Huge Truck Pile-Up on Interstate

Talk about a bad day, an ambulance in a wreck. See, should have sported the extra bucks for the chopper ride.

 

Lot of things going on with these big wrecks. Some have been mentioned, some havn't.

There is way way way more population than there was 30 years ago, but the same ###### roads. You might have been able to back off and try and leave space, etc. now every nutjob in their explorer fills the gap and cuts you off. Big part of the problem.

Cars are too good. When i was 16, we took someobody's POS car out to the mall and did donuts in our one wheel wonder and shifted, braked, etc. Learned how to drive in the snow. Now? everyone has AWD (and yet we go slower and get stuck in less stuff? explain this) and great tires (or should, tires are much better, bad tires are your fault). and people just point it and go. They aren't "feeling" the road.

Same thing applies with the trucks. Modern trucks are quiet, comfy and have little feel of the road. We've all gotten caught on slush turning to ice (and gotten lucky) but it's easy to do jamming to the turnes in your dead quiet auto truck. I also think it's real easy esp after you have been driving long enough to get comfortable (but not good) to forget the weight and power the truck has. And how big it really is. Also real easy in a van/reefer. You forget you have 45,000lbs of widgets in that white thing in the mirror. In a flatbed you look in the mirror and you can see what's trying to kill you although it's easy enough to forget the weight and power of these things.

Used to just be southerner's. Now we have every import from some third world craphole who has never even driven a car until last year, no idea what snow/ice/traction is, etc and throwing them in a 80,000lb vehicle with 2 weeks of training(ha) and doesn't even have winter clothes. That maybe (not) speak/understand english. Yeah, that's going to end well.

Y'all stay safe out there.

 

Even if I have been driving 20+ years, I will STILL be learning... as soon as I say I have it figured out, I am DONE!

 

I slow down when it is raining or the roads are wet. Also when I am in my car. Traction is important!

 

There was loss of visibility. It snowed hard. Then the sky cleared up immediately after the squalls. I should know, because I was outside welding on my truck and had to run into my shop with my tools. Came out of nowhere

 

Look what you have driving these trucks now a days right there is your answer..

These aren't truck drivers they are mostly steering wheel holders...

I feel bad for the innocent people that got caught up in that mess because some Third World reject or an adidas track suit wearing hammer head with his left foot on the dash doesn't know enough to slow down in adverse conditions.

It was never this bad out here.....

 

It is closely related to my test for exposure to mad cow disease (being a permanent reject for blood donation as the only scientific test is an autopsy)....

I am not mad(normally), nor am I a cow.....

 

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but this pileup was the result of a bad snow squall. Being from PA, I know these things can appear out of nowhere, like having a sheet thrown over your windshield. Visibility drops to zero, can’t see past the hood of your vehicle. Conditions don’t have to be bad for this to occur. I’ve been in this before and then you get a mile or so down the road and the sun is shining and the birds are singing.

However, people still drive too fast and too close.

 

I see plenty of older O/O’s doing this as well. Just like the guys I see flying down seven mountains on US 322E doing 50+ mph in 20 mph zone.

But I do agree with you, it’s bad all over and only getting worse.