Texarkana fatal crash.

Good you can have mine, ELDs are nothing but a waste of money, they don't do 1 thing for safety, just a good way for the mega fleets to alter their logs and no paper trail.

 

Takes the guessing game and possibility of making serious mistakes that can cause someone to get an infraction that would cost them a DOT fine, and or CSA points. I never cited that they made driving safer, personally I feel that argument is retarded at best. I think the possibility of a mandate is retarded as well. However you and the rest of ya'll can stop coming down on those of us who like and use them. I know plenty of individuals that have Elogs as Owner ops with their own authority, individuals like yourself and others who ##### and complain about them do so because you dont like the possibility of the government telling you must have them. That and the smoke screen argument that its for safety. I would also venture to guess you also dont like change.

In the mean time, stop making the argument about elogs when the story has dick to do with them.

 

I don't have a dog in the fight concerning "ELD's" but I don't see how you can honestly make such a statement "they don't do 1 thing for safety". They keep many who might otherwise drive 15 hours/day 6 days a week in check. That said, they also enable and encourage truckers to drive when the eLog say you can drive, regardless of the situation in order to keep from being hassled by dispatch or to insure a descent check is made. So in that way, it can be a push. They are problematic to say the least, but I think 80% of carriers and drivers who are given a choice and understand their benefits, will take them over paper logs and all the BS they usher in.

 

different wreck there joseph.

The first wreck happened at 1 pm, this article is about a wreck at 5am....

 

Now I'm officially confused. Did the accident occur at 1:00 pm or 5:00 am? Was there a bridge or not? The pictures of the accident scene in the first linked articles don't seem to show any bridge.

 

I've never been a fan of frontage roads that are so popular in Texas and throughout the south. At night you'll get someone coming at you with high beams, oblivious to the fact they're blinding the freeway traffic. Then there's the exit you need to take miles in advance of your destination in order to turn around and come back on the frontage road on the other side of the freeway. Then there's situations like this. Seems like a week doesn't go by that someone ends up between the freeway and the frontage road. They rarely have much of a shoulder. Get one set of wheels off the road surface and you're pulled down into the grass in a hurry.

 

that's not even the same link you posted at the thread start?
not even the same wreck?

im done.