EFFECTS OF OVER-FEEDING ON DRIVING SAFETY.

Food i believe is any substance we consumed to provide us some body essentials like nutrients, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals and vitamins to provide vitamins and energy to maintain and stimulate growth. 

 Neither we like it or not eating is vital to life, therefore we must eat on a daily basis in order to keep our bodies functioning and efficient.

Still we find it extra difficult to what will keep us hale and healthty, due to emotion stress, lack of money, peer pressure and alteration to eating habits.

All these factors can now lead to over-eating or under-eating.

EFFECTS OF OVER-EATING.

 1. WEIGHT GAIN.

 2. STOMACH PROBLEMS.

 3. DECAY OF TOOTH ENAMEL.

 4. DIZZINESS.

 5. "LANUGO" GROWTH OF HAIR ON THE BODY.

 6. CHRONIC FATIGUE.

 7. DEHYDRATION.

 8. SWOLLEN CHEEKS.

 9. BLOOD-SHOT EYES.

TRIP PLANNING OR JOURNEY PLANNING

It is natural and compulsory to move from point A to point B. Nevertheless it must be in safety at all cost, therefore we must put into consideration all vital factors that will save us time and money.

 1. Reason for the journey. Is it for fun or business.

 2. The people involved. Is it personal or official. Long term holiday or short term.

 3. The quality of the road terrain.

 4. Intra-city or inter-state.

 5. Your vehicle. The vehicle involved must be thoroughly checked and confirmed in all ramification that will be able to perform the task without disappointment.

 6. Eatery centers that will be convenient for everybody and the pilot should not over eat to avoid constipation

 7. You must know your destination(s) and point of stop-over.

 8. The duration of the journey.

 9. Road trip fun like games, songs, jokes and other stuffs that will make your journey a memorable and everlasting trip
 
 10. What and what you need to carry along, personal or official that you need to use.

11. Your route plan. Alternative routes if route A is blocked or chocked for any reason.

12. Security information like hospital, nature of the road, rest house along the routes, mechanic workshops, gas stations.

13. If it is official your trip logging.

14. If for any reason there is diversion, please notify your dispatcher before you do so.

15. If it is convoy driving the vehicle with the lowest speed should be in the front.

16. If it is official movement remember to hold a short meeting before you embark on the journey. 

PRO - ACTIVE NIGHT DRIVING/SAFE NIGHT DRIVING.

Night driving should be avoided at all cost. If the situation warant for the movement, we should then do all within our capacity to drive to the of our ability to prevent accident, because night driving is highly prone to accident. please be informed to make the best of the best preparation for night journey. The following things should be taking into considerations.

Safe driving starts with a thorough eye examination to make sure your eyes are healthy.        

You must understand the condition of your sight. Some people cannot see well at night but, they still want to drive. While this pose him to greater chances of being involved in an accident.



 1. Armed robbers. The first factor we should put into consideration should be the attack of the unknown. The best time for robbers to work or attack is night.

 2. Lights. The light of the vehicle should be parfecly okay to create room for seen and be seen.

 3. Reflectors. All the reflector post on the vehicle should be well installed and should be genuine ones to create awareness for other vehicles that our own vehicle is existing.

 4. Wind shield wiper. The wiper should be in perfect condition, rain might fall or need for it might come up.

 5. Full allertness. If your health is not sound please and please never you risk night driving.

 6. Good condition of your Engine. If you did not trust your engine for over - heating, bad alternator, incoplete conbustion and so on, please do not put that vehicle on the road.

 7. Mirrors. All your side mirrors and the centre mirror should be in perfect working condition.

 8. Speed limit. this is an important factor. If your speed in daytime is 100km/h please kindly reduce it to 90 or 80km/h. Your vision cannot be perfect like that of the afternoon.

 9. Pot holes/ditches. Night driving concerning pot holes/ditches should be given extra priority in terms of consideration, robbers can make use of pot holes/ditches. Thereby we should be extra carefull and smart in contact with pot holes/ditches.

10. Glasses. People with glasses should understand the full functions of their glasses. Some glasses were meant for reading only, and not for any other functions. There is night driving glasses.

11. Do not look directly into the glare from the headlights of an oncoming vehicle, keep your eyes on the road in front of you. You may even use the beam of the approaching car to scan for obstacles that your headlight beam hasn’t reached yet.

 12. Any source of light inside the car will seem extremely bright and will make it more difficult to see. You can also dim your dashboard lights to help with glare.

13. you may use antireflective (AR) treatments on your glasses. A high-quality AR lens increases the amount of light reaching your eye by 8% and reduces halos and glare from light.

14. Do not drink and drive, for no reason do not indulge in any substaces that will impair your defensive driving. Nevertheless do not allow anybody that is intoxicated to drive you. If worst come, please take a cab.

15. You should never under estmate the power of a cell phone. Be sure that your phone is fully charged with call credit and the battery bar is full.

16. Never offer lift to anybody or any form of assistance, since you are out for rescue mission.

17. If your headlight is dirty, it will never give you 100% efficience and lighting. It is advisasble you clean the headlights of your vehicle before going out in the dark.

18. Glaring comprises of dirty windows at night. Before leaving, be sure to clean the inside and outside of your windshield.                                       .

ADVANTAGES OF PROPER VEHICLE HAND-OVER

1. Vehicle handover is serious and delicate part in vehicle from handover to takeover.

 2. Never be in a hurry to hand over a vehicle.

 3. You must be sure that takeover is in good shape of mind.

 4. You must follow handover/takeover log procedures.

 5.It make you know how to better utilise the vehicle and being fully aware of it’s capabilities and can improve driver safety,

 6. Lower maintenance costs and make your business even more efficient.

 7. It makes you understand your job and put you in better position of control.

 8. One of the major problems to avoid from this process is security issue, scratch, dent, flat tire, dent, and other defects and so on,

 9. It minimise vehicle downtime.

10. Vehicle handover is very vital as it proves tour your customer your brand experience and is a vital part of the handover.

11. It improve the workforce of the driver

12. It helps to get good feedback from the customer

13. This aid the vehicle routine condition and any repair work can be carried out promptly

MEDIVAC VEHICLE DRIVING.

Medivac vehicle should be seen as mobile first aid. Therefore should be treated with best safety priorities.

1. The driver must be in good shape of mind.
2. The vehicle must be in good shape at all times.
3. Full information to your destination must be understood before you leave the point of incedent.
4. You must plan your route before you leave the point of incedent to prevent undicision while driving.
5. You must not drive wildly to prevent more damage to your patient.
6. Never drive to close to other vehicles, to leave room for easy manouvrebility.
7. Take the freest route to your destination.
8. Your nurse could be your conductor.
9. Please drive extra defensively.

DRIVING NEAR EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND ESCORT VEHICLES.

Driving near emergency vehicles and escort vehicles should be done with extra care and first we should understand emergency vehicles and escort vehicles for what they are, at that particular time they are performing a special task. So therefore the priviledge should be given to emergency vehicles and escort vehicles.

IF THESE VEHICLES ARE COMING BEHIND YOU.

1. Driving near emergency vehicles and escort vehicles, the moment you hear the siren or sight these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles, please check and double check you surrounding to understand the flow of traffic to avoid driving near emergency vehicles and escort vehicles.

 2. If you take the lead try to do all it takes to avoid driving near emergency vehicles and escort vehicles, you should try as soon as possible to pull-over in a safe place not to cause another accident, to give way to these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles.

 3. You should STOP and give these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles at least 800 to 1,000 metres since you did know their mission.

IF THESE VEHICLES ARE APPROACHING YOU FROM FRONT.

 4. This is a more dangerous situation therefore you should not drive near emergency vehicles and escort vehicles, thereby you are advise to give right of way, never for any reason claim right of way with these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles. Come to a total stop if possible and be sure the road is totally free before you take back to the road.

5. No matter what happen these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles has right of way at any point, at any intersection, at anywhere, at any how, for any reason never, please never for no reason drag road with these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles.

6. Always give these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles breathing space to avoid catastrophy you did know when these emergency vehicles and escort vehicles they might be under attack.

7. Never for no reason claim right of way with school bus, remember they convey the most precious gift of our life.

DRIVING THAT ATTAIN MAXIMUM FUEL LEVEL/FUEL MANAGEMENT.

 1. The faster you drive, the more fuel you use. many of us speed in other to beat time, but let me tell you one thing, you are burning more fuel. If you cover distance of 400kms at the speed rate of 120km/h, which will take you about 3hrs 20mins, and you cover the same distance of 400kms at the speed rate of 100km/h which will take you 4hrs. now let us consider the fuel consumption. 120km/h will consume 80 litres, while 100km/h will consume 55 litres. 

 2. Cruise control optimise fuel consumption since the fuel management is being done by computer in the vehicle. which is more efficient than human being.


 3. Excess wight in the vehicle. many people keep unusefull  lugage in the vehicle for no reason all this add to the wight of the vehicle, thereby increasing the fuel consuption of the vehicle.

 4. Air cleaner. all african cities are very dusty thereby this increases the chances of air cleaner to get dirty easily, and this will choke air intake of the vehicle, and this will increase the intake of the fuel since the vehicle is design to move at any intake of fuel.


 5. Bind brake. we should check our vehicle regularly for brake binding by touching the rim with our finger if we stop at least once daily.


 6. fuel cap. we shoul check after refuelling, if the fuel cap is well tightened, since fuel evaporate easily through this fuel cap.

  
 7. Park your vehicle under shade to prevent excessive heat from sun.

 8. Be sure to swicth off all the aparatus in the vehicle to prevent heavy cranking of the engine.


 9. Tire cap. Always check for the tire valve to prevent the tire from deflation from dust. Since this will make the vehicle heavier and heavy load for the engine.

10. Go slow. In traffick we should learn to drive gently to prevent over reving of the engine, since the distance to cover will be less than 20 metres.


11. We should learn to warm for less than 2 minutes and we should not rev the engine within this period.