Anybody witness the fiery crash in Denver involving a trucker?

All I got out of that link was a face book page or something, no info if she was a citizen or not, or that there was actually another defunct authority.. I am not doubting it, I just didn't see proof.

 

No it's just a hunch on my part. there insn't any proof .............yet.

 

I have an idea you are right, at least on the previous authority part, but yea, no proof.

 

Stupid.

Suddenly, everyone is so stupid that they can’t cross the Rockies without burning their brakes. And the masses of Bleeders and idiots will all clamor for new legislation. The only way that will possibly work is if ALL trucks have the same engine, transmission and rear ends. That way, the goobermint goobers could tell all the non driving jackwads what gear they need to be in.

Safety? Nope. Safest thing to do is put drivers who can’t figure out how to descend a grade out of the business.

You know, it’s interesting...they tell you that we are all equal. They write the regs accordingly. Heck, they write the traffic laws accordingly. And many of you are happy when you are told that you are equal. Well, think of EQUALITY as the first participation award in US history.

“But Six, equality is fair.”

Only for the Losers of the world.

 

Ah, but then all the loads would have to be the same. lol

 

Hence the 80000 lbs gvw.

 

I reckon, we do not do the 80,000 gross thing here, but even there many loads are considerably under 80,000 gross. Infact I pulled more light loads down there when I hauled general freight than I ever did maxed out.
Here we are at 89,500 on a 2 axle, but that just keeps going up depending on how many axles under the trailer. I still will get a 10, or 15,000 pound load once in a while, luv them.

 

1970s
The Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974 established a federal maximum gross vehicle weight of 80,000 pounds, and introduced a sliding scale of truck weight-to-length ratios based on the bridge formula, but did not establish a federal minimum weight limit. Consequently, six contiguous states in the Mississippi Valley (which came to be known as the “barrier states”) refused to increase their Interstate weight limits to 80,000 pounds, and the trucking industry effectively faced a barrier to efficient cross-country interstate commerce.

The decade of the 70s saw the heyday of truck driving, and the dramatic rise in the popularity of "trucker culture". Truck drivers were romanticized as modern-day cowboys and outlaws (and this stereotype persists even today). This was due in part to their use of citizens' band (CB) radio to relay information to each other regarding the locations of police officers and transportation authorities. Plaid shirts, trucker hats, CB radios, and using CB slang were popular not just with drivers but among the general public.

In 1976, the number one hit on the Billboard chart was "Convoy," a novelty song by C.W. McCall about a convoy of truck drivers evading speed traps and toll booths across America. The song inspired the 1978 action film Convoy directed by Sam Peckinpah. After the film's release, thousands of independent truck drivers went on strike and participated in violent protests during the 1979 energy crisis (although similar strikes had occurred during the 1973 energy crisis).

The year 1977 saw the release of Smokey and the Bandit, the third-highest-grossing film of that year, beaten only by Star Wars Episode IV and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. During that same year, CB Bears saw its debut; a Saturday morning cartoon featuring mystery-solving bears who communicate by CB radio. By the start of the 80s the trucking phenomenon had waned, and with the rise of cellular phone technology, the CB radio was no longer popular with passenger vehicles (although truck drivers still use it today).

Deregulation
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 partially deregulated the trucking industry, dramatically increasing the number of trucking companies in operation. The trucking workforce was drastically de-unionized, resulting in lower overall pay for drivers. Trucking had lost its spotlight in popular culture, and had become less intimate among drivers due to the increase of both motor carriers and truck drivers. However, deregulation increased the competition and productivity within the trucking industry as whole, and was beneficial to the American consumer (by reducing costs). The Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 established a federal minimum for truck weight limits, which finally standardized truck size and weight limits across the country for traffic on the Interstate Highways (resolving the issue of the "barrier states").

By 2006 there were over 26 million trucks on America's roads, hauling over 10 billion short tons of freight, and representing nearly 70% of the total volume of freight. Many automobile drivers are largely unfamiliar with large trucks and many accidents are the result of these drivers being unaware of an 18-wheeler's numerous and large blind spots. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has determined that 70% of fatal automobile/tractor-trailer accidents were the result of "unsafe actions of automobile drivers".

In the 2009 book, Trucking country: The road to America's Walmart economy, author Shane Hamilton explores the history of trucking and how developments in the trucking industry helped the so-called big-box stores (such as Walmart or Target) dominate the retail sector of the U.S. economy.

 

They are insured by Underwriters at Lloyds....have been since they started 3 years ago.

 

Where are you getting your info? Insurance Effective date on Safer says Nov 2017 so ~17 months