Bad Week in NE: Two wrecks, three trucks, two cars, five dead

Someone driving like that and being sleep deprived is not much better than a drunk in the thought processes in my estimation. Perhaps any of us in our younger days could have driven the 15 hrs in a car with not a lot of problem, but that is not the same as driving a truck around.

 

well im only 24 so i probably drive longer than i should sometimes so i wont try and call the kettle black...I also hire another driver to go in shifts...but if have to agree with you 100% its as bad as driving drunk...there is no excuse for it. There are enough things that can go wrong when you are completly alert, let alone when your half asleep...

 

Read the story on "The Trucker". Man it really brought tears in my eyes. Check out YouTube "tribute to the Schmidt family." Let us just make the roadway a safer place instead of blaming others. We must only judge our own driving habits not others, a safer roadway start with ourselves because we can't control the way others drive, but we can make it as safe as possible for the little ones who ride with mom and dad sometimes. Peace to all fellow truckers and may you all have a safe trip.

 

Was in the greater Chicagoland area yesterday, and WBBM 780 News reported that Sleze(ball)ak does not think he did anything wrong.

I kid you not.

 

He must live in an altered state if he thinks he is not to blame somehow.

 

I know for me mandated HOS rules will never be able to over ride my use of common sense. I drive 600 miles one day and could have driven 200 more. Next week I drive 5 hours and shouldn'y have driven 3 my body tells me it's needs if I am willing to listen
Illinois wants me to take a test all over again to become a resident but passes people that don't understand English
Common sense just isn't very common

 

People that point fingers need to look at their hand when you do. Theirs 3 pointing right back at you. Think 3 times before speaking.

 

Yes, sometimes that's true.

Sometimes.

 

I got a real sour taste in my mouth and not gonna spit out some nasty words.

It's not only Chicagoans or Illinoisan or European or who ever, its a natinoal problem and its not a nationality specific. Driving privileges should be real hard to get. Like a R licence. To be a trucker you should be a mechanic to leave out of state. We driving big machines on public roads. Probably only 1% know how to work on their truck and not only get dirty with oil or grease and say your a mechanic or hold the wheel and look at fuel gauge and say your a trucker. Ask any European on this forum the process of getting your cdl over the pond. Dunno how it is elsewhere except in America and Poland.

I'm a 3rd gen trucker. Think I was a trucker while my daddy was a seed in his daddy's seed sack. Yeah I'm the Polak that pulles over and gives a hand cause I know I got the tools and knowledge to help a fellow driver/trucker "usually figure this out in few min of talking". You got the parts I got the tools we got 2 brains 4 hands to get you off the road and to a shop to get it done by certified mechanic. I'm not certified.? You touch a bolt on your truck you better claim responsibility.

Unless your got Native American blood in you then you ain't native just American. Now the question is American what? Irish, Polish, Indian, African. Maybe your family came here with Columbus and been in America that long your still gonna be "fill in the blank"_____________ American. Unless you don't care about your roots and forgot what this country was made from. HARD WORKING IMIGRANTS trying to better their life while also building this country to what it is today. Polish American, never forget your roots that's why im here. Think about your roots.

This wasn't intended to anyone's post or toward any one person nor saying this to take any less responsibility for the drivers actions to cause this acceident.

Some may not like this post because how I said it but I think you can understand what I'm saying.

Can't we all just get along.

 

I can see where you're coming from and how were all technically immigrants but here's the real problem this driver had no business being behind the wheel on an american road in the first place if he needed an interpreter. Law states you have to speak fluent english he obviously didnt speak fluent english if he needed an interpreter. Sorry but he shouldnt have had a cdl and shouldnt have been on an american road. Id say the same thing about any driver regardless of where he came from, race, sex, etc. Guy shouldnt have been driving period the end so in this situation we cant all just get along.