Cement truck driver & dispatcher charged in deadly crash.

The owner sets the tone of the company. And if he needs to then he should be out making sure the pretrips are being done.

 

We will never know the real story.But that driver should have never drove that trk the day the brakes started going bad.He may have talked to his company a few times about getting them fixed and that went in one ear and out the otherIf so the driver should have refused to drive quit if need be.I got fired from a company because I started refusing to drive anywhere till trk or trailer is fixed which resulted those times having road brk down come to me.I put up with his crap for 3 yrs.The last straw was when the rear trl axle snapped in half while driving thru Muskogee but managed to get it at the Pilot.The next 2 weeks wes hall with me the boss and dispatcher which resulted in termination then a law suit which I filed.Drivers you have bad equipment DO NOT DRIVE TILL IT IS FIXED and don't let dispatch talk you into it.

 

Least there was justice for that one.

The truck that killef the az. Cop was found INNOCENT.

 

Are'nt cops always found innocent?

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4456329]Hi Dryver, that's true. I often wondered that myself. Perhaps some people are just scared to death of losing their job, they are willing to take a chance. Ok, I can see the person that refused to take a trailer because it had no reflective tape on the ICC bumper may have been a little much. While it is illegal, it pales in comparison to bad brakes. I drove a Louisville Ford tandem dump for an asphalt company years ago with hydraulic brakes, and there was a problem with the hydra-vac. The brake pedal would not move and almost no brakes. ( good thing it was a 3208 , non turbo, so I wasn't going very fast) They replaced the hydra-vac, but same thing. The 2nd time it happened, I refused to drive it and got in a big kerfuffle with the boss. They parked it in the back and gave me a tri-axle Mack to drive. It wasn't much better, but at least had brakes.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather lose a horrible job than my freedom and virgin status on my sphincter ...

 

Well, since the cop was killed.

 

this is one reason I have never had interest or even applied to a redi-mix,logging,trash/dumpster delivery driving job..
###### equip and its always the brakes are bad or the steering wheel saws back n forth 6-8 inches..or both.
and the lights are hanging on w duct tape and they are blinking on/off from a short circuit..

 

That's true, Trckdrvr. Usually these outfits fly below the radar, as they never go over a state scale and are rarely inspected, at least the ones I worked for. It usually takes something like this, then everyone is up in arms, how could this happen?

 

just about every accident around these parts. have all been attributed to bad brakes.

out of adjustment makes any brakes bad. and that's always been the case. although, i drove one truck that had seriously warped drums.

 

Not quite. Convicted of a lesser charge: