Semi-truck runs into hotel, kills man

Fell asleep or serious medical problem, but it probably would have noted the medical, since it said he only had minor injuries.
I've yet to ever be hassled by DPS for sleeping off to the side of a ramp at the bottom, or the top of the on ramp. I crashed out underneath the " NO TRUCKS " sign at the entrance to the residential neighborhood on the other side of the interstate at the J in North Platte. Slept on the feeder road in front of some 4 star hotel in the Bay Area near Oakland. I dunno, I always seem to make my run, but when I'm tired I stop and cat nap. Sometimes, even this last winter, I've had to run hard, stop for coffee once, take a leak, zoom 400 miles, repeat. There's times when you can't F around. But you have to be awake.

 

When I click the link,a big ad for life insurance shows up..,how ironic.

 

Dang, it killed a hotel guest , and the headboard stopped the steel, which had to be secured real good from the start.

 

This is probably in bad taste. But I cant help but think of a certain Garth Brooks song,..

Mama was a looker, Lord, how she shined.
Papa was a good'n, But the jealous kind.

The desk clerk said he saw it all real clear.
He never hit the brakes and he was shifting gears.

Hurst

 

Straps ?

 

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Gotta admit, it was the first thing I thought when I saw the title.

 

Straps are fine on steel. In fact, I think they are even better. A strap will stretch and give. With a load of steel you hit your first bump. That puts a rut in the 4x4 or causes the load to settle a bit. Even a 32nd of an inch will make your chains loose but a strap is still tight.

If you use chains and a binder and the load becomes just a little loose it's sometimes impossible to hook that next link. I was at Nucor and looked over at another driver bending down holding his mouth. His breaker bar broke and his teeth were on the ground. He hit the rub rail when it broke.

I wonder how fast he was going when he hit? The headboard detached but the headache rack was OK.

 

I got a ticket in Wyoming for pulling off on a on ramp. But never in AZ.