Suspect In Fiery, Deadly I-70 Crash Bonds Out Of Jail

The drivers inexperience was the problem, but only a small part of it.
The cheap cheesy company was also a part, a big part. the driver didn't have enough sense to be in the truck to start with, and likely never really would have.
the dot should bear a lot of the responsibility, for not doing their job and revoking their authority, like they would have done mine if I had the same violations.

Being an immigrant on a green card had very little to do with it, possibly his limited understanding of road signs.

 

The police said they used an interpretor.

 

You want to see something really troubling, check out the "related categories" in the sidebar. Good grief. Posting those should be a deterrent but is falling on deaf ears. Most of us here know what can happen, we've seen it 1st hand. The reason these horror clips aren't shown in schools, is we'd never get any applicants, and these trucking schools know that. Remember those films in Dr. Ed? Scared me. Take these applicants out and show them this stuff, still think you want to be a truck driver? I bet only the real good ones would stay. I stayed, and I've seen my share of REAL horror stories.

 

Ok I wasn’t there. Having said that this is negligence not pre meditated. So say he is charged with voluntary man slaughter. Then the jury gets a option to plea it down to other charges. In all the fatalities I worked in 20 years maybe 5% or 10% at most were for guilty as charged. Race absolutely didn’t matter. I can’t speak for any other crimes.

 

Funny you should mention that.
The safety man at the company my son in law runs the shops for, got that video and was going to use it in safety classes. The owner told him no way, it has nothing to do with the work they do.

 

The message I got from the Denver area news this morning when they were bragging about the state patrol giving tickets to only truckers on that hill is not good, the truckers should be claiming they are being treated unfairly when there is many cars and RV,s that should be in the mix.

 

Multiple reports saying the driver needed an interpreter. For example.
What Went Wrong in Colorado's Deadly Truck Crash?

And whether he is barely competent in English now or not, I would bet 100 dollars to make one that he wasn't when we imported him.

 

I honestly don’t see the drier getting more than 20 years for this. Then only having to do 80% of the time.

 

It had everything to do with it. He couldn't have done it from Cuba.
We imported an unskilled economic migrant, put him behind the wheel of a truck and he promptly killed people.