Truck Driver Gets 110 Years For Claiming The Lives Of Four People.

[Quasar44]

So what sentence do you propose

 

[EvMetro]

I deal with truckers all the time..."jake brakes". Hmm. There is video of this person blowing past a runaway truck ramp because because he obviously wasn't familiar with mountain driving. Who's fault is this really?

Maybe the truck ramp sign was only in English.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

airplanemechanic

I don’t get all this technical jargon

Just ask, we'll be glad to explain anything you don't understand.

 

[MaryL]

As a person who spent 30 years in that line of work, I blame the government.

At my former company, when we needed a new tractor-trailer driver, my employer gave our straight trucks the opportunity to get their Class A and get experience with our company. They had to sign a three year contract though. In any case, I know what these well experienced drivers had to go through to pass the CDL Class-A test. It was no picnic. Some failed the first time for the most stupid things.

This is how I know these foreigners never had to get training or take our test. There is no possible way they could have passed it.

Because of NAFTA, we get idiots driving trucks. We can't hold politicians or government or licensing agencies accountable, it's inevitable there is going to be a fall guy. Here we are.

 

[EvMetro]

As a person who spent 30 years in that line of work, I blame the government.

At my former company, when we needed a new tractor-trailer driver, my employer gave our straight trucks the opportunity to get their Class A and get experience with our company. They had to sign a three year contract though. In any case, I know what these well experienced drivers had to go through to pass the CDL Class-A test. It was no picnic. Some failed the first time for the most stupid things.

This is how I know these foreigners never had to get training or take our test. There is no possible way they could have passed it.

Maybe they took their tests in another language. I once had to wait at dmv for them to find me a test in English.

 

[Quasar44]

Ray From Cleveland
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Did he know his breaks were failing

 

[EvMetro]

Ray From Cleveland
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Did he know his breaks were failing

It takes two kinds of brakes to descend a steep grade in a big rig. Service brakes like your car, and an engine brake that makes the loud huffing sound. Take the grade too fast, and the service brakes will quickly smoke, fade, and fail, and burn.

 

[MaryL]

Maybe they took their tests in another language. I once had to wait at dmv for them to find me a test in English.

Literally: This fellow couldn't read English. Diversity hire, this WAS a Texas business that hired this yahoo after all.

 

[Quasar44]

Being a real truck driver sounds more like a lifestyle as you can be on the road for weeks

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

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Did he know his breaks were failing

I doubt it because he probably had little experience. If you need to use your brakes a lot, you pull over to the side of the road and let them cool off for about 30 minutes or so before they fail. You can easily touch them with your hand after a half-hour to make sure you could drive a little more. Engine brakes (often referred to as jake brakes) allows the truck to slow down the vehicle instead of using your manual brakes. You actually use them together, but the jake brakes take a lot of pressure off the manual brakes keeping them cool enough to be functional.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Being a real truck driver sounds more like a lifestyle as you can be on the road for weeks

Depending on what kind of work you want to do. You can work locally for the major carriers like FedEx and UPS. They pay very well ($28.00 an hour plus OT) and you can be home every night. Others like the road. They are out for a week or two, see the country, live out of their truck and they like that kind of life. It all depends.

 

[EvMetro]

Being a real truck driver sounds more like a lifestyle as you can be on the road for weeks

It's very bad for your health, but you end up knowing every city in the country.

 

[EvMetro]

I've been off the road for almost two decades, but I still count miles between various cities instead of counting sheep when I fall asleep.

 

[Quasar44]

Are these incline off Ramps located right after a step hill

 

[Quasar44]

A Jack break is in the engine , right ?!

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I've been off the road for almost two decades, but I still count miles between various cities instead of counting sheep when I fall asleep.

I've been out for a little over 2 years, and I still have dreams about driving a truck all the time. It's aggravating. They are not good dreams either.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

A Jack break is in the engine , right ?!

Right. It's kind of like picturing a go cart. The go cart has a bad carburetor and it sputters. when it sputters it pulls the cart back and slows it down. That's kind of how jake brakes work.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Are these incline off Ramps located right after a step hill

I never drove mountains but from what I understand, they are in various places all the way down the mountain.

 

[Quasar44]

Ray From Cleveland
Su this dummy could have used the off ramp but did not !
He blew his breaks out by over using them

I see

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Maybe they took their tests in another language. I once had to wait at dmv for them to find me a test in English.

I don't know if they do that with CDL's. If they do, then it is governments fault because you should have to know how to speak and read our language before getting behind an 80,000 vehicle and trying to pilot the damn thing.