This is why ELD's are going into effect.

So the bus driver who drove at 76 mph into a stopped truck had no culpability?

 

There will be no plea with these charges. Georgia will extradite him to California. I think this will be a potential death penalty case.

The bus driver is already paid for his 76 mph, by being dead. I have no feelings for him.

 

And the cell phone ban was implemented after a kid driving a pickup truck playing on his phone caused a pile-up by Six Flags in St. Louis that involved a couple school busses and a semi.

 

These sorts of incidents certainly do not help the case of the anti-eLog activists.

So he hit the sleeper while parked in the road, waiting for the temporary closure to reopen and over-slept? Dam-it boy. That's a special kind of stupid. Probably just as well he come off the road permanently if he's going to push his physical limits like that and make other bone-headed choices on top of that.

 

I'm Canadian, and even I know that this is not a death penalty case... Not in Cali, nor in any State.

 

Maybe I misunderstood what happened. I thought he nodded off while sitting waiting for traffic to start moving. It started, and he was still snoring.

If he jumped in the bunk, that is the pinnacle of negligence. Throw da book atim!

 

I don't know, it's possible he was just layed over the steering wheel but he had to have been dog tired, so he had to have known that if he ever fell asleep, he'd not likely wake up easily. Either way, it's not a good idea to nap on a desert interstate.

 

Wow. I know he shouldn't have fallen asleep, but I think they're laying into him way too hard. Prison for life? For getting hit by someone else? That's just messed up.