I-40 east of barstow

Yes. Gruesome wreck. Very good pics.

 

thanks for the pics very scarey but also the truth when u dont keep your sh#t wired tight at all times when driving.

 

If you are tailgating it's not tight...

 

I get tailgated on 40 all the time. I give 2 warnings to back off. I came through a few days after this wreck, you could still see the scars from it. Guys and gals: We should ALWAYS!!! Have at least a tractor trailer length (75 to 85 feet) of space. Wrecks like this should NOT happen. Think about your safety, and those around you. My heart goes out to the ones who lost there lives in this. ####.

 

Tailgaters thought, it won't happen to me! Yeah right! That's what the truckers in the pictures said.
They ought to put a distance sensor in the trucks with an annoying buzzer if you get too close.

Actually back in the 90's the government was planning to build a truck super highway next to I-81 in VA. Trucks only. Future planning to connecting to Atlanta. The news disappeared as quick as it started. I-81 needs some relief.

You get north of Los Angeles, they use channel 15 out there up to Bakersfield.

 

If any of you folks run up to Northeast wisconsin using Hiway 41 thru oshkosh, neenah and appleton up to green bay, then you have experienced some Tailgating by fourwheelers as well as Big Rigs. It gets worse on friday evenings. Our trucks are governed out at 64.5 so everyone passes me but i get a birds eye view of tailgating. It is actually horrific watching a Big Rig less than 10' off the back of another vehicle at 65+ mph. I just dont get it and why other drivers would be sympathetic to a Trucker going to jail for tailgating and rear ending and killing another driver.

 

"Tailgaters thought, it won't happen to me! Yeah right! That's what the truckers in the pictures said.
They ought to put a distance sensor in the trucks with an annoying buzzer if you get too close."

My truck is equipped with VORAD (don't know what it stands for) which does just that. Also has something called SmartCruise which slows your truck down automatically if you approach a vehicle. Pain in the ##### if you ask me. There's no way of turning it off either. when the VORAD sensor becomes faulty the whole truck goes bonkers.

 

boy, I sure agree with you.....I feel so sorry for those folks in the fourwheelers being "pushed" down the highway by someone that shouldnt be driving...let alone a big truck....its scary...especially when we do see pics like this...imagine if that had been a car or cars those guys rearended...the results would have been much more tragic....these pics I posted are from the Tow and Recovery guys that handled that wreck.....I am sorry anyone died...just thankful they didnt take more with them....I do feel horrible for the familes left behind tho...

 

Yep, everyday, never ceases to amaze. Especially coming into construction zones. You see the speed limit going down, 65, 55, 45, etc. and here comes two or three trucks bearing down on everyone hardly slowing down at all.

Not long ago there was a truck up in NE Oklahoma, near Joplin many of you will remember, that plowed over a bunch of cars stopped in a construction zone killing 10 people.


Randall Hayes, 38, from Frisco, Texas, was pinned for about nine hours and died at the scene of the accident.


http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=10605474

 

I remember that one and wonder what the final outcome of that wreck was. was the driver asleep, or inatentive to what he was doing? I never saw any other info on that one.