From the road...

Shitty deal all around, and RIP to the 4 people who burned to death but I agree that 110 years seems to be a bit on the overkill side of things from a sentencing perspective.

 

Get a cdl , forfeit your rights - it’s a scary deal . Even as an owner of trucks on the road I could be held criminally liable for “issues”
It’s all fun and games, til
It’s not. One of the few legitimate jobs where You can end up in metal bracelets after a day of hard work for an honest mistake. There’s no right answer for it sadly , nobody starts their day driving wanting to hurt people . We all want to get home too .

 

I feel for everyone involved. The dead, and the driver. Thats a real horrible way to find out you aint suited for your job. Id imagine there was a bit of panic and target fixation going on.

 

Inexcusable?

Feel free to hop in my truck with me and we'll go down the mountain at 70 miles an hour and see how appealing those runaway truck ramps look then.

There's been a lot of monday morning quarterbacking on this whole deal and the fact of the matter is even some of the truck drivers don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

I would think this being a community of people that know what it's like to operate a vehicle under stress would understand how sometimes it's very difficult to make the right decision when your whole being is telling you to do the opposite.

If we're going to give this 23-year-old kid a 110 year sentence than the carrier should get the same sentence and so should that guy that gave him his CDL.

Does he deserve prison time? Yeah.
Life? No.

 

Damn it, I agreed with everything you've said so far except for that.

Experienced driver should know better than to try and get away with anything, especially bad brakes or overweight.

 

Remember this - it's easier to keep it under control than to get it back under control going downhill.

 

It may not be appealing but isn't that why they're there ?

By the way, I think the sentence was too harsh too. I'm not ragging on truckers but it seems the kid had some other choices he chose not to make.

 

The sentence imposed on the people who burned to death because the driver chose to save himself was pretty fucking harsh.
The driver is alive, he could have piled his truck into something that wouldn't have killed others who were in no way responsible for the operation of his truck. He may be in prison but he's still alive and breathing.
He's the lucky one.

 

Florida Highway Patrol Really Uses Stealthy Semi-Trucks for Traffic Stops

https://www.thedrive.com/news/37271...y-uses-stealthy-semi-trucks-for-traffic-stops

 

Ooof and those fines are NOT cheap, either.

 

There used to be a Texas State Trooper in a sized Lamborghini patrolling I-20 around the Midland, TX area.

That would be a cool assignment for about a week. I don't reckon those things are designed for long-term driving every day all day.

 

Thats not new. Theyve been using them for quite a while. I was surprised when I did find that out.

 

Don't know. Either way, they'd still say it was the driver's fault.

 

He was the driver; drivers get blamed for everything.

From what I've read, even the judge didn't like the sentence.

 

The missus and I took a road trip to Colorado just a couple of days after this incident. We drove west the same path he came east. There were miles and miles of open right-of-way about 100 yards wide on the right side of the highway. I still have my dashcam footage from that trip, I could post it in the yt thread if there's interest.

 

I'm a responsible driver. I have no doubts that the driver was at fault.