CRST To Find Out If Stopping On Shoulder Is Wise

Landline: Wyoming Supreme Court rules parked CRST truck was 'proximate cause' of fatal crash

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A decision by the Wyoming Supreme Court means CRST International must stand trial in connection with a wrongful death suit involving a motorist who died in 2014 after crashing into a parked truck in Utah.

The state’s high court on June 8 ruled 3-2 in favor of overturning a lower court’s February 2017 dismissal of the wrongful death suit against CRST and its sister company CRST Expedited.

At issue is the death of David Crashley, 39, of Casper, Wyo., whose Mazda CX-9 collided on Feb. 9, 2014 with the rear of a CRST tractor-trailer driven by Jared Chavez.

According to court records, at approximately 6:45 a.m. on Feb. 11, 2014, Chavez and his co-driver Luis Fontanez-Bermudez, parked their tractor-trailer in an emergency lane on Interstate 80 near Rawlings, Wyo. Chavez turned on the hazard lights and informed Fontanez-Bermudez he was feeling drowsy. The two drivers were preparing to switch places.
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Some other interesting arguments quoted in the link above.

I think I read somewhere they were stopped less then a mile from a truck stop. SMH