Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

Saw this on Youtube yesterday. Accident in Virginia with 2 fatalities. Day cab broke down and stopped in the hammer lane like an idiot. If your truck stalls, you have time to coast to the right and get as far off the road as possible. There just isn't any excuse for stopping in the fast lane.

Looks like the first truck not paying attention was an Amazon hauler and he killed somebody in a passenger car.

 

Same in montana too. I90 east of butte. Big mountain range . Speed limit going down is 25. Think im the only one that actually does the speed limit going down that hill. Usually them megas pass me and i pass them right back at the bottom of the hill. Since they cant actually do the speed limit on the interstate

 

Wow

A whole Lot of tunnel vision and following too Close there.

Daycab too stupid to get over right at the first sign of troubles

Always scares me running those areas like 39 through Wisconsin and there is no shoulder because of construction and the trucks are just Barreling through there.

The thought of me or a truck in front of me breaking down all I could envision was a 20 truck pileup.

 

When I read your post here and the one about the I-81 wreck it just pisses me off.

Two situations where impatience either caused or almost caused a tragedy.

I read these forums and talk to drivers in person and overwhelmingly drivers are b*tching about 4 wheelers.

In the course of my day I find myself shaking my head at other truck drivers 10 to 1 over what the cars are doing.

Most of the unsafe stuff the cars are doing I attribute that to being uneducated on the subject, unlike truck drivers that are supposedly trained.

BTW, I read an article today about the I-81 crash and it said "chargers are pending", to who, I have no idea.

 

$7.15 mile on 450 miles, finals in Socal. In case anyone was wondering exactly what would stupid amount constitute.

 

Absolutely a stupid rate, but it gives you an idea of how much somebody is losing if the load doesn't arrive on time. I had an offer from a Christmas tree lot in my area in late 2018 right after I bought my new truck and trailer. He offered me around $9 per mile to go to Oregon, pick up a load of trees in my new and clean reefer, and deliver them to 4 of his tree lots. I reluctantly declined. I didn't want to mess up my new trailer with pine pitch. Plus it was raining like crazy in Oregon that week, and I know that the trees and the grower's facility would have been a muddy mess.

 

I have not been out west (yet), but I have seen you post these things frequently as of late. Is it tough driving in the PNW, or are people just driving carelessly/aggressively?