Driving Tips

The bed of a pick-up truck is for CARGO, not people. If you care about your passengers (or your pets), do not allow them to ride in the back of your truck. You may be the best driver in the world -- but you are not always totally alert while you are driving. You never know when some other driver may cut you off or cause a collision some other way. Don't put people or animals at risk by allowing them to ride in unprotected places. ...

This may come as a surprise if you're not a parent, but kids aren't born with perfectly formed and completed bodies! Their skeletal structure, for one thing, isn't fully grown and "put together" at birth. Their bones aren't as supportive and rigid as yours -- and crash forces and impacts can hurt them in different ways than they hurt us. It is therefore important kids get a little more help from their parents or caregivers in terms of how and where they sit in the vehicle.
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Life is fragile, and although we humans are tough creatures, it doesn't take much for us to exceed the limits of what our bodies can take. How do we mitigate the dangers of an active life? For me, the answer is to consider the risks and eliminate or manage them.

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