comedian Tracy Morgan hurt in bus/truck crash

Lol. Who knows and I wasn't implying you were negligent for not having one. But it seems we will get screwed over every time without one though.

 

No worries....I knew what you meant.....

We're living a highly litigious society now....Pretty soon...There will be torts filed against people with "Coffee Breath" because it offended someone else....

 

Really? America's largest retailer, who pioneered just in time inventory and distribution back before computers were cool? Who gets lambasted for having low paid employees on welfare? The one that puts every mom&pop within 20 miles of a new store opening out of business? Where 90% of the people that complain about them continue to enjoy their low cost pricing while shopping there? That Walmart?

 

I've had the same dream. why waste carpool on 4wheelers.

 

That's correct. Safe following distance. This isn't "swoop and squat". This was a Walmart driver not paying attention or falling asleep and killing someone.

 

I like being in the right lane near the shoulder. You can see cars merging onto the highway so you have plenty of time to react. Some cities I know that always have cars flying onto the interstate 24/7 so I just stay in the middle lane in certain areas.

 

for a sample if anyone has or hasn't driven in las Vegas. you as a truck can run north or south on I-15 in the far left express lane. cops have told me they rather have the thru traffic drive in hindered through their city. so they can handle the 4 wheeler population.

as for driving the right lane. we all do one time or another. its just in major cities or heave sections of "ramp runners". 4 wheelers just jumping on then skip a ramp or two to avoid surface street lights. that distrup our travel through a 20 min. or 1 hour section of highway.

4 wheelers don't and will not accept that the highways are " your office". be safe and keep your eyes moving.

 

By the way. The guy has already incriminated himself. In the police reports and on twitter!!!! He did it on social media! Maybe he can show up here too, he's obviously not that bright.

 

What!? I question whether a company would actually want any driver to be using cruise control in traffic. I'll turn off my cruise control as soon as it gets into that "transition zone" of almost no other vehicles on the road to "Okay, now my following distance is dipping below 6 seconds and changing lanes isn't an option".

Walmart really asks their drivers to maintain cruise control in Houston traffic?

I had one instance of a completely frozen e-log that required me to switch to paper logs for one day. However, I know that if the police would only download the e-log in that instance then indeed it might show I'd driven for 24 hours or on whatever duty line it froze on.

It's odd, because in one of the earliest reports about this collision when the police were asked by a reporter to verify the allegation that he was awake for 24 hours they said they "had no evidence" to substantiate a claim like that. Then the prosecutor filed the criminal complaint with the allegation, but where did that information come from? Perhaps indeed Mr. Roper had traveled a long way to report to work and it required him to be up for 24 hours and an investigator put 2 and 2 together. I'll be curious to see what the prosecutor actually has in this case.

If Mr. Roper actually talked to the police, then that was a mistake. EVERYONE should watch THIS video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

I think ANYTHING that takes control away from the driver for any length of time can be problematic. That would scare the heck out of me in heavy traffic, having something constantly applying brakes or preventing acceleration if the best option is to change lanes and perhaps apply a tad bit of accelerator to get into better space. How could you function with confidence in traffic if you had a copilot countermanding your control inputs?

I LOVE driving through Las Vegas during rush hour! There's a city that got it right! What a joy to be able to cruise right on through in the express lanes and let the local traffic sort it out. VERY well engineered.

I'm not sure that you are standing on solid ground by stating emphatically that the "guy... incriminated himself" based on:

1. News media that takes "facts" and blow them into something they aren't, and...

2. Your complete and utter confidence that Mr. Roper's twitter account isn't being "managed" by some pimply teenager in his underwear in Eastern Europe.

Might be just me, but I don't believe everything I read on the internet.

 

http://www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/...to_stop_in_time_sta.html#incart_most-comments


Heres another one two days later on the Jersey Turnpike. Same situation. Driver rear ended vehicles in front of him. Same situation.