Another dry road, another fatality CMV "crash"

Incidents happen, you're out there every day and loading docks and city streets are often not set-up for the size of today's trucks (not to totally excuse it). But these kind of highway speed crashes are are negligent and inexcusable. I spent a very short time as an instructor at a mill and saw new students run stop signs, not signal, tailgate etc.. Of course upon witnessing this I pulled them out of the driver's seat and tried to educate them. To be honest, I think more than training it's driver character. If you don't care about your own life you certainly won't care about someone else's. I've never had real formal training by today's standards. Got my CDL in the Marine Corps in the 90's and had a lot of hands-on-training. Went OTR with a trainer for 4 days who said I was safe and they released me on my own. I didn't know anything about the industry but I was very careful about how I drove. I've never had a reportable accident but that humbles me to say and it's not something I brag about since I know it could change if I don't stay focused. I'll sum it up like this: Bad bicycle riders make bad car drivers, bad car drivers make bad truck drivers. The trucking industry has an abundance of former bad car drivers.

 

so sad when someone so young is lost....prayers for the families and friends...

 

the man failed a sobriety test?

easy solution

lets make drunk driving illegal, this way, these accidents would never happen

 

In case you havent noticed they dont want us older experienced drivers anymore

 

The only problem is, training and testing don't work. The student/trainee nearly invariably revert to their ingrained driving habits.