Shoulder Tragedies= Lawyers/illegal parked

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  1. takeheed777

    takeheed777 Light Load Member

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  3. LTL Bull

    LTL Bull Road Train Member

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    Sorry, not going to buy it had anything to do with the truck on the shoulder. The car “veering to the right for unknown reasons” is the problem, not the truck being on the shoulder. How about “just don’t do it” to the car driver. As in , STAY THE H*LL OFF YOUR PHONE!!!!. That’ll solve the issue.
     
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  4. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    still don't matter...any "no parking signs"...along that shoulder?

    was the truck broke down? were triangles put out?

    comes to the lawyers making the driver pay, his insurance pay, his company pay...

    as if "no parking signs" were posted, even if where he parked, one was missing, he should not have been there.

    elogs will be checked as well

    drunk driver? perhaps, but the lawyers will say, "well ladies and gentlemen of the jury, yes, my client ws drunk, yes, he veered off the road, BUT, had that truck NOT been there, my client and his passenger would have only been injured going into the ditch, not being killed by a trucker, illegally parked"

    judge gonna say...."pay the nuclear claim, case closed"
     
  5. LTL Bull

    LTL Bull Road Train Member

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    That may work out in our jacked up pay out tort law environment but we all know it’s the cars fault for swerving and my money is not on a drunk driver but a car operator on a device of death known as a cell phone. Tort law may find the truck liable but if I were the truck operator I could sleep at night despite the deaths
     
  6. buddyd157

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    i can sleep as well....cuz it's the lawyers that are gonna stay up late putting together a case.
     
  7. Arctic_fox

    Arctic_fox Experienced mx13 execrator

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    Sadly the money grubbers have gotten the precident set that a truck "shouldnt have been there" is now a legal standard.
     
  8. Lennythedriver

    Lennythedriver Road Train Member

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    Cell phone, every time, 100% of the time almost.
     
  9. Studebaker Hawk

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    The extensive 12 word article in "the Mercury News" doesn't give anyone here enough information to make any kind of a judgement.

    However, by the time I see you in court, I will have enough information, a crying relative, and other tidbits to cause the trucking company to settle before it goes in front a jury.
    the HAMMER....
     
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