your respect, you know, that they trust in you that you're going to take care of them. They know that you care for them and they got kids too, their wives and stuff like that. You know, the same thing that I want for me, you know, and yeah, I would make sure that they would wear their seat belts and that they understood the importance why. We care about their safety. We just want them to be safe. Some other people don't like to wear the seat belt. And in my case, if one of my hands decide not to wear the seat belt, we're not moved from there. And our time is tough. I don't put it in gear until they put it on it. You know, if they have a problem with it, they can find some other way to work. Same thing when we're going home. If you guys want to go home, click it or tick it. Ma'am, I've got five kids at the house and I got to come home every night. Coming together, we got to make sure we get home together. I can't stress it enough if you want to go home and see your family at night. I mean, if nothing else, do it for your family. As a matter of fact, I got shut down for my three months. And I mean, I had great credit and everything before that and three months and not working. Everything I had got repoed, taken away and couldn't use credit cards anymore. I had no funds for three months and it taught me a lesson that if I'm not able to work for three months like that, then I'm in trouble. Exactly, yeah. You know, you got to have the attitude of, yes, build a great record for the company you're working for because that's who's going to keep you busy but also, you know, the kids, the family, you know, they're always expecting you. There's been times when I come lay home and they're waiting all the time, especially my youngest, you know, he's looking through the windows waiting for that. And I do find that I want to come home to my family every day. I don't, they're still pretty young, my youngest is nine. And I want them to grow up with a dad and I want to be there to meet my grandkids and be part of their lives as well. And the only way I'm going to do that is to look out for my own safety. That starts with the driving safe and wearing your seatbelt. As a driver, it's your responsibility to you and your passengers to make sure everybody in your vehicle is buckled up. Wearing seatbelts prevents injuries and saves lives. Go ahead and buckle up and be safe and go home to your family at night. Never risk your health, the health of your fellow employees, your ability to work and take care of your family. Always wear your seatbelt.