Oregon i5 pile up

NOT ANY LONGER.
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The "worse" part, to me, is when the rear vehicle, or rear VEHICLES, has/have been burning for some time.
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DRIVE TO CONDITIONS!!

 

(1)True, not snowing YET.
(2)Wonderful Idea however there would need to be about a few gazillion more ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL to even make a small dent in the ever INCREASING amount of Tail Gaiters and just plain ignorant buffoons with no obvious forward thinking (beyond the front end).

 

FOG made me slow down to 45 m.p.h. with 4 ways in granny lane. At Night, usually slower till a RAMP or Truck Parking Area appeared that had Parking as well Creative Parking.
FOG was and still IS NO FUN, Light or Dark.

There is NO LOAD so hot it has to cool off in a lake, inverted, ON FIRE or crumpled into the forward vehicle/s.

 

I'll clean up some of the political posts in this thread but if there any more there will be infractions handed out and the thread will be moved to Politics.

 

To get more wrecks from the herd in a pack ?? Why would they want that?

 

If anything it will make it worse. Ive already had more then one ####### try to run me off the road "in revenge" for "getting in their way" and on a double blind yellow because my 80,000 pound max load truck cant get up a hill at more then 30MPH. Had several scream bloody murder on the cb and had more then i can count tailgateing me and/or flashing their brights and while honking. And this includes.a disturbing number of trucks.

Its like gee i would LOVE to go faster but i CANT add in mandatory speed limits ontop of enforced ELDs and time crunches....well there is a reason EVERYONE with even a single functional brain cell is saying this is going to be an absolute #### show.

 

I am not looking forward to winter.

 

I’m old enough to have started in trucking with a Chauffeur license. The big hip about CDL’s was how they would take the bad drivers off the road, and keep the best of the best rolling. What a joke that was!!!

Guy around the mountain was a driver as well at a different company. He ended up dating my friend’s sister in law, the stories she told of his drug use out on the road was mind boggling! CDL’s took many of my mentors off the road, men who survived WWll and started trucking when they got back home. Men who could put a truck up a tree of through a maze and never scratch it, but…. they had trouble writing and reading.

These men were afraid of the written test, I had this conversation first hand with them as they explained the fear of not passing the written test.

If this speed limiter law goes through it will be another flop just as the cdl was, but you can bet a lot of $$ will be made by someone to bring it all to life….

 

I5 is pretty much 60 mph for trucks already which is probably the main cause of the pile up, all the trucks just drive together in a straight line at 60 mph or less because most arent willing to break the dumb law. I go at least 68 mph to pass them so I don't end up in this mess, speed limiters will just make this problem nationwide.