US Xpress being sued, UPDATE.

Going to Texarkana on I-30 going west a few months back I came up on stopped cars. None of them had brake lights shining, nor did any of them have their 4-way flashers going. There was an 18 wheeler following behind me at a safe distance.

I saw the stopped vehicles in time to stop. Yet at the moment I saw them stopped I glanced in my rear-view mirror and saw the 18 wheeler behind me.

Instead of stopping fast on the road-way I hit my brakes a bit easy swerving to the shoulder of I-30 on the west bound side. For I felt sure the 18 wheeler behind me would see my 3 brake lights on, and swerving to the shoulder would give him a bit more room to stop.

I suppose I did that because of all my truck driving days and my experience driving behind the steering wheel of an 18 wheeler. Without that experience I probably would have hit my brakes very hard and the 18 wheeler behind me would not have had near as much room to stop and may have hit me, pushing me into those in front of me.

I've come up on stopped traffic many times in my truck driving days, especially when driving cross coutry. The sad thing is many times when you come up on such a scene no one has brake lights nor 4-way flashers shining. And you do not see it in time to stop even if your driving the speed limit or even slower than the speed limit.

I know not what happen in this event, but drivers of every vehicle on the road are responsible, and they need to be aware of what is behind them as well as in front of them. And if they are it can save their life and the lives of many others. But many want to blame someone else, never taking their own blame.

 

Yeah it will be a big one they are going after the company involved in the wreck that caused the slow down as well as those directly involved at the rear.

 

And hes safer then the ones who are doing 55 in a 70

 

Max Fuller and Patrick Quinn need to be held accountable also. A super mega fleet that the average person in the USA never heard of. Why? They are in the business of training new drivers, It's not about the freight. It's about fancy equipment luring in new drivers being paid crap. Being the the flavor of the month cheapest carrier.

 

I find it kinda strange that the attorney stated that they're suing the driver of the truck who is involved in the 1st accident because traffic had to stop in the first place how in the heck is the responsible for what total/us Xpress did..

 

this statement shows just how little you know about us xpress..... Patrick (Pat) Quinn is the person responsible for national truck drivers appreciation week...with out him we would have it... he cared about drivers

it's a little hard to hold mr. Quinn accountable for anything because he passed away WAY BACK on DEC. 13 of 2011

Max Fuller is the owner BUT has had nothing to do with the day to day running of the company for almost 3 years......

know the facts BEFORE you speak otherwise you just look the fool

 

He still owns the co so in essence he's still liable.

 

The business model that has been put into practice at this major truckload carrier, just like many others is simple. Give an entry level driver a snazzy truck with numerous electronic controls supervised at a distance by computers and some human intervention. Hope that the sophisticated electronics does the driving instead of paying for more experienced safer drivers.
Saving $.10 per mile for every mile that this fleet goes in a year is a huge dollar amount, the difference between entry level and safer more experienced is added up by the accountants, who subtract the occasional accident claim like you see here. The human tragedy is not part of the equation.
This plan is put in place by the highest level of management. Until they do some jail time, nothing is going to change.

 

Putting a rookie into a 80,000 lb missile is a risk no matter what. I attended a 5 month school where 2 1/2 months of it was spent driving in heavy city traffic, rural narrow roads, and up and down 8% grades. Even after all that training I discovered I just scratched the surface of what I needed to know when I was with my company trainer. I think all that electronic monitoring is the only way insurance companies will let them put rookies in those trucks.