Dump Truck Driver Indicted On Vehicular Homicide Charges

My next question would be a safety feature that blinks or beeps? Or doesn’t allow for the bed to rise up if over certain mph?

I’m guessing things like this exist.

 

All in all it was an unintentional accident.

Yes he may have been negligent about observing his mirrors but who’s to say it didn’t suddenly raise with out notice because of the pto suddenly being engaged.

He should have jumped out of the truck and robbed a liquor store and shot the owner so he only faces 5 years with probation .

 

Negligence would be to KNOWINGLY drive with body raised.

 

In MA, law requires light, alarm/buzzer when body is raised. As designed, a true annoyance. It is common for them to "stop working ". Plugs fall apart, wires disconnect etc. If such alarm stops working while I drive the truck, I assume that puts all responsibility on me(a part of that pesky pretrip thing).
Driving a truck with no backup alarm and I back over a person, am I responsible?
The lawyers, insurance companies will get it sorted out.

 

Like has been said most pto’s have to be engaged when stopped. Kind of like trying to get trans down shifted into 1st or low without clutch while still rolling. Still can be done with the right touch. Once you get pto engaged you throttle up in gear to get bed up.
Rpms determine speed.
Watch a job site pad prep operation that is really cooking. When the straight trucks come in and out they don’t stop. Raise, dump, lower all in non stop synchronized motion.

 

No, not because of the alarm anyway. Unless your jurisdiction requires it.