1 killed in 6-vehicle crash on I-95 in East Haven, CT

I've been an instructor/trainer for several railroads if you have questions, maybe we can trade info as I try to find my way with 18 wheels.

I always paid attention to trucks, as a kid I knew every make, even from the side before I could see the logo or grille. My dad got me started, probably so I'd shut up and stop asking when we'd get there. :^) I was fascinated by cabovers and trying to figure out how they fit everything in one of them, wondered what it would be like to sit way up there.

Remember waking up in the 58 Plymouth as a steel beam loaded flatbed backed down toward us in the snow on then-new I-70, we had gone into the median on those bias tires. He backed scary close, then took off the rear chain, handed it to my dad who hooked it to our bumper, and dragged us out like we were nothing but air. (Remember when you could drag a car by its bumper?) Mom was convinced the steel was coming off and crushing us, I think I was old enough to roll my eyes even then.

Later I realised it happened partly because I was there, 2 years old and it was back when people did things like that for each other on the road, before the corporation psychology got in between everyone. From reading on here I sense that there's some of that left out there, seems strongest with flatbedders, so I'm leaning that way.

Thinking about independence on Independence Day. Hope you all are as well.

 

I pretty much quit trying to help cars today unless it is a way old model with that steel construct. The Truck can apply so much torque you can tear a car body apart easy.

People are here to help and Ive done my share as well and have been helped too.

I say this something happened in the mid 70's where we kids did not get to go into the railyard on fort avenue in Baltimore which back then was a B&O and new Chessie Yard for a few years too short. Im not sure what happened, but it was enough to cool any future outings to visit the crews and the yards in those days.

It's further chilled post 9-11, I recall there was a underground passage to a shelter at the Harpers Ferry Station and they covered that up right quick fearing a terrorist IED or something among other things. Trucking is a little more resilient because we can take hits and keep moving.

Mail contracts, Railroad express, own trucking arms and so forth may all have had a hand leading us all to what we see today for better or worse.

I don't have anything today and hope it might be a while before something turns up. Good luck out there! See you on the flip side.