Herd Mentality In Colorado Strikes Again

Good driving by the camera truck. Backed out of it without panicking, and gave the guy in left lane an out.

 

Glad they kept going, too, and didn’t create a roadblock like we’ve seen so many times before.

I just don’t understand hauling ###, in inclement weather.

 

i had always refused to drive in that crap.

i'd stay home, or at the truck stop, if i was already out there.

i only had 1 stupid supervisor bust my chops about it, up to and including telling me to clean out my truck.

the owner of the company, had words with him.

anyone recall Overnite?

well i worked for the man that founded that company, and he started a new company after he sold Overnite.

i'll never forget the tongue lashing that stupidvisor got that day.

The founder of Overnite was Mr. James Cochran.

 

"Hauling the future" on the passing truck says it all. I've said this for years, put these bozos in a Crackerbox Jimmy on bias ply tires,, they'll take it easy. You think there's a driver shortage now? For example, the passing truck, has no business in the left lane and got what they deserved. I'd actually like to meet that person, you know, just to see what an idiot looks like. I don't think the "camera" truck was any better, and just for the record, we don't know where these videos come from or how old they are, not that it matters. These situations usually clear themselves up around May. Until then, a little Benny Hill music, maestro?

 

#2 was just sheer panic, he had all the room in the world to gather that up without the fubar.

Camera truck should have had more space, but his stop was uneventful.

#3 obviously target fixated on #2, there was an easy miss there if he'd had his head on straight.

Too bad we couldn't see what happened with #1.

 

I watched the video again and now my opinion on the dash cam driver has changed a little. He definitely didn’t need to be so close to idiot number two, in fact we could argue he shouldn’t have even been in eyesight of that mess, but I still think he handled the stop well. So many drivers today would have panic stopped and jackknifed or ditched it and likely caused a pileup. You can see he did go into a skid, but he controlled it, stopped just enough to let idiot number three in front of him, them kept rolling. He deserves a little credit for that in my opinion.

 

I agree too, the camera truck handled it okay, but still going too fast. I'd say the camera truck was going maybe 35-40, and the passing truck, 40-45. I've been thinking about this, and rest assured, the trucks in the ditch and the "passing" truck, most certainly would be in the next "pileup" anyway. I think what's happened since I was driving, is we've adjusted our society NOT to include slippery roads. Everything is so much more "time sensitive", than when I trucked. We had a "get there when we get there" attitude, and the rest of the world worked around it. It's not entirely the drivers fault, I realize, going 25 mph is unacceptable with that OBR clicking away, blissfully unaware of the road conditions. I did have a code on the OBR I had at my union job, for "road conditions", and they allowed extra time, don't these drivers have that? The pickup/delivery point has you on a screen with a time to deliver/pickup. The screen doesn't show what happens, just a perfect scenario, and these poor drivers literally CAN'T back out of it, being watched constantly. Think of it this way, similar to a factory setting, you working at your machine, and a production boss pacing back and forth behind you making sure you do the job as fast as possible. That mindset goes against every reason why I wanted to drive a truck in the 1st place. Equipment has a lot to do with it too. The trucks today glide along, and a false sense of security. That old Mack, I hung on to the wheel with a death grip, not the 1 thumb steering of today. Many simply have never been in this situation, we called those people "ditch learners", and if they survive, and most of these spinouts, they do, there's no consequence. If they had to pay for the damage out of their paychecks, be a different story. Obviously, that will never happen, and this is just the cost of our "modern" society.