Driver facing camera

Well....as I said...I never said he shouldn't get punished. Dumb moves/decisions/mistakes yield consequences, sometimes devastating ones. 45 years is a life sentence basically. I don't think all deaths are the same. The law he broke was an illegal U-turn....not murder. I don't like the idea of painting all deaths the same. I could see 10 or 15 years and a loss of his CDL. If you're truly talking about making highways safer, then you revoke his CDL, maybe even his class Ds. I'm not absolvong something like this at all, but locking a man up for that long aint going to stop that from happening again. It doesn’t go to the root of the problem....improper CDL training. Until that gets addressed, and you keep churning out drivers that have barely been in a truck 2 months at best, these accidents will keep on happening. People get into these trucks with a 4 wheeler mentality and that's why we keep seeing these trucking faux pas.

 

It's impossible to get me to feel any sympathy for those dudes being charged. No, I don't think it's unfair that their own video exposes them killing 3 people and then acting casual about it.

 

What if….severe punishments were a deterrent to others who want to come here illegally and live in a truck to make money? Wouldn’t that make our roads safer too? You know, sort of like the countries who amputate a hand for shoplifting. I’d bet they have fewer instance of shoplifting than say California where as long as it’s less than $900 or whatever it’s fine.