Wal-Mart Truck Driver Charged in Fatal Crash That Injured Tracy Morgan

This is one of the stupidest things I have read in a long time. Auto accidents happen
all the time and that's all they are is accidents. Nothing to do with the person that
sits behind the steering wheel? That does not make sure the car is safe to drive? I
suppose if a tree fell on your car. Or maybe a Moose or some other animal runs in
front of you that might be a good excuse. Maybe one in a million. Most accidents are
caused by stupidity, being lazy or ignorance.

 

Nothing at all will change in the trucking industry because of this accident.
Money runs this country. The trucking industry will bring out their usual
spokespersons touting the usual statistics about how safe this industry is.
I can hardly drive for a day or two anymore without seeing some truck roll
over or collision somewhere or other. Safety costs money. Its cheaper too
pay lawyers and settle law suits then spend the money to clean up this
industry. I see people driving trucks every day that scare the crap out of me.
A lot of these companies will put just about anyone that walks in the door
behind the wheel of a truck. The government does practically nothing to educate
the motoring public about how to share the road with trucks. Business as usual...

 

I liked to lead the mob, burning and lynching . . . ,

Until they started looking at me funny.

 

how would one define involuntary manslaughter that wouldnt fit this accident

every rear end collision is preventable

 

in a way I am glad it was Walmart that this happened to, not that i hate Walmart or wish it on anyone. Better them than a company truck for a small mom and pop, and independent, or even one of the megas. I am sure that Walmart trucks are the state of the Farro/Obama ATA mobiles, and come with every **hack** **cough** "safety feature" that insurance companies lust after. So here we can plainly see that Quallcom, electronic logs, yearly driver safety training and meetings, lane departure warning, adaptive cruise, hard braking warning, CSA 2010, etc did not prevent this from happening. And from what i understand you still sort of have to be the best of the best to land a driving job there.

I am sure the families of the dead will take great comfort in knowing that the truck was running legal logs though.

 

I NEVER like to miss an opportunity to REMIND the masses--That we have MAL-WART to thank for the whole HOS debacle......
Yes PATT was founded (with lots of help from Public Citizen&the railroads)---by the Mother of one of the 4 kids killed in Maine....by the Mal-Wart Driver who fell asleep on the Maine turnpike-?& KILLED 4"hi school kids whose car was broken down on the shoulder...
This is the one incident that started this whole nightmare....&of course the evil empire itself jumped rite on the Safety Nazis bandwagon.....and was right there alongside Saint Claybrook herself----lobbying congress for stricker rules&more enforcement/oversight....
Yup the same nice folks who won't let u get the a moment early--&you better get gone soon as you have your ppwrk back&we DONT CARE where you go--or that you are out of hours or tired--even if it is our fault--just get off Our Property---& don't park anywhere nearby......
This wreck CANT cost those ######## enuff in my book!
And bet your ### if it was one of their drivers killed--they'd come after EVERYONE else involved like The Nazis Rollin into Poland!

 

You bring up an excellent point here. It doesn't matter how many times you change the HOS, cameras, EOBRs, whatever. This does happen. And the only way to change it? Not by constantly ####### with the HOS or requiring e-logs. Change the way we are paid. That is the only way to stop fatigue. Seriously. It's 2014 and we are probably the last industry on piecework. Think about that and let it sink in for a second.

 

By the way, that's how you know that the powers that be (government, ATA, OOIDA, FMCSA, etc) aren't concerned with actually changing ANYTHING. All the changing of the HOS and mandating EOBRs are nothing but proving that they can lower wages more and keep us under complete control. You know why? Look around. It's embarrassing anymore. The old guard, they are being pushed out by the mega carriers (MalWart included) and brought in are dumb people who work for no money and are dictated by a computer as to what their next move will be. Welcome to trucking, corporate style. Corporations are people too, my friend. BS. Just another way of stealing what you could be earning.

 

so. now that all have broken out their dusty law books. let's look at it from the layman's view.

1. how many have scene a limo, bus, 4 wheeler or wally world truck drive the speed limit.?

2. add. turnpike (race track)?

3. width of lanes in turnpike's during construction.?

4. people not in CMV. racing to beat said CMV into construction zone.?

5. anyone obey the 45mph speed limit in a construction zone. with no carebear to watch you?

watch the circus come to town over this accident.

 

The limo driver said in an interview that he was only driving 5-6 mph because of slow traffic coming up to construction.