Truck takes out house

They don't have trainers, do they?

 

I want to dive in this a little deeper..............

Ok,We all know the actual driver will face obvious consequences,But What About the carrier ? Im not satisdfied that Trans Am Feels responsible in a certain way or a 'heavy heart' (like another poster said,Would if someone was home and got killed)

point is, I think these carrier giants owners and business relation executives should be held accountable for What they hire, Its a great theory......You hire a warm Body to move your freight just to keep that truck going.DEAL with the consequences accordingly (Which they do,But I feel isn't good enough)

Insurance, These megas are all self-insured these days Right? So this should cost Trans Am a chunk of change.......

I Think a Great idea is to HURT the owner-CEO or business executive of these megas when catastrophies like this happen..Turning it over to insurance isn't good enough...Teach them a lesson here and hurt the Pockets of the owners(And Im talking about their profit bank accounts)......That Way They'll Start Hiring Professionals and Not Warm Bodies with a Pulse.

my 2 Cents,

 

I like the way you think, talked with a driver, if you want to call him that?, told me he's been driving 10 years at the time, and he rolled 4 trucks, but he claims every time was someone else's fault, ? They loaded trailer wrong, or they use wrong brand tires, I asked him how he still can drive with this on his record? He looked puzzled, asking me how many trucks I've rolled, told him in my, at the time, 23 years of driving I've rolled exactly 0 trucks, told him his roll overs where all his fault, that speed was his main factor and personally think he shouldn't be driving due to the fact he can't or won't take responsibility for the accidents thus it will more than likely happen again

 

I used to work in the safety department for a growing company. I've since moved on for a variety of reasons, but I was shocked with the state of trucking and the lack of concern for safety in general. Not only didn't the drivers want to hear about how their own actions were contributing factors to accidents, but most of the other people that worked there (including the rest of the safety department) couldn't care less about how drivers got the job done. While I certainly miss working in safety, I don't miss working for a company that would rather circumvent the rules over and over rather than learning from mistakes and coaching drivers/operations to avoid making those mistakes going forward.

 

Meltom, im glad you posted on this topic, A pretty easy answer why their is LOW concern,especially with larger irregular route carriers,The OWNERS (ya know your bosses), are concerned about 2 things and 2 things ONLY...Their Customers,And Their annual profit margins (Fiscal or not)

When the cattle (drivers) don't create profit, they are either terminated creatively,or they are given poor treatment to lead to quitting

This is NO way to operate a successful and moral trucking Co. As an owner of a small trucking co, The Health,Safety,Well being of employees are just as important as my customers..

Profit? To me employer/employee happiness will always outshine counting benjamins

As a Lifelong resident AND business owner from Illinois..I Believe in Fair,Honest Upfront honesty..no Shortcuts ANYWHERE (whether or not I profit)

And Most Importantly, I Believe Each and Every Driver Needs some form of representation,Union Or Not.Drivers are treated like Cattle and until that stops..this will be the end result..For Years and years to come.

these Large Irregular Route Carriers that run these "Mills" Know exactly what the end results are....AND the worst part? They make the driver feel "Guilty" when a catastrophe happens.. KNOWING its going to happen,

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd0KQv57Rq0

how about this driver? think he might be in the running, Notice about 25 seconds into video, you can see he was using his wallet to try and hide what he was doing

 

The only problem with that is the fact that he was still dragging building materials with him..."no...no....honest officer, our trailers have that from the factory. It helps with the aerodynamics"

3 weeks on his own and he destroys that much...I'm not perfect but mother of pearl and cheese-n-rice...perhaps they should test his eye sight. .

 

turning down a wrong stteet in jersey city is "expected"

a pedestrian bridge
a house
u-turn on a 30' wide street are just plain clueless

 

I worked for a couple of companies that did that,, the safety department would preach driving safely, run legal, etc, and their dispatch dept was "we don't give a ##### if there's a blizzard, or if your out of hours!"....until a driver got into a really heinous fatal wreck, and then just acted like nothing happened, and even ratcheted up the unsafe/illegal running, while that company was getting sue so badly they dumped off the health insurance, screwed drivers on pay / bonuses and lost a lot of freight(millis was a perfect example).

 

Following his route on google maps according to the article. I see him easily getting in the situation by going east "straight" on Sunbury instead of taking the right on 61. Weather using a gps or not. But would seem like the gps would make him turn right on the next block to get out of the situation but since there probably was a dely in re-routeing on the gps, he continued going east. He made all lefts "all site side" from there, each time hitting something on with the left side of the trailer. He made a another left hitting a car finally getting back on route after making the right on 61 and then was stopped a mile or so down after making a right on 901.

I wonder if he had his tandems all the way back ??? making it almost impossible to make those turns especially the first two and then panicked when he needed to make the turn at the house?

I don't know??? The article said that several truckers have been re-routed to that area without causing the damage this driver did. Large warning sign with flashing yellow lights "All trucks must turn right" would help the most of the time.

When is a truck driver experienced enough to avoid getting put in this situation when panicked?