Police say trucker was tired, watching porn when fatal crash occurred

Awwww man!!!! Now they will pass a law on that as well.

LOL

You find the darndest news.

 

If he was watching some left wing propaganda show then they'red be less comments.
He shouldn't have been watching anything, but I can understand why he was watching porn instead of My Fair lady. When you're over the road long enough it either porn or lot lizards. I'd choose the porn, sorry to those that offends, but I'd never watch it while barrelling down the road with no sleep.
I passed a four wheeler driver a few years back that was reading a novel while driving! That's equally as scary.
Atleast with texting your only momentarily dangerous. Either way you shouldn't do any thing distracting while having the truck in gear.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584115,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.372243:b30091186:z0

 

Don't see why it would be an insult ... as highly trained police and rescue drivers get in accidents all the time - training has no bearing on circumstances that come "out of the blue".

If your fortunate enough to have avoided these, consider yourself blessed.

We're all human.

 

Well I have another take on this story. I worked for the same company, Millis Transfer. and beleive it or not He was a training instructor, and a trainer driver. He was also head of the safety audit board. In other words if another driver had a accident and it was deemed the drivers fault then they could appeal it. This guy would head the hearing board for the appeal to determin if the accident was preventable or not. Kinda scarry huh?

 

I can see the changes coming on this one:

DUIP - Driving Under the Influence of Porn

So far, there's been new laws on the books about operating electronic devices while driving - how's ComData feel about that one? Drivers have to pull onto the shoulder to input a status update? New laws only clog the books, and LEO's have a hard enough time keeping the laws we already have straight from time to time.

Not to detract from the issue - I think it's been covered well so far by the previous posters - how about the accidents caused by 4 wheelers doing what they feel like? I've got a great suggestion that could lower all our insurance rates:

Everytime an accident goes on record - the person's phone gets checked for recent text messages. This should clear up more car vs car crashes and traffic jams for all of us. They've been talking about finding a way to disable texting in motion - we all know that wouldn't work. So let's just take it to the source - the driver.

 

probably snorted a line the day before. i hear that makes you more interested in dirty movies LOL

 

You want to watch a movie going down the road? Well there is a big screen right in front of you it is called the windshield. It shows a non stop movie of reality TV called life.

 

Or in this driver's case - COPS

 

This whole story sounds fishy to me. The State Police are always going to give the trial lawyers and the media the most ammo they can. First off, log books.
You can take a 9 3/4 hour break, sleep nine hours out of that, it's not a legal sleeper berth. You messed up your log by 15 minutes. It's put in the police report "driver had not had a legal break in 48 hours." Next thing you know, the papers have it written up as you had not slept for two days. The same story will be used in court to hang you with. They will get you like that. You have to be careful, it happens to drivers all the time. Secondly, as for the laptop, I don't know how you "test" it to see if a movie was playing, I am somewhat of a computer guru, I can tell you when a file was created or modified, I can't tell you when it was last accessed. If the laptop was laying on the floor with the movie playing, fair enough, but that's not what the story says, it says the laptop was "tested." It probably had porn on the hard drive, or a DVD in the optical drive. Personally, I don't think laptops should be up front, I know some of you use it for GPS, but I'm more comfortable with a portable unit. If it were me, and I used my laptop for GPS, I'd take this as a warning and make sure no movies are on the hard drive. Porn or not.