What if it Snows?

Overdrive will do the job. Keep the rest for low end power and city driving. Plus you can smoke the tires easier. Chicks dig that!!

 

1 great thing about holiday trucking. All the spots are available at the truckstop. Think there are 20ish trucks at the J here in Limon.

 

What will LS do?

Jury Awards $730 MILLION to Family of Woman Killed in Crash With Truck Hauling Superload

 

Cut rates no doubt…….

 

Lol, I can’t chance needing a tow truck. They have 3 big ones across the street. One was running lights on. Probably thought he had a job. I jacked it back around. Almost had to have my wife watch traffic, while on the phones, and blindside our onto the road. Wouldn’t be the first time. I get into a lot of tight jams with this Truck. I don’t let it keep me from going anywhere. Always barely make it. Lol.

 

LS is ?

 

Landstar.

 

First they'll get a retrial. If they were following approved routing and the woman disregarded the instructions of the pilot vehicle, which it sounds as though she did, then the family will potentially wish they had taken the settlements.

 

Talked with my bride this morning about this case and ya it's a big headline but won't hold up on appeals will drop down to policy limits real fast.

 

if you read the entire story - it points out that Landstar settled out of court for $50 million and one of the 2 pilots settled for $1 million. The other pilot went to trial and lost. The judgement is against the pilot and obviously will never be paid.

pilot cars have no actual power to command anything - some states allow them to do traffic control if they are certified (Texas being one of them).

I have no idea what went wrong and the story also has no details of other than it was a 16 wide load on a “bridge”.

so everything is speculation

based on that the front pilot should have stopped traffic by parking and getting out of their car with a stop sign. The truck should not have traveled onto the bridge until receiving confirmation that the traffic was in fact stopped.

is this always done - no it is not. The traveling public loses the their mind if you do it correctly - and the biggest offenders are other trucks that are in a “hurry” and can’t be delayed by even 2 minutes.

the front pilot likely was holding a flag or stop out the window of their car and trying to push oncoming traffic to the shoulder.

as the driver - once you get on the bridge it’s all over.

this is world that I operate in and there are unbelievable risks involved. It takes experience and judgement to move these loads - not everyone can or should but hey they were $10k cheaper….