Hypothetical breakdown scenario

If you can't move the truck I fail to see how it would be your fault. However, in trucking it's commonplace to blame the driver for anything under the sun.

 

Family awarded nearly $4M for accident involving driver who stopped in middle of interstate

 

You worry too much

 

What?

middle of what make believe highway, interstate, and you just stop in middle of travel line and you didn’t safely move out of, while going at highway speeds they’ll say you shouldn’t have been there,
Middle of intersection and your turning slow, and truck dies different scenerio.

doesn’t matter they’ve just gave you truck or you been in it years.
use common sense

 

So what really happened or are you just asking for a friend?

I don’t see what the length of time of getting your company truck has to do with anything. You clear the truck as being roadworthy prior to your driving shift.

But yah, you could end up with an accident on your psp. Your company score will take a hit. Accident with fatality being the worst. Accident with injury, and tow away are others placed on your company.

Your question is quite vague so I’m just throwing things out there.

Really, worst case is someone dies and you end up in prison for years because they found serious issues with your elog or lack of.

 

Hypothetically, if you are traveling at 45 -50 mph or higher, there is no reason you couldn't get 90% of the vehicle out of the travel lanes. That is what keep right except to pass means.
Now, if you are in slow moving traffic and your unit quits, you would end up in a travel lane, but keep right, except to pass means you are broke down in the right lane.
And lastly, WHERE ARE YOUR TRIANGLES? You never mentioned them. They are there to protect your rig if you are a traffic hazard.
First turn on your 4-ways, second get out your triangles a place them in their required positions, then call breakdown.
That big truck wreck lawyer will have you and your companies' gonads at the trial if you don't do the proper procedures to protect the driving public.

 

Well, if your hypothetical trailer was hit by a hypothetical car, and that hypothetical car diver died, they COULD hypothetically get you for a hypothetical manslaughter charge, hypothetically. However, hypothetically you would probably be able to beat that hypothetical charge, at least hypothetically......

 

It depends on why you broke down. If you are stuck in the road because you let the engine run out of oil or neglected an air leak, etc then you are on the hook. If you are stuck in the road because of something not under your control and which no reasonable driver could have avoided you better put out some triangles and call 911 and pray because nobody on the road is looking at their windshield, only their smartphones.

 

If my truck was stuck in a travel lane and I had put out my triangles, I would walk to the grass shoulder, walk toward traffic 50-100 ft and wait for the cops I called by dialing 911. All of the debris from the crash is going with the flow of traffic, not upstream of the point of impact.