comedian Tracy Morgan hurt in bus/truck crash

Maybe she was grossing 100K on a 6 percent grade ???

 

I hope it was a High $$$$ load.......

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4065903]Wow DustyRoad, that sounds so typical, and people jumped all over me when I tried to tell them why drivers did drugs in the 1st place. When I did OTR (very short time) I had the same garbage. Call me in 1/2 hour, call me in 1/2 hour, how are you supposed to sleep, and then the call comes in at 2:30 pm, the place closes at 4:00, and you are 90 miles away, and delivers at 6:00 am, 500 miles away. Non truckers just don't realize this goes on.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I remember those days. That's one thing about the old days I don't miss at all.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4065903]Non truckers just don't realize this goes on.[/QUOTE]
They could care less. As long as their package of who the heck cares is on the shelf at the grocery store when they drop in, it doesn't matter.

They also don't know that you can't fix this by placing more obstacles (regulations) upon the driver making this delivery.

 

Some people can see the good AND bad in a company. You expect others to be a cheerleader for Walmart because the earnings potential is greater? Hour per hour or mile to mile, the pay at Walmart is not better. I give credit to Walmart where credit is deserved, such as their safety record, but I also point out the bad sides as well because that is the truth. Many of the managers in Bentonville are some of the most corrupt people in the world. The driver in the NJ wreck will be discarded like a used kleenex because that is how Bentonville operates today. It wasn't always this way.

My mentor at church, who was a Vice President for 28 years, knew Sam Walton and was with him in his final days while getting treatment for cancer here in Houston. When Sam was alive, yes, his drivers were treated like gold because he respected people very much. Today, it is not the same because the managers in Bentonville do not view people with respect. Every day, the Private Fleet inches closer to being no different than working at a store other than the level of compensation. That too can/will change over time, and time will prove this to be true. There is a reason the turnover rate has risen to record numbers.... the job is not as it was in years past, it is moving closer to being like other mega fleet jobs.

grabberblue, I do not see you standing up for the driver in this wreck like you did back on page 8. Why? Laugh all the way to the bank all you want and hope you are never in the same situation as this driver.

 

But people firmly believe in accidents, with all their hearts. "Didn't mean to" absolves them of responsibility for the consequences of their habitual "willful misconduct" when it finally catches up to them.

A perp can flee police at high speed drunk and steering with one foot through the sunroof and the media will almost invariably report the resulting crash as an accident. It is so pervasive ~2 years ago the Washington Post published a report of a suicide by motor vehicle, note and all, as an accident.

There is no end of firearm accidents. Leave a loaded gun with effectively no safety and a round in the chamber on the coffee table alone with 2 children. When one kid shoots the other dead, no charges are filed, cops rule it an accidental shooting. If one would pray SOMEONE understood firearm safety principles are kindergarten-simple and it requires at least 3 be simultaneously violated to result in a negligent shooting, you might think it would be cops. Last year in OR a man mistakenly shot and killed, at night, in his own residential backyard, a kid in the bushes he believed was a skunk. "Accident", cops decided, no charges.

The NTSB maintains an Aviation Accident Database & Synopses even though aviation crashes that are finally determined to be accidental are so rare they are practically nonexistent.
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/

/rant

 

well said this could happen to any of use in a blink of a eye!

 

Don't Blink!!!.....

 

With many working 70 hours behind the wheel every week, it only takes 2 seconds of "Lack of concentration" to cause disaster.