Milk truck driver dies

Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by Mainah, Nov 18, 2020.

  1. Grouch

    Grouch Road Train Member

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    Haven't been too many years that you had to be 25 years old before insurance companies would touch you in a commercial truck. Well, maybe a few years back, LOL
     
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  3. lovesthedrive

    lovesthedrive R.I.P.

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    They will hire a 20 year old with little to no experience. Yet wont hire a 60 year old with 7 months clean license. Makes good sense to me. NOT
     
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  4. iceman32

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    They start em young in third world countries...

    16yr-21yr is your most reckless years, that’s a fact. Your testosterone is high, your adrenal glands is still not screwed up from years of caffeine, cocaine and meth abuse. So my 18yr old mind would say something like “I THINK I CAN DO 90mph ON THIS CURVE BECAUSE I FEEL INVINCIBLE”.

    Now I’m like, curve? Better downshift and take it slow...

    Now a lot of you guys will get jealous when the day comes. The day will come when you meet a 20yr old owner operator, drives a long nose Pete and has a chrome spread axle trailer. The first thing that comes in your mind is pffft, he’s a company driver or he’s doing lease purchase. But no, he flashes that “clear title” in front of you. “Yo, it’s all paid off bro”.....

    my feelings will be hurt....
     
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  5. Dale thompson

    Dale thompson Road Train Member

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    Phony video kinda funny how the tree out the side window doesn’t move until he grabs 4 gears.
     
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  6. rachi

    rachi Road Train Member

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    Me too, i thought he was much older!
     
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  7. iceman32

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    Nah they literally start them young. That’s where all the N14’s are going lol, Jamaica.
     
  8. mjd4277

    mjd4277 Road Train Member

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    Was the 20 year old bobtailing or pulling an empty trailer? Either way,looks like he let the truck get away from him!
    R.I.P. Oakhurst Driver.
     
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  9. buddyd157

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    i have been DEADSET AGAINST, ANYONE under the age of 25 driving tractor-trailers, now you see why?

    the immaturity of the many young ones.

    but what gets my goat, is that the story ID'd the tractor-trailer as a Freightliner...

    why did they NOT ID the milk truck brand..??

    this is NOT the first time, where i have specifically read, where the news ID's the Freightliner...

    so, "tractor-trailer" does not suffice..????
     
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  10. mjd4277

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    Well look at the front end of the milk truck-it’s too badly mangled to tell what make it had been,plus with the fact that the driver was killed undoubtedly the front end of the truck may be covered with a tarp(nobody wants to photograph that). The Cascadia is easily identifiable but it’s hard to tell from the photo if that truck was pulling a trailer or bobtailing.
     
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  11. buddyd157

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    ok, mangled truck, dead occupant..

    why the need to say Freightliner, over just "tractor-trailer"?
     
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