Gainesville Tx wreck in construction zone.

Terrible, just terrible

 

And think my dispatcher orginally wanted me to deliver a load to Gainsville.. Glade I told him heck no...

 

I pickup at Titan Tanks in Gainsville every week. this is just a small work zone and is well marked in advance. Don't know how this guy could have lost it so bad.

 

News tonight went back and there are 19 separate warning signs for miles before actual zone. I think they start warning you around Valley View. No excuse for not being aware unless the guy was in bad medical shape. It's only on the N bound lanes too. No rubber neckers.

 

You can bet they will beef up patrols in constructions zones now.. Today, in Dallas on Lake June road, they had a small construction area, speed posted as 20mph. Right before that there was a Dallas county sheriff sitting and watching..

 

Jesus, that little thing that barely qualifies as a "truck" hits 3(!!!) cars, kills those folks, and still makes it well into the median, and they call it "failing to slow"?!?

Actually, kinda surprised they understated it like that... used to seeing anything involving a truck as being construed as the driver declaring war on the passenger cars around him.

 

I drove for Bradco Supply in Rochester NY for 4 years in a truck just like that....It's a Mack Granite series chassis with a Hiab 320 truck mounted knuckle boom crane...It weighs in at about 41,000 pounds empty,...and has a GVWR of either 74,000 or 80,000 depending on equipment....and after taking a second look at the picture, it has a mounted Moffett forklift on the back, so add another 7,000 pounds...

Many Bradco drivers that run those type of trucks have CDL-As for exactly that reason....

 

I sent a message to the news station informing them of the error in the reporting about the Truck. several times they referred to it as a Tractor-Trailer and an Eighteen wheeler.