Dash cam big rig crash

Any of you experienced truck driver, ever been asleep with your eyes open? I will admit that I have!! Will you? After I realized what was happening I did everything I could to stop it from happening. One night I was going north trying my damnedest to make it to Sadlers up in VA. I knew I needed to pull over when I caught myself putting on brakes when the nearest truck ahead was over a mile away. Pushing hard is ambition, pushing to hard can get you and others killed. Driving when overly tired is as bad as DUI.

I still feel that the slow truck played a big role in this accident. As I said before, I'm sorry to see it happen to anyone.

 

I will admit to doing it once. It will never happen again even if it means losing the job.
To preface my next statement, realize I drive the same road every day picking up and dropping off at the same places, so I know the road....
One thing I do that annoys me is sometimes I'll be driving along, notice the mile I'm at and have absurdity no memory of the last 15 miles. I know I was paying attention as there are a few times I've done that in an area I have to take 2 exits and a couple lane mergings. I know I was paying attention, but for the life of me my memory erased the bit of trip...

-Steven

 

". Driving when overly tired is as bad as DUI"--DonM

This right here.

And dispatchers seem to book loads that don't take into consideration fatigue with the long hours and irregular sleep. My company always books such that a driver must drive to the last few minutes of a day and be rolling by the 10th hour to be on time. There's an hour to four hours grace for an entire trip across country.
I've been late-needless to say--but the pressure is still there thus interfering with real rest, driving maximum hours and forcing me to attend to life matters outside that time frame....and the whole flipping my clock thing in a two week time frame is wearing on me.

I'm looking into switching companies now that I have a year and a half behind me and a clean record-likely back to flatbed. There never seemed to be any appointments in flat bed.

 

Never use this one.

 

I am one of those drivers who keep rolling with tthe same intensity at the first 5 minutes as the last 5 minutes of a given work day. Generally the workdays are bordering on fantasy. Only one time matters, the arrival at the reciever's yard. Everything is ######## with one exception your own firing for service failure to be on otime. That is very real. Usually wakes you long enough to get another one.

I don't know how many Miles Ive driven asleep. I simply refuse to. The trailer is there the night before and if that's no good for them then we are hauling for the wrong people.