Anybody witness the fiery crash in Denver involving a trucker?

I was born in Bell Gardens and I lived in Pomona California most of my Young Life about 27 years ago I moved to Florida bought me a 10-acre spread and put a double wide on it homesteaded it and let me tell you, every chance I get I go fishing I can go fish off the Atlantic I can fish in the Gulf I can fish in a river I can fish in a lake I can fish in a retention pond I can fish in a canal if I want everywhere you go in Florida there's fish.
I wouldnt move back to California if you gave me 10 acres. The cost of living is Affordable in Florida though it is rising because of the amount of people that have moved into the state but it's still cost affordable hands down.
California just went plain nuts in the 1990s that's all I can say.

 

I agree. I was just saying that he clearly had some brakes left at that point. It also seems likely that he knew his brakes were fading, and was trying to get down the mountain rather than hit the emergency truck ramp.

I am definitely NOT saying he acted appropriately.

23 year old men tend to have a remarkable tendency to overestimate what they can actually do. I imagine a lot of us lived through that state of life. Most of us have scars to show when we did something stupid.

This fellow screwed up worse than anyone else reading this, probably, but I suspect that most of us have events in our lives when things could have gone just as badly, if we had lacked just a touch of luck or skill.

 

The title of this post is terrible.

Why start a post by asking if anybody saw an awful thing happen?

 

the good news is when he gets out of prison Werner will hire him, probably already sent him a recruiting email.

 

If it wasnt for the no enginebrake law ge cpyld of slowed down.

 

Yeah I’m just......I don’t get it. By his own admission today he lost his brakes “just before” the collision. Well why the F was he going so fast by the truck ramp then? Do you suppose it was his first ever time down a mountain and he thought he could stop anytime?

With less than two yrs experience, I’m still looking at whoever put him on that route. I think he was a fish out of water

 

I just realized that this fully justifies the Steven's Transport policy of no driver with less than a year experience routing through I70 west of Denver.