Swift crash on I-85 kills co-driver/trainer

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  1. drvrtech77

    drvrtech77 Road Train Member

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    Then if this driver didn't have a year experience what does that tell you about KB background verification checks?
     
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  3. pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    Exactly kb hires alot of ppl with very little exp.Since their insurance disqualifies alot of drivers they brake their own policies.
     
  4. Brian Seals

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    I thought the same thing about him being sleepy. I know between 2 am and 5 youre body wants to shut down. The bodies biological clock. My prayers to the Gulfport family.
     
  5. Cw5110

    Cw5110 Heavy Load Member

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    Absolutely. I remember i got a night run i slept as much as i could in the day. I got on the road and i remember my head nodding on the 287 in New Jersey. The study is right on one thing and you pretty muched summed it up.
     
  6. thejackal

    thejackal Road Train Member

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    It's called 1st amendment rights, dude...read it sometime...u might learn somethin.
     
  7. KriegHund

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    Nothing funny about that, I find it rather lacking empathy for your fellow man.
     
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    Picture is deceiving. There's a left curve that starts right before the overpass. If you don't turn the wheel, you'll end up just about exactly where he did. Looks a lot like the driver fell asleep or was doing something else that made him go straight instead of turning.
     
  9. camionneur

    camionneur Road Train Member

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    Well, I drive with empathy for my fellow earthlings, or am working on it safety wise, although it requires a morbid sense of humor (I mean really is driving empathetic to the ecosystem that life depends on, no it isn't harmless irregardless of how sincere you are about it, and in the grand scheme of things it's about as tragic that anyone doesn't go out trying to live a slower to most peaceful existense. So if you want to go there, with utmost empathy for my fellow man, I'd say at least they didn't plow into an Amish buggy, or a Jain temple).
     
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    Reason for edit: May they rest in peace all the same.
  10. nikmirbre

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    I just went by the site......no skid marks whatsoever......
     
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