Driver hit and killed loading equipment

I would like to know who trained him to park on the street like that. You don't try to load stuff like that on the service road, without flaggers and such. I used to work in Houston hauling equipment just like that, on the same type of trailer.

 

hopefully they put that ####er in prison

 

The rental place that delivered a small bulldozer to our job site , parked in the state highway , and unloaded it .

It was a two lane rural highway and they just parked in the highway .

 

I could see that if that was the only option, but with someone at least flagging traffic. If I were in that situation I would have loaded with the basket towards the truck. Might get pretty screwed up from the impact, but more likely to survive than riding with the basket a foot or two from the floor of the trailer.

EDIT: Another news report said the driver was standing beside his truck so I guess he had already loaded it. That is a terrible tragic accident.

 

Driver loading semi-truck dead after car crashed into him on North Fwy near FM 1960: HCSO

 

My sincerest condolences
to family/friends of Driver. RIP.

 

I see this alot in the midwest, electric line workers usually have signs but others on shoulder or road where the isnt one often do not... I suspect lack of safety training