Records said he was going 50 mph at the time he was hit. Well under the posted speed limit.Just how fast was the truck traveling? --- Probably 80 knowing how stupid people are here in Texas.
He was exercising due diligence.
Records said he was going 50 mph at the time he was hit. Well under the posted speed limit.Just how fast was the truck traveling? --- Probably 80 knowing how stupid people are here in Texas.
Records said he was going 50 mph at the time he was hit. Well under the posted speed limit.
He was exercising due diligence.
As relevant as that is to this discussion, that was not disclosed.I meant the 4-wheeler.
Dayum..Eric Penn, the plaintiff's attorney, said in a statement. "Werner’s business model is deadly, dangerous and absolutely must change."
"Despite this National Weather Service Winter Storm Warning, Werner directed Ali to take the I-20 route through the icy conditions rather than a safer alternative route," the plaintiff's attorneys said in a statement.
The Blake family was in a pick-up truck that lost control on the opposite side of a divided interstate, came through a grass median and ran into the truck.
"The Werner driver was traveling well below the posted speed limit, did not lose control of his tractor-trailer, and even brought the unit to a controlled stop after the impact," said Meisgeier in the statement. "As a result, no other motorists were involved in a secondary accident. If an accident like this is the fault of the driver who was hit by the out of control vehicle, think about what that means for every motorist on the roads."
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I hear ya! I told dispatch this is as far as I am going in these conditions.Dayum..
Furthermore my old company used to get MAD at me in Arkansas and Missourri..
Guess they dont know what Road Salt is out that way...
Anyhow it would be 40/50 degrees by lunch time so Id pull into the next truckstop and call in..
This is the same dispatch during that blizzard in Minnesota that told me we got 5 other trucks making time..
Sorry when the road resembles a Hockey Rink I aint going farther..
Got *****ed at then put on hold to the yard manager for a further dressing down..
I said look ya prick and texted a cellphone picture of current road conditions..
Also I told em look the freight is gonna be a little late though if I jacknife into the ditch you are gonna have alot more problems than just being late on this load..
Now @Mike was I right or wrong there..
They didnt fire me at that point although even if they had I can find another job next week anyhow
This is one thing my company never argues with a driver over. If you feel fatigued or feel the road is unsafe. Park it.I hear ya! I told dispatch this is as far as I am going in these conditions.
Well, so and so is still running.
I don't give a **** what so and so is doing! Do I look, walk, talk or act like so and so? Call the customer and ask them if they want the freight delivered to their door a bit late or if they want to come pick it up spread across the interstate?
Same at Prime.This is one thing my company never argues with a driver over. If you feel fatigued or feel the road is unsafe. Park it.
my company, the boss watches the weather channel and local news and keeps in contact, with the customers warehouse manager.This is one thing my company never argues with a driver over. If you feel fatigued or feel the road is unsafe. Park it.
Did you just dismiss a news article in favor of what the peanut gallery on Facebook was saying?was reading a FB comment thread on this whole mess.
Guess there's a LOT more to the story than what we've read.
Like the pickup had been going the wrong way for a while. Had stopped on the interstate and there were several that had passed him without hitting him....
And then Werner piled into him.
Supposedly, this comes from someone that was a witness to the scene.
All it proves to me....
Don't trust a news article for your facts in 3 paragraphs when it's a considerable court case that takes several reams of paper to get the decision
Not all.....Did you just dismiss a news article in favor of what the peanut gallery on Facebook was saying?
Well although he's among the last people who I would think would be swayed by truck stop counter talk, he didn't post a link to anything supporting the thermonuclear bomb he just dropped on this story.Not all.....
I dismiss nothing and accept nothing.Did you just dismiss a news article in favor of what the peanut gallery on Facebook was saying?
I don't trust Paul Harvey either.I dismiss nothing and accept nothing.
But I sure have no love for 2-3 paragraph news stories as being the Paul Harvey of what happened.
Great. So now, wrong-way drivers have right of way?Like the pickup had been going the wrong way for a while.
Great. So now, wrong-way drivers have right of way?