FMCSA hypocrisy

Appeal was upheld and it’s now under review by the Texas Supreme Court.

Werner was found to be 85%? Responsible.

 

Hence the reason why some of these awards need to be reduced,especially for certain mitigating circumstances.

 

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All I’m seeing is Werner exhausting its legal avenues. Problem for them if the SC upholds the original judgement is the interest that will be due.

 

Werner should have slowed to a crawl like it says in the CDL handbook. Professional drivers are held to a higher standard.

Using your argument if that was your wife and brain damaged kid you’d probably have a different opinion.

 

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The certain circumstances I’m referring to is the fact that the 4 wheeler lost control in bad weather ,crossed the median and slammed into the semi truck.

 

Werner was just entering the weather while she was out of control even according to txdps trooper and his Sgt she was driving too fast for conditions and failure to maintain control of vehicle..she crossed the median due to her recklessness on icy roads which by standards makes her 100% at fault..cause if werner wasn’t there someone else would’ve been..she was reckless in her driving not werner.

 

You should have represented Werner, lol.

“Was just entering the weather”
What does that mean, he wasn’t obligated to slow to a crawl?

This fact isn’t a “safety issue” with you like the English requirement is? Did you see the Werner trainee’s name..probably didn’t speak any English

I wonder if Werner changed their policy on driving in snow and ice now..

 

Yeah, I’ve read most of the details. Sounds like Werner had inept counsel or didn’t put much effort into it thinking it was an easy win.

Perhaps if the trainer wasn’t sleeping in the bunk while a wet behind the ears driver was trying to navigate through the storm..they say he was at 45mph so it’s hard to deny something wasn’t wrong with the road conditions. I can only imagine how the jury was reading this..trainer sleeping, lol.

I know if I was training a new driver my caboose would have been in the right seat paying the fluff attention…routing to the nearest truck stop or rest area.

The driver didn’t catch a big % of the blame so that says a lot right there. The problem that the jury saw was Werner and their lack of safety. Carriers are the ones responsible for safety after all.

 

Werner is worth something like 3 billion..chief executive officer makes like 5.5 million yearly.

I’m sure not going to lose any sleep over this case.