Looks like that car was going pretty fast when he hit the truck.

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by FlaSwampRat, Oct 13, 2019.

  1. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    Too #### slow it is. This slow or that slow does not matter. The differences is sufficient to be lethal.

    He should have put the #### thing on the shoulder and popped a tape in the TV or something to wait for a tow.

    License suspended? A CDL A that is suspended It does not matter anymore, He will never be able to make a penny on that child support. Kid will turn 18 on nothing more than 10.00 here or 20.00 there from whatever the prison bank account the State is able to confiscate.

    Its really stupid when you destroy a wage earner, then suspend the same who have need of that to really produce money. And then end up destroying same for not only suspended license charges but now Commercial Vehicle Manslaughter. It's REALLY hard to collect child support on .45 cents a day at a privately run prison somewhere.

    My opinion is also this you have pretty much managed to make sure this person has no future and thus no life. Suicide would be in the books on this one for sure. Way to go. //snarky

    As far as one poster talking about Expert earning power, just go sit on the corner for half a day paying midlevels a dealer percentage based on their sales and take the rest. Make sure the cartels have their pay off in full on time every time. If i was in that position that would be one of the pathways. Not to mention the potential for being a smuggler myself. IF i Have nothing at all to lose in life as in absolutely nothing, then other things normally shunned becomes a possibility. That is what usually happens when you destruct people.
     
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  3. lovesthedrive

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    Yessuh! That is one way to shorten your life.
     
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  4. mjd4277

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    Depends on the situation. I had a truck go into limp mode because of a leak from the DEF tank! When the level dropped to one bar(which turned amber)the truck speed dropped down to 45 mph. When that last bar turned red it dropped down to 25 mph!

    The DEF tank leak was caused by a technician error. The truck was in for an E service less than 12 hours prior and instead of removing the old gasket seal on the DEF tank as required the technician put a new seal ON TOP of the old one-which caused the tank to start leaking DEF on the ground. When the truck was brought back into the shop it leaked so much DEF onto the shop floor the shop actually had to be briefly EVACUATED!!! It left a nice crystallized heap on the floor (and on the ground around the terminal)!
     
  5. FlaSwampRat

    FlaSwampRat Road Train Member

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    Exactly, 99% of that road is tree line right up against the road. 45-50 mph for most of it so I would love to know how fast that car was going and if he even hit the brakes to go that far under the truck.
     
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  6. x1Heavy

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    That data for the last 30 seconds in motion is contained within the black box data includes the last 30 seconds of vehicle's data.
     
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