Accident question

How are 2 semis stopped in the lanes of travel and sleeping? Presumably if there was a road shut down situation and a 7 mile back up, they'd have others behind them and stopped/parked before they decided to sleep right on the interstate. Everybody behind them simply went around? Nobody laid on the air horn as to say MOVE IT once road was ready to go again? What am I missing here?

 

I am glad your dad is safe. And he needs a lawyer, cause he ####ed up. I live in WI and driving in the bad weather is just another day for us. All ltl companies run, no matter how bad it is, so I get it. The reason I got heated, we got certain individuenals from minneapolis that park anywhere they feel like, no care in the world. If I smacked into one of these ########, I would not leave until trooper arrived. We all got phones with flashlights, night shouldn't be an issue to take a picture. And if the road was actually closed and he still ran. Well, still fight, but very slim outcome. Good luck

 

This isn't their responsbility, they are not incharge of the truck, the driver is. He is supposed to know WHEN NOT TO DRIVE.

Day cab is no excuse.

Stop making excuses, I have heard them all. You know when to pull over, you pull over.

OK that said, did your dad get the names of the other drivers or at least the other companies names?

If they were stuck in the middle of the road without lights warning other trucks, it don't matter what the weather conditions are, they are partially or fully to blame. IT IS your dad's responbility to gather that info up, it is his responsibiltiy to make sure no one else is hurt and depending on the amount of damage - TAKE PICTURES BEFORE ANYTHING IS MOVED.

Get a lawyer because if he didn't do his due diligence, here is something that could happen. He could be cited for leaving the scene of the accident without getting the cops involved.

 

I have run Minneapolis to Fargo linehaul for a few different ltl companies. I cant think of any that sends their guys out when the weather is that bad. Now that being said, I was headed to Des Moines one night and they ended up closing I-35 At Clear Lake and I ended up sitting there - for 12 hours - in a daycab - with doubles - until they got the road open. But it wasnt ON the freeway.

There is more to this story than you are telling. Trucks dont stop in the middle of the freeway to take a nap.

Now Ive been in a backup headed home from Chicago south of Madison where the freeway was blocked by an accident and nothing moved, and I jumped in the bunk. 4 hours later we were moving.

 

OP did mentioned Central dispatch, Central maybe. Troopers are very good at helping out folks in bad weather, around these parts. I am actually surprised no one showed up for his/her dad.