comedian Tracy Morgan hurt in bus/truck crash

A professional driver was surrounded by unprofessional drivers and a accident occurred. I assume the untrained drivers were at fault.

How do you know that the limo driver didn't cut in front of the truck and then slammed on it's brakes taking away all the trucks braking distance?

I'm hoping for dash cam footage.

 

You guys are all just fanning the fire. Case in point: go to google news and search for "trucker kills" and "trucker killed." There is at least 1 entry a week for the last 6 months, and yet no charges issued in those other instances. A pseudo celebrity gets killed, and news organizations have a hey day; perhaps because ratings = ad $, and who can pass up on a sensational story especially when there's money to be made?! Facts: truck rear ended a vehicle, driver charged. Everything else: speculation and politics. I mean seriously, this thing is 24 pages long, and I bet it goes another 15 before it loses steam. "unsubscribed"

 

It's not confirmed. But if true, pretty damning attitude. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...er-talks-aftermath-accident-article-1.1821642

 

The pvt. fleet will remain as long as it's viable which is hard for me to believe with 150k truck prices and 100k driver salaries. Wally believes his pvt. fleet saved his butt and knocked out the competition by putting it on the shelf so it can be bought. It has allowed him to tighten his JIT model and save serious cash. He could never do this with a common carrier. They're are just not that dependable. ( nothing personal )
jmo

 

Well I have read every page of this fine thread but WOW .

From reading the 6-7 pages I did read I see that the public is not alone in their hatred of truck drivers!

After all these years of listening to drivers crying about it is always the drivers fault no matter what happens .
I see that drivers are just a bunch of hypocrites .

All of this talk about needing to stick together just seems to me that it just means when I need support not when my brother needs help .
I am ashamed to be a trucker when I read things like what I have read here today .

I for one will just wait for the whole story and then I probably just thank my lucky stars that I have not had this happen to me so far .

 

So this is where you are coming from with all of your negativity about the driver and Walmart on this thread? Nobody is stating that the driver wasn't wrong. NOBODY. What many are saying is "let's wait and see". Big difference. In the meantime, there's a discussion going on about what happened/might have happened.

Unfortunately some have already convicted the driver because of the "no excuse ever for rear ending another" mantra. Some (including myself) have posted valid arguments that this mantra is not 100% although it's close to it. That's the wonderful thing about American law and justice. It does allow for mitigating circumstances. Where the end result of guilt is mitigated by valid reasons occurring during the commission of the act. I get the sense from your posts that even if they find a meteor had come streaming down from the heavens and blasted through the hood of this guys truck you'd still be screaming "Off with his head!" Prove me wrong.

 

I've been driving 8 months and know when to pull over. I have done it before slept an hour and got back out there.

Also have been on elogs and paper all it is, or both of them are recording devices. They don't say lets go, get up, time to drive. You are in complete control as the driver. Not the computer. All it does is track your time like the paper log. Only difference much harder to cheat on elogs

 

True there,before all said it done reporters will be making a circus out of this story.