Driver pinned by tractor-trailer at Walton truck stop

Tragic story. Just sad!

 

I soon as that truck started to pull out,
He should have moved out the way.
Better safe then sorry.

 

You don't get old being stupid

 

Seems so wrong to me to be infront. Unless your opening or closing the hood. Yet if there wasnt room for him when he got crushed? What the heck was he doing? Taking a leak?

 

Probably tail-swing. All the more reason not to chance it.

 

We have to be responsible for ourselves watching every move done by others, even opening the hood is dangerous as some go fast always and have no concern of others. The whole nation of truck drivers better start demanding that the laws be made reasonable so the ones who can not think and as soon as clock starts floor it, even when in a crowd of others be given a cushion so they stop that, but you can not stop stupid, they will only find another reason to blame others.

 

Had a guy wreck my truck last week with tail swing pulling out .

I had talked to him the night before, seemed like a experienced and knowledgable guy, guess that's why he Ran

 

The way drivers get pinned in every day with trucks parking in aisles, nosing in, and otherwise not balancing their position in their allotted space, these super tight turn outs are going to happen more frequently, and as such these tail swing incidents are going to increase.

On a related note, a few ago at the W Memphis J, I had to shorten my trailer all it would go to get out of a space at 04:30 and had to be extra mindful of tail swing. Super long WB KW on one side with his nose sticking out 5 feet into the aisle on my left, and jackwads not backed in all the way across the way in the other turn direction.

As if we don't have enough challenges on the highways and byways and city streets, now we have to deal with unnecessary challenges every day in the truck stops, too.

 

I am avoiding going into any big truck stops from here on, since that little incident.

Those dang Oasisis off 94 will become my next Avoidance