Driver Safety Routine: Professional Pre-Shift Checklist
Road Safety | Driver Life Preparation Is the Key: A Professional Driver's Safety Routine Before Every Shift By a company driver from Chennai, sharing 9 years of real on-the-job routine and defensive driving lessons. My name doesn't matter much in this story. What matters is the steering wheel I've held for the past nine years, six days a week, through Chennai's traffic, monsoon floods, summer heat, and thousands of kilometres of highway. I drive for a company, not for myself, which means one thing above everything else: I am responsible for more lives than just my own. People often think driving safety begins when you start the engine. It doesn't. It begins the night before, in small habits most people never notice. This article is my real driver safety routine — the one I follow before every single shift — combined with the defensive driving best practices that every Indian driver, cab driver, fleet driver, or new license holder should k...