Colorado trucker gets 110 years for crash

Training has nothing to do with going twice the speed limit or not using the runaway ramps.

 

So you see both these cases as equal circumstances and should have the same punishment?
Also I’m trying to understand?
Are saying the truck driver was going twice the speed limit on purpose ?
Also are you saying you believe the driver had the appropriate training but ignored it and purposely over work the brakes so they would fail?

 

Remember that book you had to read to get your CDL? It tells you about the runaway ramps. And yes. I think he was young and dumb and speeding. This had nothing to do with training.

If anything. He should have been going well below the 45 mph limit. Since he was worried about his brakes. Common sense.

 

I have not seen or heard what his boss told him was the reason to not leave his pickup point, travel north a few miles and then take I-80 east to Laramie. Then to take US287 south. No mountains, like on I-70. Better driving conditions and easier on fuel and less stress on the driver.

 

]Remember that book you had to read to get your CDL??? i think thats part of Training. maybe im wrong, i never had any kind of books to get my D license. I spotted in the yard, 2 years, went and got my picture taken. 1974

 

Could the driver read and comprehend the Colorado DOT English language road signs quick enough- during a panic- to understand that:
1. A downgrade was beginning. Downshift to lower gear
2. In case of break failure, take the runaway ramp.
3. Here's the runaway ramp.. TAKE IT!
I know for a fact he passed several signs indicating what he needed to do.

I'm sure lack of training played some role, but after watching the video READING COMPREHENSION, while under pressure, was the biggest factor.

My first heavy downgrade I took solo without a trainer. I followed the road signs and Downshifted, and was ready to use an exit ramp if needed. I was nervous but ready because the signs gave me a heads up before during after.

 

Race realations has nothing to do with this. I dont care if A Clown was driving that truck. Once he hit 15 - 20 over the speed limit, shut it down. I dont care if you have to hit both trailer/emergency valves. lock it up, or use the ditch, or ramps. Bottom line, he was NOT QUALIFIED to be in that kind of terrain. Training has everthing to do with this. Also hands on with a veteran driver,in icy conditions would have helped him. LONG time ago, a buddy, was in the mountains, he is a Vietnam vet, he would not drive down a mountain, icy. A state trooper told him, get the heck down there. he refused. scared to death. Someone else had to actually drive his truck down the mountain. He was in the Troopers car. He said all the way down the mountain, the trooper was cursing at him. He was a lot younger then. but laughs at it all the time. He was one of the BEST drivers i ever worked with. He passed away about 15 years ago.

 

you couldn`t get me to drive down a steep grade mountain. NOPE not gonna do it. ha, ha,ha