It is OK to stop and back up!

i would have stopped and slid my tandems

 

I agree with a certain group of crash investigators... they don't call them "accidents" either - they refer to them as "Crashes", on the grounds that 'accident' implies something beyond the ability of those involved to avoid. Say, mechanical failure. Since most crashes (on the order of 99.9%) are driver error - in some form or other, they maintain that 'accident' is the wrong word.

and I agree.

As for the trucker in that video... the word "Duh" comes to mind.

 

Hi,

Just curious, but if the trucker wanted to backup, wouldn't he have ran over the guy that was taping the video? I do agree that stopping would be a good idea though. I'm not a driver yet, but I am glad you pointed this out because I would have likely been an idiot and done the same thing. It's hard to know if I would have done that or not, since I have never been in a driver side of the truck.

 

Or, they could just click play here:

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I couldn't agree with you more. I never ever put the truck on pavement or dirt that I do not know will hold the load. The driver was careless. When hauling gasoline I couldn't afford to be careless.

To Lurchgs, sorry to say but you're wrong. To take a blanket attitude to every accident is just plain wrong and lasy on the investigators. I've been on both sides of the fence and your 99.9% at fault is just inflated. We've installed cameras on the trucks that prove those numbers and who is at fault are assumptions made by inexperince investigators. There have been many attempts by individuals and groups to stage accidents to go after deep pockets. If it weren't for the cameras and experienced people doing the investigations there would have been drivers charged for the accident that they had nothing to do with.

The word play with "crashes" is harsh and not justified. I'm sure you can see the difference on paper when a driver has a crash and not an incident or accident. It does in my line of work anyway. I completely understand a driver might clip a black pole at a service station. It's just the nature of the job. But I'd be reckless to list that on that driver's record as a crash. A good investigator will investigate each and every accident on a non bias approach and will not assign fault until ALL the facts are in.

Unless you're a news person. Then we'll have explosions when there's fires and the truck that was loaded with 80,000 gallons of gasoline.

 

Dang. He took that turn all the way from opposite side and he STILL didn't make it.