Oregon i5 pile up

if you ever watch how these guys drive so close to eachothers bumpers going down the highway, that is what happens... it's not even snowing yet

 

Every driver should be in constant mindset of risk/reward, what if.

Is the risk of following too close thru 1 lane sections worth the 0 in reward.
That scenario is all risk with 0 time gained. Yet, the supertruckers have a need to tailgate thru construction zones. Who knows why?

Is fog risk/reward worth the time? Fog is the worst-case for all drivers. It's a choice. I'd rather drive on snow any day than enter the uncertainty of low visibility. 35 years on the road I still cringe in fog. If it's bad at 0600-0700, park till 9-10 till it burns off. If it's midnight, It's a total judgement call. I hate it but I usually park it--- >NOT on a shoulder.

I keep hoping for radar displays. Not the slam the brakes radar, but an actual display. Some Motorcycles have infra red displays for deer etc.. I'd like a something similar with a image display on the dash or visor area.

But yea. Sad to see this indeed.

 

This is why they are implementing 60 mile per hour speed limiters to all trucks next summer.

 

if that goes through i give it 180 days max for them to figure out what that's really going to look like on a two lane interstate, especially any two lane interstate with a grade steep enough to slow the climb.

if trucks were already all electric with 100% torque at any speed it wouldn't be a problem, but with diesel and RPMs and momentum considerations some fully loaded trucks won't be able to make it without slowing to a crawl. you really think the other fifteen company drivers behind him aren't going to try to pass. you've seen what that looks like when there's just a clump of five or six trucks bunched up like that. that will be everybody, all day long. by the laws of physics and fluid dynamics, it can't work. particles slowed to the same speed is peanut butter. you can't have traffic flow with peanut butter.

there should be CSA score related speed restrictions and fines. they don't need to patrol for that, any public servant keyboard ninja can do that with weekly submitted elogs drive time referenced against distance traveled. make the infractors pay $$$$$

 

LOL this reminds me of the ELD debate on TTR a few years ago, there were a few old guard truckers spouting off the concept that if drivers had 20+ years of driving, they should be exempt from ELD.

 

Lot of Billy Big Riggers in there with " Industry Leading Safety Scores."