Nature Rules! Why then Tailgate in a bad Weather??

Who are you declaring innocent if the cause of one vehicle rear ending another one is the result of it following too closely?







Are you rockstar_nj or Richter's dad?

 

don't forget about that mans dog also perished.

 

canada is no different our tailgating fools end up in pileups sooner or later as well lol

 

In Southern Missouri, Arkansas on 55 last week. Solid ice, most were barely doing 35. We kept getting passed by the speeding trucks driving close together. Later saw they were the reason the road was closed when they collided.

 

Ok have you ever driven that chunk of road, in bad conditions? I have and it sucks. Between the tailgating, shear volume of traffic and lake effect I'd rather drive Manhattan rush hour with an oversize load.

At 2 years experience (according to your bio here), you are still a rookie, the attitude your showing here has it written all over. I've spent 19 years holding a CDL learned to drive these trucks at the age of 7, on a farm in Alberta, Canada. If you'd spent time in serious snow and ice you'd know that there are several factors involved in navigating it. The most important ones are experience, truck spec, knowing your limits, knowing your truck and know your surroundings (including other drivers in that area). If you don't know all of these you will end up in a bad place.

Going back to your picture from Indiana, I've seen the pictures and some road camera footage from around the time it occurred and frankly following times should have been around 12 seconds on that chunk of road you will NEVER get that much spacing so you know where each driver involved should have been? Anywhere else. I feel bad that people died there and sympathy for their families but the truth is they made the choice to be there in that situation, no one can force you to drive a specific road, it's called detouring.

Just because you say your not judging anybody doesn't make it true. Guilty is a judgment plain and simple. You rendered judgement in both these quoted remarks. You rendered judgement against everyone involved as tailgaters, perhaps they couldn't see farther than their vehicle would take to stop and couldn't know they were too close, perhaps there was only one tailgater and he caused the whole thing with a small fender bender and others misjudged the speed and stopping abilities of others as they reacted to a much smaller accident. Or perhaps one over-confident rookie thought he was following too close and put the binders on too hard and hit the brakes too hard and his trailer swung out and smacked someone in the next lane. I'm not trained in accident reconstruction are you? If you are why are you driving truck? Accident Reconstruction pays better