Huge Truck Pile-Up on Interstate

No wonder PA and other states prohibit CMVs after a forecast of snow.

 

Because FedEx and UPS are on that road EVERY SINGLE DAY. They aren't some OTR driver that is in Kansas today, South Dakota tomorrow, etc. He's running from the same terminal behind him to the same terminal beyond that crash EVERY SINGLE DAY

 

Well obviously his driving skills haven’t improved any after running the SAME ROUTE to the SAME TERMINAL every single day!
(you would think they would learn by now on how to pay attention to adverse weather conditions).
At this time of year I always check the weather and assume the possibility of weather taking a turn for the worst-especially in states like Pennsylvania with mountainous terrain!

 

LOL

 

I live not too awful far from where this happened. I was home when this snow squall came through, and it was nice one minute, dry roads, and literally two minutes later the road was covered in ice.

It's common around here.

Accidents like this unfortunately will happen again. There's simply too many people not trained properly to drive in adverse weather. This includes the cars. Until that changes, this will continue. I'm just glad I've been home all week.

 

Its not an ELD thing. The ELD is just a tool used to record events in time. The problem is society. Everyone has to have everything “yesterday” when they order it. Time to stop blaming inanimate objects for doing something that a human has 100% control over.

 

And blame the driver slowly negotiating the bad conditions when some jagoff runs into the back of him and starts the chain reaction pileup.

 

It'll be ironic when it turns out that a dozen UPS/FedEx and locals were doing fine, when they came upon some panicked Somali who's never seen snow in is life and was signed to a Florida carrier 3 weeks ago was doing 15 with his lights off in the left lane.

I mean, it's just as plausible as every other "I wasn't there but I assign blame to X!" theory being posted here.

Now as someone who HAS taken this highway often, I'll point this out: this is THE major corridor from the Northeast to the Midwest. The only other highways are tolled, so guess which one most fleet managers take? I mean they base their ENTIRE business model on it. Going to the NY Thruway or the PA Turnpike would add MILLIONS in annual cost. And as much as drivers claim you don't earn your stripes until you cross the Dalton or Montana, I'd say crossing PA can be as much as a"fail and you're finished" education for rookies as anything. Especially if your from the plains or the south. There are NARROW passes and radical elevation changes, on both the Turnpike and 80.

There's just too much volume through there and there really isn't much you can do about it. Mind your own wheels and if you have a bad feeling about something, you MIGHT be the problem, so pull out. Job doesn't pay enough to be a hero.

 

If you aren't running a CB radio in bad conditions you are reckless. If you run a radio and you tell 85 mile fishing stories about the bad wreck in 1984 in Ohio, or was that Illinois. Wait, it was 2 years after Bobby went to work for Crete and a year before that guy did that thing that was all over the TV. What was that? You are being reckless. Use the CB like it can do some good instead of being your therapist or customer service hotline.

Announce what's happening, which lane is OPEN, where it's happening. Nobody knows what color shirt the driver was wearing, what freight he was hauling, when it's going to open up, how many people were hurt and how, etc. Stick to the key details and listen before you ask "which lane do we need to be in?" If you talk to the same driver twice, you need to switch channels otherwise you are blocking the channel and you won't hear the important info you claim makes you stay on 19.

 

Hell, Penndot can't even be bothered to do that in their never ending construction sites. They just put up a general sign that says 'Lanes blocked ahead'. Then we wonder why there's traffic backups....