Your Opinion On The Colorado Trucker

I’m thinking the wrongful death lawsuits will take care of the company.

 

his "split second" lasted for MILES.

 

unless it melted everything, they can tell if the brake failure was mechanical (something broke) or over heated (driver error)

 

Runaway lanes are simple to use, and easy to spot.

Anyone who has lost their brakes, and chooses not to use them, resulting in the deaths of innocent people, deserves to get harsh sentencing.

I wouldn't hesitate to go for the first one, but he passed two.

 

The Colorado trucker guy should change his name to Ben Dover because that's what they will call him when he starts serving hard time.

 

Its a hard call, the responsible thing to have done assuming 0 training was to just try and get the truck off the road even if it meant killing yourself

He seems to not so much care about (or naively beleive) those he killed by his actions werent 'really' his fault

Had he so beleived that, he'd be a major suicide risk if not already dead

To simply go for essentially life imprisonment instead of execution feels wasteful both of taxpayer funds as well as his life.

Young or not, his irresponsibility cost lives it didnt have to, but "justice" at 110 years feels not very just either.

 

While I somewhat agree, he needed to be punished hard. Just glad that I wasn't the judge in this case.
If it had been me, it probably would have been less than 110 years, but what, I have no idea.
If he didn't have a clue how to drive a truck though, which obviously he didn't, he should have taken training, or got a different job.
I understood the use of runaway lanes, long before I was old enough to get a drivers license.
Doubt that I was more than 10 when I asked what they were, and how they work.
While I have never had the need to use one, I definitely would if my truck was a runaway. Lets all hope that an outcome from this, is drivers asking about them in the future, and companies teaching flat landers about hills, and runaway lanes.

 

I could feel sorry for him except for one thing, when it came time to cash the check that his inexperience and ignorance wrote, he turned back into stopped traffic and let those people cash that check.

Yes, I'm sure he was scared to death. But at the speed he was traveling, turning into stopped traffic was a move that anyone had to realize was going to kill someone. To my mind, that one action justifies his sentence.

 

and how many other times have we read right here on this site, about truck drivers being stoned drivers, drunk drivers, even killers of hookers or homeless and get less time???

the general public has had enough. we as current or former drivers, have had enough.

if the courts do not do anything severe, and the lawmakers do not make tougher laws, then the Feds will step in and clamp down harder on the industry. what would you say to the student in CDL school if the Feds came out with a mandatory 2 year in class schooling?

then maybe a 5 year mandatory apprenticeship before he or she can actually drive solo?

what would you say if ALL trucking companies must have fully trained instructors of at least 20 years experience and a super clean driving record and background?

as it was, when i started out?

Werner Enterprises HAD a minimum 5 year experience level, before they even opened up your application.

tanker companies, especially gasoline, HAD a minimum of 10 years safe driving record, before they opened up your application.

as it has been for a decade or 2 now, the CDL Mills, push out "alleged drivers" , and the companies are taking them with accidents, failed drug tests, arrest records.....and turning them loose onto the roads.

no, the dumbarse got what he deserved.

he most likely "always wanted to be a driver", and got what he wanted.

a job, then do to his stupidity, he KILLED with a weapon more powerful, than any of my .357's or .45's......

he killed multiple people, with "one shot"...