I75 had a really bad day.

just sayin..no way does it take 16 or 17 hrs to investigate a fatality,That's just nonsense,Your not not going to find out anything new in 16 hrs that you can't find out in 9.heck,massachusetts is like 4 or 5 hrs and they're outta there.

 

As soon as I send this text ,while going thru Tampa.

 

When we had the death in our area, the ME was called out from our County, by law no one is legally allowed to touch the body or disturb anything inside the death area or room until the ME has completed his legally required examinations and so forth. That took him about roughly 3 hours before he was finished. The body had been in place approximately a hour and half prior as he got called out. The ambulance did show up but only to confirm that he's Dead at the scene which was pretty obvious to us all by then. All in all I think it was about 6 hours before the body was loaded into the Examiner's van in a body bag to be transferred to the morque for processing and eventual burial by the family.

Another interesting thought was this man had friends and was pretty social etc. However his family could not be bothered after they stripped his house and everything within 30 hours and removed his vehicle. It's been almost a year now and nothing was done for him in the obits and so on. I hate to see someone erased from memory like that in the area after death he used to visit friends in the area and everyone liked him.

I once lost about 6 hours and change due to a fatal multiple on 65 between Louisville and Nashville in the day time. Turned out the local fire dept had put all of us off the interstate into a tiny two lane road through 4 little towns which did not do well with the excessive traffic. I managed to make Louisville about 10 hours after leaving Nashville with the goal of being in Erie PA that day. Which would not happen at all. The schedule for that delivery was late and knocked by three more days of baby sitting before the freight was finally gotten rid of. Its not difficult for dispatch to check the local news and know that there was a bad wreck in the same area my satellite showed me at that day so they cannot hang me with a service failure.

Freight like that when it goes sideways at the customer who refuses to cooperate makes us reevaluate trucking as a ongoing occupation once in a while. And it's a little wonder why shippers and receivers can be such destroyers of payroll when they choose to tell us where we can stick their freight. I remember that week because the payroll had papers on about a thousand dollars worth of work in the last 12 days unpaid and about 400 dollars in pending work unpaid but went ahead and coughed us a little check of about 135 dollars gross. Might as well have stayed home for all the trouble we ran into that week.

Thats why I have the preexisting body crematory and other plans laid out in writing and paid for so that when I am gone, the funeral home gets possession of the body and the ashes will be disposed of on or about day 4. Anything else has additional papers on file so that the doctors will know what to do at the hospital etc if i make it there still alive. It really clears up the difficult problems facing a family who now has to arrange a potentially very expensive funerals. Just the coffin starts at about 600 plus tax for a pressed wood norfolk model designed to be cremated with the body but used to legally transport same to and from. And upwards of 9000 dollars for a all out coffin with precious metals and so forth. Not including the grave site. Stones for same are additional. Unless you are a Vet, then you recieve a burial, stone and so forth. Cassion funeral at a certain rank and above and so on. Arlington comes to mind. However Arlington plans on closing all future reservations after approximately 2028 depending on land that they may or may not be able to acquire at a good price. We will be back there one more time to bury a vet. God knows many of my family is buried as vets or spouses of.

You can make death pretty straight forward or leave it to your grieving Kin to be potentially taken advantage of. We chose after the cancer diagnosis to organize and prepay for it so that when the time comes a phone call takes care of it.

 

How about....when truckers kill people and themselves survive, they execute the driver in the same manner that he committed murder? That would mean that this driver would be strapped into a car with its nose say...30' from a wall. The car would be rigged to ignite and hit with a 60,00 pound steel ram from behind.

Set it all up in a gladiator style arena and sell tickets.

I'll bet sooner than later truck drivers would start paying closer attention.

 

A few years i got caught in heavy snow just south of Louisville. I forget exactly how long it was but I had planned on meeting up with some friends for dinner in Louisville so early evening maybe 5 or 6 pm. Was after midnight the following night when we finally got moving.

 

The worst two tomes I was ever stuck because of slow was in NC and Believe it or not Texas (ice storm).
I was at he fling hook at Hawes NC for 5 days, same employees were there fir the duration. Drivers were helping out in the restaurant. I sat just north of Georgetown for 3 days, probably only an inch of ice on the road, bur they had no wat to take care of it down there.

 

Really? I thought NC uses a brine/beet juice solution on their roads,unless it didn’t work.

 

At the time there over all snow fall record was 11 inches, they got 32 or 36 inches that night, and no plows. lol

 

When I lived in Charlotte, the entire city basically shut down for three days because of six inches of snow. The funny thing is that half the people that live in Charlotte moved there from the Northeast. You would think they could drive on snow, but nope.