Driver hit and killed loading equipment

You got to do what u gotta do. Those local equipment haulers are doing a #### ton of deliveries a day... They would spend half there day waiting on the flaggers to get their ### to the jobsites while parked in the middle of the road... Equipment hauling is a dangerous job . death is a risk you take. This was not the truck drivers fault for not having cones out..cones and signs and flaggers wouldve all been run over in this situation. The driver is just trying to do his job to the best of his ability.. Its no different then car haulers having to unload in the middle of the street outside the dealerships.. Its a risk you take and unfortunately he paid the ultimate price for it... May god rest his soul

 

Many of us have put ourselves in harms way, comes with the territory. God be with his family, if anyone knows of a go fund me for them please let us know.

 

I completely understand.

I always put out cones, everytime I was stopped on the roadway, while working. The aforementioned incident is what prompted me to change how I did things. Harbor Freight cones were too cheap to not have with me. With what I see these days, I’m glad to not be doing that anymore.

 

Another one here for conage (is that a word? lol).

Sometimes, my dispatch is for a wreck scene, not just a hook-n-book tow, but it is often just my rollback and myself.

I am all about throwing up cones in the day and LED beacons at night to make myself a work zone.

Like this pic .... the trailer had detached from its pickup, no lights. This is on a main rez road, your light comes from your rig and the moon if it's out. The NavCop had to leave, so I was in my own.

Also, as someone mentioned "not seeing the rig's work lights & flashers, etc", in this pic my rollback is lit up like July 4, front rear sides & diagonals (yes I have the fancy smancy stuff, haha), but before I hooked the trailer lights to my truck, is was blackness for that drivers coming up from behind, inca 55mph road that averages 65-75 actual speed.

 

I've been criticized for blinding hazard lights and flashers.
I spent the dime on safety.
I'm still here.

Even if you had to slow down cause you can't see,
you still slowed down. Now move over, it's the law!

Had one this morning, matter of fact,
Guy in pickup wasn't going to move over,
Putting the hook on the driver side by travel lane,
I was 2 feet into the lane, vest and cones,
So I just looked at him and motioned to the other lane,
He knew I was serious and wasn't moving, so he did.
(Why do I have to tell you?)

 

I despise the push for all the infotainment on new cars and trucks. Even commercial vehicles got that junk. …crap I’m getting old…y’all just witnessed.

 

I have a 2007 Freightliner 26,00G.V.W. rollback,
and it has a "chassis module."
this talks back and forth with the computer,
and the brake switch and LED bulbs.
They over-complicate a simple process with computers for no reason.
A wire.
end of it.
Too simple to go to a switch with a wire, and to LED bulb.
Naw, it needs a module.
Uh; why?
(Dealer-stealer) $300. Thats why.

 

Wow. It didn't come back on the employer for the worker not having the cones, or did he have them and just not use them? In this video that is on here from the news thing, I don't see any cones the driver even had to put in place. I would expect that to come back on the company he was driving for, but could be wrong.

 

The worker sued my employer and the driver. He lost both cases.

I have no idea if the worker had cones on his truck or not. I would assume he did, because he was a utility worker, working on the traffic lights.

I don’t know who he was employed by. And, I mention that, because I see a lot of municipal employees not deploying cones, parked the wrong direction in traffic lanes, parked in traffic lanes with no flashing lights, etc.

After that incident, my employer bought cones for all of us and conducted a safety meeting, describing the situation and how we were to always deploy them, to protect us, should we end up in a similar situation.

Like others, I’ve been nearly hit. I can remember three people running over my liftgate, because they were that close to rearending me. Stupidity is rampant.

 

I used to deliver by the cementary in East LA having to completely block the left lane, with of course all the controls and hose hookups on the left side of the trailers, people would hit the cones regualarly, like it was a game, started putting cement rings on them, did not stop them but it would sure leave an impression on the fromnt of there car.