Wrong Way Collision With Truck Kills 4

Suicide by truck. I hope the kids were asleep.

 

Naw women suck at driving anyway... u add alcohol and 3 kids....it’s over

 

yeah, that would be my guess as well.

 

I will have you know, that isnt always the case. My wife was pretty messed up before she met me. Yet her son turned out really well.

 

That would be a hell of a wake up call for them. I hope they did not suffer.

There is no point in going over what the trucker had to deal with. It's horrible for him or her anyway.

Article says the trucker horsed her over, and apparently that moment was also chosen by the drunk driver to do the same thing. Which raises a question, murder times three counts and suicide by truck?

I have been in near misses before involving children in the other vehicle (Plural) and consider myself very lucky. to this point. Even though I did not hurt them or hit them etc I find it very hard to get over with. It takes time.

 

No idea what you are talking about.

 

Goodness, gracious!

 

Im going to tell you that is untrue.

I trained my spouse who was a good student. There were times outside intervention was necessary when problems were detected that is way beyond simple trainer trainee conflicts. The main thing is that whatever she needed for that truck to be learned under my teaching where possible she had it. I have no doubt that if she was given a solo truck and managed to continue, she would have eventually gained the necessary precision and skills for me to reach a place in my world in not having to worry about her alone with a semi.

She did have a proper tractor jacknife near Oak Ridge Nat'l Labs on I-40 before that section was replaced with a new alingment. We were number one of 8. Number two hit the same spot where it tightens in curvature in a shady spot over the middle lane and steepens upgrade. His tractor got away from him, He got it back.

Numbers three through seven went into the median canyon and made a messy pile that pretty much closed the entire 40 for the morning. It was a ice storm the previous night continuing into the early morning west of Knoxville upgrade where the ice continued to fall. About a inch to two inches were covering the pavement on 40. Then a inch of crumbly snow pack. two or three inches total with that solid slippery ice from all those tires spinning on them and so on.

We had our first automatic and I hopped onto the dash in our Century to grab the spouse's wheel totally based on instinct and a absolute gambling the entire ranch on knowing just how little wheel to add into the skid and told the spouse to simply freeze in place with her foot in particular as our Automatic followed the skid down through the gears until it hooked back up at 10 to 12 mph. We were doing about 22 upgrade before hitting that really bad spot as a one unit 8 truck convoy at about 5 am that morning.

There was another FFE truck that slid off the interstate by the crown, the slope provided to all pavement so that water has a place to run off in rain. But on ice the gravity simply pulled him and his FFE tractor trailer sideways into the ditch requiring two rotators which were brand new at the time.

We stayed well to the left with interlock on at 15 until memphis. That would have been oh... 300 miles of all day patience on that ice. and into the nightfall. Logs be ######.

Arkansas dried out by the next morning,we stopped by the house, parked the whole thing and went to bed properly leaving a note on satellite not to disturb us. We had a sleep bill to pay and some logbooks to make repairs.

In the mid 80's trucking school class of 22 of us, 4 were female students. Last I saw of them they were running day cab locals between Baltimore and York probably for CAT among other major accounts in that area with very good paying jobs. I did ok, for myself once I quit the container work. It was either Ball Bearings or Shoes. If neither then it's loading eastern shore crabs or delivering hotel furniture made in Asia and imported to Ocean City chain hotels.

In addition to trucking, spouse was a former Marine Sgt out of Cherry Point last duty station via On-Avon river in the UK during the Cold War era. They kept her with a small unit of Marine Riflemen under her stripes ready to ship to Iraq in Desert Storm as replacements should the war have gone past 100 hours. (I believed it should have gone downtown and overthrew him the first time. Not waiting until 2003 to do it all over again. I hate having to do the same job twice.)

It was not all fun and games. We had her stalked one morning in Jackson TN by a sexual offender in the TA there. She made it into our cab and found a final refuge in the corner below the pax seat while our intruder was trying to get over the drivers seat and past the shifter to get to her until he realized he has a very big problem coming out of the bunk the way I did. He ran away, I hope that eventually he was caught trying that on someone else. Offenders do not just stop with one attempt at rape etc. Im equally happy that I did not have to kill the SOB which was what the entire situation was setting up to be very quickly.

For future reference I would not be so quick as to pick on the female.