Texas Appeals Court Upholds $100 Million Judgement Against Werner

Doesn't make sense. The car crossed the median and hit the Werner truck, so how is it the Werner drivers fault?

 

This is UNREAL!

 

Big bad truck involved! (Just nevermind who was actually COMPLETELY and TOTALLY at fault, and who wasn't!)
Besides, Werner = money! Free money for all!

 

While y’all may disagree w/the court(and of course it’s not over yet)
It’s quite clear what the court is saying and defacto trying to accomplish
Which IMHO is force some of these companies to better train and further manage their newer drivers
I’m quite sure the jurists opinions reflect what many of us have witnessed over the last decade or so in terms of Megas training etc
Especially Megas forcing drivers to drive in adverse conditions
So although Werner is gonna get it in the short hairs.,,this can be taken as somewhat of a positive moving forward

 

Makes a bit more sense if one reads all the way down. 16% liability for the driver of the car does seem low. Car driver crossed median so he was driving too fast just like the Werner driver. Werner driver less than 1 week out of driving school. A local tow truck driver had slowed to 15mph.
"...he was not allowed to operate a CB radio, which might have warned him from other drivers on the road about how treacherous the conditions"
70% of it on Werner, 14% on Ali directly (Werner driver) and 16% on Salinas.

“The risk was astonishingly high that a newly trained 18-wheeler driver who was not trained to drive in winter weather would cause serious death or injury if confronted with a traffic scenario requiring quick reactions while traveling at approximately 50 miles per hour on a Texas highway with black ice, freezing rain and freezing temperatures during a National Weather Service storm warning,” the judges wrote, noting that Ali had the “second-lowest possible” evaluation score and was driving a “high-pressure (just in time) delivery.”

 

No it won't, it will just result in the megas forcing all their drivers off the road at the hint of adverse weather. A good stiff breeze of 25mph, park it. Raining, park it. Half an inch of snow possible, park it. The whole country will look like I80 in Wyoming at the hint of bad weather. I wouldn't be surprised if it resulted in a federal law requiring ALL trucks off the road in some arbitrary weather that we all drive through because it's not that big a deal if you use your brain.

 

How fast the Werner truck was moving is irrelevant, the other clown was on the complete wrong side of the road, the verdict would be the same if Werner was going 5mph. It's all about punishing the "big bad evil corporation."

 

Wow just wow!!!!!